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My Equinox 800 Take (Tests and Commentary)

New pic, new test.
Notice now US nickel is three 2x4 thickness below nails.
I actually set this test up using Deus wearing 11" LF coil. What you see is as close as I can move the nails inwards and still get a dig me/incestigate signal. Again reactivity levels 3 and 4 will hear this nickel, but do behave differently.

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So what about Equinox?
Using park 2 multi freq, iron bias 0, speed setting 6, using factory disc setting, Equinox underperforms Deus, but if I push horse button going to AM, Equinox here picks up, and give a very good signal sweeping. As far as picking up nickel signal wise I rate a tie here as long as Equinox in AM. For actual signal quality,,Equinox the winner as long as in AM. Deus does better than Equinox here with coil closer to nails when sweeping.
 
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Good info Tnss, thanks.
Try turning them nails 90°, as the big 11" coils see round the nails easier the way you have them, it will make it tougher.
 
ghound said:
Good info Tnss, thanks.
Try turning them nails 90°, as the big 11" coils see round the nails easier the way you have them, it will make it tougher.
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Yep thats the way i test all my machines putting the head of the nail on the edge on both sides running long ways with the boards. If you use a quarter and bring the upper boards to the edge of the quarter and the heads where i said and the Nox will report a good signal and ID you have something special.
 
Alright a little fresh water beach hunt. Got news for folks, if you like your detector to talk to you (make noise) while you sweep, you will get very lonely fast with Equinox, unless there is iron (if you decide to run AM) or nonferrous on your beach. Super quiet running. Had to drop an object down on the sand and sweep just to make sure detector was on.

I did find a few things. Will share with a pic and discuss.
Did wear wireless headphones, was a bit windy too.

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Before I discuss what Imwitnessed on these finds.
I ran beach 1 detect mode.
I ran tracking GB, balancing at first 9 popped in window. While hunting I would frequently check this GB number, it was 9 every single time I looked.
Ran sensitivity at 20, and factory beach 1 mode at first.
Found a couple clad dimes meter saying 23 on them. One of them was 7" deep, the other a bit shallower.
Notice the odd looking thing towards the back ( 22rimfire bullet mangled I think) it gave weak tone, no ID at all. Would repeat every single coil pass. And here is some thing interesting, taking sand out of hole recovering, signal when sweeping weaker.
Next I lowered iron bias to 4, and reduced speed setting form 6 to 5 setting.
The mongoose car gave monster tone, 27 in meter, almost like it was sitting on top of the ground. Where I located this, sand was packed, so I could get a very accurate depth of this little car. It was a solid 9. 5" down, could have been a tad deeper.

The tab was around 8" deep and gave a good signal.

One thing I notice using Equinox, it is hard to judge where target is exactly when sweeping, criss crossing, and pinpointing even. On a beach, dig a bigger diameter hole might save you some time in the end.

Folks I think are going to have a blast with this detector on a beach. I did what little time I spent today. Crazy quiet though, I got lonely.lol
 
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I see in your test you use 0 iron bias setting and you hit. The 800 has 0 to 7 setting. The 600 0 to 3 setting. So then If I go for the 600 only having 0 to 3 iron bias settings should not worry me being you did well on 0, the lower settings. what do you think?
 
Robm1093 said:
I see in your test you use 0 iron bias setting and you hit. The 800 has 0 to 7 setting. The 600 0 to 3 setting. So then If I go for the 600 only having 0 to 3 iron bias settings should not worry me being you did well on 0, the lower settings. what do you think?
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I can't swear on anything concerning 600 model. And won't.
 
Trashfinder said:
Yep thats the way i test all my machines putting the head of the nail on the edge on both sides running long ways with the boards. If you use a quarter and bring the upper boards to the edge of the quarter and the heads where i said and the Nox will report a good signal and ID you have something special.
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I realize. There are a lot of ways I can arrange nails, etc. -with time I will show more.
 
Time for another pic and test here. US nickel in pic.
The test I did here a little different. All previous test above Equinox was at factory park 2 disc setting, except for when I talked above about going to AM.
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On this test what I did was reduced disc setting on both Deus and Equinox just to the point where no audio was given on the nails when swept in configuration in pic.
This meant going to 5.6 on Deus and accepting 0 disc setting on Equinox.
Used multi freq with Equinox.
Using these disc settings how did the 2 detectors compare when swept?
Remember Deus is wearing 11" LF coil.

