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GTI 1500 or 1350 ... help me pick,Thanks
- Thread starter josey
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Uncle Willy
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Your request is too vague. We ain't mind readers. How long have you been detecting and how much experience do you have. Where will you be hunting, what will you be hunting for, and what knd of soil will you be hunting in?
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
New member
Yeah the 1350 has profiling which ain't exactly imaging. Aside from these features the 1250/1350/1500 are all the same detector.
Bill
Bill
Greetings,
I have used both the GTI 2500 and the GTP 1350. The GTI 1500 is a down featured version of the GTI 2500. To have the imaging capability you have to have the special imaging coils. It will use Garretts other coils but you will not have target size imaging. The GTP 1350 does have target size information in three sizes, small, medium and large. Most coins and rings fall into the small size so this feature is useful in helping to reduce the amount of larger junk you dig. It determines size differently than the 2500 or 1500 so it will still indicate size with any of the available coils.The GTP sizing profiling does have trouble in high trash areas because to get accurate infotmation you have to sweep 7" past the target on both sides and there can not be any other targets in that 14" sweep path. However, it is useful in a lot of situations and even in trashy areas you can sometimes change the angle of your sweep and get enough room to get an accurate target size. The GTP 1350 has a lot of technology in it. With it's DSP (digital signal processing) it runs very smooth with very few false signals, excellent target ID, very good sensitivity to small gold targets and very good depth. It has automatic ground tracking so it reduces the effects of ground mineralization giving you maximum depth and reduced ground noise. It has a very good salt elimination mode for hunting on salt water beaches. It has excellent pinpointing ablity and the back light display mode is great for hunting in late cool evenings. The only down side in my opinion is that it does not have a true non-motion all metal search mode like the GTI 2500 has. If I remember right I don't think the GTI 1500 does either but I could be wrong. This means it is not the best choice if you plan to do a lot of gold nugget hunting.
Both the GTI 2500 and the GTI 1500 are great upper end detectors but the GTP 1350 is an excellent mid range detector with a lot of technology, performance, capabilities and bang for the bucks. I think the GTP 1350 gets passed over a lot with treasure hunters moving up from the Ace series and going into the GTI series. The GTP 1350 is one of the best mid range detectors on the market for the coin, jewelry and relic hunter.
Those are my thoughts anyway, God Bless.
HH
Smitty II
I have used both the GTI 2500 and the GTP 1350. The GTI 1500 is a down featured version of the GTI 2500. To have the imaging capability you have to have the special imaging coils. It will use Garretts other coils but you will not have target size imaging. The GTP 1350 does have target size information in three sizes, small, medium and large. Most coins and rings fall into the small size so this feature is useful in helping to reduce the amount of larger junk you dig. It determines size differently than the 2500 or 1500 so it will still indicate size with any of the available coils.The GTP sizing profiling does have trouble in high trash areas because to get accurate infotmation you have to sweep 7" past the target on both sides and there can not be any other targets in that 14" sweep path. However, it is useful in a lot of situations and even in trashy areas you can sometimes change the angle of your sweep and get enough room to get an accurate target size. The GTP 1350 has a lot of technology in it. With it's DSP (digital signal processing) it runs very smooth with very few false signals, excellent target ID, very good sensitivity to small gold targets and very good depth. It has automatic ground tracking so it reduces the effects of ground mineralization giving you maximum depth and reduced ground noise. It has a very good salt elimination mode for hunting on salt water beaches. It has excellent pinpointing ablity and the back light display mode is great for hunting in late cool evenings. The only down side in my opinion is that it does not have a true non-motion all metal search mode like the GTI 2500 has. If I remember right I don't think the GTI 1500 does either but I could be wrong. This means it is not the best choice if you plan to do a lot of gold nugget hunting.
