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Having only one detector now I have been forced to learn how to use it for hunting gold. I have had the Nox 800 for about 2 years, and have not really used it that much. A little on coins in the summer months when I am back in Michigan, but never while in Arizona hunting gold. It has been a real learning experience with many many hours in the field the last 3 weeks with little to show for it. I am hunting one of the most pounded area in western Arizona and maybe the US. I have read and re-read many articles on gold hunting with the Nox but by far what has help me the most was a series of 3 articles produced by Steve Herschbach back in 2014 “Finding gold with a VLF” published in ICMJ magazine. It is very good reading for those who have not read it. After apply Steves principles things started to come around for me. I have hated being without my Monster and my GPX6000 but maybe it was for the better. I surely am becoming more capable with any detector I pick up now but I am still learning everyday out in the field. That will probably never end. Some days are still great even though my best detectors are in for repairs. I don’t have any fancy pictures but here is a couple of my finds with the Nox.

I’m glad the articles were so helpful to you. The Equinox is a contender for best all around VLF gold nugget hunter. Some might say a Gold Monster can hit a tinier bit of gold, but I say an Equinox with 15x12 coil slays the Monster for hunting large gold in tailing piles, and for covering large areas. And far better discrimination. For specific scenarios other VLF detectors may have an edge, but for overall versatility in a wide range of gold nugget detecting possibilities the versatility of the Equinox is hard to beat. If I have to own only one VLF detector to hunt gold, it is my pick. My tips on gold nugget detecting with the Minelab Equinox

Caution!....lotsa swearing

Yeah, you blokes toss tiny bits like that back, or just walk past them if they are sunbakers… not worth the trouble of bending over.

I am kind of amazed at how good we are collectively at metal detecting. People are like ants armed with metal detectors. We have swarmed and come close to cleaning out the vast majority of the good gold in the U.S. and Australia. Every nugget found is one less left to be found, and fact is a lot of gold has been found with metal detectors. A lot. Sadly, the good old days are now in the rear view mirror, and what nugget detecting we are doing now is more like cleaning up leftovers. Sure, for you dreamers, there are still undiscovered large nuggets and even patches to be found. But anyone that thinks things are even remotely close to being like they were 20 years ago is just kidding themselves. As a result, I have finally changed my mindset from “gotta make a buck at this” to “just get out and find a little gold, and have fun.” I ran my prospecting as a business since 1980, and turned a profit with the IRS in all but a couple years. I still have some claims in Alaska churning out some lease fees, but I folded my main prospecting company last year, after over 40 years in business. It always was just a side business for me, but one that made a tidy profit each year. The last couple years though it was getting to where just covering vehicle and food expense was a stretch, and the profit so small it was not worth all the expense tracking and filing paperwork. I closed it all down last year, and have officially entered the ranks of the hobbyist detectorists… just out for a good time! I have to admit it's nice, takes the pressure off, can sleep in or quit early if I want, or just sit and enjoy the view now without feeling guilty about it.

