Minelab GPX4500 tips, settings, questions

There both good machines and will work really well in your area, there is a hell of a lot of history there, what a fantastic spot and a sight to see. There has to be good gold there and I am sure you will find some mate. Well I don't want to get off topic to much so when you have some spare time slip me a pm and we can go from there.

cheers mate

Cheers Ill prolly make it to the next meeting which is only a beach hunt from memory so hoping its pretty social. Just need to fill my camelbak with beer ??

The 4500 is a great first machine. Not too difficult. Just take every opportunity to read the manual.
Start with the factory settings, and don't tweak things too far off the factory preset for starters. If you Auto Tune and Ground balance correctly, you will find gold.

List of things to get? Here's what I'd recommend, in order of importance:

1. Water bottle and pouch that you can click onto your harness, or a water bladder.... or both

1B. Of equal importance are good sturdy non-metallic boots. I use Oliver AT's, but there's a few others around

2. A padded control box cover

3. Spare power lead

4. Better headphones, or at least an external speaker as a back-up

5. A good modern sensitive coil. 14x9" Evo or 12" Evo - both go great on the 4500.

6. SteelPhase sP01 Audio Enhancer

And maybe Number 1 on the list should be a quality pick.

the sP01 should be higher up the list Nenad
what a great little unit. love mine. everyone should have one erfect:

Hey fellas looking at buying the gpx4500 as my second and gold hunting machine. Any good deals on atm where I can get one new with lots of extras?
Cheers

Hey mate, sending you a PM

Keen on buying a gpx4500 soon but not sure where to buy from, I was looking at s/h but for the extra $300-500 you can get brand new so i will get new I think.

My budgets $3-3400 so far lucky strike gold looks to have the best deal with a few extras thrown in plus a full day training and $100 store credit which would be great.

Also in the box what does the gpx4500 come with, do they come standard with headphones, harness, chargers etc? Or will this all need to be bought separate?

Thanks guys

Gday. Not sure where to go for you to get a gpx as I'm in S.A.
A new gpx will come with 2 coils...a DD and a Mono coil. Headphones, harness and the battery with charger. I also got twin external speakers.

It might help if you tell us your location.

Located in Melbourne

i can highly recommend lucky strike prospecting in geelong

ctxkid said:

i can highly recommend lucky strike prospecting in geelong

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Thats good, so far Im buying it from them. They offer the most value for money. The full day training would be awesome

Highly recommend getting in touch with Nenad from Phase Technical on this forum or checkout there website, genuine advice and a top guy :Y:

I buy a lot of gear from Minersden on eBay. Free postage and usually wait for a discount code from ebay which brings the standard Minelab price down a bit. Got my Equinox for $100 less using a code.

VicGoldHunter said:

ctxkid said:

i can highly recommend lucky strike prospecting in geelong

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Thats good, so far Im buying it from them. They offer the most value for money. The full day training would be awesome

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being something that takes some learning i would go with the training in a flash erfect:

VicGoldHunter said:

Keen on buying a gpx4500 soon but not sure where to buy from, I was looking at s/h but for the extra $300-500 you can get brand new so i will get new I think.

My budgets $3-3400 so far lucky strike gold looks to have the best deal with a few extras thrown in plus a full day training and $100 store credit which would be great.

Also in the box what does the gpx4500 come with, do they come standard with headphones, harness, chargers etc? Or will this all need to be bought separate?

Thanks guys

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With my GPX 5000, Headphones, harness, battery, 12v and 240v chargers came with it. Miners den Bendigo is where I purchased mine, got a great package deal, great blokes were the two Shanes :Y: I would highly reccomend them.

Three main dealers in Victoria Miners den [MELD AND BENDIGO] Coiltek [Maryborough] Luckystrike[Geelong] all give a free train day all the accessories you named are standard with the detector ring them all to get the best $ regards john :Y:

If you hurry there is a super special @ Miners den Bendigo

They have put up on FB this week ( maybe not now ) until sold , buy a 4500 and get an Xterra 705 ( valued at $550 ) Included ...!!

Trash said:

If you hurry there is a super special @ Miners den Bendigo

They have put up on FB this week ( maybe not now ) until sold , buy a 4500 and get an Xterra 705 ( valued at $550 ) Included ...!!

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Just bought it, that sounds like a crazy good deal. I hope I made the right decision :/

Good buy , you get the best of 2 x detectors

Thanks Trash for pointing it out ....?

You can sell the Xterra 705 for $500 ( so you get a very cheap 4500 ) or keep it used it to hunt coins & relics , friends , family kids can use it

Trash said:

Good buy , you get the best of 2 x detectors

Thanks Trash for pointing it out ....?

You can sell the Xterra 705 for $500 ( so you get a very cheap 4500 ) or keep it used it to hunt coins & relics , friends , family kids can use it

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Yes thank you! Thats true just wanted to buy it from luckystrickprospecting in Geelong for there day tour. It looked great. Miners den do there own apparently up in Bendigo that is included in the gpx purchase