Am I doing something wrong?

[Truth]

I was at my spot where I have found many three ringers at the park. I had it on Park one and Park two When I buried the three ringer at 8 inches deep and I didn’t get any signal whatsoever throughout any of the modes. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Ground Balance? Noise reduction?

 

[fuceye]

Did you break in your new detector? have you seasoned the coil? did you warm up the bluetooth? have you tuned the coil lead wire....yet?

 

[flgliderpilot]

What is sensitivity set at? did you noise cancel first? are you in all metal mode?

is the VOLUME turned all the way up? volume up on headphones?

ground balance and noise cancel are very important on this machine.

 

[Truth]

Did you break in your new detector? have you seasoned the coil? did you warm up the bluetooth? have you tuned the coil lead wire....yet?

Your sarcasm is getting old

 

[Truth]

What is sensitivity set at? did you noise cancel first? are you in all metal mode?

is the VOLUME turned all the way up? volume up on headphones?

ground balance and noise cancel are very important on this machine.

I might’ve not of noise canceled what was strange was I did hit a bottle cap 10 inches down

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Dean
Don`t judge any machine by recently buried targets lot of machines don`t see them ...2 minutes in the ground maybe the machine won`t see it ...160 years in the ground like you found... big difference .
Just take your time and enjoy the learning process .
Gary

 

[flgliderpilot]

The position of the item can matter. A quarter for example, laying flat will get hit at 10"-12". On it's edge, lucky if you get 6" and the signal will be bouncy.

Test it in different positions, laying on the dirt, on it's side, standing up, etc and see what you get.

 

[Truth]

Dean
Don`t judge any machine by recently buried targets lot of machines don`t see them ...2 minutes in the ground maybe the machine won`t see it ...160 years in the ground like you found... big difference .
Just take your time and enjoy the learning process .
Gary

Thanks Gary I needed to hear that. Learning a new machine takes me awhile. I’m like that with most things in life.

But when I get it....))

 

[Truth]

The position of the item can matter. A quarter for example, laying flat will get hit at 10"-12". On it's edge, lucky if you get 6" and the signal will be bouncy.

Test it in different positions, laying on the dirt, on it's side, standing up, etc and see what you get.

Thanks pilot I do that

 

[smokeythecat]

Use the factory presets. Go look for native targets. You can't go wrong that way. You have all the time in the world to mess with it later. You probably didn't do anything wrong.

 

[GroundBalanced]

If it feels like something is completely wrong, like "Why can't i hit that target, i know its there" and you've tried noise, groundbalanced, swingspeed, ck'd your discrimination, knotchouts, etc... then it might be time to remember the old trick we all have to use from time to time on our computers, phones, gps, etc.... reboot that sucker. Software/Firmware ain't perfect. So before you pack it up, try a reboot.

 

[fuceye]

Your sarcasm is getting old

a lot of things are getting old....have your head phones charged up? how long did it take?do you think they were a good deal? how long did it take the seller to send them? can you answer the phone while detecting with them, or have you had an chance to use that feature yet...seems a bit weird to me as I need the phone to be in airplane mode for the equinox to work properly,just wondering if you had better luck. what kind of phone do you have? I have an apple and it causes a lot of interference.have you looked at any wireless earbuds yet? some say they work way better than the head phones.
when you bury your stuff to find with your detector do you wet the hole before you backfill it? a very good soaking with a lot of water to super saturate the ground around your target will give better results...you need to compact the ground real good too...then give it a couple days to allow the water to dry up
and you are good to go. make sure you use the same dirt that you took out of the hole...

or you could go to the park and do some digging. nothing replaces the real thing. heck you might even get lucky and find some real cool stuff.

good luck and have a great day.

