Gpz trial

G'day all quick report on zed. Had a crack with one for two hours or so on a recent patch I found with the 5. The gold was all pretty small in the patch and very bad noisy ground.
So was pretty surprised to see a few nuggies come up (16) for a weight of 6 grams. Nothing major but hopefully more to come.
Ran zed in high yield/difficult, auto gb, sensitivity 9, audio smoothing off.
It is a temperamental unit when you try to ramp settings up in very hot ground.
What I saw did impress me but the true test is deep ground with good targets at depth.
So I'm 50/50 atm.

Nice work Jase
Looking forward to tomorrows report on activities.

Good info UTBN. Keep it coming please.

Will do guys

thanks mate, good to see reports coming in. the ZED may prove to be all it is talked up to be.
would you of got them with the SDC Jase?
cheers

Cheers for the report very interested in the hot noisy ground performance of this machine.

K town.

K town swinger wrote:Cheers for the report very interested in the hot noisy ground performance of this machine.

K town.

Yeah me too, seeing as thats one of if not the main selling point of the 7k.

Cheers for the quick report Jase

Pete

Heya fellas. Bout to head off for another crack. The sdc may well have pinged em but can't get an sdc to test it.
From the little I've seen so far is that zed doesn't like mineralisation much. But I suppose you can run it with very low sensitivity and have audio smoothing turned on etc to the detriment of target responses.
It picks up hot rocks frequently too. Well it does in this spot.
When we tried to increase zeds power it went way too erratic. Put it this way the 5 ran far more stable with settings running almost maxed out using fine gold soil timing. Will try a few things today.

Good luck mate

Must be a big drive from Baldivis to the goldfields every day.

cheers for the update interested to see how you get on

Good stuff mate, it's a bit odd that we ain't hearing much from the band of testers........come on boys we need to see if this thing is worth the big $$$$$

Regards Snapper

Unfortunately due to work commitments Im only getting my first swing of the gpz this arvo but I'll try and post a bit of info on our thoughts /results as we start testing got all of March off can't wait to get out there.

G'day, nah toad in kal now. Just got back in and got about 28 small nuggets for just under 9 grams, the deepest was a .08 at 8 inches which was easily picked up. We were still getting em but way too hot out there.
Tried a couple things and found that high yield/difficult was easily the best combo on this gold.
We tested out audio smoothing in low again but ramped sensitivity from 9 to 15 over a target. The signal response was far more easily heard. We continued with this setting and although zed was erratic when we got a target you would hear it very clearly.
We got several bits in ground we detected yesterday too. Tiny nuggets but we got them this time.
This patch produced a lot of small gold and if there were deep large targets both zed and 5 missed them. I don't believe there is any biggies there.
So from what I saw in that ground the zed killed the 5 easily.
It is a temperamental tector in very hot ground when you try to go for more sensitivity. You can run it very stable for sure but then I doubt we would've got all the bits we did.

Hey there Jason, awesome reports m8, sounds like the jury is still out, have heard nothing to support the increase in depth with it, guess time will tell,,,,, take care m8 and keen to catch up at some stage
Happy hunting
Steve, Lea and Buddy

Thanks for the report Jase
I'm still waiting for Reeds to give me the call for mine, they assure me I'll have it for Easter, hopefully it will have cooled down a bit by then too
Cheers again

Pete I knew you wouldn't be able to hold off will be good to see it first hand, I think I will have to bring my A game if im gunna beat ya telly
ether that or spike ya drink

Hey Tom,
You don't have to spike my drink mate, I'm silly enough already when I have a few hahaha
Hope you can make it mate?

BTW Tom, Ray in Karratha still has two GPZ7000 in stock ????

The only thing i have bought in the colour blue lately to give Goldstrijk a run for his money is a new Yamaha road-trail, because armed with his sdc2300 and GPZ7000, Im going as far away from him as I can.

Gold Diver wrote:The only thing i have bought in the colour blue lately to give Goldstrijk a run for his money is a new Yamaha road-trail, because armed with his sdc2300 and GPZ7000, Im going as far away from him as I can.

Ya dont need a bike, he dont wander to far from the

Pete

You got that right Pete, thirsty work this beepin haha, but I did learn from the best
Gold Diver, keep away and when you find a patch, send me the co-ords and I'll come over in me trusty ute Hahaha

I tell ya no gold within a 50m stagger of the camp will be safe now

Thanks Jase it all helps good luck.

Ryan

I will need to do a bit of circle-work on the bike just so I can get my detector to go an extra 40% deeper.
Might do it in the middle of camp so I to don't have to walk/ride far??
Ah yes, the bogan burnout has its uses