Nuke em

I'm not worried about running time . I will use it till it runs out then recharge . I do have a 26800 mah power bank that i bought months back if i am out and need to charge it up at digs . But i will most likely be keeping an RNB equipped ET or Explorer with me too.

Do you reckon we can all get this syndrome ? Just wondering if scientists can bring a cure out before the Nox comes out ? Dont think they need to hurry though !!

I hate Facebook , glad i no longer use it . Full of poo and poo stirrers . 

Would love to know who these people are that are stirring it up about the Equinox and what their motives are .

A mate said he saw on Facebook that someone somehow made a battery explode or something , is the machine still on course for release sometime in the next month ?

Its probably all crap like most things on Facebook but just wondering .

Pity about the club the way it went . 

5 hours ago, RickUK said:

Richard,a good haul by the looks of it,the recent bad weather that we have had has moved the sand around alot,so you had been lucky finding some coinage,far better than finding 'stiffs' on the beach

Where do I know you from ?

Our new Pound coins are 12 sided though .

1 hour ago, midalake said:

What coins are those with the brass colored outside and silver color inside?

 

Dave

The second line from the bottom are the new Pound coins . The line above are the old Pound coins that are no longer in circulation but can be banked . The new ones are the same style as the old Three Penny bit that we had in 1937 to 67 but slightly thicker and wider. 

Its mostly built up here too. Looks good but much to deep to find much in most places. Roll on Thursday.

I cant wait for mine . But for a while i will stay with my Explorer's . I will use the Equinox later when i can give it a proper test when finds are more plentiful . Even if people might think my finds aren't too bad . I want to learn the machine before i throw it in the deep end ! Excusing the pun.

2 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Here is what Gordon Heritage, one of the testers, has to say about iron bias. It agrees with my understanding of the control. He posts as ironhearted_gog on the Minelab Owners Forum.

The control is quite subtle from what I have seen so far - not some magic weapon. Turning it all the way up does not eliminate flat tin steel, hardened steel bolts, or other problematic items that trouble VLF detectors.

I am on that forum and its where i find things out . There is a section in the restricted area that goes into a bit more depth . 

I haven't read it properly so cant go into detail . I think i will be using my Explorers till i have sussed all the settings .

In a way if detectors get to perfect it will get boring in the field if all the surprise goes . 

I dont expect perfection , just lightweight / waterproof and have a combination of Terra and ET with a touch of Deus .

There is unlikely to be any real improvement on VLF machines in depth and i think its all about gimmicks and different ways to capture peoples imagination these days . The Equinox might be simple to many but i might have to study the machine before i get out there with it. I am too used to the easy menus and functions of the ET and Explorer's LOL .

Well after seeing the beach yesterday and finding nothing but trash and also having bad weather last night i went back for another look . I went to the areas that i found my last 2 rings and left the main beaches i normally go to alone . I got there at around 6am and saw the beaches hadn't got any worse and looked better than yesterday so i switched on my Explorer XS and got stuck in . Yet again i started to find lots of coinage about , though mostly in hot spots and sometimes in lines along the beach which slopes up to the road. 

I walked around a mile or more till i got to the area of the other beaches then stopped . By the end of the search at around 8.30am i had found another Silver ring , 3 coins worth 50 Euro Cents and another foreign coin like the one i had a few days ago , and another with a hole in it . My spendable coinage score was £30.34p this time .

I am working for the next 6 days so thats me out of the scene till Thursday next . Really winds me up passing the beaches in my work and not being able to check them out .

Sometimes slower is faster ! I could run rings around the F75 and Deus on beaches . Land is very different unless in the dry ploughed field or maybe shallow pasture. I never felt the Terra was good in hard ground , but their air tests are good and thats why they worked on my beaches so well.

6 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Hi dew,

The addition of multifrequency to the Gold Mode did nothing to change the underlying fundamentals of Multi-IQ. The statement is a generality, nothing more, that attempts to describe the difference between BBS/FBS and Multi-IQ in simplistic terms.

The Equinox was designed to compete with the Garrett AT detectors and XP DEUS more than anything else. If that was not already obvious the leaked dealer meeting photo should make it so! That is the bar Minelab set for themselves. That is also an admission that the CTX is lacking in the ways needed to compete with those detectors, which are outselling it by huge numbers. Addressing that is what Equinox is all about, not replacing the Excalibur or CTX 3030.

The AT and Deus would out sell the CTX anyway , they are a different price range . The CTX only sells so poorly compared to many because of the price . If the price here in the UK wasn't the price of a small house i might have kept mine . Even if i didn't like it much . Other reasons for its lack of sales are the weight and complicated menu and many people kept moaning about lack of updates . Though i always thought the Exchange 2 was for downloading programs . I doubt that the Equinox will get many updates unless the machine has issues after release .

The Equinox is going to have the Deus and AT types for dinner and any others in that price range if successful . 

