midalake

On 4/1/2021 at 11:20 AM, Swegin said:

Coiltek announced that there may be up to a 6 to 8 week delay in their coils.

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Coiltek NOX COILS

Since we launched the new NOX coils just 4 weeks ago on the 3^{rd of} March 2021, we have received 1000’s of orders for the product, and these orders are continuing to grow each day.  We have never before experience such demand for a Coiltek product.

 We are naturally delighted to have such a positive response to the NOX product and we are grateful for your support. However, due to this unprecedented worldwide demand and the various impacts of COVID-19, deliveries are taking longer than usual.

Be assured, our worldwide distributors and dealers are doing the best they can and we are keeping in close contact with them. They are being updated regularly on availability and stock quantities.
 
 We at Coiltek have a great production team and we are working around the clock to supply. Our commitment to quality and providing you with the best product possible is and will continue to be at the forefront. 

Current delays can be up to 6-8 weeks. The best way to purchase a NOX coil is to contact your local Coiltek dealer and place an order.
Again, thank you for your support and patience, we sincerely apologise for these delays.

Maybe they are reformulating?  Since their coils are not better than stock ones?  

How deep can you get on this???

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/possible-military-explosive-device-washes-ashore-on-florida-beach/ar-BB1fikoa?ocid=msedgntp

11 minutes ago, TripleT said:

I love Fe2!

So far, this season, I have set Fe2 at ZERO.

I have dug everything in the first FIVE hunts.  So far, 95% of pull tabs have been detected correctly.  

Beaver tails and old tabs still get dug.  But overall I am loving the signals that Fe2 has provided. 

As a beach hunter, I am wondering what you mean by pull tabs getting detected correctly??

4 hours ago, nickeldNdimed said:

If that was available in US and just adapts to the stock shaft, I would try that in a heartbeat.  Maybe we’ll see it on eBay one of these days. 

Bet I could break that in two days at the beach!!! 

15 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

As most know I’ve been talking about buying a Tarsacci but referring to sitting on the fence on doing it.

  I believe that sitting on that fence so long it has caused a rash . I had to do something so today I got with Aaron and I ordered the Tarsacci with the beast coil. 
 I don’t know yet when I’ll get it but one good thing the rash is better.

 Chuck 

Well good thing!!!  Was getting ready to start a go-fund-me page for you. 😁

1 hour ago, rvpopeye said:

On training ears to ID frequency of notes....................

If anyone has a piano  (cheapies at Goodwill etc.?)  You can find the note with it and compare to a chart  that you can download 

http://www.tresbearmusic.com/site/images/themes/sound-waves-frequency/frequency-chart-bowed-string-instruments-ww01.gif 

 

 

 

I don't think you understood my first response/question earlier. So I will rephrase it.  Since the Equinox has a signal that is so processed how are you going to tell the difference as to what a target is? 

As in, if you have 5 different items in size and shape that all ring in at 14. Tell me how you are going to call out what those items are before they are in your hand?  What can you tell about those items that will make a difference with the Equinox? 

On 3/19/2021 at 7:36 AM, rvpopeye said:

Easier to just train the ears...IMO

Easier to just train the ears on what???   The equinox signal is so processed what are you going to be able to tell the difference of in non-ferrous targets??? 

5 hours ago, stevejhgla said:

I've been seeing the term iron wrap around used quite a bit lately.  How do I identify this?  

It has a different look in different detectors.  But to make it simple [for me] It is iron targets that come into the non ferrous zone of the detector either by sound or VDI presentation. 

It seems as everyone looks to Nails and Bottle caps as a standard for reducing iron targets. While this debate will NEVER go away, I think there was a planned use for the the FE and F2 mode for modern times. We all see many countries turning to coins that are mainly Ferrous due to the cost of alloys that are non ferrous. 

So pictured below is the Mexican 1-2 and 5 peso coin. Above is a US penny. 

These coins are actually not totally ferrous. The gold center portion does contain some sort of low grade non ferrous metal. What is completely unbelievable is the Equinox will identify these coins as Ferrous 100% of the time and when running in IB 6 Very little Iron wrap around occurs.  I find this hard to be a coincidence.  So maybe there is a train of thought of what engineers are looking at when Iron Out modes are used.  Not sure how many other people have tested ferrous coins and those results but maybe some of you can chime in.

