NCtoad

Haha!   If you go to XP’s website they have a live countdown timer setup.  At this moment it’s 4days, 4hrs, 34mins, 16secs. Lol

Will it be released for sale in four days or will we just get all the info, details, pics and a release date?

Something’s happening in four days!

This will be my next detector purchase.  I was seriously thinking of buying a deus and then this new model was announced.  Hopefully I will be able to get on a waitlist like I did for the equinox.  

I got my nox in the spring of 2018 so one the first manufacturing runs.  Haven’t had a single problem with it and still on the original battery.  Even though it’s long past out of warranty.  I just don’t want to get rid of it and take a chance on a new one even though I know minelab would remedy any fault with the new one.  I guess I’m sort of attached to it.  

Thanks for posting this Jeff.  I have a site I’ve been hunting on Sundays for a couple of months now.  I always start out near the parking area and have done well.  I’ve mostly been using park one in 5 tones set up to my liking.  Iron bias on f2 usually set from 4-6, but never 0.  Recovery speed almost always 5 or 6.  This area used to have mill houses that were torn down back in the late sixties.  Needless to say there’s lots and lots of iron and quite a few pieces of coke from the coal burning furnaces that were used back then. There’s even a lot of surface coal from when the houses were razed.  It reminds me of when I grew up in the coal country of Southwestern PA.  But this site is in Western NC.  Anyways a couple of weeks ago I decided to try F2 set at zero.  I started out from the parking lot as I normally do just swinging randomly working my way to a new area as I’ve hit this area by the parking lot three or four times already and wasn’t getting much.  This time however with f2 at zero I immediately hit a wheatie.  Then another and another.  Then a few more.   Then I get a solid 32-34 and out comes a silver Washington quarter!   After a while I went back to the car to take my sweatshirt off since it was getting hot.  There’s this 10’ wide strip of grass between the car and a service road.  I’ve hit this area before with both the 11” and the six inch coil.  I scored two silver dimes with the six incher and covered the area really well or so I thought.  This day I had the 11” coil on and low and behold I get a nice solid 28-30 and out pops a silver rosie, but in the same hole before I found the dime was a pretty big (3”) rusty nail and then a rusty steel washer about the size of a quarter which was what I thought for sure was giving me the good signal.  After I pulled it out I rescanned the hole and still got the 28-30 so back in with pinpointer and there’s the silver rosie!   
 

I can see missing one wheat or two, but I think I got 6 or 7 wheats and the silver GW out of that one area that I had pounded previously.  Then the silver rosie out of the other tiny area that I had pounded with both the 6” and the 11” before.  

There’s one on ebay right now at $227.50 with 34 bids and 3 days left.  It’ll be interesting to see what it finally goes for.  

My guess for a name came from seeing the name Eclipse mentioned above.  I think a good name would be Dark Side Of The Moon!   Any Pink Floyd fans out there?😁   Then, when we buy one, we can say we’ve gone over to the dark side! 

On 9/12/2021 at 5:28 AM, ColonelDan said:

Coil ear bracing has been the subject of numerous posts so I thought I'd add my approach. Yes, I've used several different  designs of stiffeners and sad to say, my coil ears still cracked and I was out of business until I could replace the coil. Fortunately, those coils were still under warranty. My concern was finding a way to prevent this recurring after the warranty expired.

The ultimate solution is, without doubt, for Minelab to field a redesigned coil ear that is a lot tougher than the current design. Failing that, the best approach in my opinion is to epoxy the stiffener to the coil making the stiffener, the coil and the ears one solid unit. Midalake has done this and as I see it, ensures a solid repair. My concern with this approach would be two fold. One, would that void whatever warranty remains and two, if the coil is sent to Minelab for replacement, there goes the stiffener.

I wanted a method by which I could attach the stiffener to the coil, be able to remove it if necessary and still use the coil cover.

mn90403 has done this as shown on another post within this forum by using zip ties. A workable approach but his method shows the zip ties over the coil cover so you couldn't remove the cover to clean the coil without cutting the ties. Having said that, his system will work as he intended.

I thought I'd share my approach which I've found to be simple yet effective in accomplishing my goals. The key is making the ear stiffener one with the coil so even if the ears snap, the stiffener holds the coil and shaft in place. I decided to use zip ties but in a somewhat different way than mn90403. I wanted the stiffener to be solidly attached and still be able to remove and replace the skid plate.

I threaded the zip tie through and around the stiffener and bare coil without the skid plate attached. I then installed the skid plate over the coil as before covering the zip ties. The skid plate remains in place, the stiffener is solidly attached to the coil and there is no modification to the coil which risks voiding the warranty and if I have to return the coil, I can save the stiffener. Bottom line; with this approach, even if the ears break, I'm still in business.

It works for me....

Dan

notice the difference between your coil stiffener and the one I have.  Your slides over the ears but sits on top of the coil.  The one I have slides over the ears and also straddles the coil. On yours all of the lateral force is directed to the ears themselves with some on the ziptie.  On mine, the lateral force is shared with the ears and the coil body as my coil ear stiffener also slides down over the edge of the coil itself, not just the ears.  Something to think about in the different designs of coil ear stiffeners.  

I wonder why no manufacturer never reversed the connection and put the ears on the shaft end and the inner solid part on the coil.  If the ears then broke all you need is a new lower shaft.  

Here’s a pic of mine zip-tied over the coil skid plate.  Zip ties are pretty cheap so when I want to clean the coil I’ll just cut the zip ties and use two new ones when I put the skid plate back on.  If you use pliers those zip ties can be pulled tight enough to make the coil stiffener feel like it’s one with the coil.  I couldn’t wiggle it once zip tied.  BTW, my coil stiffener was made specifically for my Anderson shaft.  

