equinox 800 in threshold question

[pulltabfelix]

I hunt in the park and field modes 90% of the time and the rest beach at a large inland lake. I don't hunt for gold nuggets.

I have never adjusted the threshold setting. Amy I missing something here that I should know about changing the threshhold setting in park and field modes?

 

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[zeroed4x]

Most of the time for most people, the lower the threshold the better for hearing faint signals but the threshold must be at a high enough level to allow the target rejection to be heard. When the Nox rejects a target it blanks out/off the audio of the threshold.
You'll need to find the balance of what is comfortable between the two. It mostly depends upon your level own of hearing and what is or is not distracting while you hunt. Everyone is different as to how they react when receiving audio ques from a specific detector. You're luckily using a very forgiving detector when setup and used correctly. The Nox usually finds even the small stuff deeper than most people want to dig when noise canceled and properly ground balanced.

 

[dsrtdwg1]

Threshold while prospecting , quiet while in the other modes. I could be way of base here but this is what I do.

 

[WaterWalker]

Read page 44 in the on-line manual. Good explanation. A personal preference of the area's environment you are hunting.


https://www.minelab.com/__files/f/326548/4901-0249-2 Inst. Manual, EQUINOX 600 800 EN.pdf

 

[vferrari]

Most of the time for most people, the lower the threshold the better for hearing faint signals but the threshold must be at a high enough level to allow the target rejection to be heard. When the Nox rejects a target it blanks out/off the audio of the threshold.
You'll need to find the balance of what is comfortable between the two. It mostly depends upon your level own of hearing and what is or is not distracting while you hunt. Everyone is different as to how they react when receiving audio ques from a specific detector. You're luckily using a very forgiving detector when setup and used correctly. The Nox usually finds even the small stuff deeper than most people want to dig when noise canceled and properly ground balanced.

You nailed it.

 

[zeroed4x]

Threshold while prospecting , quiet while in the other modes. I could be way of base here but this is what I do.

You're correct. I've never bothered with setting a threshold on the Nox, seems like an annoyance if you don't need it. I should have asked the OP why he is bothering with it (?)

 

[vferrari]

You're correct. I've never bothered with setting a threshold on the Nox, seems like an annoyance if you don't need it. I should have asked the OP why he is bothering with it (?)

One potential advantage of the threshold is the blanking gives you an idea when your coil is passing over discriminated/notched targets which can be useful if you are trying to listen for an increased density of blanked targets without having to go to all metal. Let's say you disc'd out iron but you are looking for telltale signs of a former structure. The threshold gives you an alternative to using ALL METAL to enable you to hear if you are passing into an area with many ferrous targets indicating a nail bed and possible foundation area by listening to the threshold blanking (rather than a machine gun cacophony of iron grunt tones as you would have in ALL METAL). Also allows you to hear if you are in a non-ferrous trash area by listening to the blanking for the notched out aluminum can slaw, etc. Just another tool in the tool kit.

Note that per the manual, the non-Gold Mode threshold is a simplified threshold called "reference" threshold that merely blanks out when passing the coil over discriminated or notched targets. Gold mode has a true threshold that actually enhances weak signal audio at the threshold level which is useful for faint targets signals associated with micro nuggets. I imagine it might have some usefulness for non-gold targets such as small mid-conductive relics (e.g., percussion caps or small buttons).

 

[pulltabfelix]

I was just wondering if I was missing something in the settings that would help my searches.

 

[sprailroad]

Yes, the threshold. I was going to ask about it, by default it's at 0 in park one. I liked the threshold on the Safari for the reasons Vferrari stated. I only wondered that the 800 being a different machine, there was a good reason to keep it at 0. Seems it's simply ones own choice. OK then, my question answered. I've only had 4 hours at this point on the EQ, so alittle at a time. I did reduce the Iron Bias from 6 to 3 in park one, but I'm thinking to cancel that out, go with factory settings (6) since I am SO new to this machine, and just swing a lot of hours before making any changes. Although, I will use threshold. (And read everything you fella's put out about the 800). Good Forum.