My time with the GTI 1500 with Imageing

[Dancer]

This baby along with the occasional pieces of Gold & Silver Jewelry was a real terror on coins , especially Quarters. I swear if there wasn't A quarter around it could make one . I used both the standard and big coil though the years. Now I only hunt sports fields and parks. Outside of that, I did find a few lost rings people contacted me about. Now when I retired I started going to Florida in the winter. Well that first year I happened to come across a deep developing cut. So standing a top of the cut , I could actually see coins bleeding up between waves. It was too much to resist, I went down thinking I could time the waves. Yep,A rogue wave smacked me a good one and drowned the 1500. Lucky for me someone told me to take it apart put it on the car dash. That worked. About that time the waterproof AT Pro came to my attention. Sadly had to sell the 1500 to get the Pro. One last memory, the 1500 is still the best pinpointing machine I have owned.

 

[sasquache]

I used the garrett GTI 1500 and 2500 loved them both but new technology sucked further from them now I own a minelab ctx 3030 but i really find no difference yet

 

[John-Edmonton]

This baby along with the occasional pieces of Gold & Silver Jewelry was a real terror on coins , especially Quarters. I swear if there wasn't A quarter around it could make one . I used both the standard and big coil though the years. Now I only hunt sports fields and parks. Outside of that, I did find a few lost rings people contacted me about. Now when I retired I started going to Florida in the winter. Well that first year I happened to come across a deep developing cut. So standing a top of the cut , I could actually see coins bleeding up between waves. It was too much to resist, I went down thinking I could time the waves. Yep,A rogue wave smacked me a good one and drowned the 1500. Lucky for me someone told me to take it apart put it on the car dash. That worked. About that time the waterproof AT Pro came to my attention. Sadly had to sell the 1500 to get the Pro. One last memory, the 1500 is still the best pinpointing machine I have owned.

Well written story Dancer! I believe that the imaging feature on the 1500, 2500 & the GTP 1350 made them one of, if not the "best" coin and jewelry detectors of all time. Once you learned them well, and understood their limitations, you could leave literally hundreds of conductors in the ground, saving time for the good stuff. To this day, I can't understand why they stopped using these features. They should have kept building on the imaging platform. The AT Series along with the VORTEX Series which are great machines already, would even be so much more superior with imaging. Who knows how much better the imaging technology would have improved if it were still utlized today! It would be a real bonus for water detecting too. Well, here we are today. Nothing really noted with leaps and bounds with technology improvements. Sure, they made changes with frequencies, made it simple to ID iron (which we already could do years ago) and created names of these new changes with words of technical jargon. I have never ever really recieved a good answer from Garrett on why the imaging feature ceased to exist? However, I still am waiting for a comeback. Have a great year Dancer. We go back many years.......

 

[John-Edmonton]

I used the garrett GTI 1500 and 2500 loved them both but new technology sucked further from them now I own a minelab ctx 3030 but i really find no difference yet

That is so true. The 1500 was a coin and ring vacuum. The 2500 had a killer true all metal mode, still keeping up with today's minor depth improvements.

 

[Dancer]

Well written story Dancer! I believe that the imaging feature on the 1500, 2500 & the GTP 1350 made them one of, if not the "best" coin and jewelry detectors of all time. Once you learned them well, and understood their limitations, you could leave literally hundreds of conductors in the ground, saving time for the good stuff. To this day, I can't understand why they stopped using these features. They should have kept building on the imaging platform. The AT Series along with the VORTEX Series which are great machines already, would even be so much more superior with imaging. Who knows how much better the imaging technology would have improved if it were still utlized today! It would be a real bonus for water detecting too. Well, here we are today. Nothing really noted with leaps and bounds with technology improvements. Sure, they made changes with frequencies, made it simple to ID iron (which we already could do years ago) and created names of these new changes with words of technical jargon. I have never ever really recieved a good answer from Garrett on why the imaging feature ceased to exist? However, I still am waiting for a comeback. Have a great year Dancer. We go back many years.......

Yes it's been quite a while. I'm still plugging , looking for a little color or now even a copper penny.

 

[Waterdog]

I had the GTP 1350 and several GTI s . I still own a GTI 1500 but she needs to go to the shop . I found many pieces jewelry and coins with the 1350. The GTI 2500 got heavy after 3+ hours of hunting. Too bad they did not continue with the technology of sizing.

 

[sasquache]

I had the GTP 1350 and several GTI s . I still own a GTI 1500 but she needs to go to the shop . I found many pieces jewelry and coins with the 1350. The GTI 2500 got heavy after 3+ hours of hunting. Too bad they did not continue with the technology of sizing.

I Agree the GTI 2500 WAS THE DEEPEST i ever owned hands down!