Steve Herschbach

XP ORX Testing Australia Comparision between the ORX and Gold Bug 2

Published 1/12/19

Nice news article about Ringfinders.... https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/580132/

Basically what Mark said, with the added advice that you decrease sensitivity to get stable operation when starting out if you are experiencing any instability. Turn On Select a Detect Mode Noise Cancel If still noisy, Reduce Sensitivity until quiet Begin Detecting What sort of trouble are you having?

There are many types of testing that grade one into the other with lots of overlap depending on the situation. Here is a short essay by detector engineer guru Dave Johnson that describes some of the differences.... http://www.fisherlab.com/hobby/davejohnson/field-testing-essay.htm

No need to thank me. The thanks is all mine - welcome to the forum!

My contributions in that regard are at an end. It’s basically working for others for free and detracts from regular detecting. It was a lot of fun in the early days when people wanted information and were appreciative of it. These days however people don’t want to hear from industry experts and insiders. It’s all about getting YouTube reports from “regular users”. People with industry connections are now looked upon with suspicion and so for me personally I don’t see the point anymore. I purposefully took on testing/reporting on the Goldmaster 24K as a bookend to my reporting efforts. It started with me and White’s ages ago and so it seemed fitting that I wrap it up with White’s.

The Equinox is not marketed and sold primarily as a gold prospecting detector which is why I did not include it on the chart.

84 catalogs, brochures, and user guides added so far! Check it out...

Well if you are lurking Jerry - howdy! Hope all is well in your world!!

Hi Jeff, Compass Gold Scanner - that was a few years ago! Welcome to the forum!!

Read this thread at Dankowskis. See an minor issue, and how one company responds where virtually everyone else would ignore the situation. http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,158725

Thanks for that information. Sounds like a believe them when we see them sort of thing.

It just depends on the electrical interference. In general in the United States, the lower the frequency, the more chance of interference. 5 kHz is generally the worst on Equinox. In Multi you can’t avoid the problem in some locations because, well, it’s multifrequency! Higher frequencies are usually more resistant, and so 15 kHz or even 20 kHz on the Equinox 800 can really quiet things down. There is no rule other than jack up the sensitivity and cycle through the single frequencies. You can then observe directly what the problem frequencies are and choose the quietest. Once you find the quietest frequency, lower the sensitivity until you are satisfied.

My goals for this year are decidedly low key. Go beeping, find some stuff, have fun. That about sums it up!

I miss my interaction with Jerry on the forums. One of the people I paid attention to for sure!

Like a lot of folks I find that a single frequency can help in bad electrical interference situations. The other use is for those who encounter hot rocks. Many rocks that hit hard in Multi will be much weaker or disappear entirely at the right single frequency. This principle can be used anytime you are dealing with undesired targets that throw off signals at multiple frequency levels. For those hunting jewelry lower single frequencies can make thin foil less responsive or invisible while still retaining better signal strength on most jewelry items.

Actually a fun topic Chuck. And I do appreciate your efforts! ? I have a literal sort of mind. When my partner and I started selling mining and diving equipment in Alaska we called it Alaska Mining & Diving Supply. Creative, right? But simply saying the name was advertising, and we liked that. Nobody ever asked "what do you guys sell"? Well, my first detector was a White's Coinmaster. I like that. Says what the game is. And my second detector was a Goldmaster. I like that name for the same reason. Then somehow some mix of three letters or numbers became sort of a standard. White's already makes an Eclipse coil. I think it is time for an Eclipse detector, as in "Eclipses the competition"!

Well good for him! Never hurts to have the designer get gold fever!!

I have been told that, yes! ? I put in my retailer hat, looked at what the competition offers at each price level for VLF gold nugget detectors and plugged in where I thought the Orx should fit based purely on the feature set. The chart I posted a couple pages back makes it an easy exercise.