Equinox 800 depth?

kidlester · Feb 25, 2018

I hit a silver rosie at 7" today with no issues.
HH!

Surf Master · Feb 25, 2018

This will help you

So you don't make a mistake about a nice detector before learning how to operate it https://www.minelab.com/__files/f/326548/4901-0249-1 Inst. Manual, EQUINOX 600 800 E Study page 15 Ground balance , study Modes 22-27, than frequency page 28, get back to us in a couple week's , happy hunting, Earl

sandgroper · Feb 25, 2018

Surf Master said:
? # 2 Did you ground balance the machine ?, from your headline thread opener , you didn't mention a ground balance at all, Australia with that soil over their , has to be done. PS if your hunting in that terrain in your pick , field 1 or 2 might have been better, sand -- Beach 1, happy hunting Earl

Yes it was ground balanced, and we had no problem finding shallow (2-3in) test targets, even found a pull tab there :lol:

. From other people's responses seems like the equinox does a pretty good job. Makes we want to go back there and redo the test with a different machine, dunno why I didn't think of that there. Maybe the one I was using was faulty. Who knows

Crumble · Feb 25, 2018

FFX2 said:
LOL am I the first one to call BS on this?

Don’t be so quick to judge. Many detectors with higher feqeuency hit nickels at crazy depths in air tests. My V3i and Tejon would hit nickels at about the same.

ghound · Feb 25, 2018

Plenty of detectors can air test 15"+ on a nickle, and remember the nox had an 11"wide coil, though it doesn't necessarily mean it will get it in ground.
Here's a Mars Sniper coil air testing a nickle at 16" just incase you've never seen such before. https://youtu.be/kHMJm-fGO9A

FFX2 said:
LOL am I the first one to call BS on this?

ghound · Feb 25, 2018

Yes and no, in the UK and other parts of europe, much of the detecting is done on ploughed and rolled fields, so every target is basically freshly buried, so a detector that can go deep on a freshly buried coin in a test garden will excel in that 'real life' detecting scenario.

Cfmct said:
Doing a test by burying a coin is not the same as say having a test garden or finding a coin that has been buried for years... these tests where one buries something are irrelevant because they don't take in the consideration of the halo affect that a long buried object has.

Just one more · Feb 25, 2018

It's VERY dependent on your soil conditions. Everyone's situation will be different, so keep that in mind when reading/watching reviews. When the AT Pro came out, lot's of people were reporting great depth, etc. so I bought one. I was lucky to get 5-6" inches in my soil. I went to the Etrac and it cut's through my soil like a knife through hot butter. You got to find what works in your area.

ME&MYACE400 · Feb 25, 2018

So How deep is mine suppose to beep at :roll:

Equinox 800 depth?

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