Carolina

I’m not sure but I think the issues show up in waist to chest deep water with control box submerged as Joe uses his machine in the upper Chesapeake Bay. I have not had an opportunity to submerge my unit in the lower Chesapeake Bay. 

I believe Alexandre answered this question from you in another thread about the AQ. Yes 11.5 is actually 15 according to Alexandre.

Well here is a shocker. I for one am satisfied with the connector I have now and can work around these issues. Thank you Alexandre, Willy and Carl for all your hard work!

1 hour ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Nice. The AQ is working for you already! Are you running Mute or Tone?

I only run tone mode at the ocean front as it nearly kills me knee deep in the wash to retrieve a target and tone mode is somewhat shallower than all metal. Plus I enjoy the grunt on dimes and quarters as well as those pig high k rings. I dig everything anyway but am learning the slight difference in tones I hope. I have very little iron so the anticipation of that big ring when I get that grunt picks me up. 😃 I suppose when I only am able to hunt wet and damp sand I will try all metal as well as my Bay spins chest deep.

To echo what Joe said, to de tune the detector would be an injustice. I do wish the 8” coil miraculously became a 10”. 😀

1 hour ago, tvr said:

Nice! And thanks for the settings and audio information.

Ocean or bay side?

Ocean side. I have yet to go in the Bay. I prefer Autumn and winter for the Bay. I do need to make a Bay spin to submerge the AQ and see how the coil reacts.

1 hour ago, okara gold said:

Nice gold and great good to junk ratio. Not too many targets, but you sure got the important ones!

The beach is very clean. I have friends who cover lots of ground in their style of detecting. Today my friend said he went 11 blocks before his first target. I have a different style. I pick a certain block to hunt and beat that one block to death. Deep in the wash north and south and follow the tide to mid beach. Then East and west as deep as I can get in the wash and up the slope. It takes most of the battery to cover one and a half blocks. All these targets came off one block.

Day six for anonymous was a lot better than day five. Basically the same settings as before volume 8, sensitivity up to 5, threshold 4, ATS 8 1/2, reject 4 and delay back up to 9. Can not help but dig the caps and tabs. Dime was a grunt, nickels sharp and tight. 10k ring with good diamonds and grill were sharp also. Rest tomorrow back at it Tuesday. Good luck everybody.

My AQ runs smooth as silk in the Atlantic coast of Virginia at a depth of 2’ in the surf even at 7u’s. That is in all metal, volume 8, sensitivity 4>5, threshold 4, ATS 6>8. In tone mode is a slight bit of chatter volume 8, sensitivity 4, threshold 4,  ATS 8 1/2, reject 4, and I prefer 9 on my delay as it seems to help stop the small shards of steel from detection. I have not entered the waters of the lower Chesapeake Bay Area as of yet. Fingers crossed. I would add, I set my tone mode up the same as Alexandre does in his video. The difference I see is he gets his first iron grunt at ATS 7 1/2. I do not get my first until 8 1/2. Not sure what this has to do with anything. He does not say what his reject is after backing it back down. Mine is 4.

Day 4 of anonymous with AQ was a rest day.

Day 5 of anonymous with AQ, targets far and few between. Rough surf prevented getting down deep in the wash. Volume 8, sensitivity 4, threshold 4, ATS 8 1/2, reject 4, delay 8. A little chatter but no problem picking out targets. Tungsten carbide  and mood ring was the best of it.

21 hours ago, tvr said:

Could you ask if anonymous could tell if the chain was balled up? That has the look of the thin weave or possibly a hollow weave chain that are not easy to hit, or even to hit at all. Excellent recovery.

And I love the knife too!

So much for posting anonymously hahahahaha. Thanks to Joe for respecting my request. I live in a pirate rich area and being the first with the AQ can cause animosity. Anyway I’m over it. tvr, I believe I have made a rookie mistake. The chain was a long signal. I thought wire or chain. First scoop, out came a cap. That confused me so I thought maybe the cap was so shallow it gave such a long signal. I scanned the hole again and about four inches to the right I got another hit. First scoop nothing , second scoop up comes the chain hanging off the tip of my scoop. I hurried backwards out of the wash and pulled out this beautiful chain. The chain had a knot the size of a marble so I assumed that is what responded. I now believe I made a rookie mistake. No matter what I do now I can not get the chain to ping anywhere on the coil. 7u’s nothing. I believe now the medallion or cross was in the hole and in my excitement I left the hole and medallion.  I will always scan the area again when I find an empty chain before I back out of the surf. Kinda sick now !

