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Derek McLennan

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  1. ...here you go guys, as promised https://www.minelab.com/anz/customer-care/product-notices?article=324372 Minelab is pleased to announce that the new EQUINOX Series of detectors is expected to be available for purchase worldwide from late January, 2018 onwards*. Since we first announced EQUINOX at Detectival in September, there has been unprecedented market interest in this product range. Volume production of detectors has started and will continue at a rapid rate across December and into the new year. Detectors are expected to be delivered to our sales channels in early-to-mid January, subject to transportation scheduling. Customers who have pre-ordered detectors should thus expect to start receiving them from January. We appreciate everyone’s patience in waiting for EQUINOX to be released and for your ongoing interest. *Initial availability will be limited in all regions due to the very high pre-release demand. Please contact your local dealer for specific price and availability information. We will be doing our best to get detectors into the hands of our valued customers as soon as we possibly can.
  2. Minelab have always gave the retail target of December / January and committed to neither of these individually. There has been no indication to me that these targets have changed in the slightest. However, to be perfectly frank, I would now say that January is looking more likely for the Equinox to hit retail. I would suggest keeping your eyes and ears open for any official announcement from Minelab in the coming week
  3. Minelab have always gave the retail target of December / January and committed to neither of these individually. There has been no indication to me that these targets have changed in the slightest. However, to be perfectly frank, I would now say that January is looking more likely for the Equinox to hit retail. I would suggest keeping your eyes and ears open for any official announcement from Minelab in the coming week
  4. Lol, I get it now...I tend to use 'wee' far too much and was trying hard not to sound like a character from 'Outlander' ...a wee hammy or twa always warms the hert when oot in the wilds of Scotland!!
  5. Yes, the prototypes that we have used, have all done very well in the trashy areas we have hunted and to be honest everywhere we have taken them thus far. I'm not sure I get your "small" reference, but I perhaps should have used the Scottish "wee"
  6. HI Guys, as far as I know, the final reactivity / target recovery speed equivalent response speeds between the two models (600 & 800) will be as follows: 600 800 1 2 2 4 3 6 So, the 800 will have one level lower and two levels higher recovery speed settings than the 600. It will also have the intermediate target recovery speed settings of '3' and '5' and thus can be fine tuned a little more than the 600 model. I usually run the 800 prototype at 3, 4, 5, or 6 for 'normal' detecting (environment dependant) and occasionally at 7 & 8 depending on how trashy the detecting environment is. You will of course lose some depth with the higher recovery speeds, but as they are really designed for trashy areas, your depth would be limited by the proliferation of trash anyway and these recovery speeds are designed to hunt out the small targets in between it all. I hope this helps.
  7. Hi Guys, I am Derek McLennan one of the Equinox development testers based in the UK, Scotland to be precise and as I have an old X-Terra 305 and the Equinox, I thought I would let you know the answer to your question. The short answer is that the X-Terra bottom stem will fit as it is around 1mm smaller in diameter than the corresponding female end socket of the Equinox stem. This obviously leads to a bit of movement in the bottom stem, but this can be taken up with the tightening mechanism on the Equinox stem, but I am unsure how strong or stable this would be longer term or within some specific detecting environments (e.g. stubble, rough plough, rocky ground, surf, underwater, etc). There is another issue though and you will find that the ball bearing locking pin does not fit into the Equinox locking hole on the middle stem - the X-Terra ball bearing is obviously slightly larger in diameter than that on the Equinox. So, this may in turn lead to even more loss of joint stability and the X-Terra stem rotating during operation while attached to the Equinox. I have attached some images for you and hope this helps.
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