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The LG24 is what I've been using the most on the Legend lately. I like to run it at a 7 recovery speed in M1 all metal, and 60 tones in the semi-trashy modern parks and schoolyards I frequent.

Congrats! Still waiting for my first goldie...

Got the AccuPOINT in yesterday. Here are a few notes from fiddling around with it at home and using it for an 1 hour hunt at a local park: Pretty easy to figure out overall. Had to pry the little sound amplifier piece out after unscrewing the top to get at the charging port. Really, really like the screen display. I can tell at a glance where I'm at in settings (sensitivity, bluetooth, ferrous settings, etc.). Loud setting is LOUD. I have decent hearing, and the "not loud" alterative setting still has plenty of volume for me. The ferrous/non-ferrous tone settings is a great feature. Turn on/off timing feels just a tiny bit different from the Garrett Carrot, but it's a matter of simply adapting muscle memory to adjust. Sensitivity and response feels approximately the same as the ol' Carrott. The only oddness I experienced with the Accupoint was when I got over an obvious, shallow coin spill. There was like $1.30 overall in modern clad, 2-3" deep over an area maybe 6" in diameter. The Legend was giving loud, jumpy reading runnning from 40-53. When I flipped over a shallow cut, I could clearly see the coins. Used the pinpointer, regardless, just to see how it behaved in this multi-target scenario. Once it registered with multiple close targets, however, it started freaking out and gave a continuous repeating signal, even if I waved it in the air several feet away. A quick on/off resolved the issue. Overall, easy to use and did not feel like much of a learning curve. The screen and the setting navigation have me favoring it over the Carrot, but we'll see what happens with more time and experience.

Welcome -- lots of knowledgeable and friendly folks on this forum!

Similar experience here. The auxiliary battery took about 6-8 hours to fully charge, and it flashed the green and red LEDs until it went solid green to indicate a full charge. I actually used the auxiliary battery a week or so ago, just to test it out. My Legend was down to two bars at the time. When I inserted the back up battery and connected it to the machine, the control pod's battery indicator started flashing, just like when charging up regularly. It kept flashing while the machine was turned on, too. I ran for an hour or so at a modern park, so nothing spectactular found other than a a handful of clad. The battery felt well-balanced and I didn't notice much of a weight difference overall. Afterwards, I tossed the machine in the trunk and forgot about it until later that evening. When I turned it back on, the Legend indicated a full charge from drawing off the spare. I did notice, however, that after disconnecting the back up battery and running the Legend for a couple hours it was back down to 3 bars, so I'm not sure if it really gave the machine a full charge.

OK, I finally caved (and by finally, I mean quickly) and put an order in for an AccuPOINT from Fort Bedford. The display screen is the big selling point for me since I continually mess up holding down the button on the carrot and don't know where I'm at in the settings. My original plan was to hold of until more reviews and feedback came in, but dangit, I've been such a good boy lately and deserve an early xmas present. Plus my Garrett carrot has suddenly started falsing more frequently for some strange reason. (It's noted that the reason may very well be me creating a pretextual justification for buying a new pinpointer, however. 😉) Anyways, looking forward to its arrival, and I'll try to post some notes once I've run it through plenty of targets in the wild.

@mcmichael Beautiful scenery! Did you pull any nuggets at all?

This was an issue that threw me initally. We have so many bluetooth devices in the house competing for the signal, I had to take the machine and headphones out to the furtherst point in the backyard to pair successfully. Granted this is also after I'd paired the headphones with a couple other devices, including my partner's work laptop -- the Nokta headphones are her preferred choice!. No issues pairing the headphones going forward, and I've also been successful with two verisons of TOZO earbuds. I do perceive a slight signal lag/delay issue with the earbuds, however, including the gaming/low latency TOZO G1 version. Not present in the Notka headphones, though.

Very nice! Looking forward to see what you think of it. My plan is to hold off awhile before purchasing an AccuPOINT. I'm risk adverse -- for example, I won't go to a new restaurant right after it opens, and I won't purchase a car from the first year of the model issue. My theory is to hold off for a bit of time until the initial kinks get worked out, whether it's in the kitchen, staff coordination, space orientation, optimizing line production, etc. Don't know what that means in terms of Nokta's production runs on the AccuPOINT, however. Anyways, I am wildly curious to see what people think once this one is released in the wild!

Yessir, and it's available on Nokta's site right here in the Software Updates tab on the left side of the screen. Windows and macOS only, so Chromebook users be forewarned. I keep a Windows machine around on hand for exactly this kind of scenario, but I'd recommend running any Windows updates first prior to any additional software install. Also -- and let me know if other users saw this b/c I was running some delayed Windows updates at the same time -- the 1.13 install threw a driver error initially. A quick restart on the laptop solved it, but curious to hear if others got the same error. Otherwise, I haven't had any issues at all moving up from v1.05(?) to 1.09, 1.11 (and a beta version prior), and now to 1.13 via the Legend update tool.

And that's a big to-do, all around! Nice being in the community where these hot tips get shared early, for sure. Cheers to @MFF18B!

