No Disappointment With The Equinox 800

[Norm S]

I went out this morning to a hunted out sports field. I had hit this field hard with my E-Trac and even last week I was hunting there again with the E-Trac based on my theory that you never completely hunt a location out.

I knew rain was coming so I knew I didn't have much time. Actually being my 1st time using the Equinox more than 2 minutes I was a bit confused with the different sounds and some light chatter. I went out in Park #1 and never changed a thing. After about 5 mins I hit a good target in the 20's and not knowing the different ID's of coins I did know most numbers in the 20's were good to dig. 1st target was a clad dime. The pin pointer was spot on. Then I hit a tab posing as a nickel with a solid #13. Then I hit 3 quarters from #26 - #30. Finally I had a solid #13 and was skeptical after digging a tab but it was a nickel and the next target was a nickel. All together I found $1.43 in clad in 45 mins before the rain came. I also found a spent cartridge.  

All together I only dug 3 signals posing as a coin. One was a can at 8", one copper strap and one rusty piece of iron that was the size of a 1/2" nut but it wasn't a nut and couldn't determine what it was. 

I feel confident the Equinox will live up to the all the hype about it over the last 7 months. 

This attached pic is very poor because I rarely use the camera on my phone. 

Tomorrow I will either go back to the location I was today because I barely scratched it or a hunted out soccer field. The rest of today will be reading posts on the forum and the users manual

[Tiftaaft]

Looking forward to more "reports from the field" Norm.  Thanks for sharing. Tim.

[Chase Goldman]

Great report Norm.  Glad you have finally gotten a chance to go Noxing.  Boy, looks like I need a new eyeglass prescription though, having trouble reading the dates on your coin recoveries.   

[Norm S]

It rained again this morning so went to lunch and casino after I was out for 1-1/2 hrs this morning. I will most likely hunt in the factory modes until I get used to the sounds and VDI's. This is the 1st detector that impressed me out of the box.

Even the E-Trac I wanted to trash until I had about 50 hours on it. 

All I did after I got the head phones working was turn the detector on and away I went.  I liked the way I could single out a coin it the middle of other signals a few inches apart. My confidence level is still low only having 2 hrs and 15 mins on it but the results are stellar. 

I swung the detector at about 2 seconds per swing left to right.  

It is well worth the all the complaining I did about the availability of the Equinox. 

I did $2. 87 in clad this morning in the 1st 45 mins and nothing after that. I am pretty confident I have hunted out the patch. 

The depth is more than I need. I was digging coins at 8"-10" and was beginning to wonder how deep it would go. I did dig quite a few cans at 10" or so and guessed they were cans when I dug them

I didn't post pics of the coins I got this morning. I am terrible at taking pics with my phone. I am not a phone guy and probably have only used it to call or text 3 times in the last month. 

Tomorrow I am going to another soccer field that has been hunted to death by me and others. The last two times I was only able to get about 60 cents each time. 

$4.30 in clad in 2 hrs and 15 minutes is pretty good especially since I was there last week with my E-Trac and only found $1.25  in 2 hours