Relics&Bones

1 hour ago, Randy Dee said:

Welcome aboard,

As Steve has said other peoples settings which they have setup on their own soil type and location is of very little use on other soil types (Land or Sea Shore), from what I can make out from your first post you are in the States ie. on an iron infested colonial site  as we don't have colonial sites here in the UK and Neil who I have met does not encounter iron infested fields like your location so for a start his "Iron Bias" setting would not be of any help for your detecting situation and Neil runs all of his detectors on full throttle (Sky High Sensitivity) and no "Discrimination" and he doesn't do much beach detecting if any.

To find your best settings for your Equinox, first of all read the manual to learn what influence each of the settings can make to gain the best settings for your present location / land type, you may find that the main controls the Noise Cancel, the Ground Balance, the Sensitivity, the Discrimination, the Response and the Iron Bias settings when tuned correctly will make the detecting in your location more pleasurable and quiet.

Good Hunting      Randy Dee

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Thanks Randy. I'm not new, but for some reason, could not get logged in as before and could not reset PW. Who knows? Nonetheless, that's the kind of comment I was looking for. For some reason, I had the impression that the Jones program WAS for iron infested sites. I do have a very "clean" Civil War site here in VA that I'll be visiting soon. I'll try it there and see how it does. Thanks so much.

4 hours ago, flakmagnet said:

Yes. That is the reason for the forum. You also asked for "thoughts" and those were my thoughts. Not meant to make you feel defensive and if I have, I apologize.

Not a problem. Thanks for taking the time.

15 hours ago, flakmagnet said:

Especially you Fred …joke (these are sensitive times)...

I agree entirely with Steve and Fred, why oh why would you take someone's settings that are being used on a different continent and expect the same outcome? (Unless you're from GB, but even then) 

Part of the Equinox's popularity is that it has a wide variety of settings that are sitting there just waiting for the user to learn their detector well enough to take advantage of them.

 

"why would you take someone's settings that are being used on a different continent" Because there are quite a few on this continent using it with success. I posted to see if there were folks here w/experience that could advise me on what I might be doing wrong. Isn't that part of the reason for the forum?

I recently tried Neil Jones's beach to land program - exactly as he advises. I don't know if I'm the problem or something else, but I was sorely disappointed, especially since I've read so many positive comments about it. I was on an iron infested colonial site with lots of EMI via livestock fencing. I was using the 6" coil. I hit 2 tombac buttons in factory Park 1. Switching to the custom program, the best I could get was broken signal that I would not have normally dug. Suggestions? Thoughts?