TerryinHawaii

Steve, When you get ready to start selling your Equinox Complete Carbon-Fiber Shaft. Please put my name on your list of buyers. Terry

I have used my big 15 inch coil twice now and this coil will remain on my Equinox 800 from now on. Minelab finally has figured out how to make a big lite weight coil. It hits targets harder then the 11 inch coil does. Therefore targets are deeper then I expect them to be. So far in 6 hours of hunting, I have 4 rings but the only good one is a thin silver toe ring. I so miss the days when you could dig 10 rings over a period of a time and 9 would be either gold or platinum.

I wish we could chose the audio output tones for people like me that have a bad hearing problem in the two Gold modes.

My dealer received my 15x12 inch coil yesterday in Hawaii.

I live in Hawaii and my local dealer received an e-mail yesterday that Minelab is shipping my 15x12 inch coil today!

Tboykin, you are right that PI coils need to be hard wired directly to the circuit board to reduce the total resistance. So that you get greater depth. Gold does not float in the ocean.

The Minelab dealer in Honolulu, Hawaii has several Equinox 800 for sale if any one is interested.

I was told by DetectorPro that their GG Amphibs for the EQ become available toward the end of July.

Being another person with bad hearing, I am so glad that you can do this for your self. Now go find a deep big gold ring!

I ordered them yesterday. I had the person selling the Hungarian headphones do a DBs test and he said they were 85 DBs. I measured 70 DBs on the Minelab Equinox waterproof headphones. I have a very bad hearing problem so I need all the help I can get. Because if you do not hear the target, you tend to not dig it.

Just be aware that the Minelab brand headphones does not have a lot of volume. And that is a problem for people with bad hearing. So you might want to try them before buying.

ColonelDan, Thank you posting this. I now know that I need to check out 1/8 inch stainless steel mesh. I consider 1/4 inch to be to big.

Today I did install 1/4 inch stainless mesh in my "Stealth" 720i Tube series sand scoop. This did help reduce effects of the 1/4 inch round holes. But I know I will find targets with my Equinox that will still pass thru. I am now looking at the XTREME Scoops Surf-Master X3 which looks to be a better design then the X2 model in catching the real small targets.

I have the "Stealth" 720i Tube series with the 1/4 inch holes. Great well made scoop but since I am now using the Equinox 800. I now need a sand scoop with smaller holes. The Xtreme Scoop X2 looks very good to me. You sure can spend a lot of time looking for the tiny targets that the Equinox will let you know are there. Terry

Jackpine, please provide a link to the waterproof headphones from Hungary. Thank you.

Glad to be of help.

Your ring marked 585 is 14K. The ring marked 14 FG is an old gold 14K ring that need to be cleaned. The class ring maybe 14K because most old class rings that are 10K will have green coating due to the copper leaching out.

You possible have something wrong with your Equinox. Do a power on reset to see if that helps you. Remember the Equinox 800 is really a computer programed to be different detectors.

Yesterday I dug a 18K gold ring, 3.5 grams, size 7 at 12 plus inches using Beach 1 here in Hawaii in damp sand. The same ring air test close to 16 inches. For me, the Equinox is giving me almost PI depth with target ID.

I do use my GM here in Hawaii on the beach to find gold. I did buy the GM just for hunting for gold jewelry here on the dry sand. Having in the past lived in California and I did hunt for gold nuggets. I knew that I would be digging a lot tin foil, tiny pieces of different metals. But if you do put in the time and dig enough targets. You will find gold jewelry. Granted some of it will be very tiny pieces broke off a larger gold item. No fine gold chains yet but that just means to me that I have been over one yet.

Having worked for IBM on the leading edge of technology. I too, want as much information that I can get to better understand what the Equinox does and can do. But then on the other side, no information can lead to a lot of experimenting to find out what works best for your type of detecting. So if we share what we learn using the Equinox. We all will gain more knowledge faster about the new technology that the Equinox uses. Terry

Having worked on the leading edge technology for IBM. I know how hard it is to get every thing right. I just hope that some of the first production units are given to people to test that have never even seem or touch one before. Because it is possible that they will found problems with fresh eyes. But hopefully there are no problems to be found.

After I get the Equinox 800 and if it closely matches the Gold Monster in finding small gold jewelry as I think it will. Then I will only use the Equinox 800 for hunting here. I also ordered the 6 inch coil for hunting in between rocks in the ocean water. I must admit that I expect to have several fine gold chains now with the Gold Monster. But maybe I just have not been over the top of one.

Here is a picture of the gold jewelry found with the GM 1000. A dime for size. The 18K gold diamond post was found around 3.5 inches deep but the stone is fake. And it was a good signal. A lot of the gold are just very small pieces. But bottom line, if you are willing to dig a lot of targets. You have a very good chance of taking home gold jewelry.

I am using the Minelab Gold Monster 1000 here in Oahu. So far I have found 16 gold jewelry items. And yes, I do dig a lot of tin foil and many small pieces of other types of metal. Most of the time, I can operate in manual sensitivity level 9 or 10. In some areas, I do have to switch over to auto sensitivity + to be able to hunt. I do have high hopes for the Equinox 800 here.