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Hi Equinox owners. I have had mine for several months but mostly used it for relics, now and then on gold in quiet ground, so mostly have not needed to even reall contemplate tracking. But now as the weather has really cooled off I have decided to try in more in various areas for gold. Now, when using Auto balance which I have up till now used it's all good. See the ground change raise n lower the coil, hear a variation, hit balance, see it change and go quiet. Ok. But I have tried Tracking and I see a ground colour, mineralisation, change, raise and lower the coil and there is ground noise. So, the ground balance I started in was say 15 by the numbers, but now it's changed whilst in tracking and still showing 15. But when I hit balance and pump the coil whilst holding it, it may go up to 60! Now thats a big change and the noise as I raised and lowered the coil corresponds with that, or agrees there is a significant change. But even though the tracking icon was shown and tracking chosen it didn't move from the initial balance. So I stop, press the track/balance and up it shoots to where it should be. My machine to me is just an manual balance, Auto balance detector and has no Auto Tracking. I can balance say to 10, then manually change it to 70, or go into minus numbers, but when I put it into Track and raise and lower the coil, I can hear the pitch either rise or fall dramatically as I raise and lower it but nothing happens. Now and the a minor number change, but just by a few to several after repeated pumps, sometimes 20 to 30 pumps. Then it stops. Then I press and hold the button and it can change significantly by tens or more number values. How do you guys find yours performs in Tracking please?

That was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing it. ?

Ok, thanks. The Flat/spiral wound Evo's and Coilteks sure sparked some life back into the GPX's that's for sure. Interesting if something new has come into the mix.

Wow, they're huge! They'd be worth a fortune wouldn't they? I cringe when I remember my earlier days detecting and am sure I've found a few small one's, tiny compared to those, and discarded them as junk. ?

Top haul.

Im convinced a lot of those little wiry things, we get em here too, are from broken off ends of broaches, pins and stuff like that. Found lots of, over the years, broaches, decorative type badge things, all minus their pins or with broken ones. Same for old safety pins and the likes. Im sure that doesn't account for all of them but I'm convinced it does for many. Scream in don't they!?

Great finds, well done. ?

What are the X coils? Are they flat wind like the Nugget Finder Evos and Coilteks Elite? I know nothing about them.

Very nice piece. Good on him.

Sad. Not too many gold detectorists haven't heard of him. Legend.

Good one, smile says it all.

Hi Pea Eye welcome. I have the Eq 800 too, great detector.

Hi mate. Not necessarily. Has two meanings here in Australia. Yes the one you said but also for us from the VLF days it was common for us to go out on moonlit nights when the ground was, especially in hot areas, cooler and quieter because of that fact. It was common to do so in WA and in other states in the Summer. In the bush, not going where we shouldn't, but just because the ground was quieter and just too hot in the day. Moonlight detecting. Also at night industry and many common daytime comunications cease causing less interference as well as the all too common these days with PI machines Solar interference. Very quiet at night mate. Originally thats what it meant, and still does. But yes, there are the unscrupulous that go out and detect where they shouldn't at night.

Hi mate. Connected as in thats what fed the leads and gullys. Sometimes they were found, the reefs and indicators that did so, sometimes not. Some places like fields such as Castlemaine if im not mistaken, there is a reef working of some kind associated with all the gullys. That's not to say the ones found and worked were the only ones that fed the gully, just that those obvious and more easily found were. Then you can have a place like Talbot where there are numerous rich leads and gullys but no apparent reefs found or worked with many of them. Thats the short answer. Such is gold.

After years I've seen this all happen over and over. There will always be a new machine being developed, or tweaks, or improvements. How many times I've seen a rumour come out and people rush to sell their machine simply based on that I have lost count. There are also those who just live for that moment they can say "hey, I know something" so that others can then hang off their every word. Lets say a new one is coming in say January next year. So what, what does it matter if I can tell you that? Whether you know or not it will come when it comes. I once years ago fell for selling a machine on a rumour, and what a goose I was, a few months later went and bought another of the same. This is just the same ole same ole, somone told me, I heard, this person said. I've even heard the "dealer said" one before too. So what if you dont have a new machine in the first week if one comes out. Iv had a few, been the very first, and I've also waited to see and it really just doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes the latest does not necessarily equate to the best for you or where you are or your real requirements. I had a 7000 for 12 mths, its gone and what works best in my situation is a 5000. 7's are great, but not the be all and end all. Same for the 5, its great but not the be all and end all. Dont be fooled into believing you "need" the latest and if you dont have it you've lost. ?

You mentioned dealers but earlier someone said testers also. Years back I knew 2 guys who were testers. They opened their mouths and very soon were no longer testers. That was the Sd2200. If any testers are blabbing and Minelab find out who, they'll soon no longer be one.

Really? Which dealers have said its happening?

Wow! This is better than an impending I Phone release!

They come and eat the grass on our front lawn this time of year. Most country towns have them invade after dark for food. See them everywhere I go in central vic. Ultra common.

That's excellent. Well done.

Ah, ok, thanks for that. Such vastly looking different country to here. Our grounds highly mineralised where I am but rarely do hotrocks become an issue. You get them of course but nowhere I have been or found is undetectable with my 5000 and mono coil. Thank goodness for that.

Hi mate. That's interesting to hear about those hot rocks. What are they composed of that makes them such a pain? How do VLFs go, any way around them using those? There must be quite a lot of good gold in those areas being masked by those things.

Yeah, I'd like to see this too. Undug, try each in optimum setting for the ground conditions, show us the settings, show us them balanced, no vid/audio cuts, proper optimum sweep speeds for each individual machine, all swung the same and lets see the shootout. Look forward to it. ?

Good one, I'd be happy with that find.

Hi Bolo. Newie too. Good luck on your hunts mate.