Redneck

I went to my local park this am, and detected a 10 x 15' picnic  area,  that I hit a 3 years ago with a mid priced detector, with a 5" coil, with bleedy, blendy audio.   I figured I cleaned it out back then.    Well running the 800 thru there this am,  I picked up another 4 coins , all 3" or less, with the 11 coil. This area is wall to wall alum foil and tabs.  Just amazed how the nox  hoovers up the coins amongst the trash.

That 6" coil  should be amazing!

Speed set at 7, park 1,  sens 20.

awesome Brian!

That is slick!

The 800 is truly an amazing machine.  Saturday  I detected a 10 x 30 ' area at one of the parks.  Over the last 5 years, I checked it with at least 3 different detectors.  I pulled out another 19 clad, in an hour and a half.   I think its due to the fact the 800 handles my nasty soil so well, and seperates  very well, and was getting great depth besides, and its fast.  This is just a fun machine.  I always come home with a pocket full of goods.

I have found that the alum screw caps tend to read just a bit higher than the zinc pennies at 20-21 . Alum caps .... 22-23.  Some still get into the coin range though.

Steven B,    look at the video below about setting up for coin hunting. By Bill S.  I set up my 800 very close to his settings. 

It works very well. 

I made it back to the same beach  yesterday.  What a difference 20 hours  experience makes !   I have the nickel and coins area " notched in",  With higher volume and tone, with the aluminum  and iron areas set up quiet and low tone.   Now instead of avoiding the trashy part of the beach, I spent 1.5 hours in it,  and pulled out 17 coins,  and not much trash at all.   4 were nickels.  Some alum and lead sinkers come in the coin range, as expected, but this was fun digging today.   It sure pays off to get to know your detector!. I still have a lot to learn, but sticking with park 1 , til I decide to graduate and move to the next level.    HH  

Be careful, you might be infringing on Steve's  territory!  But he may have cleaned it all out already.

Remember before the EQ came out, a dealer at the Minelab conference  took a pic of the Minelab rep comparing the EQ with the Deus and ATGold?   That appears to be the market the EQ was designed for.  Water,  multi frequencies , speed and separation.  Throw in excellent ground capabilities and Excellent ID .

Cal, I am not a one for complicated detectors either.   The EQ  is rather easy to set up and learn.   If you can figure out the Impact, the EQ should be a breeze.    You will have a blast with it.   

It took me a while to set up the volume tone groups , that's really been the most difficult for me. Now that I have done it once,  there is not much to it. 

The real shocker for me has been how accurate the ID is .  Nickels, 13, with the deeper nickels bounce 12-13.  If it bounces into 14 , its aluminum canslaw.   

The EQ is deep.  Most of the plugs I cut, the target is down deeper. and my orange soil is nasty.

This afternoon,  I bumped up the reactivity to 8  to try it in an entrance area of a small ballpark. I also dropped the Sens to 15.  Its grass over gravel, so I did not want to dig deep anyway.  I hit this area with the last 5 detectors.   It has lots of alum pulltabs.  I have my audio system set up very close to Bill S.  settings   . The  nickel area is  med high vol and tone,18 and up hi vol and tone.  I was amazed how many coins were still there in that 10 x 20 foot area.   The coin signals really stood out amongst the alum.   That 6" coil will really be the cats meow!  The EQ is really fun to use!   

If you are going to drill a hole I the lower shaft, drill a small hole. It may take a minute for the water to weep out, but should not weaken the shaft.

Cal, I do not have many hours on my EQ yet, but It does handle my orange clay very well in Multi, and The ID at depth is quite accurate.

The EQ is rather deep , but I need to get more hours on it and get over some deep coins.  I wish I could help you more .

2 hours ago, Dig It said:

I think MineLab should give a FREE Detector Carry Bag out to all that have waited and prepaid 3 months out or more ....... 

My local dealer gave me a free detector bag AND  apron.  It pays to be loyal and shop local.

Mt ammie, after all this , I hope you truly love your EQ. It would be sad to see you be the first person to put it up for sale!

HH

Another add on, make the handle where it meets the shaft on an adjustable joint,, so it can be set at any angle to suit  every ones wrist angle.

You sound like my wife.    Your husband needs to take you out to the woodshed!

