Chase Goldman

Yes, that button needs to be depressed as it turns on the Minelab Wi-Stream radio that transmits to the WM08 first and searches for a WM08, if it finds none after 30 seconds, it turns off the Wi-Stream radio and switches on the Bluetooth radio and searches for BT headphones waiting to pair. If you have a set of BT headphones already paired (or one or more WM08 modules paired), you can shut off the detector without turning off the wireless radio first and the Equinox should automatically connect to the last paired set of headphones or WM08 module(s) if they are powered on without having to go through the pairing process again when you turn on the Equinox the next time out.

Thanks. I honestly do not know the answer to your question. But to paraphrase Robert Duvall's character in the movie Apocalypse Now, I would imagine that it "smells like victory." Of course, he was talking about napalm...

Yep. I finally lived up to my moniker, Mitchel. Though I have snagged beach gold, I had been chasing this one down for some time.

Andy - I really enjoyed talking shop with you at DIV and came away with some really good tips and tricks. Hope to get the Tarsacci out for some more field tests. Was in a groove with the Deus today. When you are swinging with confidence in your detector and your abilities, it almost seems like the ground is transparent. Swinging Tarsacci made me feel like I was swinging in a fog. Need to force myself to put more hours into it. I think the site I was at would be well suited for Tarsacci and am sure I would have hit just about every target I found with Deus, but Deus had the "x" factor today.

Ha ha. I hear you. First thing I did once I was able to stand was to get it back to the truck for safe keeping then I resumed swinging without fear. Those $1 gold coins are tiny.

A little lower, actually.

Did some relic hunting today with the intention of comparing some detectors (Deus, Tarsacci) but the Deus was on fire and besides keeping me from running a detector comparison test it also made it more difficult for me to proclaim 2020 a complete and total dumpster fire, but there is still another month to go.... Anyway, about a hour into the hunt, with the Deus connected to the 11" X35 coil and set at 12 khz with pitch tones and reactivity at about 2.5, I had found some keeper lead and brass. Then I happened upon a strong, 45- 47 signal. Thought it was likely can slaw but I was digging any repeatable non-ferrous signal. My handheld pinpointer indicated it was not deep, and I used my digger to come at it from a safe angle, just in case, and low and behold, out popped my first ever gold coin find - 1849 Open Wreath $1 Gold Piece. It was surreal. My digging partner thought I was kidding, but there it sat glimmering in daylight. Sent a text over to prove it since we were appropriately social distancing (something that comes naturally with this hobby). What a great initiation into the GC club. Needless to say, I kept swinging the Deus for the rest of the day except for a brief half-hearted attempted to see if I could get the Tarsacci going, but save for one so-so brass target, it was a Deus day. I swapped to my 9" round HF coil after the Tarsacci run and finshed up strong with some button, buckle, and bullet finds. One of my best detector single day outings ever in terms of both quantity and quality of relic finds. Only missing silver on this trip, but not complaining. Hopefully, this was a just a preview of what might be in store for 2021, as 2020 has been pretty much a lost year for many of us as far as detecting and other life pursuits go. The Tarsacci/Deus bake off will just have to wait for another day. Stay safe out there and happy hunting. CG

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That's the right thing to do, Jeff. It keeps the jack and port clean and prevents noise and false headphone plug detection audio cutouts from happening due to moisture and debris intrusion as described in the user guide inset boxes I cut and pasted. Just didn't want people to think they had to drop the $ on the official adapter to be able to use plugged audio connection in the rain, for example (though it would be preferable to use a compatible screw in plug for the reasons I just described if moisture/mud/dust/dirt are involved). Is the Z lynk weatherproof btw? If not, the whole waterproof question is kind of a moot point for this particular setup question anyway. Apologize for the tangent discussion, but hope it was useful info for some folks as that question regarding water intrusion in the headphone port and jack periodically arises.

FWIW - Equinox waterproof design issues notwithstanding, since the Equinox control pod headphone jack has an internal seal, theoretically, you actually don't have to use the official Equinox adapter cable to ensure control box waterproofing. Nevertheless, using the official adapter cable ensures the cable connector at control box end is waterproof. This is borne out by the following excerpt from the Equinox user guide:

Nokta also makes CF lower shafts as an accessory for Simplex. https://www.noktadetectors.com/accessoire/simplex-lower-shaft-carbon-fiber/

Should pair to both. The Greens will normally receive from the detector, but when you power on the PP, they will switch over to the PP. When you switch off the PP, the headphones switch back to the Detector. At least, that’s how it works with my Simplex/Pulse Dive.

The ML's are NiMH's.

