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I have seen several comment about the somewhat dim LEDs on the headphone making it hard to determine when they are turned off. I also initially had that problem and got home to find mine still on when I got out of the sun. My procedure now is to leave the controller on while turning the headphones off. When turning off is successful the headphone symbol disappears from the screen and sound is heard from the controller handle. Seems much surer than trusting my old eyes to determine the status on the LEDs.

Just another way of discriminating junk before you dig it!

Hello , It would be great if the youtubers who have lot of followers make a video of that to share at maximum . - Take 12-15 differents coins of your country ( the coins you use all the day ) -Make a pile (heap ?) with that coins ,like a little tower -Keep this pile beetween your thumb and other finger . -Swing that in front of the coil , at 3-4 inches , the side of the coins ! -Now try that with all the detect mode , not need to change factory presets ( maybe only the accept to 0,1,2 in field 2 ) , you are free to try differents settings later . -The only and important setting for the moment is to change frequency , try 5,10,15,20,40 and multi in each detect mode . Of course multi in the two beach and 20,40,mutli in gold . What is happening ? I know the results , but i want to know the result of the coins of USA,England, australia ,canada .... So please share your results in comments or video Make that with different detectors , if you have impact or deus or other who have various frequency , try to switch all frequency . You can try that with HF white coil if you have , but .... The conclusion is multi IQ obsolete the others single freq . We can debate of that .

Got my machine last week threw it on the charger and went for a quick 1.5 hour hunt before dark. Did not even wait for it to fully charge. Went to one of my relic spots...a sort of baptism of fire spot due to it being loaded with iron... I used field 1 did a noise cancel and started swinging..thats it. Found some goodies in a pounded out spot that the CTX and Deus has been over countless times. Also dug a bunch of nails lol something I don't usually do with the CTX and Deus. I was pleased with the machine however. Second hunt was the same.... had an hour and a half before dark after work so I hit a not so trashy park that I've been over a lot with the CTX...Got a nice 14K gold ring! 2 grams and a solid 10 on the ID. I'm thinking I'm off to a great start. I'm impressed with the machines ability to find deep low conductors...this thing is going to good for gold rings. Dug some deep nickels as well. I'm very busy this time of year with work so the hunts have to be short but we are heading to the beach next week for 3 days of R&R so hopefully some rings will reveal themselves. HH strick

Hello, i am from Austria (Europe) my name is Siegfried and i am 42 years old (sorry form y English) . Since 4 weeks i own the Equinox800 an 600, i hunt together wiht my son he ist 14 years old. We love the Equinox it is a first rate detector for us, we hunt mainly for coins. Findings from last week. Steve it is a great forum! Regards Siegfried

Hey guys sorry if this question is talked about in other posts but now that theres a good amount of you all using yer equinoxs id like some feed back on depth of the two machines, info that ive been reading is 50/50 its not a deep machine and it is a deep machine, doesnt make me alot of difference either wY but what are yer experiences so far?

Can you relate?

