SHOCKING Equinox issue!

[Minelab Matt]

Do you reckon Minelab will make an effort to issue an update/firmware fix?

 

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[Quisp]

Hmm. You have my attention. Next time (if there is one) please perform a noise cancel and at least put it on Auto Ground Balance before you start. I'm not saying it will make a difference but it's what you should do.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Minelab Matt]

Hmm. You have my attention. Next time (if there is one) please perform a noise cancel and at least put it on Auto Ground Balance before you start. I'm not saying it will make a difference but it's what you should do.

Thanks,
Dan

GB....will not make difference.

 

[Quisp]

GB....will not make difference.

Then do it.

 

[Hawks88]

Thanks for the info.

 

[OBN]

Being a water hunter I've seen that many times on the Excalibur on coins and rings. Digging the target then it disappears after a scoop or more. Learned, take another scoop and 99% of the time the target will be in that scoop of sand.

 

[vferrari]

Not this again. Looks like a British tabloid headline, and just about as yawn inducing.

There is nothing "shocking" about the "2" modes hitting harder on the smaller profile presented by an on edge target than the "1" modes. With their higher frequency weighting they are DESIGNED to do precisely that as they are tuned to hit harder on mid conductors and small conductors of any type vs. their lower frequency Park 1/Field 1 high conductor favoring counterparts. If you are afraid of missing the odd edge-on coin, then by all means hunt in Park 2. Of course, the tradeoff is losing a tad bit of depth performance on non-edge-on high conductors. "Fixing" this actually screws up what the detector was designed to do.

 

[fuceye]

listen for the double and triple tones...dig everything till your equinox gets to know you better.​

 

[flgliderpilot]

Coins don't settle on edge. It just doesn't happen unless you are hunting cracked rock sea floor.

I agree, I do not like that this machine is especially weak on edge. But, my CZ and AT Pro were also weak on edge... this one is just a little worse.

For beach hunting, if you dig a coin and miss, and it gets turned on edge, it will settle flat again due to gravity.. so you wait 30 seconds, and the target is back again.

Did you try 10khz single freq?

 

[vferrari]

Coins don't settle on edge. It just doesn't happen unless you are hunting cracked rock sea floor.

I agree, I do not like that this machine is especially weak on edge. But, my CZ and AT Pro were also weak on edge... this one is just a little worse.

For beach hunting, if you dig a coin and miss, and it gets turned on edge, it will settle flat again due to gravity.. so you wait 30 seconds, and the target is back again.

Did you try 10khz single freq?

Agree with the above. Also, from what I can tell, it's only weak in the "1" modes. The "2" modes hit just fine. Think about the fact that on most detectors you are stuck with what you get. You don't even have the option to go to Park or Field 2. Its like 6 or 8 detectors in one. Indeed, that's shocking!

 

[Happa54]

Agree with the above. Also, from what I can tell, it's only weak in the "1" modes. The "2" modes hit just fine. Think about the fact that on most detectors you are stuck with what you get. You don't even have the option to go to Park or Field 2. Its like 6 or 8 detectors in one. Indeed, that's shocking!

I agree on this too. I also did the coin on edge test with the same results but I've learned to live with it. There is a trade off here in the differences between the modes (read all about it), but I like that fact that I have 4 modes (park & field) at my finger tips. I don't have these options with my Safari, or an Etrac or Explorer. I'm not complaining.

 

[adamBomb]

Being a water hunter I've seen that many times on the Excalibur on coins and rings. Digging the target then it disappears after a scoop or more. Learned, take another scoop and 99% of the time the target will be in that scoop of sand.

Yep. Happens all of the time with all of my machines.

Not this again. Looks like a British tabloid headline, and just about as yawn inducing.

There is nothing "shocking" about the "2" modes hitting harder on the smaller profile presented by an on edge target than the "1" modes. With their higher frequency weighting they are DESIGNED to do precisely that as they are tuned to hit harder on mid conductors and small conductors of any type vs. their lower frequency Park 1/Field 1 high conductor favoring counterparts. If you are afraid of missing the odd edge-on coin, then by all means hunt in Park 2. Of course, the tradeoff is losing a tad bit of depth performance on non-edge-on high conductors. "Fixing" this actually screws up what the detector was designed to do.

Thanks for this explanation. I was just going to ask why but you answered it.

 

[GoDeep]

Not this again. Looks like a British tabloid headline, and just about as yawn inducing.

What do you make of all the alarmist posts about the Equinox? I've only been on tnet a couple of years, so my historical context is limited, but it seems a concerted effort to find any little thing it doesn't do as well as brand "x" and then raise the alarms like its an ill conceived inferior product overall. Decrying it's "defective", "flawed", "mis-engineered" , "shocking" etc.

The reality for me is, you can take most detectors and find an area where they don't shine or conversely outshine another.

I asked a question a couple of times now and despite the detractors, not one of them has answered it: I purchased my Equinox 600 with my military discount for 551.00 shipped to my door, this was nearly an under 500.00 dollar machine for me and I ask one simple question, what machine out there right now will give me the same features(multi frequency, individual frequency, waterproof, rechargeable, wireless headphones, auto gb, adj. parameters etc) and overall performance for the same or less money?

 

[adamBomb]

What do you make of all the alarmist posts about the Equinox?

There seem to be some people that are in love with minelab and others that hate it. People on both end of the spectrum. You can tell them all kinds of stuff but they only listen to what they want to hear.

 

[flgliderpilot]

I purchased my Equinox 600 with my military discount for 551.00 shipped to my door, this was nearly an under 500.00 dollar machine for me and I ask one simple question, what machine out there right now will give me the same features(multi frequency, individual frequency, waterproof, rechargeable, wireless headphones, auto gb, adj. parameters etc) and overall performance for the same or less money?

NONE.

 

[Minelab Matt]

NONE.

What he just said. NONE.

Matt.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

NONE.

flgliderpiolt is correct, none.

 

[Minelab Matt]

There seem to be some people that are in love with minelab and others that hate it. People on both end of the spectrum. You can tell them all kinds of stuff but they only listen to what they want to hear.

Exactly. Search my videos i did to debunk that Lewis guy who made the vid.

He is having none of it.

Just whack "matthew moss" into youtube and i got a few anti-lewis AKA Special Boy videos...lol.

 

[Minelab Matt]

Exactly. Search my videos i did to debunk that Lewis guy who made the vid.

He is having none of it.

Just whack "matthew moss" into youtube and i got a few anti-lewis AKA Special Boy videos...lol.

Then again here they are:











Matt

 

[Terry Soloman]

Another reason why folks that have no idea what they are doing should not make videos. Just too easy to embarrass yourself.