Eqx 900 & Legend Separation

[HardPack]

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

The Deus might be a better tool in the thick stuff as well. I would tweak Silencer up or use Goldfield with mild IAR unless the soil is very mineralized (in which case I would set IAR to 0) and again lower sensitivity to focus on unmasking shallow non-ferrous

I plan to take the Deus out to the site after the storms move out. I set up a "Deep Relic" IAR program with the X35 for a starter. I'll take a small rake along too.

[HardPack]

On 12/27/2023 at 12:24 PM, Chase Goldman said:

With the 900, I would personally up recovery speed from 4 and set the iron bias to max and back off on sensitivity to 20 or less to minimize falsing as much as possible in thick iron and see if you could cherry pick at least some shallow non-ferrous out of the iron muck recognizing you are just going to lose depth on deep non-ferrous regardless.  I mean in thick iron, depth is pretty much out the window due to falsing, masking, and target ID down averaging, so one of the first things I do in a thick iron patch after upping recovery speed is lowering sensitivity, the filters never really do much.  I know your test garden is showing you some potentially “optimal” settings but your test garden can’t really replicate all the myriad of real world 3-Dimensional ferrous to non-ferrous target spatial orientations, soil moisture conditions, and old target halo effects that can result in masking and falsing at your tough mining site.

I planted a few more rows of coins (1,5,10,25 cents) in the garden at 4, 6, 7, & 8 inches to check the effect of setting changes on the EQX 900 detection depth. For the base test dropped sensitivity to 16, Recovery to 1 and Iron Bias to 0. TID stabilized at the lower sensitivity settings 18 and below, I was able to tell a penny from a dime using SMF in Park 1/2 & Field 1/2. The 900 detected all the coins at 7 inches but at 8 inches (due to size?) the dime and penny signals were growing real faint. Set up the “user profile” to switch to Recovery 6 & Iron Bias 9 in Field 2, will use a Sensitivity no higher than 18. Test of the user profile in the garden was good to 7 inches at a ground balance of 40 (granitic clay). However, all the coin rows were outside the ring of buried iron. It appears to me that increases in the Recovery setting has more of an effect on detection depth than increases of the Iron Bias setting. Increases in Sensitivity settings from 20 to 28 caused a corresponding increase in the TID spread with the penny & dime TIDs blending. 

I saw similar test results in lower depth detection with increases with the XP Deus (9”x35) Reactivity, Silencer & IAR settings (#6 Deep & #10 Goldfield). Increases in the Deus Sensitivity & Audio Response settings increased depth detection or audio respectively without the wide TID spread.

Big storm system blowing into the west coast, large waves impacting the coastline with some tidal flooding. 

 

 

[relicmeister]

I would assume the Nox 900 iron falsing to be less of a problem when using the 6” coil in dense iron - regardless of IB or recovery speed Bought a never used 900 return that saved me $250 ( been wanting a 900 for some time) which I’ll have in a couple days. I’m looking forward to hitting some iron laden sites using the 6” coil. Using the Deus 2 w/ 9” coil it’s like pulling teeth to find anything non ferrous. When I had my 800 and 6” coil I pulled my only ever half reales from the iron- wondering if the 900 will unmask my 2nd. Just had a surgery and with snow on the way it that will have to wait. 

[Zaj56]

3 hours ago, relicmeister said:

I would assume the Nox 900 iron falsing to be less of a problem when using the 6” coil in dense iron - regardless of IB or recovery speed Bought a never used 900 return that saved me $250 ( been wanting a 900 for some time) which I’ll have in a couple days. I’m looking forward to hitting some iron laden sites using the 6” coil. Using the Deus 2 w/ 9” coil it’s like pulling teeth to find anything non ferrous. When I had my 800 and 6” coil I pulled my only ever half reales from the iron- wondering if the 900 will unmask my 2nd. Just had a surgery and with snow on the way it that will have to wait. 

Good luck and keep us posted. What area of Pa. are  you at?   Here in SW Pa (Johnstown)we are expecting a bunch of snow today.

[relicmeister]

On 1/6/2024 at 8:25 AM, Zaj56 said:

Good luck and keep us posted. What area of Pa. are  you at?   Here in SW Pa (Johnstown)we are expecting a bunch of snow today.

Oh, I’m in the northeast of PA and we got 15” here ( corner of pocono mtns ) 

[HardPack]

On 1/6/2024 at 2:19 AM, relicmeister said:

I would assume the Nox 900 iron falsing to be less of a problem when using the 6” coil in dense iron - regardless of IB or recovery speed

The smaller diameter 6” coil dodges between the pieces of iron trash easier. Using both the 6” & 11” nox coils with a higher IB setting was able to tone down iron falsing over a 8” deep horseshoe and railroad spike. An 8” deep iron plate (8”x 8”) gives off a consistent non-ferrous TID regardless of IB setting. An 8” deep axehead gives off an iron falsing signal regardless of IB setting. 
 

On 1/6/2024 at 2:19 AM, relicmeister said:

I pulled my only ever half reales

French reales? A few Spanish Reales pulled out of the ground here in the west by others, I am still searching. During the gold rush coins were in short supply, the old prospectors cut the reales into eight pieces for trading and often traded their military belt buckles. 

Another round of cold & snow moving into the west coast on Tuesday the 9th. In the teens tonight. One side of the family started west in the late 1700’s from Lancaster county. The other side moved out of western North Carolina at about the same time. They all met up and began begetting in Texas before moving up into the Indian territories prior to the civil war.
Stay dry.

[relicmeister]

That’s some amazing history there!

900 arrived to the dismay of my wife. As stated earlier, I’m recovering from elective surgery and feeling momentarily decent put it together and threw it on charge. Build quality improvements are quite evident.   that’s All I have to report so far.