Historically, the 'game changers' have been with leaps in technology. Ground balance in VLF detectors, like the early-mid 1970's Whites, Gardiners, Garretts and Fishers detectors, thanks to George Payne's ground breaking work. Then, SAT type auto threshold circuits like the Goldmasters etc. DD coil tech which reduces sensed mineralization, higher frequency detectors for more sensitivity to small gold nuggets. Auto ground balancing (tracking) started with the Minelab GT16000. Once all variations of these different techs were exhausted, then Pulse Induction tech came along with Eric Foster's Goldscan range and then Minelabs SD2000. To my mind, the only 2 big leaps forward since then have been Minelab's 'ZVT' and 'Geosense' take on ground signal reduction in PI tech and simultaneous multi frequency 'SMF' tech in discriminating VLF detectors. Its starting to look as if all of the recent true innovations have all been created by Minelab and no-one else has even bothered. To my mind, as far as a list goes, these detectors added the most to the world's end-user success and technological advancements: 1970's-1990's VLF/IB Whites Coinmaster VLF range, Whites Goldmaster range, Garrett Groundhog and Deepseeker ranges, Fisher Gold Bug 1 and 2, Tesoro Diablo 1, 2 and Lobo, Minelab 15000, 16000. Whilst detectors like Garretts GTi range, Minelab Sovereign, Explorer & Etrac and Whites Eagles got a huge following later, they didn't really offer any ground breaking tech. Only the Equinox added truly new tech with SMF which everyone else has now 'copied' in essence at least. PI detectors. Apart from Eric Fosters Goldscan and C-Scope CS range which were only ever a small addition to the picture, Minelab created the first truly successful commercial PI detector in the SD2000 and the tech has been expanded upon ever since with various Minelab patents like MPS (dual channel PI), DVT (select voltage for each MPS channel), MPF (super fast sampling of the remnant signal) and now ZVT (instant voltage switching to allow superior ground signal elimination) and Geosense (rapid sampling and evaluation of the ground signal to alter the pulse train code on-the-fly). When these detectors were released using these patents: SD2000, GP Extreme, SDC2300, GPZ7000 and lastly GPX6000 they all added literally tens of thousands of ounces of gold to peoples pockets. A great many brand names and models mentioned there and Ive owned many of them. 44 detectors in 41 years!

I messaged back and forth with @vanursepaul a couple of days ago. He is in the Philippines, learning primitive tribal skills from the elders. He was making a wooden metal detector as we messaged. I'll message him now and let him know to check back in to the Detector Prospector HQ.

Got my 11" Deus 2 coil Friday after my hunt. Had a lot to do over the weekend, but got out today to give it a run for my money 😀 Got an early start thanks to the time change. At first it seemed like the extra weight and "nose heavy" orientation wasn't much of a problem, but as the day wore on, my arm got really tired, I've been using the 9" my detector came with, and the 10x5 on my other detector so they both run light. While I appreciate the extra coverage a larger coil gives, the edge falsing and slower swing speed and less accurate centering are a distraction. Reminds me of the 11" coil on my other detector, and why I don't use it anymore. 😀 I honestly believe that I am not getting much extra depth, but that's because there really isn't anything deep in my fields but large iron. I think the deepest target today was about 6 or 7 inches. I would easily have found everything today with the 9" coil and saved my arm from fatigue. Got a larger amount of trash today, the falsing was much greater, but I got used to it. Some larger pieces of iron, lots of buck balls (you have to dig them if you want buttons), and copper junk. One piece I got in pieces, and they didn't really add up to anything interesting. I got a lot more iron due to false signals, this field is loaded with it. It seems the 9" is better in this regard, and with separation. I was running my modified general program, and using a modified relic program to verify iron. I had both set to reactivity 0 for max depth. I tend to run the detector hot so it's a bit chatty, it keeps me focused. Battery lasted 7 hours and had one bar left on the coil. Ended up with some relics, a very old key and some unidentifiable but brass stuff. Might be a drawer pull, I think people gathered here and bought stuff from vendors, I've found a lot of them in this field. I got 4 buttons today, two with gold still on them, I almost had a heart attack with this one: It even has gold on the edges, I thought it was a coin. Solid 90. Will I continue to use the 11" FMF for relic hunting? Uhhh, no. It beats the heck out of me like my other detector's 11", and for sure the 9" is going to be better in heavier trash. Will I keep it and get a second shaft (carbon fiber) to use it for beach hunting? Yep. The extra depth and wider coverage will help there, and it won't feel wobbly on carbon fiber. It will also come in handy if anything happens with the 9" coil. 👍 I really wanted to get the 11x13, but yikes, as heavy and unwieldy as this is, I couldn't be more thrilled to have bought the 9" D2 package up front. 😀 Saw this not so little guy today, and let it be. Got the coil nice and dirty!

