Norm S

My beaches are so bad that when I do get a signal I get excited. I went out yesterday morning to the beach and come back with nothing. I dug a few tabs but that's all I even got a beep on. I even turned the sensitivity to max. I hunted for two hours then it got hot and went back to my truck. 

Believe it or not I was using my 600 and didn't know it until I was putting it in the back seat. I used the wired headphones because my wireless quit working.  For beach I use the same settings on both the 800 and 600 and I honestly cannot tell the difference between the two detectors when using them. I just grabbed the  600 when I meant to grab the 800. 

I even made the mistake using park 1 once..  I only bought the 800 because I go to AZ and NV every year and want to try out the gold mode. I found some color while panning for gold in Alaska once but never with a metal detector. 

I sent my F-Pulse back for a full refund. It had to be defective and I just didn't like it. Not knocking something that didn't work because I have read many positive reviews and if Steve H says it's good I am sure it is. I am just not going to risk waiting for another one.  Profind 35 here we come

Well no matter what I do I cannot get the F-pulse to program. It is locked in minimum sensitivity on vibrate and unless you're 1" from a coin you get nothing. I could barely find a coin in a hole. Not impressed.  I think it will go to the why did I buy that museum. 

I was going to try the Minelab 35 but really couldn't find enough reviews to convince me to buy. It may be in my future

Well I have tried everything I can think of plus everyone's suggestions. When I turn the headphones on after I turn my detector on I get the blue flashing light then the red flashing light and it keeps flashing red even though it looks like I have connected on the detector with the flashing speaker and the + sign.

The last thing I want to do is send them back to Minelab because I have sent my 800 back twice and they will probably think I am rough on stuff. I have only had one issue with the past 5 detectors I have had since 1998. 

I always turn my detector on 1st

Yes I did and not one to give up easily

1st of all I have tried the factory reset and that hasn't helped. The headphones are fully charged. When I try to turn them on sometimes I get a continuous flashing red light. Now when I  am trying it I am getting red and blue lights flashing simultaneously. I get no sound from them except when I turn them off I hear them shut down.. 

Not sure what to do I sure hate to send them back to Minelab

Wloch how do you like the profind 35

I agree with flakmagnet. Everyone wants to have an inside track on info but it makes no difference. When and if Minelab does a firmware update it will be released to everyone at the same time. So why does everyone want to change a seemingly almost perfect detector. It hasn't been used by the masses long enough to determine if a firmware update is needed. 

I laugh at those knocking Minelab service until they experience it then they rave about it but still find a way to knock a flaw which has nothing to do with the performance.. 

It's a fricken good detector that is perfectly fine the way it is. I have both the 800 and 600 and the 600 operates just as well as the 800 in all modes. I have only used it for about 20 hours but it found $36 in clad in those 20 hours but I must qualify that by saying I hit a honey hole and pulling out $4+ per hunt

I fell in love with mine in the 1st hour and it gets better everytime I use it.  Even if I don't find anything or very little I learn something I can use on the next hunt.  I haven't dug a can in almost a month. I am getting better at tabs and nickels. Mixed signals almost always pay off and even the shrieks in the high 30's almost always are something other than silver. When I go to all metal mode I hear that grunt I didn't want to hear. 

I love it that the edge of the coil is so hot. I sometimes hear a blip but it seems nothing is there and I broaden my swing by a bit and boom a digable target. 

I am learning everyday and one thing I learned a long time ago is not to try and outsmart the detector. Other than discrimination and sensitivity the stock programs will most likely give you 95% of what and expert with find. 

This is the easist and most quiet detector I have ever used. I sometimes look down to see if it is still on it is so quiet.. 

I read about the problems 1st time users have and In the back of my mind I keep thinking they read to many posts about settings and which mode to use.. I hated Park 2 at 1st but it was a sensitivity issue and nothing else. I like Field 1 but prefer more than the two tones. Beach is awesome.. I went for a cpl hours the other day and I found very little but had no chatter at all. Didn't dig a single false target even though I hardly dug any at all. 

I turned on gold once just to hear the sounds but that's it. The only gold in Mississippi is in the Golden Nugget Casino on display. 

I was out with mine in 90+ for 4 hours the other day with no problems but I certainly keep it in mind.