User of Deus needs to be in 4 reactivity to get a hit on nickel. Tone is very short sounding, sporadic giving tone when swept.

Equinox gives fuller tone and although it is somewhat inconsistent giving tone. When sweeping what's in the pic. Equinox by a cat whisker. Speed 8 setting worked too detecting the nickel. But again when Equinox reports a user won't be so confused trying to figure out what they heard.
 
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tnsharpshooter said:
I realize. There are a lot of ways I can arrange nails, etc. -with time I will show more.
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No pressure here, i was just really curious, will tell me alot as far as how it will stack up to other machines and i do realize again this is with stock coil , so i fully expect it to fail. Very hard test when the boards are scooted up to the edge of the coin with the iron nails at least 2 inches above and running down the board. I did watch the guy on the video change to park mode am and with some tweaking the nox did pretty good so i am more encouraged now.
 
Robm1093 said:
I see in your test you use 0 iron bias setting and you hit. The 800 has 0 to 7 setting. The 600 0 to 3 setting. So then If I go for the 600 only having 0 to 3 iron bias settings should not worry me being you did well on 0, the lower settings. what do you think?
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correct 0 same on both. eq6 1= eq8 2, eq6 2 = eq8 4, eq6 3 = eq8 6
 
More feedback sweeping deeper targets.

Ground here where testing wet.
Medium mineralization.

Deep nickel.
Speed setting 4 seems hits the best, go lower corrupts signal. Sens 20 sounds good too- smooth sounding.
Sensitivity, 22/23 hits good. Go higher corrupts signal. Max is real bad.
Iron bias setting.
Seemed to me nickel signal not too corrupted coming off of zero until I got to level 7 or higher, Sure didn't like setting 9!

Also special note here, unless I am seeing things some of the different detect modes, ground balance is different. I did pumping ground balance comparing park 1,2 and field 1 and 2, .i saw some different outcomes with pumping ground balance numbers. Some would,give 34 in window others 44. Each mode kept reading consistent as far as comparing it to itself when doing pumping GB.

I checked a couple other deep coins. Noted the same as above on deep nickel.

Btw on the deep nickel good tone, ID of 2, 8, 11, who knows,,,didn't see it ever up average though. 11 is as high as it read.

Went back with Deus and 11"LF coil to check a deep dime. Equinox would sputter, best I could get signal wise. Every now an then it would squeaks through with high tone.
Deus using hot program very similar to Equinox. Wouldn't dig either really of what they showed on average. Deus in deep mode 12 kHz gave me weak dig me signal,,remember TX power here reduced to 2. 8khz next best signal but quite a bit worse than signal gotten using 12khz. Remember ground here is wet big time. This dime checked buried for 18 months.
 
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More feedback.

Taking the same single nail and sweeping longways. Staying in multi freq.
Between the different modes, Equinox will behave (give tone or not) with different disc settings.

How does this play into the bigger world with Equinox, time will tell.

Park 1 lets me adjust like down to -3 before this nail used sneaks through tonally, other modes nail disc has to raised to quiet the nail.
This was with GB locked no tracking selected.
 
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Tnss

Great test idea , since you want to compare the Deus with the Equinox 800, let's do a submerged steam test , and see which detector win's, howboutit :?: Maybe someone here can enlighten me, as to why, your comparing these to machine's when they are a different breed.:?: I thought all along TNSS was going to give a review of the Equinox 800 only, why, he has been playing with two Deus unit's maybe more for year's, do to the fact that the Equinox is a new machine to him, setting's wise, i would say he would know how to set the Deus up to win every time, don't want to start a fuss here, but before he got the Equinox , i said something to him, without month's of using, getting to know, the Equinox 800, it's like comparing apples to oranges that he's been eating for years :imo::my2cents:
 
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TNSS, I know it's not your ballywick but I'm curious what kind of gold detector the 800 is.

I don't suppose you can run some gold only and gold with iron tests, maybe through in some nickels for fun.

Thanks
 
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