European here. You're looking for your Roman coins on ploughed/plowed land ? The Roman coins are there to be found because of the ploughing, bringing ( some of ) them within detection range. A deep detector is not your primary weapon. .. one that can discriminate out iron ( or audibly allow you to distinguish it ), pluck out non-ferrous from among iron, with reasonably fast recovery, is what you need. Your Eqx is going to be just fine.

And that's big gold? Good grief! If they got so excited over that bit, what would be the reaction if they found a real big piece?

These eyewitnesses might disagree...."

4&5 are for bone phone connections. 4 neg. 5 pos. You must use 4&5 for bone phones. Square tones only. 1&2 are for speakers, PWM and square tones.

In 54 years of detecting, I tried to think of and list all the detectors I have used. Wow! What a change has happened in all those years. I have used nearly every one of these that you mention and then some. Thanks Aureous for bringing back those memories of days past! snakejim

Great hunting and hope that you will learn everything about it, just so that you can teach me how to use it. I haven't been able to detect for quite some time now, and am ready to get back to it. Good luck and good hunting.

Not revolutionary, but practical handheld pin pointers have been a great step forward.

No revolution , but a list of evolutions : My main detectors : - 1998 Tesoro Silver Sabre Micromax - 2002 ML Explorer XS - 2007 XP Goldmaxx - 2013 XP Deus1 - 2022 XP Deus2 Of course I have used-tested other detectors , but they were rather second machines , or for testing purposes ( Example : the ML Vanquish 540 )

Three come to mind. For me, the first would probably be the White's 5900 Di Pro. Nothing extremely revolutionary about it, but it was revolutionary to me because it was the first detector that I owned with a Target ID. Even though it was analog, it was still a big step up from the previous machines I had used. The next one would be the Etrac. I was a long time White's hold out (several XLTs, a V3i, etc), so this was my first Minelab. I had seen everyone else having really good results with FBS, so I finally gave in and tried it for myself. They were right! It was an outstanding detector which was not only a silver sucking BEAST, but also very easy to use. I liked it so much that I upgraded to the CTX 3030 when it came out, and I stuck with Minelab all the way up until this year when I swapped to the third detector on my list.. The Deus 2. I wasn't a huge fan of the original Deus for the type of hunting I do. It had some serious up-averaging issues, and to me, it just didn't work very well for hunting coins in modern trash. Then earlier this year I tried the Deus 2 and had a lot of success with it. All of the issues with the original Deus have been sorted, it has a huge selection of audio options, very descriptive audio, its deep, its super lightweight, easy to swing, and sniffs out coins like a blood hound. A great all around detector which covers a lot of bases.

Hello and welcome aboard, Smigo. Glad you joined. Hopefully this will help a little. Good Luck & Happy Hunting

I carefully cleaned up the large cent today with a toothpick and an Andre steel wool pencil. I can almost say for sure it's a Draped Bust large cent. I don't see any evidence of a staff or cap, and the back spears to have the later wreath. Unfortunately the date just isn't visible. 😵

Many know I like to tinker with metal detectors and customize them to my personal tastes......So that is what I did to my Simplex. Since it is not the version with the wireless headphones and need to use the supplied wired headphone adapter, a mod was made. The supplied wired headphone adapter is too short, the wire kind of whimpy. Also, did not place the headphone wires in a position that wasn't cumbersome. A much longer adapter was made up, so the headphones can be plugged in by the arm cuff. Now the headphone wire will run up the side of the body. Out of the way. Less chance of snag ups or pulling your headphones off the top off your head when you lay the detector down. Not pictured, when the headphones are plugged in, the wires is secured with a cable tie thru the arm cuff strap slots. I can also go wireless using an aftermarket wireless headphone. I can plug in the transmitter into the adapter jack and place the transmitter in the convenient holder under the armcuff. Very nice set-up. As you can now water hunt, a bit deeper. Pictures below.

