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Post by Rowdy on Mar 26, 2015 16:27:43 GMT 10
Personally I would avoid a detector that has been modified. Minelab will not touch them to do any repairs and some of the modifications can be butchered at times. I believe that a lot of the modified ones can be very noisy and the modifications offer somewhat very limited to no performance improvement despite what is promised by the mob that mods them.
Having said that if you do get one it's your choice and your money.
Rowdy
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Post by stinkypete on Apr 13, 2015 13:26:04 GMT 10
No need to ruin a good detector mate to gain more depth, that comes naturally with the wide selection of coils available on the market, you mod a gpx you will regret it.
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Post by stinkypete on Apr 13, 2015 13:26:25 GMT 10
No need to ruin a good detector mate to gain more depth, that comes naturally with the wide selection of coils available on the market, you mod a gpx you will regret it.
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Post by phillip on Apr 13, 2015 19:54:13 GMT 10
well they reckon the old sd2000 punch down just as good as anything but misses the small stuff so why not buy an old sd then go over it whith the likes of a gpx4500 or 5000 a lot cheaper
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Post by leighd77 on May 8, 2015 17:17:04 GMT 10
I have owned all Minelab detectors since the GP Extreme, upgrading and trading in each time a new model came out, but when it came to the GPZ7000 the cost (and inability to trade in) held me back. I also could not credit that the new machine could be that much better than the 5000, which I had always thought of (and still do) as a fine detector.
I thought I would wait until there was some proof that the 7000 came near the claims that Minelab was making for it - which were and are extraordinary. The last couple of months, here and in the US, there have been more reviews and reports about the performance of the 7000. I read especially everything written and video by Jonathon Porter, who I respect greatly. He explained the pros and cons of the new unit fairly, and based on a lot of experience. But others were giving very positive feedback, also.
So a few days ago I bought the 7000, and have just returned from a couple of days in the western Victorian goldfields in an area I know very well. I thought some might be interested in in my experiences.
On the negatives, as many have said, it is a heavy unit and although well balanced a lot of the weight seems to be in the coil. The harness supplied is great (and necessary), but I cannot use the unit for much of my normal detecting, which really requires searching in dense scrub and use of a mono coil which can be poked and shoved and does not need to be swept from side to side. The coil means a lot of adjustment in my detecting practice, I found it very difficult to centre and dig out targets with it.
On the positives, I was surprised not to hear more made of the stability of 7000. Where I detect in the triangle has moderate to severe ground conditions, the 7000 handled this like a dream, even when wound up close to its max sensitivity of 20.
The control unit is far better than the 5000, where frankly I had always struggled to get beyond the basic settings. Navigating around the 7000 settings is very intuitive, and easily done in the field.
The GPS add on consigns my Magellan to the status of a spare, and this function is easily and quickly accessed.
Oh, and as to actually finding gold ? The best advice I read about this was that the 7000 is no miracle worker, the gold needs to be there to be found and it also needs to be in a place where the prior technology would not already have found it.
I was astounded by the performance of the 7000. In about 8 hours total detecting I found over a dozen shotgun pellets - some at depth- plus other deep targets that could have been anything but which were rubbish. I found probably the smallest nugget I have ever found, plus 5 other nuggets up to 0.5 gm. And this in what was really just a testing run.
But what really amazed me was where some of these nuggets turned up. Clear signals in areas I had been over repeatedly with the 5000 and prior Minelab detectors. It just stopped me in tracks, to be getting such obvious signals in areas previously devoid of any. I really cannot explain that, but I am looking forward to seeing whether the 7000 really is truly a breakthrough to rival the SD2200.
I am not (yet) convinced it is, but I do think it is more than just an incremental improvement on the 5000. It had better be, I have not told my wife yet I bought it and need to find a lot of gold to prove to her I did not make a dumb decision !
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bonza
Gold Digger
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Post by bonza on Jun 28, 2015 15:04:43 GMT 10
I have been watching this with interest as am considering selling my 5000 and buying a 7000.
what is the difference in weight between the two? that seems to be the biggest gripe that I have noticed so far listening to some prospectors
is it due to the battery being built into the detector?
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Post by madhatter on Oct 21, 2016 19:21:40 GMT 10
$11000.00!!!! There is no way I would even consider buying one at that price even if I had the cash laying around burning a hole in my pocket. I love this hobby but at $11000 it's no longer a hobby. Rowdy
I cant bare to spend $6000 on a gpx5000 when for and extra $3499 I got my gpz7000 on sale for only 9,499 
Not much more if you really think about it, but ... as they say, each to their own 
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golddiggerart
Super Sluicer
I was born for a reason...
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Post by golddiggerart on Oct 23, 2016 15:29:36 GMT 10
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