A little background on this particular "test" site that I take every machine to that I've owned over the past 12 years since I got my first detector. The site has both mineralized soil, and mild EMI, which some machines handle a LOT better than others. First I tried a Fisher C$ and Minelab Sovereign, and maybe got one wheat penny (C$ was shut down from the EMI). I figured there had to be more there, but it wasn’t until I got the CZ70 that it opened up. Someone had cleaned out the top 6” of targets, so anything left there was either deep, masked or both. First trip with the CZ was like Christmas! After 5-6 trips the CZ played out. Then every new machine I got I’d take there, and see what it could find. The first few trips there with the F75 did well, took my Etrac there and only got one wheat and a maverick bakery token. Then for about three years it petered out, it would take everything I had busting my butt to eek out one IHP or wheat, but silver dried up for about three years. I still figured there had to be more. When I got my Red Racer, I did a shoot-out between it and my (at that time) beloved F75. I first detected it with my F75 LTD2, and got nothing, only iron grunts, zero conductors. Then I switched to the Red Racer and pulled two silvers, an IHP and wheatie. It was an eye opener, first silver in three years, and not one, but two AND it was on basically my first hunt with the Red Racer. Then each subsequent trip with the Racers the site was back on, and not all the old coins were deep, several were masked with iron that prevented other detectors from getting them, but thanks to Makro's world class unmasking capabilities my site was back on. Matter of fact I had my best day there with my Racer2, something like 12 period coins in one hunt including four silvers, it was simply unbelievable to me that my pounded site, that I'd practically gave up on, produced this many coins in a 3 hour hunt. As you all know these sites don’t exactly replenish themselves with period coins, so for the Equinox to do what it did this weekend is beyond impressive, eight DEEP period coins in a three hour hunt is fantastic! For this site I used Park2, and ran it hot with the gain between 22-24, even was able to run it at 25, but found it started to like deep nails at 25. By the way, this site is loaded with old square nails. The original building that was there burned down in the mid 1800's, and I suspect that they razed the burned remnants around this site, and dumped fill dirt over the razed burnt remains when the built the replacement building went up, as once you get down to around 10" - 12" you seem to hit a sea of square nails. Never have found a seated at this site, it's certainly old enough to have them, but I suspect they are beneath this sea of nails. This was a deep mid conductor signal tangled in heavy tree roots. Little did I know how deep this would turn out to be! Between my Lesche shovel and digger, and a lot of patience (and a few curse words thrown in for good measure!) I finally pulled brought this sucker back to life, it was a dateless buffalo nickel! This is what was in that monstrous 10" deep hole! Total take for this hunt (3 hours) was five teens wheaties, a dateless buffalo nickel, 1902-S Barber dime (yeah!!!), 1936-S Mercury dime, some kind of silver button (that sucker was DEEEEEP), a poppers wedding ring, DEEP civil ware era (?) two piece Navy cuff button (this thing is going to LOVE buttons), and two suspender buckles/clips. Now I will say that the non-modulated audio on shallow stiff is a major PITA for deep turf hunting, so I did dig some zincolns, and shallow clad This was my second hunt, which I did in Field2. It's a little fresh water beach area that I've pounded over the years. Haven't found a ton there, few wheats, mercs, some rings in the water, and some 1800's relics, but I love the history of the site, and figure detecting it will eventually pay off with something really good (that hasn't happened yet, but I know something really good has to be hiding out there, probably in the water though!). I've never dug this many wheaties there in one hunt, and I love the wheatie with the iron fused to it! Also got a nice antique looking sterling silver ring and a 43' silver war nickle: As I was heading back to the car, I ran into another guy detecting there with a White's MX Sport. Was a pretty friendly guy, and we started chatting. He knew about the EQ800 and said that would be his next machine. He was hunting in the turf, not the beach. I told him I was hunting the beach and he told me that I wouldn't find anything there because he'd already cleaned it out Now truth be told, I was a bit impressed with his MX Sport as he'd just dug a 9" deep merc when I came up on him. He said he's mainly a prospector and had done a lot of dredging in California but when they shut it down, he moved to Alaska. Interesting guy to chat with for sure. HH, Cal PS - I did encounter an odd issue. About an hour or so after one hunt, I powered down my detector and headphones to take a health break. When I went to power everything back up, the headphones refused to power up. I'd charged them up the previous day, so unless when I did a quick hunt little hunt the evening before, the headphones didn't get powered off and drained down, then I can't quite understand what happened. I'd get no response at all from the headphones when trying to power it back up. I plugged them in to my charger (iPad charger) for a while and they came back to life. Odd