( all in jest, hope you get yours soon!)

Well I watched the vid  6 or 7 times, finally got my Q set up close to Bill's .   That video is a godsend. I never could have got it right reading the manual.  Thanks Bill S.!  I just need to have it warm up, and try it out.  Aught to be a coin killer program!

Park 1 uses a lower frequency bias, where as park 2 uses a higher frequency bias, according to the manual.   Nice Digs.

Dan , there will always be people who don't believe you no matter how you present the facts.  Ignore the negative nellies!  

Happy Hunting.

My ratio of nickels to other coins has also increased.  They lock in at 12 or 13 in my soil.

I picked up my Eq from my local dealer on Wed. Nice valentines gift , I must add!.   I charged everything last nite, loaded everything in my truck this am, and drove 70 miles to my favorite beach area.

75 degrees today.  Perfect day for forgetting about work.  i hunted for 5.5 hrs.

I used the 2 park settings only .  I auto ground cancelled, noise cancelled,  ran the sensitivity 20-22.  turned up the volume a few notches in the detector, and  maxed the headphones.  Man I sure love cordless headphones.  I also turned up the threshold so I could barely hear it.   Thats about all te settings I messed with today.

The beach here in the Ozarks consists of rocks, rocks, rocks, with some areas have dark red clay in between, and some areas have a bit of sand.  Its tough ground.  My se pro I had found its share of hot rocks here, but I did pretty well with it here.   Numerous other detectors I have used were very chatty, I had to turn down the sensitivity to make them run stable, but then they had no depth.  Running the EQ ,  the threshold sounded like machine gun fire as I  went. And yet the detecor ran smooth.  I think the IQ part was cancelling out the bad ground. 

22 was a bit high on sensitivity, so I dropped to 20, that took out the falsing I was getting on the sweeps.

Running in Park 1 reminded me of the se pro I had.  Rather quiet, but barked well on coins.  That program is geared more for coins, or biased more towards lower frequencies.  Park 2 , and man, the ground came alive.  Its set up more for jewelry, and higher freqs.  BUT, I also dug alot more of everything in this mode, including trash!  lots of iron, bottlecaps were a real pain, as they read all over the place.   Also Alum pulltabs were all over as well,  but there are also a great variety of shapes and thicknesses here, as some get tumbled in the waves for years , and become very thin.  I did not disc anything out, as I was hoping for that elusive gold ring, but no luck.   I have not found one here in over 7 years.   I have found a few dozen silver rings .  Not many rich folk use this beach.

The EQ handles  the bad dirt/ rocks real well.  Good depth, and accurate target ID at depth. 7" was the deepest today.  One target read 20-22, which is a cent.  I dug down and hit a nickel at 7".  That ID is off!  in the same hole, I found a 5" dime, then a cent, and 2 large rusty steel fish hooks.!    

Machine is comfy to swing all day.  I'm 59 , and  my arm held up real well.  Unit also seperates targets real well.

I finished the day with 7 nickels, 8 dimes, 8 quarters, and 25 pennies.1 silver ring.  No recent drops.  I also found a $20 bill laying there . Thank You very much!

I was a bit surprised how much Iron I found.  But then again I pretty much dug everything to get a feel for the machine.  But alot of it read  near the coin zones.  Screws read out at 19-20 then a 1 would pop up.  Steel bottle caps also showed up too often in my opinion.  Maybe it has something to do with the nasty soil, or my sensitivity could have been too high, or there  are settings for that I just am not familiar with?  I have alot to learn yet,  5 hrs is only a start!  Overall a fun machine, and I did not miss work one bit!!!

HH, Redneck.

Hey Tom, How many did your dealer receive?

Guess who's house is getting robbed tonite?

Poor Rick Kempf,  .   He lives in the desert where its hot, and has no access to a few cold ones.  How can we get him to relax?

Could someone give him a new teknetics pinpointer to play with meanwhile?   I heard he likes First Texas toys.

Poor, Steve, when he was a kid, I bet he never dreamed he would finish out his work career as a Babysitter!

Ya all need to sit back, relax,  crack open a cold one, and count yer blessings.  The Eq will come. 

GERRY!     now you are really stirring the pot!  Whats this all about?????