1 hour ago, palzynski said:

Looks like there will be an other challenger coming soon ...  🙂  I had a call today with a MD French dealer who told me that XP will release a new SMF detector this autumn , during October or November he said ... I have no more detailed things but this guy is reliable and I am quite confident with this info ...  

Until then ... do not accept paying more for less !  🙂🙂 😹✌️

I’d love to see that happen.  I’ve been thinking of getting a deus to compliment my now 3+ year old equinox.  I may have to wait and see what happens with XP and the new Nokta/Makro.  

I love my tesoros.  You can’t beat the simplicity of a compadre or a mojave.  Do you just set your disc low and dig it all (that’s what it looks like from the pic of your finds). Or do you disc out low conductors.  Or do you “thumb” the disc knob when you get a hit?   

2 hours ago, Dan(NM) said:

There's a pair on Findmall classifieds for $50, the ad said new in box.

Those ones listed on the classifieds are not the same model headphones being asked about in the original post.  They may work with the equinox, but they aren’t the same model as the ones for the equinox.  

Try lowering the sensitivity.  You can even lower it to 14 or 15 and still get decent depth.  I’ve noticed that high tones will come in clearer in iron infested areas with lower sense settings.  

Not mine.  I doubt if the seller will get that, but I thought it was a crazy high price.  Seller also states that there were rumors that there were only 150 mojaves made.  

How hard is it to make the hard-wired coil cable on the compadre to a removable, plug in type?  I have two compadres; one with the 8” donut and the other with the 6”.  If I made them removable I could use them on my mojave and vice versa.  I’m pretty handy and can solder.  Just need a source for the connectors and which ones to get.  

Wow!  That HAD to weigh your pouch down😀. Any idea how much all that lead weighs?

4 hours ago, kac said:

I've done well with the 8x9 concentric especially in parks with bottle caps and trash but finding any concentric for a Tesoro is really tough. The 3rd party companies seem to only make dd's.

I currently swing the 10x12 widescan. Mars Tiger is probably the closest you will get to that. Nel has a sharp shooter that might be good but with all dd's, flat iron can give you fits in some cases and bit trickier to tell apart with a single tone machine but not impossible.

About the noise, does your machine chatter if you tap the side or wiggle the coil cable? See if your getting noise near the coil end or maybe it's the connection at the control box. One easy way to check for emi is by dropping the sensitivity down and see if that makes a difference.

The Tejon has all metal mode that I can clearly hear any fluttering from emi and the larger coil is more sensitive to that. At one point I had an odd flutter and thought it was emi but turned out to be the ground balance pot that I seemed to have fixed with some cleaner made for pots. The Mojave has an auto gb so doubt it would be that.

When it was giving me fits on Friday at a site where I work, it may have mostly been emi as I turned the sensitivity down to 4 and it was less chatty.  When I took it out in my yard the next day it ran a lot quieter, but would make noise when I bumped the coil or wiggled the coil wire protector where it comes out of the coil.  My vaquero is dead silent until the coil is over something, but it doesn’t have the 180 ed disc so maybe that has something to do with it.  I usually set my disc just above iron on both machines.  

7 hours ago, kac said:

So any of the 5 pin epsilon coils will work for it. Some of the Nel eliptical dd's might be good on on that. Depends on what you want to hunt.

Thanks.   Not long after I first bought the mojave ( I bought it new from a dealer), it started to become chatty.  I sent it in to Tesoro and when they sent it back Rusty included a note saying that the coil had been bad and that they replaced it with a new one.  It seems now that it may be starting to do the same thing.   I rarely use it but did the other day after work and it was chatty again, but it could possibly have been EMI as I used it last night in my yard and it seemed ok.  However if I bump the coil or wiggle the coil wire where it’s attached to the coil it makes noise.   So I’m thinking I may try another coil, but I would like to get another concentric coil similar in size to the stock 7” coil.  How well do the smaller sized DD coils work?

Anyone have experience with coil options similar to the precision 7” coil that comes standard on the mojave?   

57 minutes ago, steveg said:

Just a word of possible caution...

From what I can tell, the ANC7 phones are NOT aptX-LL.  All of the specs I've seen for them, say they are aptX, but I haven't seen anything to say they are LL (low latency...)

Steve

Thanks Steve.  I just saw the aptx and was thinking aptx ll.  I’ll give them a try and if they don’t work out I’ll return them. 

On 4/14/2021 at 2:19 AM, sandiwilliams717 said:

Hello and all whom are interestedin the miccus headphones for the Equinox please consider the AUSDOM ANC7 low latency with automatic noise cancel bluetooth headphones. Which are even cheaper than the miccus on ebay. Some are even colored red and black or black on carbon fiber. They are extremely fast and able to pair quickly and they look almost identical to the miccus in shape. These below are on ebay for 41.00 and I guarantee you will not regret it and I have had mine now over 1 1/2 years and they still work perfectly

I just ordered a pair of these. I’m one of what seems like the few who actually really likes the ml80s. My ml80s are getting pretty ratty so I ordered a pair of the avantrees however they are made for extra large heads and fit loosely.  If these ausdom phones fit like the ml80s I’ll be pleased.  Plus I’m looking forward to seeing how well the noise cancelling works. 

I may have to start hitting the sports fields more to get my clad count up😁

I could see me buying one of these especially if it can complement my nox in some way.  

I found a ring just like yours a couple of years ago. It was 14k, small, just fit my pinkie and wide like yours.  It also rang up a solid, smooth sounding 17 and weighed 5.65 grams.  Congrats on some nice finds!