sandboy

Totallly agree; I haven´t found any issue so far. I can even use it on 35 of sensitivity but in 28 is so quiet and so deep that i think is useless to crank it up each time i use it. Found necklaces that are mute if rubbed on equinox coil

Ok guys...new unit, same problems. how could it possible? I´ve not seen others topic like this on the net

This is wrong in my opinion. New Equinox and Mcore have a new sealing system, which is fully waterproof when the pod is mounted on its own shaft. The battery cap is a bit carved, so the shaft (once the pod is mounted) keeps this cap well sealed. With this tool you have an empty space between the cap and the shaft...

Ok guys... I had my speaker muffled during 5 days. I have experience with equinox, i know that is a matter of pressure when you stay in the water. So i picked it up for a ride on the beach, in a sunny day. When i got back to home, i´ve heard a "pop" sound coming from the Manticore. i switched it on and the sound finally came back! But at night, it turned muffled again...alone. Today i submerged the unit and the sound came back again. I´ve contacted ML responsable for Brazil and he told me that is not normal. They will send another unit for me next week, and mine will go directly to Australia to be analyzed. That`s it.

you are not the only one. My speaker gone after 2 weeks,,,

I have 2 equinox units...first one dunk after 10 months of intense use, but very few times in the water. The second (brand new too) dunk yesterday, after heavy use 6 months in the sea water, until chest, almost every day. But this time happens after 2 rest days from water, and in the dry sand...after just 1h hunting under the sun (35°). No matter if u make a bath test, sooner or later your NOX will pass away. I always thought that good units were the most, but now i maybe changed my mind. There is something "weird" in the assembly or whatever. The project itself must work, because was developed by minelab engineers...but someone didn´t calculate the stress events (heat, salt, water...) or someting goes wrong in the assemply process. My first flooded unit has battery pod very flabby. My second was so tight, that i couldn`t get it out!! So what`s the problem?? Goretex membrane? Speaker? battery overhit? phone jack? USB? I don´t really know. Anyway, my strategy works better: 2 brand new units, just one in the water. When it dunk, i send to ML for cpu replacing, and i can hunt with the other meanwhile. When it comes back, i put the other in the water...and so on. After 3 years, i will sell both and buy new, like an "extended warrenty", in loop :)

I have a detect-ed, and i use spray silicon too. I´ve never thought to use it on the rubbers...with new pair of rubbers (from detect-ed) there is no need to lubricate, even with the 15x12. The bolt is absolutely free and the coil is well fixed with no movements. The spray certainly helps to keep them humid and not dry, so is not a bad idea.

Yes. If the rubber inside was good, there are no ways to stop the friction from outside the bolt. So, i´ve cut a rounded tiny plastic to put between the bolt and the ear coil. Just make shure that no sand are in there, or it will scratch the ear coil too much.

In my opinion is totally useless. The real factor that could break your coil ear, is just the friction between plastic from the coil and plastic from the terminal shaft. This happens because the rubber is consumed. I suggest to buy a pack of them, and verify constantly if they need to be replaced with new one.