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GPX6000 - Tips, Tricks, Settings, Accessories & Other Notable Findings
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<blockquote data-quote="mbasko" data-source="post: 607849" data-attributes="member: 4485"><p>Hope you don't mind me moving this here kingswood?</p><p>As per the above from JP + the GPX6000 manual I think manual sensitivity is probably not exactly what's going on with that adjustment?</p><p>To me it appears to be more of an Audio Smoothing setting where the actual detector sensitivity in manual doesn't change but audio filtering/smoothing is being adjusted which may result in the loss of faint signals at either end of the scale - 1 or 10. </p><p>(1 being the audio is fairly well "closed" to external or very faint noise & 10 being it is fairly well fully "open" to all noise).</p><p>I agree that the gist of the manual seems to be to try manual lower "sensitivity", noise cancel & quick track before taking the mono off & swapping to the DD14. Also worth noting that in high noise areas there's still the option of turning the threshold off too - that option won't suit us all, not me anyway yet.</p><p>I think there'll be definite default areas/times the DD14 will be needed though i.e. near powerlines etc., wet conductive ground & salt lake areas. </p><p>I had a quick detect Friday morning & it was windy + overcast. There also seemed to be planes going over regularly. It's the worst EMI day I've had with it so far but I still found it seems to settle down a lot quicker than previous GPX's (also much quicker noise cancel). I only dropped back from Auto+ to Auto & that seemed better. Probably should have dropped to manual "sensitivity" of 5-6 which I've found has the detector running nicely here (I don't mind a bit of chatter though if it's talking the right language :Y: ).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mbasko, post: 607849, member: 4485"] Hope you don't mind me moving this here kingswood? As per the above from JP + the GPX6000 manual I think manual sensitivity is probably not exactly what's going on with that adjustment? To me it appears to be more of an Audio Smoothing setting where the actual detector sensitivity in manual doesn't change but audio filtering/smoothing is being adjusted which may result in the loss of faint signals at either end of the scale - 1 or 10. (1 being the audio is fairly well "closed" to external or very faint noise & 10 being it is fairly well fully "open" to all noise). I agree that the gist of the manual seems to be to try manual lower "sensitivity", noise cancel & quick track before taking the mono off & swapping to the DD14. Also worth noting that in high noise areas there's still the option of turning the threshold off too - that option won't suit us all, not me anyway yet. I think there'll be definite default areas/times the DD14 will be needed though i.e. near powerlines etc., wet conductive ground & salt lake areas. I had a quick detect Friday morning & it was windy + overcast. There also seemed to be planes going over regularly. It's the worst EMI day I've had with it so far but I still found it seems to settle down a lot quicker than previous GPX's (also much quicker noise cancel). I only dropped back from Auto+ to Auto & that seemed better. Probably should have dropped to manual "sensitivity" of 5-6 which I've found has the detector running nicely here (I don't mind a bit of chatter though if it's talking the right language :Y: ). [/QUOTE]
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