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[dewcon4414]

He had the machine for several months and was in phone and Email contact routinely suggesting changes that the engineers listened to.   It wasnt just one version he had a hand in..... takes time to test and rewrite..... then get it back out to him and the testers.   This was a very good move for ML and will in fact give us an even better machine.

[Cal_Cobra]

11 hours ago, dewcon4414 said:

He had the machine for several months and was in phone and Email contact routinely suggesting changes that the engineers listened to.   It wasnt just one version he had a hand in..... takes time to test and rewrite..... then get it back out to him and the testers.   This was a very good move for ML and will in fact give us an even better machine.

Agreed, just curious about the start of the clock of said 6-week delay.....

[Chase Goldman]

2 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Agreed, just curious about the start of the clock of said 6-week delay.....

Since at least one forum member here has received their machine, I would guess that the clock started at least six weeks ago, if not longer.  Otherwise, users could be receiving units don't incorporate the fix for whatever Tom discovered and caused the delay.   I find Minelab knowingly doing that unlikely.

[Guest Tnsharpshooter]

18 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Might as well add a bit of fuel to the fire, wouldn't want it to die out

So happens that Tom Dankowski (aka NASA-TOM) was also a field tested for the Equinox, and he recently posted that he was the cause of a 6-week delay,.  An inquiry as to when that delay timer kicked of was met with deafening silence:

NASA-Tom Wrote:
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((Although I'm to blame for the 6-week delay.))

Tom when you say you're responsible for a six week delay, can you share when this delay incurred? Is that six weeks from when you made your post? Six weeks from January 1?  Just what are we looking at here? Another month or two to wait for the equinox?

No idea how that factors into the unicorn we're calling the Equinox.....I will say that with Tom D. being a long time, avid (die hard) methodical and scientifically minded detectorists, whatever it was that he impressed upon Minelab to delay the Equinox, must've been a fairly big code rewrite as many of these tweaks and whatnot can be done in a matter of days, not months.  It'll be interesting to see what else he shares, as so far he's been exceedingly tight lipped about all things Equinox.

Just a hunch.

Notice how iron bias setting was slid in on the brochure.

I'll bet this was "the delay".  Only speculation, but remember iron bias only works in multi freq.

[Chase Goldman]

Switching Gold Mode to multi IQ could have been it also.

[Guest Tnsharpshooter]

53 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

Switching Gold Mode to multi IQ could have been it also.

Very true.  Actually since multi freq using 5khz.  Maybe iron bias setting allowance makes Equinox smoother in iron- all speculation.  And I base this off of my CTX experience.

[Chase Goldman]

9 minutes ago, Tnsharpshooter said:

Very true.  Actually since multi free using 5khz.  Maybe iron bias setting allowance makes Equinox smoother in iron- all speculation.  And base this off of my CTX experience.

True.  In fact, it could very well be both of those things since they both showed up in the last Minelab update.  It's probably at least one or the other but they could be tied together.  Can't wait to play with iron bias to see what it is really all about and the magnitude of the effect as it is adjusted.  I know you will get to the heart of it based on how you approach the thick iron testing of Deus.

[Morris]

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