eHi,
This is my first "serious" post on this nice forum.
When the equinox was announced, I ordered one before reading any information about it. Then the user manual came online….
I am searching beaches in Europe. As soon as I was able to read the online user manual, and that was months before I got my 800, I thought there was a problem for EU beach hunters.
Pulltabs and bottlecaps are too close to the best coin we have here...2€...
When I started using the 800, I soon noticed that beach setting (MULTI ONLY) was pretty unusable on dry sand….Bottlecaps, bottlecaps...No matter the tricks we can use…(pumping, backwards coil swinging, etc) they still come through...
So I quickly decided to hunt the dry sand in park 2, and 5 Khz… This way, I'm able to eliminate ALL bottlecaps. OK, The 800 is a versatile detector, isn't it???
I started lookig after gold one week ago...In the summer months, I'm a "coins only" hunter, as our coins here are very valuable compared to US ones...I tend to discriminate the lower 10€cents, and the Equinox can do that perfectly.
But now I started to look for gold on wet sand beaches, and that is a real disaster !
Every bottlecap and his brother in law shows up as a good target...Pumping, sweeping the coil backwards does NOT help.
At this point, I have to say that my CTX 3030 is MUCH better on wet sand.
I'm thinking of selling my 800... I put my Sovereign for sale recently, but I am thinking of getting it back home.
I am still to be amazed by the nox 800, and that annoys me more than a bit.
My CTX isn't "obsolete", nor is my ace 400i (great in iron trash)
To sum it up...The 800 did not convince me...
Happy hunting
Siskoppeke