Anyway the ability to look through/around ferrous coinage is fantastic in my opinion.

2 hours ago, Tiftaaft said:

Thanks Midlake.  I would rather be part of the solution, than the problem.   ~Tim

I don't know about a problem per say, but there is disappointment in the pin point.  After almost three years now recovering targets in Horseshoe mode I just can not see another way. 

I already hunt in recovery 6. I just wanted to point out for some who hunt lower recovery there are options to narrow that target you are looking at by bumping recovery to 6-7-8.   

A real game changer for the larger coil too. 

17 hours ago, Tiftaaft said:

I use both the "pull back" method and the pinpointer.. Sometimes the pinpointer will be silent over the target, if you press the button on top of the target (as GBA mentions), so starting to the side of the intended target as GBA states... helps.  I sometimes get a "muffled" signal... but a quick pinpoint off, pinpoint on button press brings back the full volume.  I have also noticed that sometimes coming out of pinpoint mode will "confuse" (for lack of a better way to say it) the Equinox, and the TID readings won't show with the tones.  Again, just a few button presses of the pinpoint and all resets.  Just some quirks that I quickly cycle through now that I know how to resolve them quickly.  I have found the pinpoint is very well centered to my coil/rod, so it is a useful tool for me.  The one caveat would be chasing bent iron... which has a tendency to throw the pinpoint away from the target... in those cases, when I have a nice solid pinpoint, then find myself chasing a signal off to the side of the hole... especially when deep... I can pretty much expect bent old rusty iron.  I should mention, I have been surprised a time or two to find a coin on edge doing that same thing... but more often... bent nail. 

~Tim.

Here in lies the problem. You just posted 19 lines of words and three paragraphs for something that should take 4 lines of print.

I hunt salt water only. The pin-pointer is completely unusable. 

So If one were to put objects on the ground and practice pinpointing in horseshoe it can easily be done and accurate. I dig off the rear of the coil, so I will find center and keep moving forward. 

Two tricks:  To narrow the location once you have found the target bounce the recovery speed up to  6-7-8. [horseshoe mode] 

If you really want to dig iron???  Move around the target until it does not double ring [horseshoe mode]  Then the iron will be centered. 

Done!  Dave

8 minutes ago, Possum104 said:

I recently bought a new Nox 600 and have had similar issues. After pinpointing especially, I would jusr lose the target altogether when returning to scan mode.

The pinpointer on the Equinox is a huge disappointment.  Learn how to pinpoint with the Horseshoe mode and stop all your headaches. 

3 hours ago, Carolina said:

Tell your trusted friend if he is unhappy I would be glad to make him an offer on his flop.

I trust that my trusted friend, trusts his own instincts and would trust another known trusted detector in those untrustworthy conditions.

43 minutes ago, TripleT said:

I have a question regarding how the Equinox throttles back sensitivity when it encounters black sand.

If I am running at 17 sensitivity on a salt water beach and detect over black sand; the machine throttles back sensitivity.   

By how much does it do this? What would be the sensitivity when the black sand indicator is active at 17?

This leads me to wonder. If running at 25 sensitivity and the machine encounters black sand, is it going to be a higher number than the previous scenario?

I also realize, that at 25 the machine will probably throttle back sensitivity much sooner than at 17...

Just curious, thanks!

What is a black sand indicator???  Do you mean the overload symbol?  Need more of an explanation. 

10 hours ago, Kiwi RU said:

Hi All,has anyone purchased these on EBay,ordered one and took 20 days to arrive from the Ukraine to NewZealand,

If your a salt water hunter those twist locks can cause lots of grief. 

38 minutes ago, Dan(NM) said:

    Thank you, I was very surprised to get a shipping confirmation. I got on the preoder list yesterday, the dealer received 2 coils today and was able to ship it today.