I go to a local beach this afternoon and I head straight away for my normal pattern which is the waterline. This is what I am familiar with as it is new territory on a receding tide. That was the plan and I stuck with it in one direction of about 2 miles. At the end of that walk I had about 3 cents! Nothing, nada at the top or bottom of the beach slope. I'm using beach 1 just about default. Time to switch the pattern. Too many people on the blanket line so it is time to split the difference between blanket and parking lot. Finally a few targets. Coins here and there and I just plod along in the soft sand which I dislike. The wind is picking up and I'm about half way back to my starting spot and I see another detectorist out in front of some houses. He could be on the wet also but today is a day to stay dry. A few hundred yards further I come about a culvert which is directing the wind. One side the sand is holding and the other it is blowing away. That is when I saw my first crumb. I was swinging and had gotten a couple of coins and then I looked down and saw a dime and 2 pennies with all the sand blown away from them! Wow ... no one has been here recently. I continue on in field 1 in this little area and I hear another target (18-19). I can see the edge of a coin, no ... I know what that is because I've found them before in the surf. It is a bus token. I reach down and pick it up without using a scoop. This one is in excellent shape. Now it is time to grid the 20x40 ft area. In less than 3 minutes I get a 9 and I look at my coil and I see the edge of a ring. I see the portion of the cross. I wish now that I had a camera to take a picture as I first saw it. I don't so I quickly grab it. It's 4.5g and feels good. I finish gridding the area and work another trashy area nearby. I pull out a few coins from the muck and I'm on my way back. These coins, token and ring could have been found with ANY detector but I was swinging an 800. It 'challenged' me to find that trashy spot and use it and instead I went near and found a spot I might not have gone to with my CTX. Coincidence? Luck? I found some clues and acted upon them. Sometimes the detector doesn't matter. Mitchel

Hello folks I went back to a little area that's probably about 60 by 60 feet in a woods setting. This area has produced many flat buttons over the years. Although a nice historical find they are pretty generic looking. Some have backmarks but for the most part they are blank. I have detected the area with the CTX and earlier before that the E-Trac. When I first discovered this site I was pulling out button after button. Not exactly sure why there's so many in this area and no coins, but nonetheless it was nice to hide from the Sun in the adjacent field and detect in the shade for a while now and then. As time went on finds dwindled and now every so often I would go back just to see what I could find there. Usually I could pop a button or two if I tried hard enough. I had hit it multiple times with the CTX and the 17 inch coil and figured it had finally given up the ghost. You probably know where this is going by now... This morning I decided to revisit this site with the Equinox 800. I was using pretty much stock settings of Field 1 but I bumped the recovery speed up to 7. Lo and behold I started hearing smooth repeatable signals. Nine buttons later I was left scratching my head wondering how I could have missed these. All of these! There were a couple iffy signals I dug that ended up being buttons, but for the most part they sounded good. They ranged from 7 to 18 on the Equinox. I haven't dug that many buttons from this site in years. The larger button (maybe a small dandy) and the musketball were at the fringe of the site, but I am still surprised they were missed all these years. The site does have some square nails and iron trash mixed in. Not what I would call loaded with iron but it is there.. My credentials are that I have been detecting for years, been using Minelab since the 90s, read books and wrote articles about detecting, so I guess I consider myself a pretty good detectorists. Now along comes the Equinox and it made me feel bad in a way today. By that I mean how could my good old CTX have missed these. .

I have an AT PRO. I have an Equinox 800 on its way (very soon I hope). Is there any situation where you have found the ATP to be better? I have the 10” (actually have 2 of them) and 8” coils for it. Is there a reason to keep the ATP? I want to keep my detecting cost down but do not want to sell something and wish I had it back. I figure if I sell it I would get 50% of what I have invested in it. It has only gone through 12 sets of batteries in the 4 years I have had it. What are your thoughts?

My first post after reading this fine forum's Nox thread a while.I've been an FBS user for over a decade with an Explorer II and a CTX,but at 68 I had to find a lighter unit for my shoulders sake.Got my 600 on Sat.,charged it and paired up my new avantree wireless and Sun. I went out to NYC park that has been a silver mine.I have found 569 silver coins here and my buds hundreds more since we have stumbled on to this park in 2009 however the silver has been drying up and my last 5 hunts have been skunks.I kept 600 settings in default park 1,only changing to 50 tone.My initial impression is it's a pleasure to swing such a light machine and i could go all day with no pain.It is really fast and being familiar with how numbers can bounce on Minelabs,I was able to call every coin before I dug it as a penny,dime,quarter.No deepies that I had missed before but I took it to the trashiest sites there( and NYC parks are the worst),I spot that I have pounded even with my 6" CTX coil,I managed to pop out a 47 Rosie(this a very eroded spot) at 1" and 08 Barber dime at 4"So far so good with the Nox.I will try other pounded parks in future hunts and see how it does but for $600 this thing seems like a real bargain.HH

Club hunt yesterday ... still learning my machine but pulled this CT copper at about 10" down...

