Nuke em

How cheap !

I am number 2 at my dealer so hopefully i will get mine quick . I also hope there is a manual in the box .

This morning i went to one of the beaches i go to with my Explorer XS. The weather was windy and wet last night and i thought "hoped" it would shift a bit of the beach off . But i was mostly unlucky .But i found an area of 200 ft by around 70 ft that was scuffed a bit so i got on with the job of hoovering up the coinage . I hoped for a Gold but no luck there , i did find an old Silver ring . I left after around 2 hours with the ring , £23.78 p in spendable coinage , 2 Euro's and for the Americans seeing this a US 5 Cent of 1993 . I might go again on Friday if the beach has a good pounding by the weather , but i doubt it will be .

I will set up to the highest settings possible . most beaches I search are very trashy too.

It collapses to the length of the longest stem part.

Going by the videos i have seen on Youtube they are like the Terra 705 tones .

I need to replace my Explorer's . I will keep the ET but my back and shoulders are wearing out and its time for a lightweight machine that does the ET thing . I also want a machine for land so if for any reason its not that good on salt i will use it there . If i like the Equinox i will buy another as backup later in the year but that depends on finds to pay for it. I will be buying a Terra 705 too for the dry beach during the Summer searches when i search all night , might be old now but what a coin hoover.

I have decided that i am going to buy 1 Equinox and not 2 . I was going to buy 2 and have 1 as backup but the beaches i go to are mostly dry tops and can be rowdy at times so i will instead buy another 705 for the dry during the Summer months . The 705 did me very well over the last 6 plus years so i will buy that when i get my Equinox . With luck the Equinox will work perfect on the wet then i will sell 1 of my Explorer's , probably the XS . At least we now when the machine is being released .

I read on another site the machine will be released at the end of January . Damn another month .

Must be a slower machine than the 800 then LOL

I have info on another forum by someone important that says the machine is fine on wet sand and is stable . Cant give details but its enough for me to not worry as beach detecting is 90% + of my detecting . http://www.minelabowners.com/forum/showthread.php?32358-Equinox-on-the-beach

Minelab. Not because of past heavy machines but because of target i.d./tones and multi frequency . They are by far the best for the beach and many land sites. They produce the best Gold machines too and produce Mine Countermeasures gear too. Minelab. I think since the E.Trac and latter X.Terra's were released they have been sitting idle and that has let in all kinds of competition , whether it be Garrett Ace / AT machines or the XP Deus . Maybe the new Equinox will be the start of the recovery of the brand . I never classed the CTX as a successful machine , it smacked of old style weighty and unfriendly menu machines. Minelab tried too hard to please a few instead of pleasing the many . Minelab. If on the beach then the X.Terra 705 with the 10.5 inch DD coil 7.5khts . That machine when i used it was absolutely brilliant at pulling out the coinage and at a reasonably lightweight and not a bad battery life gave me great service. It is a bit poor in build quality i think , the stems suffer after a while from chips and the camlocks break , also had speaker issues and the battery springs aren't the best. But as a detector it really punches above its weight on beaches . On Land i would rate the E.Trac high along with the Explorer and Fisher 75 . But it does depend on targets and your swing speed. If slow then these if fast then the F75 or similar or the Deus . I dont do prospecting but the 705 did find me a Pound coin at maybe 15 plus inches in prospecting mode last year which did make me surprised . As for new ideas . Common sense and just give the machine the tools it needs and not too much silly bling . Also needs to be weatherproof , not to heavy and not expensive to maintain . In my opinion the new Equinox is very close to the perfect machine . Maybe the new installment that might ? replace the ET and CTX will up on that . But no silly bling and dont show off , thats what the CTX looked like . The CTX will never be a classic because of that . The Explorer is and maybe the ET will be? Cant comment on many other makes due to being hardwired to Minelabs , used many others but they never lasted and i doubt i will buy other makes any more Oh one other make that isn't made anymore i did like , RED HEAT . Made by an absolute genius from Peckham London who is detecting in the gardens of Heaven Vik Fiveash. His machines were like a combination of XP and Tesoro/Laser . Incredible for small targets and brilliant in Iron . Look on Youtube and look up Red Heat Tornado or XD 17 . Wish i kept mine.

When the CTX came out i always thought it sounded like the Explorer , the ET sounds deeper to me and that could be the reason i think the Explorer is better for Silver . When the Equinox was outed earlier this year i was wondering about selling my ET or even both Explorers or just 1 but lately i have decided that i will keep all of them . They may have mostly paid for themselves but they are now cheap detecting and i dont class them obsolete at all . I will keep the ET till Minelab bring out a replacement for it and that depends on the Equinox capability . The Explorer's will stay till they are not worth their weight in rust or if someone wants one at the right price , but they are in near mint condition as i dont use their stems or stands or even coils. I use the ET's spare Pro coil and stems. And the Pro coil turns the Explorer's into formidable units.

Here in the UK an Explorer XS in very good condition could fetch £300 or more, the E 11 maybe near £400 and the SE around £500 for a very good machine . I am glad my E 11 has paid for itself a few times over in case i sell it , the XS has only just started , The ET has covered most of its original value .

Day 1 . Whichever day that was . Long time ago now !

Going by the tones i heard on Youtube the Equinox has similar tones to the Terra 705 . As for the Terra 705 , that depends if you detect land , dry beach or wet beach ? I used the 705 for over 6 years till early this year , i know that something was coming a couple of years ago but didn't know when . But the 705 for me was a very good machine , i didn't use it on land sites . I found it a bit weak for that and the ET or Explorer is much better for relic hunting . But on the dry beach looking for coinage or rings it is a very good machine , since January 2011 i have had 14 Gold and many Silver rings and close to 5 figures in coinage with the 705 . I think its because its a good machine in air test and beaches on the dry tend to be airy , i search stony and some sandy beaches . Never used the F19 but that is a high frequency machine which the 705 is not unless buying the 18 khz coil , i stayed with the 7.5 khz.

I also have it from another source that the Equinox works very well on the salt wet , i am unable to quote where from right now but will work well . Whether its as good as BBS or FBS is anybodies guess . Will see soon enough. Though maybe Volcanic sand beaches might have issues , not being from those sorts of places i would not know.

The Equinox should be true all metal . It has prospecting mode and that has to have it . The X.Terra has it too.

Blimey thats cheap as chips . In the UK that would have gone yesterday or before you posted ! I think i will keep my older machines , they are all in too good a condition . Will just add the Equinox to the collective .

Strange they left the 600 out . Maybe they thought no body wanted one ?