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Those pins are too close to the bottom of the shaft. Or at least the bottom one is. Expect more to break.

Do you think they will add another 1/8 of plastic to each coil ear? Or will that cost put them over the edge?

Man, that coil cable looks real short. Are tall people detecting on their knees? Is there a cable shortage?

If your in wet sand running beach 2 horseshoe mode, it is not less targets but less falsing. Yes the VDI will start to jump on deep targets, however it will give you groups. The best way is single or double ring on deep targets. When you get over targets. Swing slow to see if they double ring. I highly suggest you take a bobby pin and nail with you to test the sweep speed for that double ring. Stay away from that water contact until you feel up to speed.

What part of the beach are you working? Wet sand? Then beach 2. If you are going to try the whole style, then set to Whatever is FE6 equivalent. Hunt in HORSESHOE mode. This should accomplish two things 1. a higher sensitivity. 2. The ability to hear every target and automatic sorting of iron by double rings and VDI numbers. Remember to dig all single ringing targets at depth regardless of what the readout says. With the problems you have been having I would bring a hard wired set of headphones with you. I have on average about 1 metal target for every two-three swings. What is your beach like? Dave

Just to back up what Jeff said. I spent a whole year comparing targets with the user program. Regular program IB 6 Recovery 6. User program IB 3 Recovery 4. Almost never did the user program change my mind on digging. When it did NOT ONE target of value was recovered. I really find the BETTER guide is single ring or double ring as I have been discussing.

Are you talking about the shell of the coil that holds the epoxy compound that the coil components are set into is cracked? How would you see an internal crack? Do you have a Picture as example? I had broken coil ears with no falsing issues. Guess I need to know what you are looking at?

What am I supposed to learn from this vid??? PS I do not hunt the dry sand much unless I am called into it to find something.. What we know. We know he Equinox has issues with targets on edge. We know when you open a hole the Equinox has issues with seeing the target especially if the hole fills with water. In the vid, the person doing it is swinging the coil too fast to see if the target single rings or double rings in horseshoe mode. This is why coil control is so important. I do not know the rest of his settings it would of been nice of him to share. Impractical to keep turning circles to qualify a target, you say? I say you will never know what a fringe target is for sure unless you circle it in horseshoe mode. Actually this vid kind of proves that. Now mind you not every target needs 360. I tend not to dig a lot of trash. I do agree with his thought, NOTHING, and again NOTHING is the same on a salt beach with black sand and water. In my opinion, the number in the read out is only so good. As in depth good. Once a target gets to a certain depth it will not read well. THIS is why I advocate one tone at the beach. TO HEAR THE TARGET, and to DECIDE Ferrous and Non Ferrous. Ferrous stays in the ground, non ferrous comes out regardless of what it is telling me. You seem to be quite hung-up on what you might miss. You should be more concerned about what you CAN RECOVER.

I have used both machines in my moderate black sand. I was able to find settings that would allow both machines to run at peak levels. I would say my black sand does effect the Nox a little more.

Well again, in your smattering of settings no one ,not even Minelab recommends them at the beach. It would not be an issue if you were happy. However you are clearly disappointed in noise and other detector issues. It IS because of your settings. I suspect you are not willing to change and will not be effective at the beach. I hope you are able to get a different 11" coil and compare it to the current one on recommended beach settings. Good Luck.

Cracks or cracked off areas around coil ears would not cause falsing or sensitivity issues. Dave

Who advised you do do that? What is your setting?

YES!!! Protect yourself from the TSA not even knowing their own rules.

Just in case anyone looks at this in the future. DO NOT put anything with batteries in your checked luggage. Bring your batteries in your carryon luggage. The TSA will throw out anything with lithium batteries. MANY of them can not tell the difference in any batteries.

I can usually tell chain time by what I am digging. Getting keys, key chains and other large oddball targets........it is time to pay attention!

Are you running a threshold?

Yes I am running 800's. You get to know the conversion. But there are several important items. I have advocated 1 tone for some time now at the beach. Stop that machine from chirping at you from different tones and listen to actual targets. With all the other ticks and chirps. Not sure where you hunt the most? But until you master the wet sand keep the Equinox out of the wash. Even though I can run 23-24 in the wet sand in my location, stuff that Equinox in the water and all comes unglued. There lies the issue. One almost needs a dual setting at a touch of the finger to do the two different terrains. Water contact and wet sand with the Equinox is a difference of night and day. Coil control is important, that is a whole topic on it's own. But in doubt, keep the coil glued to the sand and go slow. GB Tracking. The original FE-6 setting combined with recovery 6 is a magical combo in horseshoe mode that REALLY allows very deep id on iron with a double ring. Could you back down?? Maybe, but you risk instability and turning the sensitivity lower, that would be a locality thing. Also lowering the recovery requires even more coil control to ID iron. Yes as stated, I have one coil that stinks in wet sand and water contact. That coil acts the same on both pods. Dave

I have lots of thoughts. Who told you to run some of these setting? What is your IB? Think you really need to get down to basics and understand why Minelab recommends the initial settings of each mode. Here is what I run: Beach 2, Tracking GB [a must], 1 tone, IB FE 6, Recovery 6, Sensitivity 22-24. Run in HORSESHOE mode. Anything that shows ferrous scale and double rings, DON'T DIG it, it is iron. ANYTHING that double rings with a plus VDI dig, as well as ANY target that does not double ring or breakdown, as you work around the target 360 degrees. Center target to dig in discrimination [if necessary] I also own two machines. I have done coil modifications that help decrease effects of black sand and moving salt water.[Not ready to share this yet.] HOWEVER, one of my coils is WAY NOISER than the other in the same conditions [wet sand and moving salt water]. But yet this coil works 100% perfect in dry sand or on soil. Consider trying another coil on your pod. Dave

I would like to see a head to head in an established test garden between the two 15" coils. I have seen plenty of evidence that the Minelab 15" does get better depth than the 11". I have heard nothing but complaints so far with the coilteck 15"

I think you are close to popping something good!!!!

Glad you brought this up Chase. I too have found noise issues when lowering recovery. Esp at a salt beach. As other posters have mentioned, I noise cancel quite often. When EMI does exist, rarely do I get any relief from noise cancel.

How do I follow-up to that response???? 😄 I think if going to Rat Shack and I bought a female part, there would be more than one lump on my head!!!!

Why would you want to hunt without headphones Chuck??? I never recommend it.

Well it takes about a minute to wrap a couple of sheets of foil around your detector in the EMI location. Don't need to see the screen to know if it works, you will hear it. BTW I use corded headphones and for this test use corded phones.

Here is your cell phone [100% fix] and some communication's EMI fix. I slide an aluminum shield over my pod protector. This may not work well for electrical EMI. The Equinox is the worst detector for EMI I have owned. Dave