I had a 70 in 2007 but didn't use it and sold in 2008 . It was only in 2011 when i bought the 705 that i found where its best suited . And thats on dry beaches , its a real killer on stone beaches or fluffy sand . I feel that it wasn't that slow but being slower than machines like the Deus and F75 made it better on beaches . The Deus and F75 are a bit jumpy on beaches . 

The Terra's are a bargain if searching dry beaches , they pay for themselves quickly . 

I didn't like their build quality much and sold each one well within their warranty then bought another . Each machine made a massive profit . £9454 and 14 Gold rings overall till mid last year when i sold my last 705 .

Will be interesting to see what the Equinox does .

I wonder what the improvements are going to be ? 

I might consider 1 as a scouting machine .

It would have to be better stem wise . Wish they would put a coil cover on too.

Nice finds. As for the possible Gold . Test it on the ET and also check the weight . I reckon 6 g if 9 or 10 k and a low medium tone , if Gold. Now am i right ? I think its white Gold.

On 1/14/2018 at 4:47 AM, ☠ Cipher said:

My understanding of BBS/FBS is that it's not all that we've been led to believe it is. The idea that FBS would transmit, receive and process 28 frequencies simultaneously is pretty ambitious. On closer consideration, Minelab only claims to transmit 28. Carl Moreland, formerly of Whites, now First Texas, is convinced beyond doubt that based on his tests FBS only uses (transmits, receives, and processes) 2 frequencies, and the same 2 (3.25khz and 25khz) with the rest being harmonic echoes of the base frequencies that any multifrequency machine could claim to transmit and which serve no useful purpose other than marketing. The clever stuff to him is the sequence in which those frequencies are fired and the way the half life of the 3.25khz frequency is utilized. So it will be interesting to see, if all this is true, how a machine that actually uses (transmits, receives, and processes) 5 frequencies does in saltwater and if Minelab is downplaying it there for obvious reasons. One thing I found curious is when Steve reported what seemed to be no loss of depth from single frequency mode to Multi-iQ. This almost suggests to me that Multi-iQ may not be so much "simultaneous" as sequential, in rapid succession. 

My mate told me that the FBS at best transmit only a few freqs at a time . And maybe the Equinox will too ? Not being any good at electronics i wouldn't know and as long as they work i dont care either . In any case the fact still remains that they are the best on the salt wet other than a PI . The V3i is supposed to be multi freq and uses 3 freqs , are they used the same way as FBS or do they run together ? They can be used singularly too like or similar to the Equinox . 

Going to be very windy tomorrow "Storm Georgina" or something . Its a long tide and the tide is out early so i might go . I will go straight to the area i found the Gold and Silver rings from the last searches . It didn't look that good for finds this morning but then i gave up early , hopefully it will be better tomorrow . I can only stay out from 6am till 10am anyway .

Went back this morning and found nothing except rubbish . We have had some bad weather and its messed the beach up. Tonight there is more bad weather which could turn it around again . Will be my last chance till late next week if i go tomorrow.

Why do i want the Equinox ? 

Well , apart from being waterproof and lightweight i dont need it ! But i do have to lighten the load on my back and shoulders a bit . I dont think it will increase my finds rate , i find lots of coinage anyway and in the next few years i think the cashless society will kill coin hunting on the beaches . I suppose thats when i really need the Equinox , for in water detecting . I will also use it as a replacement for my last Deus and use it on land when i do digs again .

The machine that matters most to me is the next machine . The one that replaces my ET and Explorer's . Till then , they are staying in my inventory . 

This morning i got up early and did one or two things before going to the beach for a 10.30 am start . I didn't bother checking the main beaches i do but got a Bus to the furthest beaches that i dont normally do . I started on the beach and a lot of the time it was quiet but then as before i was finding coinage in lines and next to groins . I had a long walk back to the normally better beaches but didn't care , all the while i was finding something i was happy . I was hoping for another Gold but that wasn't to be this time and by 2 pm i had to get a move on and walked back to the main beaches over a mile away . One of my last finds was an old Silver ring , i also found 6 fishing weights but haven't taken a picture of them , they just go straight into the bucket.

My total for today was £36.40p , a Silver ring , 6 lead weights , a Foreign coin i couldn't identify and for the American here a US Dime from 1979 .

My next trip is on Wednesday but the weather might stop it , its going to be very wet and rough . But then again who cares .

Hopefully it will be best at everything . But first it has to find its way into owners hands .

53 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

The difference between the modes will be explained VERY soon. I can confirm people will be getting more in an Equinox than has been revealed so far, that's for sure.

I cant wait . Wish Minelab would hurry up.

42 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

 

Can you point me to where you have found information on the difference between Beach 1 and Beach 2.  I was under the mistaken impression that the machine was provided with 4 default modes and that you could save custom settings for an additional mode on each mode setting (Field 2, Beach 2 etc.) and you could modify the default ([Insert Mode Name] 1) as desired. I was not aware that both 1 and 2 variants of each of the modes would be preloaded.  Thanks.

Its on a restricted site elsewhere . Paid subscription is needed too . Theres more to the Equinox than most know . Wish i could say but i will be skating on very thin ice i think. Even i am limited on knowledge.