Yeah, that was my first concern, as well. It's an excellent feature -- being able to see the pinpointer's actual status, settings, charge, etc. -- but doesn't mean much if the screen can't hold up to substantial abuse. I'll be curious to see how these hold up over time in real world conditions. As for the screen protector idea, I wonder how long a screen protector would hold up under typical pinpointer conditions?

Great write-up, @MFF18B -- I'll definitely be picking one of these up once they hit the market!

Hi there, @LDVA1 My first piece of advice is to keep on putting time on the machine. Otherwise, it sounds like you have a good plan for a new user -- keep it simple and don't get too deep into the menu/options. Depending upon how much traffic your property has seen over time, you might simply have a scarcity of dropped coins/relics. One thing I've found very beneficial is to practice new equipment at local schoolyards, if you have any close by. Modern schoolyards offer a wide variety of good targets -- from coins to small jewelry and toys -- but don't expect anything old or super valuable. The benefit here is lots of kids repeatedly active on the same ground over time, so greater potential for drops than relatively untrafficked residential property. When using the 800 for coinshooting, I'll dig anything reading 11-13 or 19+, but that's just in my soil conditions.

No speaker issues here on the Legend I purchased in October last year, which I run almost exclusively on the external speaker at volume 3-4. Not saying this isn't an issue for others, but I think it's also useful to report when a known flaw is a rare(?) case and not the norm. FYI, the Legend I purchased almost a year ago came with v1.05 installed (if I recall correctly), which I quickly updated to v1.09, then the v1.10's before the final v1.11. No issues on loading the updates, and v.1.11 is smooth sailing as far as I'm concerned.

Oh interesting...no more Makro!

Can't speak to the Bigfoot/winding piece, but I ordered mine (White's MXT version) here: https://www.thrace-detectors.com/search-coil-detech-ultra-sensitive-18-x-4-dd-arrow.html?search=arrow&description=true It's a fun one to take out on a field/beach/park with minimal trash and shallow drops. Lots of coverage area, and pinpointing is super-easy by wiggling off the tip. Take my input with a grain of salt, however -- I only have maybe 4-5 hours experience on the coil, and that's running it on an MXT Pro.

Yeah, no depth issues here with the Legend running v1.11. Granted, I'm dealing with a fairly low level of ground mineralization, which makes things much easier. Thanks for the thorough test and post, Jeff!

The Legend is a fantastic machine with all kinds of advanced settings and features, yet still works great right out of the box. I'm sure you'll love it!

Yeah, that was my line of thinking, as well. 9 hours isn't catastrophic or anything, but I was expecting 12 hours or more as a "healthy" result, given expected battery life and a minimal activity setting. I think I'll do another test after a factory reset and putting the stock coil back on. Last test was w/the Coiltek 10x5 attached. Not that coil should matter (I think?), but the intent is to measure in the most baseline configuration.

Good idea. I did a full overnight charge, then turned on the 800 the in Park 1 multi-- a full 3 bars displayed. (I know I said 4 bars in the OP, but meant 3.) I then dialed down the sensitivity to 10 and sat the machine on top of the bed in the back bedroom, leaving coil suspended in the air a good 12" away from any metal. In that arrangement, there weren't any signals getting picked up, except when I would pick up the machine every couple hours to check the battery indicator and wave it around briefly. After 7 hours, it was down to 1 bar. The next day (today) I turned it back on for 2 hours (no additioinal charging), and the it went down to a flashing single bar. So, 9 hours from full charge to flashing 1 bar in a minimal activity setting. Hmmm...

Welcome, @Technonut! Lots of resources and knowledge here, and yes...the classifieds can be juicy!

I took the Equinox 800 out today for a 3 hour water hunt at the local beach, primarily using the Coiltek 15" coil. This was my first substantial water hunt, and overall an enjoyable learning experience. It was also my first experience learning how to handle a water scoop with a longer shaft -- between the oversized coil and the scoop, pinpointing and digging out targets turned out to be challenging, especially as the water depth increased. I did start to get the hang of recovering targets as time went by and scored a handful of clad, and only a few pull tabs and bottlecaps. Anyways, like I said, this was a 3 hour hunt. I ran speakers-only, no headphones, and volume in the 16-20 range. No backlight turned on, either. Mostly kept the machine in P1 multi although I did fiddle with Beach 1 and 2 a bit. Battery was at 4 bars when I started, but ran down to 1 by the end. I'd fully charged the machine a week prior and had maybe another 3 hours on it in the meantime practicing the 15" coil on land. Does running the battery down from 4 bars to 1 in maybe 6 hours of cumulative detecting time under these settings/conditions sound normal? My thinking was maybe the combo of a big coil and speakers caused it to drain more quickly than usual. I'd say the machine has maybe 60-70 hours on it total, so it's not like it's facing long term battery degradation.

Oh man, I'm totally jumping your claim....right after that short 25 hour+ drive from Indiana! 😆 Anyways, you're running a similar idea as to what I was thinking of. Here in Indiana, the good state forest territory where I find the most gold at prohibits anything equipment-wise beyond panning, including a "no shovels" policy. So highbankers and even hand sluices are out of the question. What I thought about doing instead was using car floor mat, wool mat, or something similar to drop into the creek and scoop into, something good at catching gold that doesn't "technically" meet the definition of a "sluice". Would only work in the winter months, most likely -- the best creeks are dry in the summer here.