Popular Post Steve Herschbach Posted January 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2018 Hi, I decided to test the Equinox battery and stated run time. The test was simple. Full charge, then let sit in a corner with the threshold turned up to make a continuous but not overly loud tone. The machine was down to a flashing battery indicator at 12 hours and sometime before it hit 12.5 hours the unit went dead. That jives with Minelabs stated battery life of up to 12 hours. However, running the coil over the ground makes the circuit work harder, as can numerous options, like using the external speaker at high volumes, ground tracking, wireless, backlight, etc. that can all contribute to a shorter run time. I will try and load it all up sometime to get the short run time. For now I was extremely pleased to see Equinox match the stated spec of up to 12 hours on a charge. 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relicmeister Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Thanks for trying the experiment,Steve I'm fine with at least 8 hours run time however you use the machine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase Goldman Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Thanks Steve for running the test. Encouraging results. I wish ML would give us the mah rating of the Equinox battery so we could size the emergency power bank to give us at least one complete recharge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tnsharpshooter Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Steve, if you have a pack hooked to to detector, does this bypass the internal battery making detector run on pack current? Even if it doesn't maybe you should consider hooking Equinox up to a 10,000 mAh pack, turn everything on and see how long the detector takes to bring the pack down to 50% charge. Assuming you have such a pack that provides digital readout of actual charge level. If this not practical or doable. Try While Equinox battery is depleted, hook a pack like above and see what percentage of the packs charge it takes to fully charge the detector's internal battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 You can charge the detector from an external source, or you can run it while attached to an external source. You cannot do both at the same time. So if the detector is attached to a power bank and the detector is turned off, it will charge the detector. If the detector is turned on when attached to an external battery source, it will run off that source instead of the built in battery. Power packs and runtimes are being discussed here 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tnsharpshooter Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Thanks Steve. Thanks for all your work helping us with the Equinox too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesH Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Sounds like my batteries will run down before the detectors will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinclair Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 On 25.1.2018 at 2:24 AM, Steve Herschbach said: You can charge the detector from an external source, or you can run it while attached to an external source. You cannot do both at the same time. So if the detector is attached to a power bank and the detector is turned off, it will charge the detector. If the detector is turned on when attached to an external battery source, it will run off that source instead of the built in battery. Power packs and runtimes are being discussed here The full user manual says the follwing on p.8: "If the detector is turned on during charging, the charge time will be longer." Which implies that you can do both at the same time - nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 You can either run the detector from an external charging device or charge it from an external charging device, but you cannot do both at once. They are awkwardly saying that if you run the machine while attached to a charging device charging is going to take longer....... because you are running the machine and not charging it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTrouble Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Don't know if anyone has noticed yet or maybe I have not seen it posted yet but the size of the EQ battery is 5000mAh, according to the machine stats. Most charging/run batteries are over this size and I believe anything up to 22000 0r 26500mAh can be legally transported on aircraft In carry on baggage. The battery in the Equinox (5000mAh) because it is part of the machine and under the limit of 100Wh can be transported in carry on or in checked baggage. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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