I was planning a full day of working my new E600, but circumstances arose and I only had about 1.5 hours to try her out. Currently living on Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where a ton of old family housing units are either currently being torn down or in the process of getting ready. Most of them were built in the late 50's to early 60's. Additionally the original WIng Commander and Senior Commanders homes from the 40's are still standing but now unoccupied. I chose to work one of the Senior Commander homes for this quick run with the 600. Using Park2 and having to fuss a bit to quiet it down near power lines, I spent an hour and half just listening, digging, and playing with the unit to understand its functions and tones. Originally set for 50 tones, but backed it off to 5. Recovery set to 3. No iron bias or other features that I still need to learn. Had lots of solid, repeatable 13 hits, but no nickels. All heavy metal parts. So... for an hour and a half, I pulled three Wheaties, a bunch of copper pennies, and some clad...along with a old drawer pull, a key, and a spent rifle cartridge which is very curious being in the ground of the former WIng Commanders yard. Only got about half the yard swung, but will use the six homes there for learning the 600 inside and out....especially in preparation for when my 800 finally comes in. I am getting closer and closer to silver country here on base. I'm documenting the dates of coins I'm finding in various areas, and narrowing it down to the oldest areas where I am positive there will be plenty of silver buried. These areas are not very trashy because the military is really hard on littering and messes. Additionally, because there is very limited access to the base, there are very few people who have ever detected here! Virgin ground for a virgin detector! If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll be back out learning, learning, learning!!

Sitting comfortably, #5 on my dealer's 800 waiting list, I thought I was in for a relatively quick sale completion, right? Wrong! No movement on the list for a month, and not a lot of optimism about next month either. In the meantime, swinging my 4.6lbs GTI 2500 is starting to really kill my arm. Love it, but it's just too damn heavy! What to do, what to do? It was Thursday when I saw that a well respected Texas Dealer posted that they had the 600 in stock. Hmmmmmmmm! Eureka! Called the exceptionally friendly and knowledgeable owner, and he had one left and honors the military/vet discount from Minelab. Shot off my DD214 and ordered online at 1:45 PM. Immediately got an initial email confirming the order, and then at 3:20 PM, I got an email that the detector had shipped! AWESOME! (Didn't post the dealer name, because I'm not sure what the rules are here, or if they are a supporting dealer) The way I figure, I'll scratch my Equinox itch by temporarily use the 600 and learning Minelab's little tricks with it, while saving my arm swinging a powerful MD that weighs more than 1.5lbs less than my GTI. When my 800 finally arrives, and because of the military discount I was given, I should be able to fully recover the cost of the 600, or awfully close, unless I destroy it. It's like a free rental! (Or...I could give it to my 10-year-old son who has been mastering his new ACE 300, and doing well with it) Now the problem is what to eventually do with my GTI 2500. I am sorely tempted to keep it for the sole reason that I have the dual-coil "Treasure Hound" Eagle Eye, and that is fantastic for deep relic hunting. I also have four other coils for it, including two imaging coils. I DO love the imaging capability of the GTI, and it is pretty accurate, especially on coins. (B size), but having about $1500 of GTI and accessories sitting unused for very long periods is wasteful, so it's a dilemma. My 600 should arrive at my doorstep on Monday, or Tuesday at the latest. Manual printed, check. USB charger ready, check. VERY attractive hunting areas, unspoiled and not hammered by anyone awaiting (On military base...old demolished housing areas)!