Ok, im in. Tried several times, im in. Have been a member on Findmall for yrs and tried here im here now. Good, there im Smigo, old nickname in Oz too with mates from the 70s. Hi all👍

I was down in Rye Patch 10/22-10/26 and am slow to post. First day I got there early afternoon and swung the 6k for a couple of hours. Pulled up a very tiny piece a couple of inches deep. Second day I hit the ground at first day light and pounded a spot where I have had luck in the past hard to no avail. Around 11 am a couple of other trucks came close to me and started detecting and I figured I would move on, as I was getting frustrated with my lack of success over the last 3.5 hours anyway. After meandering down some roads for a while, I ran into @NorCal . We had a nice conversation for a while and he was kind enough to give me some history of the area we were in and some past success he had there. Once we were done chatting and he packed up and left, I had the pleasure of detecting in a hail storm and wind. Skunked for the day, cold, wet and not in the best of spirits, I called it a day. Day 3, after sleeping in my truck with a 20 something degree night, I hit the ground running again. Once again hitting areas where I had success before, I was yet again skunked for the morning and frustrated with 30 mph gusts. I decided to go back to the random area I found the small piece at the first day, and warm up on the drive. First good choice I made all trip! I was able to pull 4 sub gram pieces out of the ground, all were 6-10 inches deep except one at 2”. Final full day, wind still howling. I fought my way through the day and pulled up 7 more pieces. I did hit the ground for about two hours the morning I left, but to no avail. All in all 12 pieces for a whopping weight of 1.6 grams! Pretty sure I spent more just heating my truck at night to stay warm, or more in beer, not to mention the 7.5 hour drive each way. But that wasn’t really the point. For me it was just getting out and swinging my machine, this is the first time in a year because of everything I have had going on in my life. I was ready to sell the damn thing after getting skunked for a day and a half, but it really is some tough hunting. Met @Arkyon my way out of the area and headed home happy and ready to get back out again soon!

Welcome, Smigo! With over 40 years detecting you must have some good stories to share. I hope you get the site access/operation figured out so you can tell us about the good-old-days.

Congrats! Great finds in my opinion.

It is absolutely possible to make adapters for the Bonephones as long as you have the wiring diagram for the XP multi-pin connector. However I don't know of anyone who has that information except XP.

Simon... Manticore will have more power and sensitivity to small targets..,than Equinox..., and to what extent it will be shown soon...,and more TX in Manticore ..and .will provide good sensitivity to small targets gold also on 11" and 12x15" coils...

Well there you go , must have been an old video .👍

Done 😉

A really great question,have seen many changes in the detecting world and have had a detector of some sort since 1970 and even a few years before that made a breadboard detector with my brother,it worked but only just and had abysmal depth and had one of those single in the ear transistor radio earphones.Progressed as we have done and have used a fair amount of classics over here in the UK mainly Laser the UK Tesoro version,Arado 120b,Whites and many modern machines including Deus and Nox and Nexus and Pulse machines etc. Still own about 25 detectors and at last count 50+ coils but still my all time favourite detector is my old faithful green T2 with the Sharpshooter coil on that i have owned since 2006/7,this machine has probably found me more gold/silver hammered and milled coins and artefacts as all my other machines put together,its about as simple as it gets to setup,very light and just a joy to use and it just works for me on my UK sites.

And nothing about it on the Minelab U.S. website still, so it’s only word of mouth, this forum, or a few dealers even telling people about the update.

