metaladdict
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So you are basically digging everything with single or dual tone. That's a lot of digging!
Number of tones used?
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metaladdict
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I can handle 5 tones.
Aren't you mixing up things, CP? (Motion / No Motion) has nothing to do with [All Metal]. There are detectors which only offer motion detection. Even in p/p very slow motion is needed at least to detect metal. The reasons for manufacturers of such detectors are manifold. And I think it has nothing to do with [True All Metal]. May be ground canceling, but if this is (rejecting something - disc) for you, then you're absolutely correct and it will be hard for you finding a true all metal detector.
This may be. What time range are we talking about?
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Cherry Picker
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True All Metal requires a threshold audio. Call me old school, but I have yet to see a so-called "all-metal-mode" that you must keep the coil in motion.
Picketwire
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Here is a posting on true all metal:
TNX PW.
That's eggzactly why I asked about time range.
To me [True All Metal] means, all metals will be announced. Light, sound, tones, etc...
Call me nerd, to me, threshold means that even minor anomalies to the ground matrix can be displayed/heard. A static mode can be very helpful in this regard, provided that ground tracking is interrupted and the target is not assigned to the ground matrix. But that's all going too far afield for now.
To discuss this further, we should follow Picketwire's suggestion.
@Diga , sorry for Hijacking.
Beachhunt1
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Flip that Equinox to Horseshoe mode and then take your fingers and raise the threshold level.
Cherry Picker
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Sounds simple, but I truly believe the threshold of today is not like 20 years ago. I have yet to see a detector with the true all-metal mode I used to use. There is more to it than just turning off all discrimination and getting a threshold. We need Carl to chime in here.Flip that Equinox to Horseshoe mode and then take your fingers and raise the threshold level.
graybeard
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That is NOT correct!!! The Equinox does not have any setting that will hit every piece of metal that is in the ground, that is a fact.Flip that Equinox to Horseshoe mode and then take your fingers and raise the threshold level.
I had an Equinox 800 for almost 3 years and it was what I would call a mediocre detector.
I had to run other detectors where I had used the Equinox 800 too find the good coins and buttons that the 800 didn't hit.
Beachhunt1
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What I said is 100% correct. Feel free to post video proof. Possible you had a bad coil or dirty under the coil cover.
Multiple tones are important for many situations but maybe not so much for beep and dig park hunting. I spend very little time looking at the detector screen and can tell what is under the coil by sound and this equals more time hunting and less time looking. I only look at it if the sound is not clear. At the beach tone is everything if you are in the water because you cannot see the screen so sometimes a simple five tones is good and maybe not 50 tones. Then there is the beach at night and I don't want the display on at all because it attracts attention and hurts my night vision every time I look down. The Multi tone audio is something from the past analog detectors like the Minelab sovereign or maybe from a Excalibur user who hunts by ear.
