Someone had asked for a review of the EQ at a hunted out park a while back.

[jeg208]

I am 6'4", and I think I have the shaft about 3 notches from fully extended. I swing right in front of my toes, and take small steps as I need each pass to overlap anyways. Taking a heat gun to the cuff helped a ton too

 

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[digger460]

I moved my shaft shorter and my cuff back and now I am kicking my coil. I am 6 ft 2 inches tall so I am either hunched over short shaft or longer shaft killing my arm / shoulder . I hope the six inch coil fixes this for me . I found five wheat pennies at a spot I pounded real good for a couple of years using park 2 . None deeper than six inches . I am working on a new permission and if I get it I will run the eq800 first then take the deus back over it later on . Just ordered a power bank to add more weight to complain about . I am hoping mounting the power bank under the cuff and the six inch coil should dial it in perfect for swinging I hope .

Well were not apples to apples. I'm only 5'8

 

[vferrari]

I moved my shaft shorter and my cuff back and now I am kicking my coil. I am 6 ft 2 inches tall so I am either hunched over short shaft or longer shaft killing my arm / shoulder . I hope the six inch coil fixes this for me . I found five wheat pennies at a spot I pounded real good for a couple of years using park 2 . None deeper than six inches . I am working on a new permission and if I get it I will run the eq800 first then take the deus back over it later on . Just ordered a power bank to add more weight to complain about . I am hoping mounting the power bank under the cuff and the six inch coil should dial it in perfect for swinging I hope .

I don't think it is going to work miracles on depth, but I will remphasize that if you are primarily going after high conductive coins, your best bet might just be Park 1 or Field 1.

 

[Ammoman]

I moved my shaft shorter and my cuff back and now I am kicking my coil. I am 6 ft 2 inches tall so I am either hunched over short shaft or longer shaft killing my arm / shoulder . .

I got rid of my E-trac for the same issue. I almost had surgery on my elbow because of it. Took over 7 months to heal and it is still not up to par a year and a half later. I would suggest getting a harness if you plan on swinging it for long. If you can't handle being tied to the machine via cable then you may want to think of a better balanced machine.

 

[Hawks88]

I just got my nox 600. After your story I can’t wait to get out. Thanks for that nice post and congrats on all those nice finds.

 

[sprailroad]

I read all the EQ post learning a few things before I receive my order (someday), and I do have one question, most often, in fact most all of the time, Park 1 and Park 2 are being used, seldom if ever do I see Field 1 or 2 being used, any reason? is there a pre-set discrim. pattern or something not preferred? Of course Beach & Prospecting explain themselves, but Park vs. Field?

 

[vferrari]

I actually like to use Field 2 when relic hunting vs. Park 2 but I do switch off between both as they are a little different even though the presets are pretty much the same and they both are optimised for mid conductors. The difference is in the Multi IQ secret sauce for both those modes. I have Field 2 (default settings) set up permanently in my user profile slot for quick access regardless of which mode I am in. Field 1 is set up as a beep dig two-tone mode that biases towards high conductors and I don't think anyone sees an advantage to it vs. Park 1 which is the main coin shooting mode. So in order of "popularity" for non beach hunting and non prospecting:

Park 1 for coin shooting and basic all around usage, biased to high conductiors.

Park 2 for relic hunting/coin shooting in thick iron - popularized because it is Calabash Digger's favorite relic mode. Mid conductor (i.e., button) magnet.

Field 2 for relic hunting /coin shooting in thick iron - My favorite relic hunting program out of the box but basically, for me Park 2 and Field 2 are neck and neck mid conductive target magnets.

Field 1 for general beep digging biased to high conductors. Seems redundant and less "sophisticated" than Park 1. Do not have much swing time on it. Multi IQ underneath I am sure is a little different than Park 1 just as Park 2 and Field 2 Multi IQ are different even though they are both mid-conductor/high frequency biased modes.