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That would be good because it's just as likely I dont know what your talking about and mine does do it.

Weird, mine has never done that. If anything I wish I could set the pinpoint volume lower. I'm pinpointing, I already know the target is there. No reason at all to blast my ears with a full volume scream.

Could you just use lighter steel for the scoop blade welded onto the leaf spring, leaf spring provides the support. You aren't really bashing anything with that end. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about prospecting picks)

Is that floating dredge tailing piles or? It looks more mixed and less uniform than our dredge piles here.

Man, I really need to learn welding. Great job!

Its appreciated, I just figure there will be others that want it more.

Could be rebar or something else metallic in the cement

I'm quoting this from another thread because, why not. I already wrote it once and I'm lazy. Next time start in park 2, scan for a couple minutes, then switch to park 1 (remember to noise cancel etc, have to do the startup routine after each mode switch) and you will instantly see the difference. Park 1 is specifically designed to ignore all the tiny bits of foil etc, park 2 is designed to include it (cause hey, maybe somebody wants to search for stuff like that). Its actually a good lesson/demonstration on how much the different modes/settings change the machine. I was impressed. Same applies to freshwater beaches. I was having a rough time with tons of phantomish targets everywhere, every few square feet, none of which stayed in the scoop. I finally realized I had accidentally switched it into park 2 after a half hour of searching. Switched back and knocked out 90% of the signals and almost all were recoverable.

I'm not saying always, but in an area likely to have lost jewelry like a swimming area or an athletic field it's best to. Gold unfortunately covers the same range as aluminum, so to get one you have to dig the other. In areas much less likely to have lost jewelry, or if you just want to target coins than targeting just those coin numbers is fine and a great capability of the detector. If you are finding lots of old aluminum in an area that would also hold jewelry though it basically means NOBODY has searched it for gold, so I'd at least give it a solid effort and see what you find. If you get to the point its driving you nuts then just hunt coin signals the rest of the day. I mean, it is supposed to be fun!

Its interesting my phone with a super marginal signal using data miles and miles from a power line and high voltage power lines carrying data both cause the same reaction. I guess it must have something to do with data transmission modulation? I'm way out of my depth on this one.

This is a thread on nickels, but to make it very obvious for your situation, if you have a lake swimming area with lots of old pull tabs you should be digging all the pull tab signals, not just the 12's. Gold rings come in at the same range as pull tabs, small rings around in the 7ish range up to large rings over 20. If nobody has been willing to dig all the old pull tabs no one has dug the gold rings lost by swimmers either. I feel like maybe we are already thinking alike about it, but as you said you are new wanted to make sure.

I was in the same place you are a few months ago. I have learned a ton here as well. My best advice is read lots to learn but keep the actual detecting simple. Just use the default settings, noise cancel, ground balance if needed, adjust the sensitivity down enough so you dont have constant chatter, and just detect. Listen closely to the target, then dig it up and see what it is. Pretty soon you will be guessing what's down there before you dig like the rest of us (and be wrong fairly often like the rest of us 😀)

To be fair it is in the manual, it just isn't clear enough you didn't feel like you needed to make sure. So not as clear as it could be. Honestly though, if your new to the hobby lots of stuff in the manual is kinda confusing. Read lots of the essential Information posts, that will teach you a ton about what stuff does and when the different adjustments help, then just ask if anything doesn't make sense. If we didn't want to chat about detecting we wouldn't be here.

True, you did say that, but the rest of the thread was pretty intimidating to my simple beginner mind. No offense was meant by my stressing the obvious in case anyone needed it. 😀

Just gonna add for anyone you guys have freaked out with this discussion you can also just turn the thing on, noise cancel, adjust the sensitivity and go hunt. Other than playing around a little bit with modes I haven't changed anything and it works really well. I've spent 90% of my time in park 1, no changes, and been very pleased with the results. I plan on experimenting with some of that someday, but it isn't necessary to have a very effective detector. I know you guys know that, but someone just learning about the equinox reading this may get the wrong idea.

Interesting. I haven't experienced anything other than miles from any power lines, but others have.

I would be much more excited about that than the 6 inch round coil. It's also the coil I always used with the Lobo. I'd buy one.

Neil, is that in the first squad photo along the fuselage or the second one along the wing?

Yeah, I have a brass probe, but not a Garrett one. Mine is half that. Its a brass rod stuck in plastic, hard to get wrong I figured, bought the cheapest version on Amazon.

That's older than anything with a date I've found. Looks like progress!

I like gold and all, but I'm drawing the line at sewer hunting

I have one as holes are not allowed in the parks in my city, just popping with a screwdriver. I use the probe to find the object first. I'm not talented at it AT ALL yet. Honestly unless I cheat and cut the turf with a pocketknife first it hurts my hands. I've mostly gone other places.

The book is called Gold Camps and Silver Cities and it's a good read if that stuff interest you. It's a 40 year old book that was sponsored by the state so there is a free pdf download of the book. https://www.idahogeology.org/product/b-22

It's worse than that Rob. Many companies actually design products to fail after a certain number of use cycles so that the product has to be repurchased. It's a sad state of affairs.

Rob, I agree with much of what you are saying and definitely take a wait and see approach myself. I dont think anyone is wanting the other companies to fold though. They want, and have wanted for years, for them to be innovative and lead markets again. When a former market leader stops leading people get frustrated, their loyal fans most of all.