Today was supposed to be nice, started out at 53 and foggy. I went to a field not far from my house where I got a lot of nice relics and a half of a half reale back in the spring. This field was cleared and turbo tilled in two directions, wow! Really easy to detect. The other nice thing is it doesn't have a lot of modern trash, just iron bits. This is all the trash I got today, fits in my hand. Just some buck balls, percussion caps and odd junk. Hunted for 6 hours, ended up with 6 buttons and some other surprises. Two have visible gold plating, one is silverwash. 3 medium and 3 small. As I was detecting back to my truck, I got this nice 1903 IHP: One of the biggest surprises (well the biggest) was a large cent. Can't quite make out the date but it is there, and can't really determine which bust it is. I was once able to see the wreath on the back and "ONE". it's pretty worn. I also got a couple relics, a thimble and a whatzit. A couple days ago I did a scouting hunt and got these: My favorite is the small decorated concave button. Saved the best for last, got a solid 77 and dug this, I knew there was more Spanish silver here: 1/4 of a 1 or 2 Reale coin. Worn thin, but still heavy. Only got through half this field, I'm sure there is more.

Sure! First is a straight on shot of the obverse with a flashlight sidelight, second is a bit lower angle at high resolution sidelighted, third is the reverse.

I didn't want to be another Minelab early adopter after my 6000 experience, although that was over a year after release I stepped in and was still an early adopter 🙂 Either way, for the Manticore I am without a doubt going to be an early adopter, I can't resist, the Equinox is just such an awesome machine that it's successor can only be better. I really hope it's not a lemon! And as a wise man once said, the first generation of a product is the one with all the bugs (Equinox), the second generation should be the good one.

Thanks! 🙂 You are correct. 👍 I was starting to get tired about 6 hours in, and I remember now shortening the shaft, I'm 6'1 and have thin arms despite all the physical stuff I've done all my life. 😵 I went from about 4 to 3, and was able to continue without stopping to "shake it out". I guess I could have made it even shorter. I just ordered a coil centering device and a sling, maybe that will help as well. 🙂 Meantime I'll be using the 9", it's been great so far.

Indeed according to most countries a manual has to be supplied. And I guess the getting started quick guide just doesn't cut it with regards to safety measures, regulation conformities, etc. etc. When the manual is available online, it will wing it's way to the printers and they can start boxing the production units up. That's how marketing works these days. Leaks, field testing units being spotted, demo's to test the waters for hungry fish, pre-orders, manuals and boxes out the door to early adopting customers. When the first units hit the ground, you'll have a flurry of social media activity saying it's better than sliced bread. Then after serveral months the grudges and gremlins come out of the shadows. I'll probably add one to the arsenal,... but in the mean time I'll happily chug along digging left and right till fishing season starts. Anyway I booked my place at one of those demo days. French fries, Stew and Beer. A bunch of like minded detecting geeks. And we get to have a swing with a Mandy. Same with fishing shows, rods & reels. God they feel awesome when you first get your hands on them. The quality shows when at the end of the season when you rinse everything down and still have a smile on your face 😉

My best find was when a friend demanded I finish digging a target I had thought was an iron target, I was a foot down and started to backfill the hole. He said just dig the damned thing before someone else does. So I dug down and found my best find since I began nuggethunting. You just never know when it will come your way, always a surprise and when you least expect it.

There is a bar in Boulder Colorado with a big timber over the bar with the words carved in it "Free Beer Tomorrow". I kept showing up every evening for a week and never got a free beer! They kept telling me to come back tomorrow. LOL

Anybody that detects for nuggets most likely have at one time or another left a target in the ground for trash. I remember digging on a target in a location where very large gold had been found. I was over a foot deep in hard dry dirt. It was a hot day and toward the end of my hunt. It just sounded like trash so I left it. Once back at home, that's all I could think about! The next day, I left work early and went beck. Glad I did because another 3 or 4 inches was a nice specimen that had over an ounce of gold in it! I never left another target unchecked and recovered many multi ounce pieces. That was an eye opening learning experience to say the least.

The rumors are flying now!! Two comments on related forums today: 1. Its been reported, that one of the engineers working for Minelab, has stated that the Manticore details have been finalized! Should be released very soon! 2. ...they are going to make an announcement next week.

