AT Gold Operations Manuel Observation Compaired To AT Pro

[Bill G]

I looked at the operations Manuel briefly and noticed some things. If you look at the AT Pro & Gold they are built on the same foundation, the gold having what Garrett calls a true all metal mode and the AT Pro has a Zero mode that's serves the same purpose over all with nothing discriminated out. The AT Gold has All Metal, Disc 1 and Disc 2 . The Disc 1 is a 0 discrimination mode that allows tone ID and you can adjust the Iron discrimination. Disc 2 allows tone ID and has a set US coins discrimination pre programmed and the ability to adjust iron discrimination. No where did I see any ability to notch anything out in the discrimination modes for Disc 1 or 2 other than the iron in both disc modes and I only saw the coin pre sets from the factory for disc 2. The Gold has a threshold adjust that the AT Pro does not have, this would have been nice on the AT Pro. The face plates are labeled different specific to each detector one being multi purpose the other being for prospecting and gold. The rest of the features are pretty much the same other than the coil size. For coin and relic hunting I think I would like the notch discrimination ability and give up the threshold ability of the AT Gold. I will get the smaller DD coil when it becomes available for the AT Pro. Both detectors have four frequencies and look to have similar if not the same ground balance systems. Over all the detectors look to be a lot the same with some defining difference's or features depending on what you want. I may have missed something here, it was just a quick over view of the AT Golds Operations Manuel.

Best Of Luck To All Fellow Hunters,
Bill G

 

[Jerry-Wi]

The notches are preset and cannot be changed. It is covered on page 28 on the At Gold manual. Disc 1 has no pixels notched out and Disc 2 has a couple but no additional pixels can be notched or un-notched. Disc. 1 is pretty much the way I use the At Pro so not a big change for me.

Jerry

 

[Bill G]

The notches are preset and cannot be changed. It is covered on page 28 on the At Gold manual. Disc 1 has no pixels notched out and Disc 2 has a couple but no additional pixels can be notched or un-notched. Disc. 1 is pretty much the way I use the At Pro so not a big change for me.

Jerry

I thought I read it that way as well. I do like the notch feature and I do not run things any different than you most of the time. With that being said I have hunted areas so trashy with on kind of trash say old decayed shotgun shells for example. It is nice to notch out than one little segment and move on if your hunting time is short or you just want to bypass that particular item.

Thanks for verifying the information.

Bill G

 

[Jerry-Wi]

I hear ya Bill. Sometimes the brain can absorb just so much.

Jerry

 

[Jason in TN]

I think the true all metal mode will give more depth. The Pro does not have it. Then the freq difference will be the main two things I would think. If you do not plan on running about wide open and using the all metal mode I don't think there will be a lot of difference. The ground balance feature will be nice to in certain areas.

Jason