midalake

Yes, you have issues...........

I am in Salt Water too. Well your bottom must be highly mineralized. To make a long story short> The D2 does work well in highly mineralized areas. With your mineralization and Salt it will make chain detection very difficult. I doubt more reactivity will help and I do not see any of your settings that would make much difference if changed. Also for the record I have found the Equinox to work better in high mineral conditions >Sorry. But! As a try....Make sure you're in magnetic sand reject. Anything over 1.5 reactivity will hurt, but if you can up the sensitiyity at 1.5 try it., Also try tracking Ground Balance. Turn your iron volume down to one. Like anything else sensitivity is important. Test a target you have found in the past. Also try Beach Pitch it may cut those minerals with better frequencies to find gold. But it also might be more unstable.

Well the dive mode will be the worst mode when it comes to gold chains due to frequency weighting. What conditions do you have that only allow for 88 sensitivity ? Also why not run .5 or 0 reactivity? In my location I can run 95 sensitivity with really bad black sand.

Well you have missed plenty of settings. Let us know the rest including reactivity.

Do Detectorist Need A High End Multi Frequency Detector Yes, I do>and I DESERVE IT!

Awesome job! Got to admit when I saw happy ending in the title> Thought it was going to be something different 🤣

Anyone who is a serious beach hunter has had those screws that clamp to the shaft fail. There is no way that style of mount can take repeated torque and resistance from wave wash. I don't care what shaft is on the Equinox. All three machines that worked where I am failed.

The cost is at least $425...........

What a horrible test. With ZERO usable information! These two had both those detectors on AND too close. I really need to get my resume in to be a company tester.

How long are we going to be Guinea Pigs? WHEN will a 1.0 software come out???????

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.

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

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

Just awesome!!!!!! congrats!!!!!!

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

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

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

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.

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

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"

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

YES^^^ Double YES^^^^ Exacerbated by old eyes and large sausage fingers. 😃

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

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

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