 

[Truth]

a lot of things are getting old....have your head phones charged up? how long did it take?do you think they were a good deal? how long did it take the seller to send them? can you answer the phone while detecting with them, or have you had an chance to use that feature yet...seems a bit weird to me as I need the phone to be in airplane mode for the equinox to work properly,just wondering if you had better luck. what kind of phone do you have? I have an apple and it causes a lot of interference.have you looked at any wireless earbuds yet? some say they work way better than the head phones.
when you bury your stuff to find with your detector do you wet the hole before you backfill it? a very good soaking with a lot of water to super saturate the ground around your target will give better results...you need to compact the ground real good too...then give it a couple days to allow the water to dry up
and you are good to go. make sure you use the same dirt that you took out of the hole...

or you could go to the park and do some digging. nothing replaces the real thing. heck you might even get lucky and find some real cool stuff.

good luck and have a great day.

God I’m glad I can block you.

 

[vferrari]

Truth - how did the minie sound on the surface b4 you buried It? And you are sure your H/P are turned on and paired correctly? Sounds like a dunb question because you heard the bottlecap, but a fella thought he was using the headphones when in fact they were not turned on and what he was hearing was the muffled sound of the control head speaker. He complained about bad sounding audio until he figured out his mistake. Also, in reality with this machine, if your ground is mild, GB is not really required as long as you are not getting a lot of ground feedback noise. It can compensate for a ground phase reading up to 10 to 15 points away from where you have it set. That being said, it is prudent to do a GB regardless.

Also you have to individually noise cancel and GB for each mode as each mode uses a different frequency spectrum and chooses different channels and G's differently.

HTH.

 

[Truth]

Truth - how did the minie sound on the surface b4 you buried It? And you are sure your H/P are turned on and paired correctly? Sounds like a dunb question because you heard the bottlecap, but a fella thought he was using the headphones when in fact they were not turned on and what he was hearing was the muffled sound of the control head speaker. He complained about bad sounding audio until he figured out his mistake. Also, in reality with this machine, if your ground is mild, GB is not really required as long as you are not getting a lot of ground feedback noise. It can compensate for a ground phase reading up to 10 to 15 points away from where you have it set. That being said, it is prudent to do a GB regardless.

Also you have to individually noise cancel and GB for each mode as each mode uses a different frequency spectrum and chooses different channels and G's differently.

HTH.

My ground usually GB’s in mid 80’s. It sounded great on the surface. I also didn’t noise cancel. Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me.

 

[vferrari]

Put the minie (Or desired test target) in a thick plastic bag, attach a thin, long shoelace or string to it bury in lightly packed soil to max depth. Scan it, if you can't hear it tug on the string a little until you can hear it then figure out how deep it was.

 

[vferrari]

My ground usually GB’s in mid 80’s. It sounded great on the surface. I also didn’t noise cancel. Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me.

The GB numbers on your AT Max/Pro/Deus/MXT will not correspond to the numbers on the Equinox, trust me. For one thing, each mode will have a different GB number for the same patch of ground. The "hot" modes Park 2, Field 2, Gold 1/2 (i.e., those that are most sensitive to mid conductors like gold, brass, aluminum, small lead, nickel) will typically GB to higher numbers than the modes like Park1, Field 1, Beach 1/2 that hit harder on high conductors like silver and copper.

 

[Truth]

The GB numbers on your AT Max/Pro/Deus/MXT will not correspond to the numbers on the Equinox, trust me. For one thing, each mode will have a different GB number for the same patch of ground. The "hot" modes Park 2, Field 2, Gold 1/2 (i.e., those that are most sensitive to mid conductors like gold, brass, aluminum, small lead, nickel) will typically GB to higher numbers than the modes like Park1, Field 1, Beach 1/2 that hit harder on high conductors like silver and copper.

Right so if I have high mineralization I should GB. I saw a lot of videos that left it at zero so that’s what I did.

 

[lairmo]

Put the minie (Or desired test target) in a thick plastic bag, attach a thin, long shoelace or string to it bury in lightly packed soil to max depth. Scan it, if you can't hear it tug on the string a little until you can hear it then figure out how deep it was.

Good idea..never thought of that...