Both the GTI 2500 and the GTI 1500 are great upper end detectors but the GTP 1350 is an excellent mid range detector with a lot of technology, performance, capabilities and bang for the bucks. I think the GTP 1350 gets passed over a lot with treasure hunters moving up from the Ace series and going into the GTI series. The GTP 1350 is one of the best mid range detectors on the market for the coin, jewelry and relic hunter.
Those are my thoughts anyway, God Bless.
HH
Smitty II
drplaztics
New member
As an owner of a GTP 1350 for 18 months, I'd agree with what Smitty II had to say with the extra emphasis on this:
Dollar for dollar I think for someone who is a 'coin shooter' the GTP 1350 is a much better detector than the GTI 1500
or a lot of the other manufacturer's detectors for that matter (dollar for dollar as a 'coin shooter').
On the GTP 1350 anything that images as a 'small target' will be coin or ring sized so to me there was no point in getting
something that told you close to 'exact sizes'. If you were looking for gold nuggets it might be different but for
someone who is 'coin shooting' there isn't any point. My only problem I have with the GTP 1350 and probably the owners of the GTI's
(and they will need to speak up for themselves) is that I don't achieve the depths that some of the Minelab or Fisher owners seem to say
that they achieve. A lot of them seem to claim that they are digging silver dimes at +10inches. I have a 10X14" DD coil for my
GTP 1350 and never achieve these depths in my Test Garden. Although it might be fun to try one of these detectors I know it
would be very difficult for me to justify the cost of the couple inches gain of these detectors.
I'm also a Manufacturing Engineer and work with +million dollar, complicated, plastic injection molding machines with
very difficult machine set up issues. If you read in the other manufacturers forums about the set up issues before and during their
time detecting, they just can't compete with the set up simplicity of the Garrett detectors. They change one function or parameter and
it changes other parameters or variables that their detectors are detecting. There is no beating the quickness and simplicity of Garretts.
The GTP 1350 is darn near turn on and go!
I will say I hope Garrett comes up with a newer, high end 'performance' detector soon but I love the GTP 1350 for coin shooting for now.
Dollar for dollar I think for someone who is a 'coin shooter' the GTP 1350 is a much better detector than the GTI 1500
or a lot of the other manufacturer's detectors for that matter (dollar for dollar as a 'coin shooter').
On the GTP 1350 anything that images as a 'small target' will be coin or ring sized so to me there was no point in getting
something that told you close to 'exact sizes'. If you were looking for gold nuggets it might be different but for
someone who is 'coin shooting' there isn't any point. My only problem I have with the GTP 1350 and probably the owners of the GTI's
(and they will need to speak up for themselves) is that I don't achieve the depths that some of the Minelab or Fisher owners seem to say
that they achieve. A lot of them seem to claim that they are digging silver dimes at +10inches. I have a 10X14" DD coil for my
GTP 1350 and never achieve these depths in my Test Garden. Although it might be fun to try one of these detectors I know it
would be very difficult for me to justify the cost of the couple inches gain of these detectors.
I'm also a Manufacturing Engineer and work with +million dollar, complicated, plastic injection molding machines with
very difficult machine set up issues. If you read in the other manufacturers forums about the set up issues before and during their
time detecting, they just can't compete with the set up simplicity of the Garrett detectors. They change one function or parameter and
it changes other parameters or variables that their detectors are detecting. There is no beating the quickness and simplicity of Garretts.
The GTP 1350 is darn near turn on and go!
I will say I hope Garrett comes up with a newer, high end 'performance' detector soon but I love the GTP 1350 for coin shooting for now.