I told a friend about it and he asked if I would do a write up on it and I said no I just wanted to share my finds with him. I thought about it and he is right I should talk abut how it worked out! So I went to my button site and man this machine is a lot more talkative than my CTX. I was getting nice solid hits among the machine gun fire of iron. These hits would turn out to be .22 shells at about a 7 and the lead at about a 10. After about my 3rd 10 I was hesitant to dig it, but I wanted to see what it was. It was the smallest button I have ever found sitting 4" deep. Then I finally after about 2 hours get a nice mid-high tone at 22-24 and I decided to play with different modes while the target was en-situ. Field 2 Fe bias 2 sensitivity 24 (yes very stable) auto ground balance multi. The target was stable and loud but there was a bunch of funky sounds on the edges and front to back due to the bed of iron in this place. Then I switch to park 2 and sounds damn near the same, a little more mechanical. Finally in beach 1. This was interesting, it sounded far and away the nicest in this mode! I chose to end the hunt here as I needed to go soon anyways and felt like it should be on a good note as it was a dime sized button about 6" deep! I plan on coming back here when it drys out. I have a strong feeling that the iron halos would be muted a bit when it gets bone dry in the mid-summer. That is when I would find deep stuff with the CTX and the 17" coil, it would stand to reason that the same would be true with this.

Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I've been reading Nox for over a month now and everything is becoming a big blur....Why is the iron Bias set at 6 (800 model) in park 1 but set at zero in Field 1? It's also set at zero in Park and Field 2 What I'm not getting is that field hunt modes would be were I would be encountering nails and get thus nail falsing. Most of the parks I hunt are relatively nail free. Me no understand lol strick

I'm new to the forum. Just purchased an Equinox 800 which is supposed to ship in 2 weeks. I'm curious if anyone has used the Equinox around electric livestock fence? I have a site here in Western VA that has produced some great colonial and Civil War relics. I've pounded it with an XP Deus, AT Pro, T2SE, Nokta Fors Relic and a Racer 2 - all of them performed reasonably well but I know there's more there. Lots of iron and the areas I hunt are surrounded by electric fence. Drives every detector I've used there crazy. I've read conflicting comments about EMI and I can't wait to see how the Equinox functions at this site. Any settings suggestions, comments, thoughts? Thanks!

There as been the occasional mention that someone hoped a future upgrade would change something in how the machine worked. How would one be able to connect the NOX to a computer to change the firmware? Not that Minelab has a great history of firmware upgrades.

Last week, my son and I went on another “Treasure Coast” trip, this time armed with our new Equinox 800’s. Our last trip to St. Augustine had me finding the only “old coin”, an 8 Reale, that I was sure was authentic, but my 21 yo son had the opposite opinion. For the last 6 months, I have been hearing it from him about my “lead slug”. Fast forward to last week. It’s about 11:30 pm on 3/27, and he comes up from behind me and tells me he found a “fake” coin, and jokingly accuses me of planting it, so he could have the heart attack/heart break of finding a worthless piece of junk… So, Sam pulls the “coin” out of his junk pouch so we can both give it a better look. Upon inspection of the coin, its mint appearance gave the impression of a newly minted souvenir, but the coins details were so fine, and weight so heavy, we really did not know what to think. Back at the hotel we researched, compared pictures of actual coins, and did everything we could at 3 am to prove or disprove its origin. The next morning we went to the West Bay Trading Company in Vero Beach to have the coin seen by folks who know much more than we do. The guys at West Bay were really helpful, determined that the gold content is just under 90%. 21 carat (by all records we found, 87.5 % was what the coin were supposed to be), Both Ron and Scott looked at the coin in disbelief of the condition, and determined that it was indeed genuine, and Scott, with his loop, discovered that the date was an over stamp 1787 over a 6. We were advised to have the coin graded and slabbed, and that is where it sits now. Needless to say, we had a great trip. The Equinox has proved to be a great, fast, deep machine. Small brass/bronze/copper bits at 8 to 12 inches ring up VERY loud and clear on the wet sand (Beach 2), leaving no doubt that you have a non-ferrous item under the coil. Yes, aluminum rings up as well, but as we all know, that is just the cost of doing business… Battery run time is all of 10 hours plus, the wireless headphones worked well, the backlight on its lowest setting is perfect, and the machine preformed very quietly in the dry sand, and even in the surf. Very happy with the Equinox!