When your ready to sell it Dan let me know!!! 😁

12 minutes ago, tvr said:

 

A thought that I hope is based in logic, then I'll walk away from this particular part of the discussion. If both quoted items are true, the logical conclusion is that the Equinox is a flop in moving salt water. Might be interesting to see that discussion over on the Equinox forum. 🙂

Why the forum? I am out for a 4 hour salt beach hunt again tomorrow. Why not join? 

Just now, tvr said:

Bull! Some areas are better than others, and I'm a little limited in where I have and have not been with it ... but your statement is bull. I understand you have not gotten one in your hands, so I'll have to say that is why you might make that statement.

A trusted source has one in salt.

He even sent me small segments of wave examples in video where the machine would not be usable.  

I am good with that. For the record it is about the same movement that makes the Equinox fall on it's face as well. 

Thanks Dave

14 minutes ago, cjc said:

All the best sites I hunt are full of competitors--some who hunt 10 hours a day.  As long as I don't have to wait for a calm day, this machine is exactly the edge I need.  cjc

Are you referring to fresh or salt water???  All moving water is not the same?  Right now this machine is a flop in moving salt! 

17 hours ago, CCadrin said:

Occasionally, we'll get a ring that is so delicate that if you drop it on a hard surface they will break into multiple pieces. This one tested as a 14k so I was a little surprised that there was so much tarnish and erosion of the filler metal. 

I too have seen older gold come out of the ocean VERY brittle! 

2 hours ago, bklein said:

Midalake - it probably was 3 but not sure.   
These are just quick and dirty videos of things I’m trying, obviously not rehearsed...  I just added a couple more showing how coin grouping has depth suffer vs coins separated.  I didn’t associated this to FE/F2 - I need to go back and test to see if it is.

Well these "gotcha" type moments, everything is important. Your coil speed relative to recovery and even how close you are to the targets. A few inches away??

I can tell you the odds of finding that set-up on the beach as you laid it down there is slim to none. 

Also difficult to hear really the audio response. 

6 hours ago, bklein said:

Hi all. Ok I uploaded the video along with several others I made in the same day. Some EQ600 with 15”, some 11”, and some my CTX-3030.  A fair example of what I’m concerned about is this one: 

Whats your recovery speed again? 

1 hour ago, dewcon4414 said:

Tomorrow im supposed to look for someones ring i didnt find it today.  So ill take a little gold chain with me.  fairly small.  Ill be watching to see if it upscales the aluminum and deeper trash.

Hey Dew.

Do you think this new 12" coil will give a different range of Tid numbers for gold?? 

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

As a satisfied Tarsacci owner I also don’t need to be lectured and told to get wet by another forum member.

Well if it's really hot out getting wet is not a bad thing!!!!  LOL......

10 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

I find that I am more likely to dig a falsing ferrous target without it than be surprised by a masked target with it engaged, in my experience.  I still generally dig the iron even with iron bias, when I have sufficient time on site to grid and take my time.  But when I am limited in time on site, like a one and done situation, I would rather play the odds with a rare masking situation than waste my time digging falsing nails and big iron the whole time at an iron infested site.  

I just want to elaborate, some. 

I doubt many here have the experience with iron targets on a salt beach, as the Mexican 1-2 and 5 peso coin are ferrous. I can easily run into 70 of these a day. 

So here is what I have learned. The higher the sensitivity and lower the IB the more iron wrap around occurs. 

I have learned to hunt in one tone. I think there are multiple advantages [for another thread] But for this thread I will discuss one. 

One tone allows for the best way to identify iron. With the detector in beach 2, IB FE6,  and recovery 6. It is beyond easy to almost identify iron 100% down to depths I have never seen.  I repeat, down to depths I have never seen. 

I do hunt mostly in Discrimination but any kind of a tick gets investigated in the horseshoe mode.  Here looking at the target from all directions for ANY breakdown of the target or double sound will be your indication of Iron.  

For me the TID is only a small part, how the target sounds in horseshoe mode is the bigger part. ANYTHING and repeat anything that single rings is getting dug, PERIOD. A single ring is non-ferrous 99% of the time!   

I guess to the OP, never have I had a surprised masked target. Not saying it could not happen. But there are so many variables. Checking your targets from different angles can tell a story.