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I heard about her in the Fall of 2017 and was dying to meet her. So, in the Spring of 2018 I had saved up enough money to be able to meet her personally. When she arrived she was so good looking and even kind of sexy. Now prior to meeting Miss Equi, I had flirted with Miss Fisher, Miss Garrett...

In Atlanta it was a long hot and very, very wet summer. I hunt civil war relics in North, east, west Atlanta. This includes creek and hilly areas with tons of mosquitos, bugs and water snakes and an occasional copperhead. The worst is losing your footing in the mud and wet vegetation and busting...

Hello I have a problem with my headphones on my Blue 800. It has the ikelite connector, but need to change the old stock headphones. I was thinking about the Gray Ghost, but they seem to come without the connector. Is it easy to do at home? im not very proficient with my electronics. I also...

I have a Vanq 540 and Nox 800. Use the nox 800 99% of the time and have the 540 for backup because it has the same tones and TID range as the 800 and that makes life easy for me. The 540 is a great beginner's machine and quite good. It is much more stable and quieter than the 800. Plus not...

I've had a Garrett AT Max for about a year and I'm having a lot of fun but I've run into a few major problems. Here in Rhode Island, the beaches are very mineralized and there are tons of hot rocks. The AT Max is screaming in my ear and makes locating a target nearly impossible. Even the...

Today hunting a volley ball court all i was getting on startup before noise cancel and ground balance was static and the 800 would not even detect a surface key or my hesche shovel. Did a noise cancel and ground balance and reduced sensitivity to 19 and no effect, still static. More like radio...

Just wanted to introduce myself. I found this forum while researching a new metal detector. I have a Garrett AT Max and get out about once or twice a week but the local beach where nearly everyone has lost rings when surfing has an exposed rock reef at low tide that is IMPOSSIBLE to detect due...

I am hunting civil war areas in metro Atlanta and from north Atlanta up to Chattanooga, TN along the I-75 route. Economic growth in Georgia since the Civil War has caused a lot of good Civil War hunting sites to be come polluted with other metal trash since 1864. I suspect this is true of PA...

One of the confusing concepts for newbies is conductivity in terms of metal detecting. Conductivity is a term that describes how easy electricity (electrons) flow through a metal. Low conductivity means the metal is more resistant to electron flow. A high conductive metal is a metal that offers...

This is for newbies to the hobby considering the purchase of the Equinox 600 or 800 metal detector and newbies who have purchased the 600 or 800. I have read three good books on the Equinox. Clive Clynick's 3 books on the Equinox and Andy Sasbisch's single book on the Equinox. Clive Clynick’s...

It is a park in Atlanta that was the scene of a huge battle at Peachtree Creek on July 20, 1964. Millions of bullets were fired and dropped on that day. You think I could find at least one. Have hunted that park and the creeks off and on for the past two years. Using my 800 so that is no excuse...

Was updating my TID values on my Equinox 800 and Vanquish 540 with air test. 800 was in field 2 and 540 was in relic mode. For the most part they are identical on my test of junk, pull tabs, square tabs, pennies, bottle caps, screw caps. On good targets civil war bullets, silver coins they...

Tony Eisenhower has a good video on the Equinox 800. It is a good visual on why you should dig everything if you are hunting rings. you can skip to the end of the video and see the placement of rings and junk on his grid of TID numbers for the 800. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgspduZA_8

I thougth I might share my experience with the Equinox 800. A little about me. I started metal detecting with the Fisher original gold bug in 1987 hunting gold nuggets in North Georgia. I read the manual once and started using it. The gold bug was a good gold hunting machine. Several years...

There are a lot of posts on various metal detecting forums asking Equinox 600 or 800 user what settings they use. In my opinion this is not the way to go about deciding what settings you should use for your Equinox. Why? Other people’s settings are for their specific type of soil and the types...

on one posts or reply to a post I pointed out that air test were worthless in comparing different detectors. Now I have to correct myself. It depends on the type of air test. If you are just doing depth air test, I still agree they are not of much value. However other air test are very...

Anyone using a Simplex+ now? If so what are your observations so far? In a previous post I stated that I was considering selling my Nox 800 and buying another simpler detector. Well I decided to keep my 800 and buy a Simplex+. someone said wait till the Vanquish is available in the US. The...

I have had my 800 since march 2018. Yes, it was a long learning curve for me, but I stuck with it. I am not trying to knock the 800, it just may not be the right detector for me. However, the main thing I don't like about the 800 is it jamming too many targets in a narrow 40 slot TID range...

I have the 15" coil for my Nox 800. I have not really dug many deep signals due to the summer and early fall drought in the south. Now rains have come and the dirt is now moist. Question on faint signals. Will a silver dime laying flat sound pretty much the same at 11" deep as say 6" deep...

If you have read your manual but want some more easy to learn information click on this link. You will find 26 very basic tutorial videos for the Equinox metal detector. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpymZHu8sv5nwrk34ID53OxszE8fjuDFC