Equinox Settings For Iron Infested Land

[King Cnut]

Hello

I was just wondering what settings people are using on there iron laiden sites i have a site full of iron amd have not used the equinox a great deal yet, would folk be kind enough to share there settings please 

[Chase Goldman]

Are you after coins, jewelry, relics, or all of the above? Also, is the ground mineralization mild or hot? Are the targets shallow or at depth? That info will help on initial mode selection and then we can work on settings.

If you are after "all" types of targets I would go with either park 2 or field 2 and use the default settings.  Noise Cancel, auto GB on a target free area  and swing away.  If the iron falsing is overwhelming, then you can dial in a couple clicks of iron bias (setting of 2 or 3) But in thick iron you also run the risk of not unmasking a non-ferrous target with Iron Bias filtering set too high.  The key in thick iron is running recovery speed at or a click higher than the default setting (6 to 8, with 7 perhaps being the sweet spot).  If 50 tones is overwhelming, feel free to back off to 5 tones.  And unless there is also a lot of modern non-ferrous trash, do not notch anything.  Make liberal use of the All Metal (Horseshoe) button to interrogate high tones. If you hear a lot of iron low tones, you either have multiple ferrous and non-ferrous targets under the coil, or possibly ferrous falsing.  You will have to dig these to see what's what then when you have it down, can start playing the odds.  The key is getting to the point where you can minimize use of the filters (disc, notch, iron bias) and let your ears and brain do the discriminating based in tonal nuances.  But the above should get you started. 

If you are focused primarily on higher conductive coinage, go with Park 1 or Field 1 (lower Frequency weighting which hits harder on high conductive targets like silver).  In thick iron, you may have to up recovery speed from the default in Park 1 and perhaps lower iron bias to avoid undesirable target masking.

HTH

[Steve Herschbach]

Welcome to the forum! Here is a recent thread on the subject....

plus some videos that might help...

 

https://youtu.be/_Mlu1zwsdpo

 

 

[mn90403]

I've had a couple of occasions to hunt on a bed of nails strewn around after building demolition.  I've been able to hear good targets on top, mixed in and below the nails.  If you don't know what layer your good targets might be in just use a couple of the defaults.  If you have really good targets under the nails then it might be time to rake the area.  If you can attach magnets to the rake that would be even better.

Mitchel