Good video. My etrac in ttf does just was well in iron, and we all know the rep etrac has for not being the fastest machine.
With me just needing a water detector, I may end up getting the 600. I have seen a couple of pretty good videos on the equinox, but the iron testing videos have not swayed me to go with the 800. I thought at detectival it was hitting on coins real close to the iron? I haven't seen that duplicated by another equinox video just yet.
I want to believe, trust me, just don't see it yet.
Good points, but if it isn't better on land than what I already have, I will use it the most in the water, and I don't know how much of an advantage that way one would have over the other. I am still going to watch some more videos before i pull the trigger. That's what I do with any purchase. I drive everyone crazy around me dissecting every detail of anything i go to buy. But it usually pays off, as I am satisfied once I do purchase something.I agree, there is not much out there on recovery and thick iron performance. But be careful, if you are most interested in recovery speed and thick iron separation, need to really see a bakeoff between the 600 and the 800 as the 600 has a reduced recovery speed range (not just fewer settings) and the same with iron bias (reduced range and settings) at the maximum settings for each machine.
I think what you are paying mostly for is the wireless hardware that is included with the 800 (wireless headphones and WM08 module - at Minelab accessory prices, remember (lol) though we still don't know what those are yet).
I personally don't want to give up the 800's gold mode, not because I am a prospector, but because I want to use it as an additional tool in the toolkit for relic hunting (also mainly smaller mid-conductors, like gold) in mineralized soil. So I am going 800 all the way.
Good video. My etrac in ttf does just was well in iron, and we all know the rep etrac has for not being the fastest machine.
With me just needing a water detector, I may end up getting the 600. I have seen a couple of pretty good videos on the equinox, but the iron testing videos have not swayed me to go with the 800. I thought at detectival it was hitting on coins real close to the iron? I haven't seen that duplicated by another equinox video just yet.
I want to believe, trust me, just don't see it yet.
Don't let that particular test shown in video fool you. Equinox and Etrac not in the same league in iron trust me, goes,for CTX too.