My idea of a counter weight for the EQ. I took an Xcal main pod and cut it down from one Joe (ole beach nut) had sent me. Used a plunger lock and a small lower shaft piece. It can extend another 4" or so. Pardon the sloppiness..... i just wanted to throw it together. It does make a difference with the nose being a little off balance...... but lets face it this is one light machine .... however, when the big coil comes out....... here ya go.

Hi Everyone, I currently live in Russia and ran out of patience waiting for more Equinox 800's to arrive (I've been on a waiting list for months now). I had a friend buy one for me in Bogota, Colombia and he will bring it to me in another Latin American country next week and we'll hunt there. Thus, because I won't have the machine until next week, I have been learning by reading this forum and watching videos (not ideal but I have no choice). I'd like to get some tips from some of you who have used the Nox- The first time I will use the machine, I'll be searching in the middle of the jungle at an old Spanish colonial site that is heavy in iron (mostly old mule shoes) and mineralized soil. In an environment like this, which settings would you use (or at least start off with)? I'll obviously adjust on the fly but would like some general tips about starting off in this unique environment. Unfortunately, there is no "jungle" setting so I imagine one of the Park settings; but what about variables like iron bias and recovery speed? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Little pick-me-up to all fellow Noxaholics..... This beauty was hiding right underneath a lead sinker. (7oz Fishing weight) Got a 22/23 with additional 12/13 reading...dug out the lead sinker and re-scanned.. 12/13 ....reading, then BAM! Thank you Ma'am!! Needless to say, am SUPER STOKED!

I was invited to a permission by my hunting partner and friend Flysar yesterday... a turn of the century Rodeo Grounds and Picnic area. He has hunted this location a few times previously, and has found a Barber Quarter, a Barber Dime and a Buffalo, but warned me that the targets are sparse and the ground is loaded with iron. We were both very curious about what the Equinox could do in this environment. There were three of us hunting, I had the E600, he had his Deus and the third was swinging an AT Max. We started by marking a few targets.. I set out in Park 1, 50 tone, Recovery 3 and Iron Bias 0. I marked 6 targets and he marked about the same with his deus. As I mentioned in another thread, the Equinox was deadly on deep rusty iron. In a few cases, it was even giving me id's in the high 20's-low 30's and never bouncing up to high 30's. The Deus on the other hand, marked 6 or 7 old rusty bottle caps (a few of which the Equinox showed in the zinc range... 18-21). I will say, when comparing the marked targets between the three machines... we usually ended up with 1 "I would dig it" (and usually from the machine that marked the target), and 2 "I wouldn't dig it" by the other two machines. So, with the testing results ending inconclusive, we decided to break off and hunt. Over all we spent a solid 3 hours around the entrance and stadium of the rodeo grounds and other than Flysar finding a wheat, no old coins were found, only a few pennies, a clad dime and a clad quarter between the three of us. We decided to call it a day... mostly discouraged. As my friends drove away, I decided to take one more pass on the outside edge of the grounds, near the horse trailer entrance next to a large pasture. My first target was the penny with a cross stamped out in the middle. I thought to myself... "well that is a good sign". Within 30 minutes, in an area about 20 yards square... the other 5 targets in the picture along with the cross penny were in my pocket. I had spent all morning chasing iffy and sometimes repeatable high tones, digging all manner of iron bits (one square nail, which I was happy to find), working hard to try and make good targets out of the clicks and wheezes... and boom! these targets came in with roundness of tone and clarity. No doubt they were diggable. The three silver dimes all presented at 26-28, the war nickel was 13-14, the wheat was 24-26 and was the deepest at about 5". The other targets were 3-4". Interestingly enough, the ground in this area was dense and hard packed, but not dry... it had plenty of moisture, but it nearly took a digger to break the plug. All three dimes hid inside the plug from my Carrot on '3' with not response. I had to break open the plugs to find them with the pinpointer, and only after standing up to re-sweep the hole and plug with the 600 to find out where the target had gone. My takeaway is to never give up on a site, especially that has old ground. The targets are out there. Thanks to Flysar for inviting me along and giving me my best silver day to date. Tim.

A nice video.