Dang, good information here. Now I don’t have to buy a book from that guy in Canada hahahahaha. Thanks to you both. Excellent.

On 8/6/2020 at 5:21 PM, Bootyhunter said:

Well I read through this entire thread. I have owned the Equinox since February 12th 2018, one of the first ones in the US, I was a CTX user for 5 years prior, but worked out a trade with my dealer for the Equinox, both 6 and 15" coils and WP headphones in preorder when I saw the Equinox debut at Detectival. Best decision detector wise I ever made, as Im a relic hunter and the CTX while a great machine, is just too slow to work well in heavy iron and mineralized soils, where I do my detecting. So anyway, rambling aside, I did the very first Equimox update reluctantly, but I wanted those on edge silver coins, the update was good, but it shifted the vdi numbers on civil war bullets slightly. I never did the 2nd update as bottle caps are not an issue for me.  The only thing I dislike about the Equinox is the pinpoiny feature, its the worst attempt at a detecror pinpointer I've ever seen, and I have owned many many detectors. I wish they would rework it in an update, maybe have it display in inches/centimeters the depth while in pinpoint mode and fix the issue where you move off target hit pinpoint, but it doesnt "take" and you have to repeat. I dont use pp often because it mostly sucks on the Nox. I rarely use single fx mode, but I do sometimes, so I think I will do this update. Wish they had gone witb 2.5khz instead of 4khz. Seems a small change fro. 5khz to 4khz, I have some detectorpro units that run at 2.5khz and those things are coin and ring vacuums. Even work well in salt water as a single fx machine. I guess I can roll back if I dont like this update. I just hate to discover I have some detriments with no real benefits to my type of detecting. Sidebar, on the Simplex, you have to have the latest update to use the new coils they came out with, and their new machines cant be rolled back to the original 2.68 version software as it bricks the new machines. Just an fyi, not saying the new Equinox's would suffer that fate, just an interesting (to me) anecdote. Thanks for reading all of this if you have lol. 

I noticed a video on the new update from Gigmaster in Virginia that said you can’t roll back from 3.0. Said your stuck with it. True ???

16 hours ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

Finished off the stick battery, All works as should....m=uses stock "AQ" mounts which is nice....next is get it in the water later this week. Painted 3/4 flat black and left a clear area so I can watch it close the first two times out. Will be watching the run time close also.

 

Your welcome !

I have owned my first Tarsacci over a year and a half now and have tried no less than five different sets of phones on it. I liked it so much I bought a second one used. I also prefer mixed mode as it is ( for me ) deeper than all metal or disc. I too have a rough time with the high tone but for me, after much testing, the Sun Ray Pro gold are by far the phones of my choice. I am a water hunter mostly and I don’t worry about them not being waterproof. With the control box submerged mostly, I rely on tones only. I especially like the volume controls to balance out the audio. Don’t let the simplicity of the machine fool you as there really is a multitude of settings available in combinations that at first you may not pick up on. All in all, it is a fantastic machine. Congratulations on the nugget. First time out that ain’t bad !!!

Joe, I don’t think you have had the control head or the battery three feet yet. I know how tall you are and you would need a snorkel or be drowned one.😂. That’s unless you have dropped it down. Even chest deep and a two foot hole it would not be three feet so I wouldn’t give it any worries. Like Steve said, it’s the power cable that’s the problem. Nice of you not to tell Rodney, class act.

On 6/25/2020 at 12:07 PM, Carolina said:

They are excellent scoops. Chuck sold the company to a Vietnamese owned company in California. I read that their SS was not up to par but do not know. My friend just sent his in for a crack in the retaining ring and his CF scoop for the retaining nut in the bottom.Just got a letter that they are replacing both under lifetime warranty. That is a good thing. I will post the quality of replacements when they come in.

Well my friend got his CF handle back and his 720i scoop. They replaced both. The handle seems to be a close match to the original but the scoop not so much. One spin in the salt water and the next day shows rust. The retaining rings have a different pattern or design and the support rods are welded to the front of the ring rather than towards the back. That prevents using the long end of the Allen wrench at first to speed spin the bolt up tight. The support bracket blocks the Allen bolt so the 90 degree end must be used at all times. The scoop belly pan is different also. The old scoop had the complete belly pan full of holes. The new scoop has a 1/2” solid strip at all the angle breaks front to back. Not sure if the SS is 1 1/2 mm vs 2 mm and they are for strength. Turn around time was fast though so we will see how both hold up.