Both are great machines. Both find coins, jewellery & relics. The 1500 can be a little more fine tuned for sizing objects....A,B,C,D,E wheras the 1350 has only 3 size incraments. But the 1350 costs about $100.00 less then the 1500. I have some field test links below regarding each detector.
http://www.losttreasure.com/content/archives/garrett-gtp-1350
http://www.losttreasure.com/content/archives/garrett-electronics-gti-1500-deepseeker-metal-detector
http://www.losttreasure.com/content/archives/garrett-gtp-1350
http://www.losttreasure.com/content/archives/garrett-electronics-gti-1500-deepseeker-metal-detector
I had the use of a 1350 for several hours, and while I didn't really form any solid opinions about the machine, it was fairly easy to operate. I got the impression this would be the machine for a person who wanted to run up the coin/jewelry count numbers, meaning someone who didn't mind operating in the general range of clad coins. I do not think this would be the machine for old deep silver. I wish I could compare it to a 1500 but I can't.
RickIowa2009
New member
I use the 1350 myself, a mid range priced detector. It is an excellent coin shooter, and it finds the silver when it is there.
Greetings to all,
There are a few thing to keep in mind regarding detection depth, there are a lot of factors that enter into how deep a target can be detected. Ground mineralization is the big one but ground moisture, electromagnetic radiation in the hunting area, sweep speed as well as the operators detector set up can all impact the detection depth. Remember that even a metal detector with ground balancing or ground tracking will NOT detect a target in highly mineralized ground as deep as it will in low mineralized ground. The ground balance or ground tracking will reduce or eliminate ground signal noise so the targets you hear will be real targets but they will not be detected as deep as in ground that has very little mineralization.
If someone claims that they are finding silver dimes at 10+ inches and you can't duplicate it in your test garden, your test garden might be more mineralized than where he found the silver dime. Most of us do not carry a tape measure around with us to measure how deep a target was found. We might use our trowel to get an idea but most of the time we don't even do that. After all we are out there to find the good stuff and not measure the depth of the holes we dig. Most statements concerning target depth are somewhat subjective so I don't put a whole lot of stock in them.
Also remember the detection depth is from the bottom of the coil to the target. If you are working an area that has 2" of thick grass on it and you are sweeping your coil so it brushes the top of the grass and the coin you found was say 8" under the ground you detected that coin 10" below your coil.
Just for a reference, In the club that I belong to, I have hunted right along side of Minelab Explorers, SEs, and SE Pros and compared targets with the GTP 1350 and so far every target that they detected the GTP 1350 would detect. I will admit that some times I did have had to change my sensitivity setting and the discrimination to be able to hear a few but if I had been hunting with those settings I would have heard the target as well as the Minelab user. I do believe the stock 11" DD coil on the Minelabs do have a little edge over the stock GTP 1350 coil in mineralized ground. Will the Minelab detectors mentioned detect deeper than the GTP 1350 under certain conditions? Well, I would probably say yes, but remember you are comparing a top of the line detector to a mid range detector. The Minelab machines cost almost twice as much money. The GTP 1350 is not the best detector in the world but as has been said, if you are a coin, jewelry or relic hunter, I still think it is one of the best mid range detectors on the market, feature wise and performance wise, for the money.
Someone said that they didn't feel like the GTP 1350 was really good for deep silver coins. Someone didn't tell my detector that because I have a really nice size bag of old silver coins that I have found with the GTP 1350 as well as a nice jewelry box full of gold and silver jewelry that the 1350 was able to locate for me.
PS: I own 3 Garrett, 2 Minelab, 2 White, 1 Tesoro, and 1 Detector Pro Head Hunter detectors.
HH and God Bless!!
Smitty II
There are a few thing to keep in mind regarding detection depth, there are a lot of factors that enter into how deep a target can be detected. Ground mineralization is the big one but ground moisture, electromagnetic radiation in the hunting area, sweep speed as well as the operators detector set up can all impact the detection depth. Remember that even a metal detector with ground balancing or ground tracking will NOT detect a target in highly mineralized ground as deep as it will in low mineralized ground. The ground balance or ground tracking will reduce or eliminate ground signal noise so the targets you hear will be real targets but they will not be detected as deep as in ground that has very little mineralization.
