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    detecting, 3 cushion billiards, fishing
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    GPZ 7000 14/19/Xcoils (15x10 Spiral and 15 CC), SDC 2300, GPX 5000, CTX 3030, Explorer SE Pro, Etrac, Gold Bug Pro, White's 6000 DI Pro and the Equinox 800 6/11/15

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  1. Nice work there. I like park hunting with the 8. It has quite a bit of 'off coil' sensitivity and reasonable depth. The small coil find reminds me of the first time I used the 8 on the 800. I found 4 rings at the beach. I've since found other good jewelry but interestingly enough I've never found a nugget with it and I've tried for over 20 hours. I've found a bit of gold with the 11" but not with the 8".
  2. Patch hunting these days takes strong legs and/or special equipment. Much like the old days!
  3. It's about the gold as Steve said. You can perform, outperform, over perform or any other improvement you want with a detector but if it doesn't get you a significant amount of gold from existing patches (based on reports from others) then it won't be needed. We can use the detectors we have now to find new patches. That is a bit of a different challenge than just a better detector.
  4. I have a pair of headphones that won't charge. I bet if I replace the batteries they would work. I think Simon has posted links for battery replacement. Did you use a video for the battery job?
  5. After the charge it seems to be normal. I hope it stays that way. I've run out of power before. It starts blinking and you know you have just a short time before you are done. This didn't happen this time so ... one detecting day at a time ... which is good advice anyway. Here is what I found today by going to a park and finding the cars and then picking up where I left off yesterday. I got the broken silver chain that is about 5.5 grams.
  6. I've charged the detector overnight. Solid green and full charge show up. It powers on normally and hooks up to the headphones. Let me attribute the problem to my lack of attention to the battery level for now ... until it happens again!
  7. It might be a voltage problem. I wasn't taking too many notes before it happened. It wasn't out of power as it was trying to boot. I actually thought about letting it drain completely so that the eprom might clear itself. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
  8. Simon, You have such good reasons for your purchases. You make me want to replace my 800 with a Legend. I know Jeff likes them too.
  9. Your finds are too good to imagine! WTG I enjoy the read when I get a chance.
  10. So, I just went over to it and while it is on charge it gave me a screen ... then it did it again. I turned it off and on a couple of times and I got enough of a screen again. It did show the battery was down much lower than it should have been based upon my last charge of a couple of days ago. I have a little bit of hope that it is glitchy and not fatal. We'll see after I try a few other restarts. Maybe it is not enough power, and I have to get the recharables replaced?
  11. When you say noise cancel do you mean after it starts, shows you a screen and then you go to the first adjustment to find a clear channel? Mine right now won't stop on anything. I can press all the buttons and it just ignores them.
  12. I was out at the beach about an hour ago when I decided to restart the detector. I did this because I was using the supplied headphones which I like but they were not sounding the best. When I started the detector this beach session I noticed a different connection routine. I always turn on the headphones and then the detector. Thousands of times now the detector shows the screen and then you get the connecting sounds through the headphones. This last time today it cycled twice before the headphones connected. The detector functioned mostly normal and I found a few things on a beach I go to often. About an hour into the hunting, I was getting ready to walk over to another beach and I said I needed to restart the detector. That is when the circling didn't stop. The movement keep going around and around, even tho it pauses and tries to get me a screen. I've tried it with the headphones on and off. The last thing I've tried was to take the coil off. When I do this the Cd comes on because it doesn't recognize a coil and then it shuts down. This is normal from what I remember. I've held the start button in with the idea of getting it to go to factory reset but it has no effect. It can be turned off by giving a quick press of the button. I don't get the control wet, just the coil. Time to get it fixed and have the replacement as a backup to a Manticore?
  13. I got an email from Twink telling me of his passing. She spent a lot of time with him looking for all the meteorites in Gold Basin before the field was made public. I met him just once at a WSPA outing. He had his gold with him that he had just taken out of a museum. They are some very impressive pieces. Roger Dyer would camp a lot on John B's property over by the helicopter pad. That is one of my favorite parts of any desert. RIP John B. Mitchel
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