Great info

Not a bug or a flaw but one thing to think about is making sure your coil cable is tight at the control box. It hasn't happened to me with the Equinox but it did with my AtPro one time and my detector went crazy because the connection was loose and jumping in and out of power.. Took me about 1/2 hr to figure it out

I always have a habit it checking to see if the knurled nut is tight and just now checked it and although it wasn't loose I could tighten it just a bit..  

Where I live I have never had to ground balance and rarely even need to noise cancel. I guess I am lucky because the soil is so sandy or just darn hard clay when it dries out.  I can usually run my sensitivity as high as 25 in most areas with no chatter but usually run at 20 because the targets are more stable at 20.  Never tried under 20 but maybe I should just for the heck of it.. When I start detecting and doing well collecting my clad I don't change a thing. 

In a new area I experiment more just to see if I can hit on something but some areas are pretty well hunted out to the point of a digable target once every 50 - 100 yards.. 

Taltexan 12 -14 are most often nickels.. Pennies from 20 -25 and dimes 23 - 26, quarters  27 -31 and 33 - 40 most likely silver

That's hunting in park 1 using discrimination and not all metal

Put some hours on it.. Try 50 tones and learn to distinguish good tones. Check your vdi against the good targets you uncover. Nickels can be tricky because of tabs but after awhile you can usually tell it's a nickel at least 50% of the time

I don't blame the manufacturer.  I usually vent 1st then try and figure out if there is a fix. It may be the button sticking and possibly needs some use.. I still have two days to try and see if it's something simple. 

I was going to try the Minelab 35 but really couldn't find enough reviews to convince me to buy. It may be in my future

I got my F-pulse yesterday and I turned it on and it wouldn't shut off. I had to take the batteries out to stop it.  I put the batteries back in and tried it again and the same thing happened, it just kept screaming. Not impressed.  It's going back in the box and returning it. 

Welcome TunnelRat. I hope you get your detector soon

That's what I did my 1st few hours before I even figured out how to discriminate.. If it beeped I dug and had pretty good success the 1st cpl times out.. 1st day I got a $1.48 in about 20 minutes before I got rained out then $4.50 or so the 2nd day. 

Well tot lots are usually hit pretty hard so not a bad haul for a tot lot. I always hit them because I have found many rings in them.  Every outing like that builds your confidence. I still pretty much use factory settings with some discrimination and sensitivity. I usually run sensitivity around 20 - 22 but on occasion I will crank it up in an open soccer field. 

Yesterday I hit a soccer field I had hit with my V3i and my Etrac and had done well but the last cpl hunts with the Etrac I didn't find much. So yesterday I didn't expect much but the fantasy in my head about the Equinox being a super detector I felt I would find a lot the other detectors missed.. Not the case. I hunted for about 3 hours and came up with 5 quarters and a cpl dimes a few pennies. 

The stuff I found I am confident I missed with my other detectors but the edge of the Equinox coil is so hot that may have been the reason I found what I did. I had the sensitivity cranked up to 25 and that too may have helped. 

I copied the pages most relevant to settings and didn't bother with setup pages etc.. I am guessing maybe 10 pages but I didn't count nor did I worry about cost. For the most part I have the Equinox settings menu memorized anyway. Nothing like learning by doing

I just ordered an F-pulse. I hope it is better than the Garrett Carrot.  I just give the carrot to my grandson.. 

I have found a few quarters on edge and can't remember if it was an iffy signal or not I just know they were on edge about 4" deep or so.. I dig a lot of iffy signals because there may be iron or something else affecting the signal

I was in a soccer park today and someone had beat me to it. I could tell he either dug a lot or did well but I did terrible. I found 75 cents in 4 hours. I was hitting some brass electrical connectors that rang up a solid 29 -30 but sounded like a quarter even though they were rectangular. I must have dug 15 of them.. Even on the surface I could not tell the difference in the sound of a quarter when I laid the connector and quarter side by side. 

I used 2 tone field 1 for 2 hours and 50 tones in park 1 for 2 hours.. Everything I dug there was 6" - 10" . The park was probably 20 acres. 

I didn't get enough clear signals to help much. I was lucky to get even a faint signal every 100 yards or so

I will try again tomorrow in a different place.. 

I have two. I have an 800 and 600 and I bought mine as a backup and a loaner when I get company. When the 6" coil is available I will fit one with the 6" coil and leave the other with the standard coil