If someone claims that they are finding silver dimes at 10+ inches and you can't duplicate it in your test garden, your test garden might be more mineralized than where he found the silver dime. Most of us do not carry a tape measure around with us to measure how deep a target was found. We might use our trowel to get an idea but most of the time we don't even do that. After all we are out there to find the good stuff and not measure the depth of the holes we dig. Most statements concerning target depth are somewhat subjective so I don't put a whole lot of stock in them.
Also remember the detection depth is from the bottom of the coil to the target. If you are working an area that has 2" of thick grass on it and you are sweeping your coil so it brushes the top of the grass and the coin you found was say 8" under the ground you detected that coin 10" below your coil.
Just for a reference, In the club that I belong to, I have hunted right along side of Minelab Explorers, SEs, and SE Pros and compared targets with the GTP 1350 and so far every target that they detected the GTP 1350 would detect. I will admit that some times I did have had to change my sensitivity setting and the discrimination to be able to hear a few but if I had been hunting with those settings I would have heard the target as well as the Minelab user. I do believe the stock 11" DD coil on the Minelabs do have a little edge over the stock GTP 1350 coil in mineralized ground. Will the Minelab detectors mentioned detect deeper than the GTP 1350 under certain conditions? Well, I would probably say yes, but remember you are comparing a top of the line detector to a mid range detector. The Minelab machines cost almost twice as much money. The GTP 1350 is not the best detector in the world but as has been said, if you are a coin, jewelry or relic hunter, I still think it is one of the best mid range detectors on the market, feature wise and performance wise, for the money.
Someone said that they didn't feel like the GTP 1350 was really good for deep silver coins. Someone didn't tell my detector that because I have a really nice size bag of old silver coins that I have found with the GTP 1350 as well as a nice jewelry box full of gold and silver jewelry that the 1350 was able to locate for me.
PS: I own 3 Garrett, 2 Minelab, 2 White, 1 Tesoro, and 1 Detector Pro Head Hunter detectors.
HH and God Bless!!
Smitty II
IM learning my 1500 every time i use it
this is my 2nd yr with it
i have no complaints and ive learened
a lesson we all know i think
its the person thats makes a difference I met a fellow
with a Bounty Hunter from a discount store but he KNEW
the machine and did real well ...im NOT slammng Bounty Hunters
just saying that the more we use any machine the better we will
get with it .. so one of these day ill be Good !!!
Just an Old guys 2 cents .. NOT wheats tho
Ron
Rangers Lead The Way
this is my 2nd yr with it
i have no complaints and ive learened
a lesson we all know i think
its the person thats makes a difference I met a fellow
with a Bounty Hunter from a discount store but he KNEW
the machine and did real well ...im NOT slammng Bounty Hunters
just saying that the more we use any machine the better we will
get with it .. so one of these day ill be Good !!!
Just an Old guys 2 cents .. NOT wheats tho
Ron
Rangers Lead The Way
When you get to the point where you tell the machine what's in the ground......not the other way around, then you can say that you have mastered that machine. 
[size=medium]Well i use the 1500 and have not used the 1350 . I think the 1500 is a very good detector for coins and jewelry ..It is a good inland detector. But if you are a gold prospector you want a gold detector .... & if want to hunt salt water you want a PI detector or water detector.But i would go with the 1500 or wait and get the AT Pro got my Pro on order..[/size]
RickIowa2009
New member
I use a GTP1350, I think it is a good deal for a mid range detector, good one for learning!
[size=large]Had a 1500. you will regret not going with the 1500. It's easy to learn and you'll enjoy the options it comes with. The one item i remember coming up when i was researching which of the two to get was the pin pointer button on the 1350 had to be turned off before resuming the hunt and i got the idea a lot of folks would forget to do that. where as the 1500 button you have to hold in while pp and just let go and hunt. Now some folks like the 1350 fot that reason some don't.
and i don't re-call if the 1350 has a backlight. you will want one someday. they are very nice to have.[/size]
and i don't re-call if the 1350 has a backlight. you will want one someday. they are very nice to have.[/size]
