Equinox Settings For Cellar Holes

[secondstar]

Good morning everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any recommended settings for hunting cellar holes with the Equinox (it's a 600) that they could share? I'll be hitting a cellar hole or two this coming weekend with two newer users and wanted to be able to pass along some good information. Thanks!

 

[charlives]

The following is what I do, secondstar...
Near the hole lip I usually go Field2, 22 sens, 0 iron bias, 5tones, recovery 3, multi, accept everything above iron. Good sites I use 6in coil.
Away from the lip I'm still in Field2 but I hunt in 5kHz and check targets in multi, recovery 2 (slow down swing speed), the rest is the same. Best of luck to you and your friends.

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

General area around cellar hole, Nox 600, Park1, sens 21, recovery 2, multi, 5 tones, running with horseshoe on. If there is an interesting area with a lot of iron, Field2, drop sens to 15 and go super slow.

 

[Iffy Signals]

I was in a new hole yesterday in RI that had machine gun iron. It wasnt easy, either park or field will be fine but keep the horseshow in to hear the iron and recovery 2/3 on the 600. Sensitivity 18-20 if you can & Iron bias 0. If you are picking up allot of falsing iron.. (1700’s/1800’s iron is tough to get rid of) put the bias at 1 and see if that helps. Good luck

 

[secondstar]

Thanks for the advice guys!

 

[charlives]

Yep, sometimes I put the bias to 1 too, Iffysignals

 

[Bodkin]

As a couple have said above, slow down. This alone has made a HUGE difference it what I have been finding lately. Good luck!!!

 

[vferrari]

I was in a new hole yesterday in RI that had machine gun iron. It wasnt easy, either park or field will be fine but keep the horseshow in to hear the iron and recovery 2/3 on the 600. Sensitivity 18-20 if you can & Iron bias 0. If you are picking up allot of falsing iron.. (1700’s/1800’s iron is tough to get rid of) put the bias at 1 and see if that helps. Good luck

First of all, important to specify Park 1 or 2 or Field 1 or 2. Since cellar holes typically contain lots of iron and mid conductive relics along with the occasional high conductive coin, Park 2 or Field 2 are your best bets, but Park 1 can work too. Also, with the update, the iron bias game has changed. If you typically run FE 0 to preclude iron bias masking, give F2 4 to 6 a shot (F2 2 to 3 on the 600). It appears to quiet iron falsing while being less susceptible to masking. Use AM so you can hear tge iron grunts. HTH.

 

[tennessee digger]

vferrari.....I downloaded the new update on my 600 but can't get the F2 to come up on the screen. What am I doing wrong? I appreciate any help that you can give....thanks.

 

[secondstar]

vferrari.....I downloaded the new update on my 600 but can't get the F2 to come up on the screen. What am I doing wrong? I appreciate any help that you can give....thanks.

You need to press the settings button and navigate over to recovery speed. Then long press the settings button in order to access the iron bias settings. Lastly, you use the accept / reject button to toggle between FE and F2.

 

[tennessee digger]

I tried that secondstar, but I'll try it again. Thanks.

 

[vferrari]

Tennessee, If you are still having trouble with accessing the new settings using seconstar's instructions. Do a factory reset and try again. If still no joy, then try rerunning the 2.0 update. GL.

 

[bug]

I saw minelab recommends running F2 in all iron mode. My problem is, I run in hot mineralized ground and the constant iron grunts are quite distracting with all iron turned on.
Any ideas?

 

[vferrari]

I saw minelab recommends running F2 in all iron mode. My problem is, I run in hot mineralized ground and the constant iron grunts are quite distracting with all iron turned on.
Any ideas?

Turn the iron bin volume down, then. The advantage of running F2 with no disc is that it enhances the iron grunt on borderline ferrous signals, so that is why they recommend doing it. But the other advantage is that without iron disc, you will preclude non-ferrous tone clipping even with iron volume turned down. Regardless, F2 will still work in disc mode, you will just be discing out the iron tone portion of a false target, which is part of what clues you in to the nature whether or not you are hearing a false tone. It's a nuanced filter but not a magic bullet. If you are in a bed of nails situation it might quiet things down a bit, but as with any filter, if you apply too much, you might start masking legit non-ferrous targets. So basically, you have to do your own field experimentation to see what works.

Also, grunts due to mineralization, -7's to -9's on the display, can be mitigated somewhat (again, not foolproof) with repeated auto GBing as necessary or running GB in tracking mode. HTH.

 

[bug]

Thanks for the exploitation! Makes sense.