Someone had asked for a review of the EQ at a hunted out park a while back.

[devldog]

Congrat's on the new Equinox 600. It looks as though you made the right choice. Keep pounding, and Continued Success to you.

 

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[sgoss66]

OUTSTANDING! You gotta love it when a plan comes together!

Great digs!

Steve

 

[1942 merc]

Park 2 / noise cancel / GB or tracking sens 23 recovery 6 or 7 . I ran a ATP then a deus so I have never had a thresh hold before .It is at 0 . Seems I do not hit anything deeper than seven inches this way . I dug a mason jar lid at a foot and it was giving a nice coin signal but was very soft and weak like a dime .Besides large junk I have not pulled a coin of any size deeper than seven inches .

 

[jeg208]

Park 2 / noise cancel / GB or tracking sens 23 recovery 6 or 7 . I ran a ATP then a deus so I have never had a thresh hold before .It is at 0 . Seems I do not hit anything deeper than seven inches this way . I dug a mason jar lid at a foot and it was giving a nice coin signal but was very soft and weak like a dime .Besides large junk I have not pulled a coin of any size deeper than seven inches .

Sens is high for learning the machine. Back it off to 20.

7" is probably about right if running 7 recovery speed depending on your soil. Give 4-6 a try depending on amount of iron

Iron Bias is a big factor too, and probably a weak point of this machine. Try iron bias of 0-2, and learn the audio clues vs relying on the machine to eliminate all iron.

What is your GB number?

EDIT: Little more info on sensitivity - There is a good post from vf... about signal to noise ratio. SNR is huge with this machine. You dont want to just back off sensitivity for chatter, you need to learn when it starts falsing and masking due to the high gain.

 

[Echoplex]

10 to 12 inches on the dimes, and sounded strong. Wheats were the same. That's probably the thickness of the wonderful fill they put over these fields. Dimes rang 28 to 30 and wheats 21 to 22.

Thank you for the report/pics! Exactly my experience. All my silver dimes are hitting hard at 28/29/30 and they are the only object that hits in that range. Deepest so far is 10" in a filled field. Keeping hitting those pounded spots before more Noxes are in circulation. People are catching on!

 

[vferrari]

I am lucky to hit anything the size of a quarter at seven inches . Very nice hunt you had and I was hoping for the same at my hunted out spots . Not so much . I found a button at each of my sites and thats it . I was really hoping this one spot would open back up . I found so many good things there I was sure the eq800 would kill it again . One button in two hours so I gave up .

My old yard gave up a few coins but it is dead again already . I need new ground . I am starting to question leaving the deus at home . Much lighter and it kills at ten inches consistently . My tdi on the eq800 is all over the place any deeper that six inches . My ground is very mild . I may have gotten a lemon ?

Park 2 / noise cancel / GB or tracking sens 23 recovery 6 or 7 . I ran a ATP then a deus so I have never had a thresh hold before .It is at 0 . Seems I do not hit anything deeper than seven inches this way . I dug a mason jar lid at a foot and it was giving a nice coin signal but was very soft and weak like a dime .Besides large junk I have not pulled a coin of any size deeper than seven inches .

Merc,

Looks like you may have tried my suggestion to dial back down on the sens and up the recovery speed both back closer to the defaults (intentionally or not, lol). EQX works a little differently than Deus, you need to be careful about brute force over driving it for depth because you just raise the noise floor. The default settings are good and only small tweaks from them should be attempted. One additional suggestion I will make is that the 1 modes (i.e., Park 1/Field 1) are weighted towards the lower frequencies and will tend to hit silver harder than Park 2 which is geared more towards mid conductors and small jewelry. Did you try Park 1 at or near the defaults (the only change I would make on Park 1 is lowering iron bias in thick iron).

 

[digger460]

Thanks!

 

[vferrari]

Digger460 - You on the other hand should not change a thing. You have it dialed in, apparently. Lol.

Nice saves.

 

[digger460]

Digger460 - You on the other hand should not change a thing. You have it dialed in, apparently. Lol.

