relichound51
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Why is there not much posted about the Garrett GTI-1500? Is there not that many people using them or do they just not like them?
Mike
Mike
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Question about GTI-1500
- Thread starter relichound51
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Mick in Dubbo
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G'day Mike.
There are actually quite a few users of the 1500, but by far the most popular detector is the Ace250, which tends to make the other Garrett machines look less popular.
I'm pretty much in the same situation that you are in, in that I bought a new 1500 just on 3 weeks back. Just coming to grips with it now and think that it will be an excellent detector once learnt.
Good luck with your new machine and don't forget to ask questions when you get stuck, and trust me, you will get stuck a bit at first.
Mick Evans.
There are actually quite a few users of the 1500, but by far the most popular detector is the Ace250, which tends to make the other Garrett machines look less popular.
I'm pretty much in the same situation that you are in, in that I bought a new 1500 just on 3 weeks back. Just coming to grips with it now and think that it will be an excellent detector once learnt.
Good luck with your new machine and don't forget to ask questions when you get stuck, and trust me, you will get stuck a bit at first.
Mick Evans.
relichound51
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Hey Mick, the 1500 is alot different than the White's that I'm use to but I had it out yesterday at an old homeplace. All I found was clad but I found $2.36 in clad. I will say the imaging was right about 50% of the time on B size targets being coins. Small pieces of aluminum will also ID as a B size object but all of the coins did ID as B size targets. I'm just spoilt to VDI numbers and that is the hardest thing to get away from. I do believe I'm going to enjoy the 1500 though and don't worry if I get stumped, I'm not afraid to ask questions. You're never too old to learn.
Mike
Mike
Stingraymb
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As another post said, it's largely that there are alot more 250's out there due to the price point. The 250 is hard to beat for the price. I have both a 250 and a 1500 (and a CZ5). The 1500 is definately more technically advanced than the 250, will save some digging time, and offers a lot more information and features to the operator (size, material indicator while pinpointing, volume control, backlighting, etc).
I recently upgraded to the black epoxy coil on the 1500 (from the white plastic coil). A big improvement, no more "dinging" all of the time when you hit some brush, etc.
Eighty percent of detecting is knowing your machine and how it behaves over different targets (and multiple targets). Re. "target size" - a lot of times the 1500 will show a small target size for a coin for a split second, then jump to a large target size and stay there. Via re-pinpointing a few times in different directions, it will begin to "stick" to the small target size. Deeper coins that have been buried for years, or certain soil conditions will create a "halo" and also look larger than actual size.
Coins near the surface (top 2") will pinpoint "hot" - pinpoint will quickly go from max to zero. As they get deeper, pinpoint off and on will be a little "slower." If something pinpoints high over a large area (6") you know it's large (no matter what the size says). Keep in mind necklaces can be large - if the detector is in that metal range. If the 1500 indicates a large size target, but the pinpoint goes quickly from max to zero, it's probably a small target near the surface.
Keep detecting and digging!
Mike
I recently upgraded to the black epoxy coil on the 1500 (from the white plastic coil). A big improvement, no more "dinging" all of the time when you hit some brush, etc.
Eighty percent of detecting is knowing your machine and how it behaves over different targets (and multiple targets). Re. "target size" - a lot of times the 1500 will show a small target size for a coin for a split second, then jump to a large target size and stay there. Via re-pinpointing a few times in different directions, it will begin to "stick" to the small target size. Deeper coins that have been buried for years, or certain soil conditions will create a "halo" and also look larger than actual size.
Coins near the surface (top 2") will pinpoint "hot" - pinpoint will quickly go from max to zero. As they get deeper, pinpoint off and on will be a little "slower." If something pinpoints high over a large area (6") you know it's large (no matter what the size says). Keep in mind necklaces can be large - if the detector is in that metal range. If the 1500 indicates a large size target, but the pinpoint goes quickly from max to zero, it's probably a small target near the surface.
Keep detecting and digging!
Mike
I have found plenty of nice relics with mine....minnie balls, musket balls, old tokens, old costume jewelry, a coin cache, hundreds of silver coins, large cents, silver and gold rings. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the GTI 1500 as far as I Know 