That's actually a false but pervasive urban legend/myth with many variations including the one you cite: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pull-tab-recycling-dialysis/ But because the myth was so pervasive, charities such as Ronald McDonald house accept the massive donations of tabs they continuously receive anyway (and as you can see from Chuck's link above some even promote it) and turn them over to recycling centers. A van full of tabs gets them about $50 minus the labor and gas needed to load and transport them. Definitely not a significant moneymaker for them but since the tabs keep getting donated, they don't turn them away. So Jeff, keep going and fill that truck up with the tab baggies so you can get your check from the recycling center.

All they can say is no if you give it a shot to have them repair it.

Is the coil beyond its 2 year warranty period?

Can iron audio be turned off in AM mode?

My comment: Way to ruin a perfectly good machete'. Maybe he has found enough gold now to get a decent shovel and scraper. The Phillipines are supposedly sitting on the second greatest gold reserve in the world but the mining industry is severely regulated by the government. Doesn't appear to be gold bearing soil, but who knows...probably fake.

I noticed this too, and then zoomed in on the photo and realized they just have the cable wrapped back on itself, it is not actually connected to the control pod.

Since the first batch of Equinoxes are about to exit their warranty period in a few months, I would be VERY interested to know what they charged for a pod replacement. That might start becoming "a thing" in a few months as units fail electronically or due to water intrusion out of warranty.

If it is salt or brackish water, you might be seeing changing salinity levels in the water. In that case, going with tracking could help.

The problem I have seen with single frequency detectors in highly mineralized soil (namely Deus) is that they up average and then wrap into iron. Then the signal disappears beyond the edge of detection. The Tarsacci I am testing now (USA made, btw) seems to never wrap to ferrous before the edge of detection. That means, that when it says non-ferrous, it means non-ferrous and seems to punch deeper than my Deus. Still need to test it against Equinox, though. Will have to wait for a couple weeks until I can get back to the hot dirt and verify it can deliver on what it appears to promise, so far. Not as versatile as the other popular detectors mentioned in this thread so I am not recommending it to the OP, but I think it is worthy of being in the conversation.

Ok. I see what you are saying but that setup doesn't work for me because I search in mixed mode. I set disc at 0 so that way I can readily, audibly differentiate the iron from non-ferrous by whether or not I hear the disc tones with the AM tone. I zero in on the target at that point, interrogate it using pinpoint and make a dig decision. No "ting" it is probably ferrous. One-way ting, iff, probable ferrous - interrogation necessary. Solid two-way ting plus ID let's me know probable non-ferrous and mid or high conductor (doesn't matter much to me though as I am digging all solid non-ferrous hits and iffy one-way hits depending on the TID behavior). So setting disc at 0 or possibly a high notch in the non-ferrous range are essential to my MO in the fields. I was getting some deep stuff bouncing up in the 25+ range. I had limited time to experiment with all settings. Black sand appeared to have little effect but I honestly did not do a deep dive on whether the setting made a difference. I live in the region so I visit Culpeper 2 to 5 times a year to detect. When I get back down there in a few weeks, I may have you help me contact Dimitar. It just makes sense to try things out while I am on site. Abenson who also uses the Tarsacci will be there too and we plan to meet up and compare notes.

Thanks, Dew. Dew, did you mean disc +30 vice -30? I thought of that but decided against it due to the up averaging I was seeing. I wanted to make sure I was not knocking out 27’s and 28’s high tones because I was swinging and pausing by ear not TID and some legit, non-ferrous was getting pushed UP into the wraparound region. It was not something that bugged me all that much but thought I would list it. Coil bump is the thing that really gets me and there really is no field situation that is as smooth as wet sand. Every little sprout sticking out of the ground seemed to set it off. Now that I half-way know what I’m doing, I can better understand what you, Steve H., Dankowski, and Keith Southern are saying about the machine and have gone back and re-read posts better knowing the Tarsacci language. I don’t see the MDT replacing PI’s at Culpeper, especially not with an 8” coil, but it does seem to be a viable non-PI alternative with decent depth and a lot easier to swing. I am not quite ready to say it is the best non-PI alternative until I get a lot more Culpeper swing time with mine. May not have a final verdict until next Spring. But for now, it seems to hold a lot of promise. To be clear, I know what drives the price point (small scale garage shop operation), but this is a niche machine with basically two tricks - excellent salt beach performance and apparently great mineralized dirt performance. That’s basically it. There are a lot of cheaper and more versatile machines out there that I would recommend over the MDT for mild dirt relic hunting and coin and jewelry shooting on turf (e.g Equinox). And Deus would be my first choice in Bed o’ nails situations. But the hot dirt niche the MDT has carved out may probably allow it to ultimately earn a spot in my relic hunting arsenal sitting between Deus and the GPX. With my Equinox being an agile multipurpose machine on the relic hunting rung just below the specialty Deus/MDT/GPX trio.

Actually, I did thank him, over a week ago, so I am missing your point.