Nice saves.

Ya, I think I'll keeper right where she is. Thanks

 

[1942 merc]

I will give park one a shot . I have been sticking with park two trying to dial it in . GB manual getting around 32 and in tracking I seen it at 67 . Is park one any deeper or just the same ? Deus has spoiled me weight wise .For what ever reason my shoulder is killing me . I hope the six inch coil is way lighter . I seen it will be $180 and available in mid may or early june . If it separates better than the eleven it will clean the ground of everything six inches deep and up .

 

[digger460]

I will give park one a shot . I have been sticking with park two trying to dial it in . GB manual getting around 32 and in tracking I seen it at 67 . Is park one any deeper or just the same ? Deus has spoiled me weight wise .For what ever reason my shoulder is killing me . I hope the six inch coil is way lighter . I seen it will be $180 and available in mid may or early june . If it separates better than the eleven it will clean the ground of everything six inches deep and up .

I tried park 2 when I was out there, and not many signals at all. Like VF said park1 seems to be set up to hit the deep silver hard.

On your other statement of ergonomics. I was thinking the same thing, it felt coil heavy, but then I shortened the shaft 2 notches , and the cuff adjusted 1 from the end. Made all the difference in the world. Swings right in front of the feet. No pain.

Did want to add something. Some of those deep signals I could have easily missed because I was swinging to fast. I think I had it in my head after watching so many vid's on the recovery speed, that I could swing at a pretty good clip. After the one's that I could have missed, I slowed down a bit. 2 to 3 seconds a sweep. Keep that in mind too. Can still cover alot of area. Good Luck!

 

[vferrari]

The six inch coil should be a good add.

 

[vferrari]

I will give park one a shot . I have been sticking with park two trying to dial it in . GB manual getting around 32 and in tracking I seen it at 67 . Is park one any deeper or just the same ? Deus has spoiled me weight wise .For what ever reason my shoulder is killing me . I hope the six inch coil is way lighter . I seen it will be $180 and available in mid may or early june . If it separates better than the eleven it will clean the ground of everything six inches deep and up .

Park 1 should be deeper on silver than Park 2.
Also note that ground balance is MultiIQ dependent so the GB reading you get on Park 1 may be very different than the one you were getting on Park 2 because the Multi IQ algorithm and frequency profile is different between the two modes. This is another difference from Deus.

 

[digger460]

The six inch coil should be a good add.

How do you think the six inch will improve performance?

 

[vferrari]

Better separation and unmasking in trashy situations and I could have used it in the thickets hunting for CW minie balls at an overgrown shooting range. Don't think the depth penalty will be too bad either.

 

[Normsel]

I did the same as digger, I adjusted my shaft and cuff and I have no balance or weight issues. I seem to prefer park 2 but which is best in a very trashy park and I do mean trashy with 1000's of bottle caps and tabs

 

[digger460]

I did the same as digger, I adjusted my shaft and cuff and I have no balance or weight issues. I seem to prefer park 2 but which is best in a very trashy park and I do mean trashy with 1000's of bottle caps and tabs

I know what you mean about those bottle caps. Once I saw they were ringing 25, I left them right where they are. Lightened up the ole pouch!

 

[digger460]

Better separation and unmasking in trashy situations and I could have used it in the thickets hunting for CW minie balls at an overgrown shooting range. Don't think the depth penalty will be too bad either.

Can't imagine it being better at separation and unmasking. Bring it on

 

[HighVDI]

Nice finds!

 

[1942 merc]

I moved my shaft shorter and my cuff back and now I am kicking my coil. I am 6 ft 2 inches tall so I am either hunched over short shaft or longer shaft killing my arm / shoulder . I hope the six inch coil fixes this for me . I found five wheat pennies at a spot I pounded real good for a couple of years using park 2 . None deeper than six inches . I am working on a new permission and if I get it I will run the eq800 first then take the deus back over it later on . Just ordered a power bank to add more weight to complain about . I am hoping mounting the power bank under the cuff and the six inch coil should dial it in perfect for swinging I hope .