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Are any of the folk's out there that tested the ATX that can answer question?
- Thread starter Jim Robertson
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Fishers Ghost
New member
bearkat4160 said:
I am not trying to be negative about the ATX, I am trying to get some real information about the capabilities of this detector.
I recall only to well the issues that occured with the AT Pro and the Infinium after release. Issues that were not made evident at the time of pre release videos.
As it turned out the Infinium went on to become a great metal detector but it made a lot of enemies in the teething time along the way as did the AT Pro.
The ATX has demonstrated that it can find small gold and give a nice sharp clear signal on these nuggs, It appears to be able to be scanned much faster than the Infinium and still detect the small nuggs and it goes deep.
This is all good positive stuff. But if the detector hits on hot rocks that give a signal like gold (Which it seems to do)then some means of getting rid of the hot rock signal while retaining the gold signal has to be available otherwise I can see a lot of small gold being misidentified as a hot rock.
kaolinwasher
Well-known member
I like what i seen it do in getting a tru hot rock , not a cold rock , to go silent so this says somthing about its abilities, and that is one good thing it can do , and this will find good targets whear others can not . it is militar grade , and you better be a marine to swing that 6 pounds, around for hours
Fishers Ghost
New member
Signal eddy currents from very small gold decay away quickly as does the signals from iron mineralisation.
So if you set the delay timings where small gold can be detected then you will also catch the iron mineralisation therefore some other means is needed to isolate the gold signals from the iron mineralisation.
You will notice that with the Minelab GPX series that ground mineralisation creates a lot of noise when the detectors are set to respond to very small gold in high iron mineralisation. So it will be interesting to see how the ATX deals with iron minerals when searching for small gold. There is no doubt that the this detector signals very well on fine gold. and in my opinion from what I have seen in the vids that are available on youtube, appears to be much sharper and clearer than the MLs.
So if you set the delay timings where small gold can be detected then you will also catch the iron mineralisation therefore some other means is needed to isolate the gold signals from the iron mineralisation.
You will notice that with the Minelab GPX series that ground mineralisation creates a lot of noise when the detectors are set to respond to very small gold in high iron mineralisation. So it will be interesting to see how the ATX deals with iron minerals when searching for small gold. There is no doubt that the this detector signals very well on fine gold. and in my opinion from what I have seen in the vids that are available on youtube, appears to be much sharper and clearer than the MLs.