Minelab GPX4500 tips, settings, questions

You could contact Nenad at Phase Tech;...

http://phasetechnical.com.au/

or Coiltek, Minelab,

Miners Den

www.minersdenadelaide.com.au

or any number of SA members here...

Good machine, Good Luck... :Y:

Thanks peoples!

Wow , a forum that's actually friendly. :lol: :Y:

Nenad is an Adelaide local and i can reccomend a training day with him while you are still in town.
It will be one on one and in the adelaide hills.
http://phasetechnical.com.au/
I done one and have been finding gold since and i am no expert by any means :/

Cheers Lord. Sounds like a reasonable deal according to his website. I'll bother him next week and book.

Now , back to finding the "on" switch on the detector. :lol:

I bought 2nd hand from a friend at work.



Knocked him down a bit on the price and has a bunch of spares and other bits and pieces.

^^^ sorry for posting the full ad. Tried to crop it but no worked.

I figure I'll get to master this machine , then worry about buying new another time.

Definitely one machine that holds its value on the 2nd hand market!

Thats a bargain with all those coils included Upside :Y:

Read the manual and use the detector until you are familiar with the settings, it can take a while to get to know it. Secondly there are no perfect settings for a particular area, the type of day in regards to temperature, EMI, ground conditions and mineralisation will all play a part of coil selection and settings.

Make yourself familiar with the factory reset function as well, then you can play with settings and then do a factory reset if you change too many settings and can't remember what you did. Do a training day as suggested, Nenad at phasetechnical is probably one of the best to get a detecting lesson from.

This chart can be helpfull with timings and coil selection for beginners.

OzzieAu said:

Thats a bargain with all those coils included Upside :Y:

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Thanks! nice to hear. Being fresh to the scene I wasn't certain but the guy at work said it was a fair price. I've been wanting to get into the hobby but probably would never have walked into a dealers shop so when a work colleague said he had this, I grabbed it.

Apparently the 4500 was owned by a rep at Minelab from new , so it has a bunch of extra goodies and I'm now the 4th owner. Gee it sounds like a real hand me down when I say it like that!

Still ,it's in good used condition I'd call it. :Y:

Looks great RS, same combo that I run. Good luck mate :Y:

Have booked a few hours with Nenad this Friday and looking forward to it :Y:

Hi U, mate I spend a lot of my time watching vids on the 4500. Minelab Gold is a 4500 user and is an ace at finding the yella stuff. I watch the vids to get my technique right so have a look might help.

Had a lesson today with Nenad from Phase Technical out in the Adelaide Hills.

Top guy and a great teacher. I highly recommend anyone just starting out and if you live in SA , to look him up.

Great stuff , thanks Nenad :Y:

Did you find anything?

HoudiniHarry said:

Did you find anything?

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Well I found my way home.

Does that count?

4500s are really good detectors.havent tried a 5000 or a zed as of yet. Tbh some of the holes Ive with the 4500 were so bloody deep that I couldnt care less if a retirement nugget was detectable a bit deeper than Ive already dug with the 4500 with a different detector. As I'd be dead from a heart attack before I ever got to enjoy it

I was talking with a guy I came across last weekend when prospecting. He was using a SDC but he also said he has a GPX4500. He was saying he prefers the SDC when looking in small quartz stone areas. He also found the GPx4500 goes deeper than the SDC and likened the SDC to a vacume cleaner. He and a mate of his had picked up about 8 grams in a 200 hundred meter square area over 10 hours both using SDC

I have an older GPX4500...Is it possible to send it back to minelab for a check over and software update?

Yes. I have had friends where their 4500 had gone chatty unstable and once back smooth as with good clear audio

I can't remember if it was $100 or $200 but you can send it back to Adelaide and they'll test it out properly for you.
Dunno if they have a software update for the 4500 :|