What do all think of this?

[peterr3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-5XViYqx7I

[peterr3]

https://golddetecting.forumotion.net...n-board#274126

[moodz]

Woody you have done heaps of videos with the coil on the bench right next to your noggin !

[ivconic]

I'm afraid I didn't get the sense and the point!?
Am I wrong to interpret this as an assumption that metal detectors are dangerous to health?
If this is the correct understanding; then we are on a very slippery slope.
The best way to set these assumptions in time and space is to find official studies on the effect of magnetic resonance imaging and various CT scanners on the human body.
As far as I know; there is no metal detector that is 1/1000th the power of those medical devices.
Or have I got it all wrong?
The closest thing to "dangerous" was the old Lorenz PI detector that had a high burst power.
The biggest "damage to health" was in terms of the weight of the device itself, the coil, the stem and the discomfort in operation!
And ML detectors of higher category, type SD, GP and GPX, which are very bulky and complicated to carry and work with, have even greater "damage to health"!
Belt, harnesses, very heavy battery on the belt, huge box and stem, big coils... all this can affect the spine and vertebrae!
Ideal for bodybuilders but very difficult for us ordinary people!
The logical conclusion from this is that Australians are all bodybuilders and very strong people!
Half of Australia are bodybuilders, to be precise, and half of Australia are people with dislocated vertebrae and crooked spines!

[ivconic]

[ivconic]

On the other hand... I have a somewhat more relaxed situation here in Serbia...

[Aziz]

[ivconic]

Let's be objective though; Minelab put a lot of effort into optimization in accordance with the Malthusian doctrines!

[ivconic]

Don't blame me if there were some unpleasant insinuations... ChatGPT is to blame for everything!

[moodz]

Bwhahahahahahahaha

[Altra]

"Mate, That's not a coil, That's a commode!" I was crying with laughter. If AI can't get a job coding it can always get work in comedy...

[ivconic]

From time to time I check the progress and abilities of a few free AIs.
ChatGPT is quite advanced in terms of image generation.
In general; all AIs I check are progressing. It is often a dead race.

[peterr3]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]I'm afraid I didn't get the sense and the point!?
Am I wrong to interpret this as an assumption that metal detectors are dangerous to health?
If this is the correct understanding; then we are on a very slippery slope.
The best way to set these assumptions in time and space is to find official studies on the effect of magnetic resonance imaging and various CT scanners on the human body.
As far as I know; there is no metal detector that is 1/1000th the power of those medical devices.
Or have I got it all wrong?

What you say may well be true, but the difference is exposure time, some 8000 users will be exposed to the Tx field for up to 50 hours a week and for maybe 200 days or more a year. So the cumulative dose will be significant, I also have no doubt that some implanted nerve stimulation devices will be impacted by the Tx field.

[ivconic]

And in the words of the great philosopher and thinker, creator of vital theories for the survival of humanity, Frank Drebin:
"Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes."
(if I decide to use that detector)



P.S.
This isn't AI, this is me, I stumbled across "Naked Gun" last night while running through the remote.

[ivconic]

Joking aside, but the EM field that such coils can generate is totally harmless to human health, take my word for it!
However, NIOSH did NOT test the GPZ 8000. That study was from 1997 on old-school security detectors (airport/courthouse type), not gold prospecting machines.
The GPZ 8000 came out way later. So no, nobody from the government has officially tested this specific detector for health effects.
That said, metal detectors in general operate on very low power; we're talking milliwatts or a few watts at most.
The GPZ runs on a lithium battery pack, not a nuclear reactor.
There's still zero confirmed EMF health cases from any consumer metal detector.
Real risks: your back and swinging arm are the only things getting damaged. Use the harness.