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How long are we going to be Guinea Pigs?

WHEN will a 1.0 software come out???????

8 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Hmmm...that's interesting.   How does it balance with the second handle?  I've seen a foam disc slipped in under the control pod too that seemed to work okay. 

I am one that thought the Equinox balance was fine. The washer on top of the grip gives you lots of control. I had one of the original Doc's CF shafts and have been beach hunting this way for over 20 years. 

6 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

That's pretty much where I am with the Equinox.  I don't find the balance to be an issue, but the pod resting on my hand gets old.  Seems to be a common straight shaft issue.  This was a big issue on the Nokta Impact too, and some people came up with DIY remedies, but realistically we should not have to do hacks to remedy basic ergonomic issues like that.

The pod resting on your hand gets old because it is not comfortable like this.

19 hours ago, mn90403 said:

It might be the Lord's Prayer, but I don't know the symbolism of the razor blade.

Guessing the razor blade has to do with lines of cocaine. 

Just awesome!!!!!! congrats!!!!!! 

Heat from the charging port??????????

3 hours ago, brys said:

they have bragging rights over ML ,they will never be able to build a ligher machine than the puckmaster

 

and will reman the lighest machine forever

Try to take that puck in and around water............

1 hour ago, kac said:

I tried bed liner and it does work but not for that long. Might be better off with grip tape like the stuff used on bikes. I took the easier way out and lent mine to a buddy so he has a scoop to use and black hands 🙂

I don't know how anyone can hunt without a light pair of diving gloves. Been water hunting with gloves for 25 years.  👍

1 hour ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Gig's Equinox detectors all leaked and making a correlation between the similar charging port on the Manticore.........

I saw it too. It surprised me, this was the first I have seen all of this cracking around the charge ports.

Maybe other can chime in if they had problems in this location.  

10 hours ago, mcjtom said:

I was thinking between 10 and 15 mm, for wet sand/surf and dry as well, easy to shift sand through but still retain things (maybe not the smallest)?  Also figured that 1.5 mm thick plate is plenty?  Does it sound reasonable?

I run holes slightly larger than 9/16. If you wash the sand out of your scoop [like I do] any hole's smaller take too much time or are not effective at all.
Yes, a few small items might slip through. If I think there is a small target, I walk it up the beach and dump it. 

I see everyone using 1.5 mm thickness. Not all stainless steel is created EQUAL>>>>Quality metal makes a difference!  HH 

6 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

But what I have found is that the discrimination number sets where the iron tone ends. So if you set the discrimination at 10, any TID number below 10 will have the iron tone and everything 10 and above will have a non-ferrous tone. The discrimination point will not blank out anything below that unless you have the iron volume at zero.

Yes, this is a great point I did not explain.
Also my terminology of threshold is not in historical regards. But raising the discrimination just moves the iron bin. That might be a better explanation. 

I ran the disc. at 27 with the combination of the iron volume at "1" 

58 minutes ago, Rrnp said:

If you set the discrimination to say 2 or 10. What does it matter if your just coin shooting?

32 minutes ago, bigtim1973 said:

Nothing....... you can set it to whatever you wish.

I will add a little more.

Just recently a Dues 2 ended up in the hands of a VERY experienced detectorist. He noticed that the "discrimination" worked more like a threshold than discrimination.

Personally, on my last beach trip there was some very nasty Black Sand. So, I decided to run discrimination at 27. Several things happened.

First> The effects of black Sand were mitigated much more than running the machine in the factory beach discrimination of  "8"

Second> So every target that was deep and was difficult to identify, I switched back to the factory Disc. mode of "8". In three days, not ONE TARGET was identified in a different way or was identification easier. [it was not harder at "8" or "27" either]

I know three days testing on deep targets is not definitive proof.
But in my opinion so far, there seems to be no difference in detection ability where the discrimination is set at.  HH

2 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Personally, I am not willing to give up on any of the remote's features because I extensively use custom program switching on the fly to do target interrogation and the puck's interface is too clunkly and lacks the ability for me to group adjacent custom programs

YES^^^ Double YES^^^^

Exacerbated by old eyes and large sausage fingers. 😃

Just now, Compass said:

which scoop to use when there are so many shallow targets. For a while I used an old style french fry basket like we used 50 years ago

I have waves, all the time. Scoop choice is important. My scoops have more bucket>than bill.   