Ouija board?😃

I'm just going to chalk it up to one of the quirks of an unfinished soft/firmware. It's not a big problem by any means right now and I'll try to figure out a work around. I believe there's another update being tested, so I'll just continue to enjoy my D2, which is still pretty great, and look forward to more features and fixes as the updates keep coming, and keep hoping for a nice 10x5" coil to complete the coil array. (Hint, hint, XP!) 😎

I put vernier dials on my SL. Made a HUGE difference in setting fine Ground Balance, and Threshold. I used to sell them, but am far too busy to monkey with them right now. Here's a link to the dials I used. If you want numbers, you have to make a disc, with numbers, to go on them. https://mgs4u.com/product/vernier-reduction-drive-14-inch-to-14-inch/ Jim

I will most certainly sing the praises or play the funeral dirge for the 11" when I get a chance to use it, I suspect soon. 😀 I could go out every day but married life even in retirement requires a certain amount of decorum, and a few gold rings never hurt 🤣 Recently read a blurb by Steve H that made a lot of sense regarding those "falsing signals" that many of us reject, and I am guilty of it: "The same really applies to all the VLF users that have no idea how many of those ferrous targets they passed on are really not ferrous at all. As bad as VLF discrimination is in bad ground, PI is even worse. Discrimination Sucks." Yikes. 🤣

Thanks Cap'n, it's more hard work than good when I've already been through a place, slower and more precise. 😀 I was using a hot General mod and confirming with Relic. Just bought the 11" coil so I may go over a lot of this again after more rain. I may even go nuts and get the 13x11 after I get a CF shaft. Seems to me the D2 is worth it! What I really want is a 10x5 tho. 🤬 Because of the lack of any trash but iron it was pretty much dig all the good stuff. I probably should dig some of the targets that seem to be falsing iron but I'll be going back. Only got through half the field, as I get closer to the road there may be more but it will involve digging and analyzing more. In the first 50 feet or so there is a lot of can slaw and foil from stuff thrown out of cars. I got the IHP and small gold button about 40 feet from where I parked. I did end up digging a very small amount of false iron, a square nail or two and a hoof nail. There could have been a barn or home there.

It's a Christmas tree. Does that mean it will be available before Christmas? LOL

Sevastras it was great to meet you. Thanks for stopping by our camp. You only left one tiny nugget behind for us to find! Our hunt was slow as well, but at least we found a few over the course of several fairly relaxed days. The weather did improve for us.

