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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wow! That HAD to weigh your pouch down😀. Any idea how much all that lead weighs?
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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.
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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?
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Anyone have experience with coil options similar to the precision 7” coil that comes standard on the mojave?
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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...)
SteveThanks 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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I have one of the first runs of the equinox. Got on a wait list with a dealer and got mine in April or May of 2018 (please correct me if I’m wrong on this, but I think I’ve had my nox for 3 years now). I had a slight case of the shaft wobble issue and ended up getting an Anderson carbon fiber upper and lower rods. When Steve first came out with his rods I inquired about getting just the upper from him mostly for the cam lock, but also for the balance pod. We sent some messages back and forth and realized that the Anderson lower rod was a slightly larger diameter and wasn’t compatible with Steve’s upper rod. Since I had just shelled out $150 on the Anderson I decided I would make my own balance pod. I had some 6/6 nylon rod and had this big piece of aluminum left over from another project. You can see from the pic how it works. The aluminum counter weight can be slid closer or farther from the fulcrum point (the equinox control box grip) to fine tune the balance. I forget what the nylon rod and counter weight weighs, but even with the counter weight slid all the way to the end, it still doesn’t perfectly balance the 11” coil, however it’s nearly perfect for the 6” coil. I wanted the overall weight of the detector as light as possible, but still help significantly with the balance. I think I got it at a fairly sweet spot between balance and overall weight.
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47 minutes ago, trash panda said:
coiltek is still tweaking the new coils. i would wait and see...
How do you know this? And why would they release a new coil and still be tweaking it?
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Well my much used and much liked root slayer nomad shovel broke yesterday. At least it waited until the end of the hunt until it snapped.
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On 6/15/2019 at 12:53 PM, dan_h said:
Used Cherry Pick settings from the Handbook for a brief session in a local park. Found a penny, the handle of a spoon. If it ever was silver plated, that is long gone. Then found a quarter-sized disk, a token of some sort. It says "Where a kid can be a kid" on both sides and one side was stamped OTTS.ORG. I just tried that website and it is apparently closed. There was a message to the effect to leave your contact info if you have any business with this site.
Question: is there something more than the Lesche Predator but less than a shovel -- a mini shovel, perhaps?
For a digger there’s this https://www.ebay.com/itm/devils-tongue-hand-digger-/233812638842?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
made by forum member Kac.
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16 hours ago, Dances With Doves said:
I got lucky and found 2 1909 quarter eagle gold coins in 1 hole.The expert hunter Mike Moutray while driving around the country and hunting with people who guided him to good spots in their area. He got a hold of my buddy and we met him at a restaurant and went south to a place that had a old sulfur spring and use to have a gambling horse track.He hunted around a 200 year old plus oak tree and only went 3/4 of the way around it. He then went to the rest room and to a different spot.I went to the tree and hunted in areas he did not hunt and got a iffy hit.I used my Sun Ray probe and got a pull tab hit and pulled out a gold coin and then got my second.I put in my probe and got the same hit but pulled out a fired bullet.I am sure that he would have probably got it of he hunted the whole tree.I had the coins in the gold pan I had with the dirt and when he saw them he rolled his eyes probably because he knows he did not hunt the whole tree.He did get his first 3 cent silver though.This happened in October 2003.
You know what they say “pics or it didn’t happen “. LOL! A gold coin spill is something we all dream of! Congrats!
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2 hours ago, damatman88 said:
Wonder if they are rain proof?
I was wondering the same thing and should have asked about that in the email. That said, I’ve gotten my ml80s fairly wet. Haven’t had them in a downpour, but have used while it was drizzling and had no problems. This was only 2 or 3 times though.
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3 minutes ago, Dan(NM) said:
Where did you see the ML 100 phones?
In a post on the prospecting forum about the new gpx6000 gold detector.
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Minelab has come out with a new more robust aptx ll headphones designed for their new gpx 6000 gold detector. I contacted them to see if these will work with the equinox and they will.
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Even with identical settings, to be a fair comparison the ground balance and noise cancel settings should be manually set to be the same. Also the same person should swing the different detectors so the swing speed, coil height, etc is more consistent.
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3 minutes ago, Tometusns said:
The reason I ask is because a number of the guys in our club have 800's. When we go on hunts there have been times I'll hit a target and they'll want to listen to it. Many times they don't hear it or maybe just barely with theirs My machine is just out of warranty now and I'm reluctant to get a different one for that reason. I've heard stories about machines being hotter than others or...just maybe better? Any thoughts on this? Thanks!
I’ve wondered the same thing. Were their machines set up exactly the same way as yours? Even a slight difference like recovery speed could make a difference.
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14 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:
Quest makes a weather resistant BT low latency headset compatible with Equinox. Other than earbuds, that is the only moisture resistant BT low latency compatible headset I have ever found. I personally like the audio of the Quest headsets.
I was going to order those, but when I went to checkout a prompt came up that said they don’t ship to my state which is NC.
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1 hour ago, rvpopeye said:
There were still a lot of good reasons why I chose the 800.
Just not happy with myself for not finding all the issues before deciding....
Don’t project that you’ll have issues. I was on the waiting list and got one of the first ones. Mine’s still fine... no problems.
Gold Ring And A Few Silvers
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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?