OK, I picked up my Equinox 600 from the Post Office at 8:00 this morning, plugged it in to charge it and this afternoon went out to my old standby search field - the local baseball complex. A city block of ball fields dating back to the 1940s. It is incredibly trashy, and I've hunted it with a bunch of different detectors for nearly 20 years. I was running the Equinox in Park 2 setting, with some of the tweaks suggested by Calabash. I was both amazed and puzzled.
I intentionally searched the most pulltab-infested parts, and the 600 performed wonderfully. I found 10 quarters, two nickels, a few pennies, one of them a wheatie. The 600 sniffed out the good ones from all the mess - if it burped a high number, it was right. The nickels both pegged at 12 (but so do the pulled-off pop tops - so I limited my digging of nickes!). The quarters were less certain - anywhere from 29 to 32. The puzzling part is that I didn't find a single dime. Not one! That is unusual for that place - I usually find about equal numbers of quarters and dimes. Maybe the dimes were more easily masked by the pull tabs. Don't know. Anyway, I'm sold. I searched this same place with a Deus - I did find one silver dime with it, but it had a hard time sniffing out things in the aluminum trash. I thought it was because the 11 inch coil was too big for that type hunting - but the 600 has an 11 incher, and it worked great. So - I'm glad I got it! I'll take it out on a sawmill hunt (I hope) later this week.