Thanks for your detailed reply Chase, I'm suitably impressed with the D1 and it's elliptical high frequency coil when running at 80kHz. Tinkering with settings I was able to make it very similar in performance with the Nox and 6" coil while having a larger coil, so effectively it was doing better than the Nox as it was hindered by the bigger coil. The Nox with it's closest comparison coil the Coiltek 10x5" the D1 was doing better I thought, if only it had a smaller coil it'd be deadly. I don't think so far the Nox blows it out of the water for my prospecting scenario, in fact they're neck and neck all things considered so in my case perhaps the extra ground coverage and lighter detector may end up winning. As a gold prospecting machine it's pretty good by the looks of it, I haven't obviously had a lot of time with it yet but I'm pretty happy with it so far and quite like it for that purpose from what I've seen. As a coin detector for my scenario of deep coins in mild ground its terrible in any default mode regardless of frequency, in my mild low trash soils it's left behind by just about every detector I own for depth, even entry level machines from competitors are capable of giving me a good target ID on targets the Deus doesn't see at all or gives a much lower ID on that it should or no ID at all with some coils, this could perhaps be because the Deus seems to only have quite small coils available. This is all very early reports obviously as I've only had it a couple of days and only stuck with default settings other than frequency and sensitivity when looking for coins. I have the 9" and 11" X35 and the 9' and elliptical 9.5x5" HF coils and I've tried them all on in ground deep coin targets I've found with my Nox or CTX and then compared the Deus on every frequency and coil using all of the default programs on maximum sensitivity along with the default 90. It's not looking like a depth demon that's for sure, especially when it comes to target ID's which are pretty poor except on rather shallow targets. I am all about depth and ID on deep coins and that seems to really be the D1's weak spot, if it finds deep coins it's more of a dig all non-ferrous type detector. I was hoping it would be good at finding deep coins below more recent nail drops as it's a scenario I do encounter where coins have been in the ground for a long time and the nail drops are more recent from roof replacements and shonky roofers throwing the nails all over the ground surrounding the building. The problem is if a nail is above the coin in any default Deus mode the Deus only finds the nail. It's odd as I see these guys banging up Youtube videos of a nail sitting directly on top of a coin and the Deus giving good coin tones showing it sees the coin, but this seems to be a bit of a trick as I can repeat the same test and it does indeed give a good coin tone, but if the coin is under the ground and the nail at the surface or slightly below bye bye coin, all it gets is the nail. This is no different to any other detector I own, I was just hoping the Deus would be better in this situation, so far with everything I've tried it's no different but perhaps people can give me advice on settings adjustments to improve this. As a nugget detector I'm seeing potential and the whole wireless coil thing is slowly growing on me, I sure see the benefits when I can change coils in a few seconds to compare them to each other, and the feather weight of it is also quite a nice attribute, if anything it's inspired my 12 yr old daughter to give detecting another go as she even finds it light and it quickly adjusts to her height, she always found other detectors awkward and heavy. The Deus 1 seems like it started life as a coin and relic detector and grew into a gold detector, perhaps XP saw the market for gold detectors was a big one and chased that market. It's a shame they never tried to make deep bigger coils for it but I guess it'd throw it right out of balance, not that I'd care as for me performance is everything, the other attributes are more a bonus than a necessity. The Deus 1 was to tie me over until the Manticore release 🙂 As a gold detector I quite like it and will likely use it quite often, as a coin detector for me, not so much, and added bonus because I've got 4 coils for it I don't need Christmas lights on the tree this year, I can just hang my 4 coils up, they flash constantly and would look nice on the tree.

People should not be disappointed by this, Bluetooth LL was a flop, a failure which is why so few products use it, Bluetooth LE will become a general standard for Bluetooth very quickly, they fixed the flaws LL had which prevented wider adoption. It will be easy to get ear buds and whatever else in LE in the near future, everything will be using it, it's not going to be an offshoot of Bluetooth, it's going to be the standard Bluetooth. This is very good news that they've gone with this option, there is nothing bad about it, I'd be far more annoyed if they went with Bluetooth aptX LL like they did with the GPX 6000, it's the discontinued old technology that sucks with very few options, LE will be fantastic and better than LL significantly. I don't know why Nasa-Tom is being so vague about publicly available information, perhaps he likes the attention of everyone listening to every word he says with excitement like he is releasing secret inside information.

The tone is from the salt content in the wet vs the drier sand. If it becomes annoying to you, rather than swinging the coil East to west you can swing north to south to remove or greatly reduce the the ping. Also slowing down your swing speed and raising the ATS may help. The operating voltage is regulated. Joes small battery should give approximately 5 hrs 15 min. run time.If it falls below the regulated voltage I’m not sure what takes place. I would assume it shuts down. If you own one of the first 30 machines or so sold, there are issues with the machine. One is, no matter where you adjust the frequency, it will default back to factory setting once you switch to any of the 4 operating modes. This along with several other timing issues were corrected after the 30 or so machines were sold.

Some have asked if I make them for sale. Sorry to say, cost wise for parts is expensive here in Canada when shipping, Customs fees from the supplier is factored in. Then add labor. For what they would have to sell for that people would pay. There's really no profit. Then shipping from Canada is also expensive. You can make one yourself. Pin out is the same for the Kruzer, Anfibio and Simplex. A stereo jack https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/switchcraft-inc/838/SC2735-ND/361544 Microphone wire https://www.parts-express.com/cat/microphone-cables/670 M12 8 pin plug. https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/amphenol-ltw/12-08BMMA-SL8001/APC1731-ND/5253125