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Tests like the bird dog that TNSS is showing i see as useful information rather than a setting to be used. I've a well hunted medieval site that I'd gladly dig 100 nails on to maybe hit a gold hammered coin, so if i can use TNSS info to build myself a setting for that scenario I'd be well pleased. Think about the % of ring pulls and balls of foil etc that are dug at a park to find a gold ring, if information came from a similar TNSS test that might help someone build themself a program to lower this % then I'd say that's useful info

There's a new batch of coils arriving in the UK the next few days.

I'm in the UK so have had mine just over a week, but it's got a fault, so currently waiting on a replacement for it.

Nice finds, are the medieval coins Spanish or Portuguese? i like the buckles myself.

The Equinox wouldn't be my first choice for working in iron on or near the surface, as has already been said an Orx of even a cheap GM1 would be more inline. When detecting stubble or rolled ground etc your really only working the top 6" inches, what you miss this time around you'll get when the ground is turned over for the next years crops. Personally i had thought of buying the Tarsacci for deep pasture detecting on hammered coins, but the Nox with 15" coil and excellent audio accuracy on low/mid conductors is hard to beat for that job. Apparently there's a number of Tarsacci users already in the uk, but I've not seen or heard any reports.

I've dug more good targets in the top 6"-8" with the Nox that were missed, than i ever did at 8"+ with deeper detectors.

I had a half sovereign, but it was with a Golden Mask 5+

I'm not finding that the lower recovery speeds are giving me much in the way of depth, compared to the same on other units, it makes the Nox feel very lazy and laggy, mostly i'm running at 5 or 6 which seems to be a nice balance for my sweep speed. For myself it's a brilliant player in the top 8" of soil, that's where i've been having fun with it.

Here's the one i fitted to a Nexus.

I've had a few of these shafts, there pretty good, but watch for the top collar closest to the handle coming loose. It's actually a threaded collar but they couldn't thread the carbon shaft it's on, so they glue them on. The bottom end plastic part that fits to the coil snapped on my last one in the cold weather. You can buy the carbon rod sections (less the handle) for easy money on alibaba, even cheaper if you do a forum multi buy!