Equinox Fe Settings Poll

[Dan(NM)]

I have always used the F2 at 0, I have never tried running it any higher.

[midalake]

I have been running FE 6 here at the beach. FE 6 stops the wrap around of the ferrous 1-2-and 5 peso coin. 

Well at least this thread made me look on Youtube on how to find F2.  ?Guess I kind of forgot about it.  I was kind of impressed with a Vid by Calabash that showed the F2 cranked up to 9 and there was zero depth loss in his test garden. ? 

Any of you beach hunters using it cranked up????  Does anyone notice better response in moving salt? 

  I really do not dig any iron at FE6.  I am out today on my machine and will experiment a little!  With running FE6 for days on end now, I should be able to notice any changes quickly.  

Dave

[CVISChris]

I use stock settings. I have changed them but don’t fully understand them so I tend to leave them alone. 

[longbow62]

I use F2-0 always. Using F2-0 lets you sniff out masked deep silver better. The higher the Iron Bias the more good targets I'm going to miss.

[okara gold]

I run FE 0. I read about the bottle cap improvements using FE2 but I don't mind digging extra junk if it means possibly not missing possible gold.

[abenson]

When Minelab first added the F2 iron bias I didn't like it. I think because of what I was reading on how it compared to the FE iron bias and I tried to adjust my settings for F2 based on what I was reading. But once I set out on my own to see what was really happening I really started to like F2 more. Now I run F2 at 0 most of the time. The exception is when I'm hunting ghost towns that are littered with bottle caps and flat tin and then I'll run it up to 6. I run 0 most of the time mainly because of the targets I'm after and the sites I hunt. In mineralized ground IMO you really need to ne careful about how high you run your iron bias. Small and deep targets will report as iron if you run it too high.

Now back to why I didn't like FE vs F2 when it first came out. First place I went was a military camp relic hunting (ground is mineralized). I set the Equinox up with iron bias F2 running at 4 based on what I had read and how it compared to the FE settings. Come to find out F2 at 4 is really starting to knock some stuff out and lose depth. Found a few deep targets which turned out to be things like p-caps and small pewter buttons. When comparing these signals I found using FE 0 they sounded great and then going over them in F2 4 they sounded like iron. It was in a later hunt I realized that turning the F2 settings down allowed these deep targets in mineralized ground to come through and report as non-ferrous.

[Hardtimehermit]

Being rather new only swinging the Equinox 800 for 1 year, i listen carefully to the veterans here, and therefore i run FE2-0. I don't want to miss any good targets, and would rather dig some trash. ht ?

[Luis]

normally run f2 at 0. I only modify it when I hunt on the beach

[Badger-NH]

F2 always at 0. 

I haven't found any reason to raise the setting.

I think Iron Bias is mostly for people who have trouble with flat iron and bottle caps which I rarely encounter. It seems to have no effect on nails or normal everyday iron.