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If you're looking for silver coins, I would disc out everything below 25.   

I wonder if Aquachigger will or maybe already has one.  He's a pretty famous Garrett user.  

LOL at the last sentence.  Cool, enjoy!

So Steve, what sort of hunting will you be using your new detector for?  Nugget?  Coin?  Jewelry?  Beach?  Parks?  

Cool video about the F19.

Cool.  

On 4/15/2020 at 10:17 PM, Rick Kempf said:

I doubt that large scale production will be an issue - hand labor isn’t terribly expensive in El Paso. The issue is to ensure that the production process is well defined, documented and executed. I suspect that they have spent a good part of the last 18 months or so sorting that out.

We’ll see.

Hey Rick, did you get your AQ back from Fisher?

Awesome, thanks Sven1!

If I'm not mistaken, the CTX can track and display 2 separate targets.  I think the CTX has a processing advantage over the Nox. 

There used to be a Sovereign Mods website that supposedly had some good info but I think it's gone.  I'm trying to find some mods that can increase depth and stability.

The amp is supposed to help with hearing those really faint threshold breaks in All Metal mode.  You can turn down the threshold level a little bit lower with the amp on and hear the tone breaks of deep targets. 

Haven't really used the Sovereign that much yet.  Still learning the machine.

11 hours ago, danielbecerra said:

😁 yesssssssss!!!!

Someone got one.

Told you today was the day.  😀

The 800, although more complicated, offers you more flexibility over the 600.  That's a good thing even if you're a new owner.

Best way to start detecting your yard, without losing your mind, is in stages.  First detect and recover dimes and quarters. 

Set the detector to 5 tones.  On the 800 you can adjust the Tone Break.  When I'm out hunting for coins in a location that has a very large amount of targets, I extend my t3 Tone Break from 10-20 to 10-24 by using the + button.  I then go into the advanced Volume setting and lower the volume to 0 for t2 and t3, also lower the iron volume (t1) to 10.  Doing this will only allow iron (t1) and VID numbers 25 and up to generate a sound.  You'll also detect some copper pennies as well.  Most trash will also be ignored but not all...such as aluminum siding/flashing, copper piping.  

I prefer doing it this way rather than by manually discriminating individual VID numbers because IMO, it makes the target signals less clipped off sounding. 

After you clean out the copper pennies, dimes, quarters, aluminum and copper bits and maybe some silver...you can return the t3 tone break back to 10-20.  Next raise the volume of t3 (VID 10-20) back to 25.  Now you can clean out targets that were earlier ignored between 10 and 24...like nickles, zinc pennies, a lot of trash and maybe some jewelry.  

Once you've cleaned out those targets, raise the volume of t1 back up to 25 and detect everything left in the yard.   

Here's a link to the 800's manual so you can see how to access the advanced settings.  Page 50 explains how to adjust the tone break (do that first) and page 43 explains how to adjust tone volume.  

https://www.minelab.com/__files/f/414877/4901-0249-6 Inst. Manual, EQUINOX 600 800 EN WEB.pdf

Only complaint with the crutches is the handle is different than the one shown in the Ebay photo and is a little shorter than the one he used but I couldn't find a pair of crutches like he's using on US Ebay.  So I'll have to think something up.

Next is a remote PP button and a Plano waterproof box. 

Got it off Ebay from a gent in California. 

I also got an amp for it and it works pretty good for 22 bucks off Amazon.

And a straight shaft which fits the lower Minelab shaft almost perfectly for 20 bucks off Ebay.

Got the idea for the straight shaft from those crazy Aussies!  

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

hmmmm, not sure about a chart but there was this.....

 

Thanks Steve for the link.  I remember seeing a chart somewhere, I figured you posted it cause you're like a depository of MD knowledge.  

Hey Steve, I think I remember seeing you post a conductor vs frequency chart.  Would you be able to post it again please?

Don't know if this has been posted before but worth watching.  Gets good at the 3:30 mark.

Am I missing something here?  Most finds don't appear very deep, yet the Minelabs couldn't find any gold but the AQ did?  

On 3/11/2020 at 2:12 PM, Whitbey said:

Do you want to bett your life on it ?  ( I don`t )

Why I'd be a fool to do such a thing.  😜

 😇   LOL

You foreigners really know how to kill a joke.  ☹️  LOL

Just noticed my post got posted up at midnight.  So I had to edit it.  lol

A lil birdie told me the release date is soon.  22 days from today to be exact.  😉

These as well.

Couple more videos I've been studying.