J SLade

I just bought a pair of the Miccus SR-71s. I tried 6-8 times to pair them with my EQX 600 with no luck. I finally turned to my IT person (my wife) for help. She had similar problems at first but after getting the headphones to pair with her phone she was able to get them to pair with the EQX on the next try. I'm not sure why this would be the case but figured I would share.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will work through these over the weekend.

HI GB, Thanks for the quick response. 1) I tried the search term you recommended and found a few entries. Overall there didn't appear to be much consensus on what was causing this problem. I saw some reference to ground balance, sensitivity, and recovering speed playing a role but nothing definitive. For context, my problem seems to occur regardless of ground balance level and i typically run with sensitivity between 18 and 22 and recovery speed of 3 (equivalent to 6 on the EQX 800). 2) "Periodically" was not the correct choice of words. I should have said "intermittently". I can't point to a specific correlation besides the approaching cars that I mentioned in the original post. I will try the 15 kHz switch next time and see what happens.

Hello, I've had my EQX since last year and gotten in about 30 hrs in the field so far. Overall I'm quite happy with it but there are a few areas where it's still giving me issues. I'm hoping someone here can give me some advice on one or more of these. 1) Whenever I bump something with the coil the detector falses and gives me a "good" reading. Typically the harder the bump the higher the VID. I've checked that the cable is wound tightly around the shaft and the connector is screwed into the case tightly so I'm not sure what else it could be. This isn't much of an issue on lawns but unfortunately the vast majority of my detecting is in the woods around old cellar holes where it's impossible not to bump into sticks and bushes. 2) Periodically, my detector will start warbling and squawking for anywhere from a few seconds to 1/2 a minute. I don't bring my cell phone with me and I routinely do a noise cancel so that isn't the problem. I've noticed that it tends to happen as cars are approaching me so I'm thinking that it could be a TPMS (Tire pressure monitoring system) or something similar. Any ideas on a fix or workaround would be appreciated. In terms of how I typically run: 1) I have the latest software update 2) I typically detect in Park 1 or Field 1 3) I usually use the stock 11" coil but occasionally switch to the 6" Thanks Jeremiah

So I was able to find a fair amount of information on the correlation between FE and F2 for the EQX 800 in this thread and the dankowskidetectors.com thread that was linked but there wasn't as much for us EQX 600 owners. At least not as easy to find. However, between what I was able to find here, and the limited information provided in the latest instruction manual, I think I've finally figured it out, at least for the low to mid iron bias ranges. Here it is in table format: The high end numbers in red are pure conjecture of what the FE equivalents would be based on extrapolating a linear trendline from the medium iron bias range. Not particularly useful numbers but I thought it was interesting for perspective. Let me know if I missed anything.