Detectormods Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: woody on September 26, 2012, 09:43:44 pm
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I have not posted much, been busy developing a new set of upgrades. It will be a couple of months before we know if they live up to expectations or not. The aim is to get big Gold deep and to get smaller Gold at greater depth in light mineralization. Believe me this is a real challenge and very difficult to do.
As long as you start off with a Minelab P.I detector you will be doing great, to this day nothing beats a Minelab for the big deep Gold.
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Hi Woody
I have a GP Extreme and will be buying a GPX 4500 once moddified would it be safe to say the 4500 would find the deepest gold.
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2 weeks and no reply from Woody and company!
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Hi Guys
Peter is away for a while and i have been trying to keep ontop of everything
the forum kind of got left until last !
anyway
typically the newer detectors are geared towards finding smaller pieces of gold and being a quieter machine to run at the expense of depth on larger targets
however a 4500 does do alright on the depth front, mainly we get complaints about the 5000 not having the punch required for large objects.
in saying all this however if you believe you have a good chance of finding a monster of a gold nugget in an area alot of the pro's out there keep a old 2000 on hand to detect for things of that magnitude, there not sensitive and you would not want to use one as your general purpose detector because of the sensitivity lacking on smaller targets but it will go the deepest
hope all this help
obviously the information is relative to your situation
Good hunting !!!
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Thanks Dave
Great info appreciated just sent my GP Extreme to Peter for upgrades to find deep gold last week . I have a place where there's deep gold so hopefully the mods will do the job. In the mean time i'll keep my eye out for an old 2000 will also keep everyone posted. Again greatly appriceated.
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Thanks Dave
Great info appreciated just sent my GP Extreme to Peter for upgrades to find deep gold last week . I have a place where there's deep gold so hopefully the mods will do the job. In the mean time i'll keep my eye out for an old 2000 will also keep everyone posted. Again greatly appriceated.
Nuggetnut, What is the latest on your mods that Woody did for you? I hope they worked great and you are finding lots of gold!!!
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Hi all, great to see a usable forum back on line.
In regard to this topic, Woody could there still be room for improvement mods on the SD's or are they at their limit? I don't see too many in the fields in the NT these days as most have upgraded to the 4500s and 5000s which are still beyond my financial reach.
Peter
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I have not posted much, been busy developing a new set of upgrades. It will be a couple of months before we know if they live up to expectations or not. The aim is to get big Gold deep and to get smaller Gold at greater depth in light mineralization. Believe me this is a real challenge and very difficult to do.
As long as you start off with a Minelab P.I detector you will be doing great, to this day nothing beats a Minelab for the big deep Gold.
Almost a year now. How them new upgrades coming???
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The upgrades are going just fine, we have been working on a multitude of projects for detecting. I am not giving the heads up to the competition via public forums until we officially advertise with plenty of stock.
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The upgrades are going just fine, we have been working on a multitude of projects for detecting. I am not giving the heads up to the competition via public forums until we officially advertise with plenty of stock.
What kind of stock you need for upgrades? I can get ya about any electronic part you could want here in Arizona.
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WOODY, you need to start showing some of your stuff besides battery's. I think most folks are starting to think you are a talker with no action. As shown by the recent history of forum post. The UD was promised years ago! And no one has ever received a reply to the website that registered folks wanting updates.
I could be wrong, but I think you have nothing that is better that is already out there as far a detectors and coils. Prove me wrong and I will eat crow. And please don't tell us that it is a secret! If it was a secret, you of have never said a word about it at all!
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Gooday ARIZONA, you sound like an old hand, and I see you "can get ya about any electronic part you could want here in Arizona" I am after a Display Board for my GPX 4500.
Part Number 5902-0116 Revision 1-2. Mine stopped working as they as they all eventually do and I cannot buy one in Australia. Hope you can help me out Mate
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Gooday ARIZONA, you sound like an old hand, and I see you "can get ya about any electronic part you could want here in Arizona" I am after a Display Board for my GPX 4500.
Part Number 5902-0116 Revision 1-2. Mine stopped working as they as they all eventually do and I cannot buy one in Australia. Hope you can help me out Mate
No luck. Tried all the dealers in AZ. Even called Minelab USA and they don't sell that part. But would fix it for a price after they look at it.
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Minelab may be having some issues to deal with shortly...
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Minelab may be having some issues to deal with shortly...
From who? You? Or maybe a friend of Dougs?
We have heard that all before many, many times Woody.
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Bye Bye Arizona... I allowed you a very long piece of rope but the constant innuendo has forced me to cut that rope.
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Here, here...
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Hey Woody, Just a heads up. You made a repair on my 4500 and then the mods at that time, several years ago. I've been a happy doggy w/ this machine ever since. It runs quiet and smooth and finds gold. Attached are a couple of pics of gold found last week in AZ USA. The big one was bout 16" deep. If I did the specific gravity test right, it comes up with about 2 1/4 ozs.
Thanks again! Shep
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Beautiful specimen Shep. I've been thinking about sending my 4000 over for Woody to do his magic on, just waiting on some extra funds to show up.
Take care, Wes.
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I think Shep has the early mods, why go and buy a very expensive new detector when the older ones can be made to go deeper and run more stable.....Soon I will putting out another lot of new mods that will blow everyone away... Just got to keep it under wraps at the moment.. Already I have had numerous hack attempts from France, USA and China... All designs now are on non net connected computers, even paper and pen on the crucial design aspects..
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I think we're all ok with that Woody. We look forward to the work you do.
In the meantime I might have to attach a weed trimmer to mine, too much heavy grass around during our wet. ;D
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I finally got out with my backup Woody modified SD2100 the other day and that machine is becoming my go to detector. I found six nuggets, one a 8 dwt specimen with about 4dwt of gold in it and five others for a total of 11 dwt. This detector is so nice to use, its quiet, easy to keep ground balanced and tuning it is almost a none issue where I use to pull my hair out trying to keep my older 2100 tuned. It is so much nicer to use that my old sd2100 that I had years and years ago. Woody you might be seeing my 4000 this year for some mods as soon as funds come available.
Thanks again, Wes.