18 hours ago, okara gold said:

I'm sticking with my 720i. I like the pointed front for digging in shells or rocks but even that it can be a challenge sometimes. It also has a lifetime warranty along with the carbon fiber handle. I think the most important thing is to KNOW where your target is before digging and not rush into slamming the first scoop. Time used with the same scoop works for me as it is a learning process for the correct angle of digging to secure your target with as few scoops as possible and knowing your machines sounds to help dictate how deep the target is. This is all "in the sand / water" digging of course.

They are excellent scoops. Chuck sold the company to a Vietnamese owned company in California. I read that their SS was not up to par but do not know. My friend just sent his in for a crack in the retaining ring and his CF scoop for the retaining nut in the bottom.Just got a letter that they are replacing both under lifetime warranty. That is a good thing. I will post the quality of replacements when they come in.

10 minutes ago, barryny said:

...you're gonna need a bigger scoop...🤣

Oh the original 720i and my DiAblo will handle any substrate and any depth required. Ask olebeechnut. 

10 minutes ago, Carolina said:

I was told that a Chinese company in California bought them out. I have no first hand knowledge but I shall dig deeper. My information came from a you tuber well known from Virginia Beach. I also have a friend that sent his scoop in for repair and it went to California. Anyone else hear anything?

Well I have found out it is a Vietnamese Company that had nothing to do with sand scoops when they bought the company. They are in California and weld SS grills and other SS products. I do not know their quality of work though. I will check with my friend and let you know his thoughts.

3 hours ago, Carolina said:

I would like to withdraw my support for the 920i and 720i Stealth scoops and any others offered by Sunspot at this time. I understand now they are under new management. Thanks

I was told that a Chinese company in California bought them out. I have no first hand knowledge but I shall dig deeper. My information came from a you tuber well known from Virginia Beach. I also have a friend that sent his scoop in for repair and it went to California. Anyone else hear anything?

On 6/12/2020 at 4:38 PM, Carolina said:

There are only 3 DiAblo scoops in existence now. Never went into production. The 720i and 920i are offered by Sunspot scoops. Stealth scoop. Just google Sunspot scoops. Stavr Scoops out of Ukraine offer some nice scoops reasonably priced. XTreme offers a nice scoop also although I have never used one. The DiAblo duck bill and the Sunspot stealth 720i cover all my needs here on the east coast.

I would like to withdraw my support for the 920i and 720i Stealth scoops and any others offered by Sunspot at this time. I understand now they are under new management. Thanks

16 hours ago, CCadrin said:

Joe, I ran the MDT here up in Connecticut. Very difficult to quiet it down with our beaches. In the water, it ran quiet but i had to back off on the sensitivity which cost me some depth. The deepest machine so far in the water that I owned (Dual Field, Excal, Nox. Impact) is the Excal in pinpoint. With discrimination the MDT was ok and if I was lucky maybe an inch deeper than the Nox. As for wet sand the MDT was not smooth when you put sensitivity at 8 or 9, therefore when you ran it as a machine it was only as deep as a NOX. At least at my beaches, the MDT was not the best or the deepest. My hunting style may had something to do with it. 

It has been a learning experience on the MDT for me over a year and a half. I think your noise may have been due to the salt balance setting vs frequency used. Don’t be scared to run the salt on up higher as you enter more water. 35> 40 is not unheard of. Play with your black sand and one trick most don’t use is run sensitivity high say 9 but run your threshold at -9. Their are many combinations to try and I’m sure one will tame your beach. I hope Tom has an opportunity to use his not only in the gold field but also on the beach. If your Tarsacci runs quite on the dry and damp sand and you enter the water with chatter, your salt balance is off. Good luck with all your spins.

2 hours ago, bklein said:

The version shown above appears to be the flat top type.  Aren't they intended for spot welded tabs?  Will they make good contact inline in a tube?

2 hours ago, bklein said:

The version shown above appears to be the flat top type.  Aren't they intended for spot welded tabs?  Will they make good contact inline in a tube?

Was my concern also but I have tested end to end and they are fine with slight pressure.