Steve Herschbach

It’s always nice when manufacturers pay direct attention to their customers. Good job Trevor and thanks!

For me the key to using ground tracking is that the ground must be highly variable. It is not how highly mineralized the ground is but how variable it is that matters. If the ground is relatively homogenous I don’t see a need to track the ground and in fact I would tend to recommend against it. In very low mineral / low salt ground there may not be enough mineral content to track to and the machine could run away with itself as you have described.

Bharp Detecting Published on Mar 10, 2019 Compared the x35 9" coil and the High Frequency Elliptical coil on both XP ORX and the XP Deus using the same settings on 2 different targets next to iron and coal. The first target was a Confederate GA State Seal button and the second was a piece of ornate Colonial gold.

Glad you caught it before you had a real problem!!

Yup, what Chase said - nobody has implied anything but an Equinox coil will work on an Equinox. The whole point of the thread is asking Minelab to make one. They actually do read the forums. And yes, welcome to the forum!

Basically, no. The GPX is about as good as it gets with both tones and a shallow iron disc function, but it is far from perfect. Garrett ATX the same but not as powerful. Minelab GPX Discrimination GPX Iron Reject The Manta no matter what they say will have ferrous limitations. Nature of the beast.

Great video Shelton - thanks for posting! I think the Simplex is going to shake up the industry just like the Equinox has. At one point it has been mentioned as a 12 kHz detector and I see a note in your video it may be 13 - 14 kHz?

I hope they shave the excess hollow area off the bottom of the 4 x 6 coils like has been done with the 6" concentric. Never could figure that nonsense out - did White's never look at Gold Bug 2 coils?

Good news, sounds like we will see it before the end of the year. It’s the only detector I have much interest in at the moment but if it is a beach only detector I may pass. I just need something to replace my now departed Garrett ATX. Loved that machine, but manufacturers either get the ergonomics right or I am passing from now on. Surely Fisher can offer me something better than a TDI Beachunter? Fingers crossed!

Great work Julie. It really is all about being able to detect tiny non-ferrous targets. People tend to get annoyed by lead but looking at your finds tells me A. You are doing great at figuring the Equinox out and B. The location you are detecting, if gold bearing, still has gold left. You can’t get all the gold and leave the lead behind. Of course if the location has no gold that’s another story. I treat aluminum the same way when jewelry detecting. If I am detecting a park or sport field and can’t find much if any aluminum, somebody has hit it hard. That rarely happens but I have encountered it. It still amazes me how many 1970s era ring tabs are easily found in most locations however.... an obvious sign of low pressure jewelry detecting. Seriously, you are doing great. You just need to get over that nugget!

Yes, it is correct that Nokta/Makro uses a proprietary wireless system on nearly all their models to date. As Tom notes you could go with the Garrett Z-Lynk but that also is a proprietary system. You can find all sorts of dongle driven Bluetooth solutions on Amazon and elsewhere that will plug into the 1/4” headphone jack with or without an adapter.

The links are in the first post of this thread, so start at the beginning. Here is the manufacture website. Welcome to the forum!

Welcome to the forum Peter.you may want to read the thread - this is from 2013 and this forum is not the place to apply anyway. I deleted your phone number since you are not going to get a call from the show producers by posting here.

Welcome to the forum! I hope you will tell us about that amazing pile of coins when you have the time

Anytime you see plug in "directional rods" that resemble dowsing rods you know you are in trouble. The pictured items "B Mode" claims ranges of 100 to 1000 meters. That makes it a "Long Range Locator" and personally I run from all LRL devices being sold. If I want one of those I will make a set out of coat hangers or welding rod.

What an interesting find! I have no information for you but wanted to welcome you to the forum

All the Facebook embeds have the Facebook logo in upper right. I could also add an additional note the embeds are Facebook embeds but that's just making it more work. Anyway, problem solved from my perspective.

I stick with mainline manufacturers and highly recommend anyone not wanting to waste money do the same. Aliexpress in particular is a well known distribution site for counterfeit product and as such not to be trusted at all.

If the information was available on the .com websites I would post the link there instead. Lots of stuff is only getting posted to company Facebook pages these days. It is how companies are communicating with people. Anyway, I do have other priorities these days so will stop taking the time to seek out and post outside links. It was just an attempt to keep some action going on forums that are not currently getting many posts.

Hi Gold, Welcome to the forum, and thank you for taking the time to relate your experience. I am sorry it was not a better one but you may save somebody else the grief due to your report. ?

The Sea Hunter does not ground balance - the equivalent White's would be the Surf PI Dual Field. The ATX and TDI Beachhunter would be equivalent models. The Sea Hunter does I believe employ a pulse delay control but they employ it as a reverse discrimination control. The problem is nobody knows the range of the control. https://www.kellycodetectors.com/catalog/fieldtests/index/view/id/105?

Minelab Equinox 800, Minelab Excalibur II, Quest Pro, Makro Multi Kruzer, Quest Scuba Tector. How to stabilize machine. Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II, Garrett AT Max, XP Deus, Whites MX Sport, Stable beach settings part 2

Pulse induction relies on the fact that all targets "hold" a signal for a number of microseconds. A PI transmits, pauses (the pulse delay, measured in microseconds uS), then receives. A VLF is a "continuous wave" or induction balance machine and has a delay of "0". The pulse delay is normally around 10uS to 25 uS on most machines. 10uS is very close to what will make a signal on saltwater. Pushing to around 8 uS is borderline. Basically, the shorter the pulse delay time in microseconds, the greater the sensitivity to small items, but the more sensitivity to saltwater and mineralized soil. If you want a stable machine you go for a longer pulse delay, if you want a "hotter" machine you go with a shorter delay. The Sea Hunter pulse delay is a well kept secret, I can't find the actual spec anywhere though I am guessing around 15 uS? Bottom line is the lack of sensitivity to tiny stuff is inherent in the design. Anyway, great detector but just do not expect it to be super hot on tiny stuff. Sea Hunter YouTube Videos Minelab Equinox 800, Minelab Excalibur II, Quest Pro, Makro Multi Kruzer, Quest Scuba Tector. How to stabilize machine. Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II, Garrett AT Max, XP Deus, Whites MX Sport, Stable beach settings part 2

The Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II is an old design, quite dependable, but if there is a weak side to the detector it is the ability to detect small targets. It is a straight up non-ground balancing PI and so relies on a relatively long pulse delay to eliminate saltwater and mineralized soil signals. The Infinium and then ATX were designed to address this lack of small gold sensitivity. Saltwater and small gold read the same, and so all detectors working in a salt environment give up some small gold sensitivity to eliminate the salt signal. Sorry, but no idea on battery life options.