Happa54
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IMO.... for whatever was going on in that particular hole, the Nox reported loud & clear, a piece of metal under its coil and the CTX didn't. The Nox was doing its job. I would question the efficiency of the CTX.
IMO.... for whatever was going on in that particular hole, the Nox reported loud & clear, a piece of metal under its coil and the CTX didn't. The Nox was doing its job. I would question the efficiency of the CTX.
I think that's what the OP's point was. The Nox rang out like a great find, and the CTX told you it was crap.
Why would you question the CTX's efficiency when it did its job?
Anyone moderately familiar with the Equinox would not consider that “[ringing] out like a great find”. The TID was unstable, audio distorted (admittedly hard to hear on the video) and depth indicated shallow target all add up to probable trash. Gold jewelry at that depth would ring up with a solid ID and a nickel would also be solid 13. That was not a “dig me” Equinox signal, sorry.
In other words, that was a very low probability keeper target signal to the experienced Equinox user just as the non-silent audio and variable visual ID signal the CTX provided would be interpreted as probable trash to the experienced CTX user.
I'm new to the Equinox 800 so I'm still digging most targets. But for me so far 100% of the time anything jumping from 12 to 13 has been a broken ring-tab.
Don't rely on that screen. I've had many buffs and V's bounce from 9 to 13. I dig any deeper nickel signal that sounds consistant. Also dug a garrett carrot deep shield nickel that was bouncing around the nickel range. Just sounded good and deep.
a broken ring may give a flaky reading but I would think that the tone would be the same
dug two signals today, both read 11. one was a junker plated ring, the other, a 10k ring. I had previously dug an 11 signal that was trash and figured that I was again digging trash, more of the first.