New Coiltek Coils For Equinox - Focus On 5x10 For Gold

[geof_junk]

The price increase can be due to the dollar rate comparison. Since Cov-19  the AUD against the US has had a range of less than 60 cents to over 77 cents. That means a $100 Aust made coil would of been $60 US is now $77 US which is well over 25% increase in the last 12 months. You all are lucky the MineLab GPX6000 and others are no longer made in Australia unlike NuggetFinders and Coiltex are made in Aus. So I think there will be some price changes or reduced margin for the manufactures. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

[Skookum]

On 2/2/2021 at 1:31 PM, mn90403 said:

A bit off topic but when would you use the Equinox over the Gold Monster?

I use the GM1000 when I want to find smaller bits, go headphone free, or not think too much about settings.

I use the EQX800 when I want to have better discrimination, manage heavier mineralization, or tinker with settings. 

In the picture, the inner ring are all GM1000 finds from the same area. Outside that includes some GPZ and EQX results.  As a particular experiment, after thoroughly cleaning out an area with the GM, I came back to see what the EQX with the 6 inch coil could scrub up.  A few larger leftovers were simply masked by mineralization that the GM seemed to be struggling with. I chalked those up to the EQX multifrequency magic. 
 

Can someone explain to me what the Minelab logo on these Coiltek coils means?

[Dances With Doves]

 That small gold is impressive skookum.Did you every try the 40kz. on the Nox to try to find those inner ring fly poop specks.  

[matt]

39 minutes ago, Skookum said:

I use the GM1000 when I want to find smaller bits, go headphone free, or not think too much about settings.

I use the EQX800 when I want to have better discrimination, manage heavier mineralization, or tinker with settings. 

In the picture, the inner ring are all GM1000 finds from the same area. Outside that includes some GPZ and EQX results.  As a particular experiment, after thoroughly cleaning out an area with the GM, I came back to see what the EQX with the 6 inch coil could scrub up.  A few larger leftovers were simply masked by mineralization that the GM seemed to be struggling with. I chalked those up to the EQX multifrequency magic. 
 

Can someone explain to me what the Minelab logo on these Coiltek coils means?

What settings do you use on the Nox? Standard gold 1 or 2? I'm especially curious about the discrimination part of your settings. I haven't used mine for prospecting yet, but am going to try and get out soon. I have had success with the GM1000 in trashy areas using discrimination so your finds look really good using the Nox.

Nice finds!

[Skookum]

12 hours ago, Dances With Doves said:

 That small gold is impressive skookum.Did you every try the 40kz. on the Nox to try to find those inner ring fly poop specks.  

Thanks. I did. For me, the multifrequency setting seemed to handle the hot dirt and bedrock better in this area. 
 

12 hours ago, matt said:

What settings do you use on the Nox? Standard gold 1 or 2? I'm especially curious about the discrimination part of your settings. I haven't used mine for prospecting yet, but am going to try and get out soon. I have had success with the GM1000 in trashy areas using discrimination so your finds look really good using the Nox.

Nice finds!

These pieces were fairly shallow on significantly variable ground. Even though Minelab says Gold 2 is for difficult ground, it was too reactive here. Gold 2 also wasn’t as capable sniffing out the smaller specks. I found that Gold 1 mode was the way to go along with frequent manual ground balancing. I also did as some others here have mentioned elsewhere here by canceling out signals in the -9 to -7 range. That really helped to better handle the noise. It’s much more instructive to play around with settings when you know the targets are there!

Sorry for taking the side jaunt in the thread. Perhaps a segue back is saying that I don’t believe a 5x10” would have helped me here. The 6” was perfect for the scenario. 

Still eager to hear what Minelab permitting their logo on an aftermarket coil means. 

[afreakofnature]

Out of curiosity did you alter the FE or FE2 settings?

[Steve Herschbach]

9 hours ago, Skookum said:

Still eager to hear what Minelab permitting their logo on an aftermarket coil means.

So it's not just me. Yeah, use of the official logo is a big deal legally, and does tell us something about the relationship between Minelab and Coiltek at this point in time.

[geof_junk]

My thought is COV19 disruption (supply and manufacture) across the globe and well established coil in the after market experience available in Australia. 

[rvpopeye]

An "endorsement" , maybe just an "approval"  points(cut) possible ?