16 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

Great job on the gold.  I should have gone down the coast an hour or two but ...

I know what you mean about the Nox being chatty lately.  I've had to reduce my sensitivity from 23 down to 21 or 20 to keep from going crazy.

Don't be afraid to sneak that IB to Fe-6 and Recovery 6 to get more sensitivity/stability. 

1 hour ago, Compass said:

Hurricane Kay was wonderful to me! Prior to Kay I was having a very slow year for gold finds but she changed all that in 1 week.
I know that Kay was not so good for LA County beaches but, as Strick pointed out, a few beaches down south had massive amounts of sand movement making for some ideal hunting conditions.
I think I hunted about 6 nights in the last 8 days and even though I encountered several other hunters, there were enough targets to go around. I found an amazing number of gold jewelry items but most were below 2 grams and nothing even close to being a "honker". Many targets were hiding in and around the black sand making them more difficult to find, even with my pulse detectors. On one hunt I used my Equinox but the black sand was making the Nox so chatty that I was getting a headache. My Nox's TID's were pretty useless as virtually all targets registered as negative numbers until I got them out of the holes. 

I am helping a couple of friends who are getting started in metal detecting and, fortunately, they were both able to experience hunting in a target rich environment. However, every time I went to the beach this past week I did not know what to expect - I either anticipated the beach to be sanded back in or full of holes from hunters who got there before me.

GL&HH!

 

 

BOOM!!!!!  So awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!

If your eyes are still good enough to see this little puck. 😂

12 minutes ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Mineralization is definitely a factor. I can do the same with all of the targets in the video and with targets similar to yours and Deus 2 Goldfield will detect them even on highly iron mineralized ground. Bury them even 5cm and they are very hard to detect.

Not trying to hi-jack [just talking mineralization]

With the black sand I was hunting. Depth was severely affected on nonferrous targets. Also>>> Something else very strange was happening. Upscaling of ferrous, and down scaling of nonferrous. 

When the target would not TID anymore, I was working on trying to identify what was in the ground. It was very frustrating!
With mineralization, Iron wanted to upscale, and nonferrous targets were down scaling. 

I just could not make a call to what I thought the target was by sound reactions alone. I was not even close to a 50/50 call on the target.

This is frustrating for a beach hunter who just wants to know if a target is simply ferrous or nonferrous. 

Now I know what you're thinking!!! How could the Deus do both, it does not make sense. >>>>Yes, I know.   

Not sure how disappointed you should be? 

You had a great plan. Looks like lots of targets. Maybe just not the right ones.  It happens, but you put yourself in the best position to come out ahead! 

2 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Deus 2 could barely hit those targets in Goldfield in moderate mineralization. Maybe you can get an idea about how it does in 10 of 10 iron mineralization………

I tried to pick a site close by that had enough mineralization to challenge Deus 2. I must have succeeded since it couldn’t handle it very well.

Just to back-up the "mineralization" issue with the D2. Myself, Jeff, and Steve H were all working heavy mineralized sites about a month ago. Steve and I were Pm-ing, and Jeff chimed in, trying different solutions to get the D2 to perform at three different locations.
Conclusions: All three of us were disappointed in how the D2 handled Black Sand/Mineralized soil. 

BE PREPARED, for several different issues to happen if you are running hot ground. 
The only reason I did not write this up was the fact my D2 was discharging while turned off. I cannot be 100% sure my D2 was functioning correctly.  I will get get on the Black Sand again and will see if I can make progress. I was running the 9" coil too. 

OUT-FLIPPIN STANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👀

Nice Digs!   That is a big gold hoop. I know you eyeballed it, but did you sweep the nox over it?  Bet it could near it! 

3 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

I think the Eqx 800 MAP is now $1000 (maybe negotiable also)

There are some great deals on used Equinox's right now!!!!!

1 minute ago, HSNGP said:

I wonder if this will work as well, or better, than the Gold Monster 1000 in our location? If any one has knowledge of the comparison, of knows of, or hears of, a review of the Manticore Gold Field mode vs the Gold Monster 1000 I would really appreciate hearing from you.

I think it is going to be a LONG TIME before that question is answered! 

Lots of the gold guys think an Equinox 800 is formidable in the gold area. A better question might be Equinox 800 VS Gold Monster 1000?