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Today was my first hunt with the Equinox. It was pretty exciting to use a new detector, my first with target id numbers and wireless headphones. For the most part I used the "Beach 1" mode and the only changes I made were bumping up the sensitivity and threshold levels. I met up with Romy, from this forum, and hunted some dry sand, wet sand (mostly) and up to my knees in salt water.
As most of you have probably heard, the Equinox is pretty light and easy to swing. The headphones are also lightweight and pretty comfortable. I have a feeling that the headphones won't be as effective at blocking out wind noise as my other detectors's bigger, bulkier headphones but today I could hear the signals well. It was rainy today and I was concerned about getting the headphones wet so I wore a shower cap over them. I will definitely be getting some waterproof headphones when available.
The sounds that the Equinox makes will take me some time to get used to. I was hunting at a pretty trashy beach and the Equinox was reacting to a lot of small, non-ferrous targets. 1 hole I dug yielded a nail, a paper-clip and a greenish-brown nickel (reading 13). It took me a few minutes but I finally could make out the uniquely angled neckline of a Liberty or "V" nickel- 1908!
It didn't seem too deep- only a few inches but I think that I'm starting to understand the Equinox's ability to sniff out good targets among the less desirable ones. I found myself using "pinpoint" quite a bit when there were so many targets close to one another. When pinpointing, it's pretty surprising how little the coil has to move to center the target- I never realized that my other detectors were so much slower to respond to targets than the Equinox is.
After finding a couple dozen or so coins (mostly copper pennies) I got a reading of around 25 and scooped out my first bit of silver for the Nox- a mercury dime:
So much more to learn about this detector but I think it's going to fit in well with my Excal and Dual Field. It definitely is a fun machine to use. Still need to test it in the surf, fresh water, black sand, and dirt. I was hoping to be one of the lucky ones who have found gold on their first hunt with the Equinox but I will gladly take a 110 year-old coin and a little silver- the gold will come. GL&HH!
As most of you have probably heard, the Equinox is pretty light and easy to swing. The headphones are also lightweight and pretty comfortable. I have a feeling that the headphones won't be as effective at blocking out wind noise as my other detectors's bigger, bulkier headphones but today I could hear the signals well. It was rainy today and I was concerned about getting the headphones wet so I wore a shower cap over them. I will definitely be getting some waterproof headphones when available.
The sounds that the Equinox makes will take me some time to get used to. I was hunting at a pretty trashy beach and the Equinox was reacting to a lot of small, non-ferrous targets. 1 hole I dug yielded a nail, a paper-clip and a greenish-brown nickel (reading 13). It took me a few minutes but I finally could make out the uniquely angled neckline of a Liberty or "V" nickel- 1908!
It didn't seem too deep- only a few inches but I think that I'm starting to understand the Equinox's ability to sniff out good targets among the less desirable ones. I found myself using "pinpoint" quite a bit when there were so many targets close to one another. When pinpointing, it's pretty surprising how little the coil has to move to center the target- I never realized that my other detectors were so much slower to respond to targets than the Equinox is.
After finding a couple dozen or so coins (mostly copper pennies) I got a reading of around 25 and scooped out my first bit of silver for the Nox- a mercury dime:
So much more to learn about this detector but I think it's going to fit in well with my Excal and Dual Field. It definitely is a fun machine to use. Still need to test it in the surf, fresh water, black sand, and dirt. I was hoping to be one of the lucky ones who have found gold on their first hunt with the Equinox but I will gladly take a 110 year-old coin and a little silver- the gold will come. GL&HH!