Equinox Ground Balance

[Don In South Jersey]

Thank You for the education, what great info!!!

[MarXthespot]

This is the sort of info that is very valuable and very difficult to know the wheres, whys and hows of getting without the help of someone who knows a lot about the subject.  Thank you Steve, and to all those you collect this info from.

[steveg]

HOLY SMOKES, Steve...you have knocked it out of the park here!!!  

THANKS for the GREAT info!

I now have some studying to do!  Excellent!

Steve

[Cabin Fever]

Ya this the type of information that gets you to next level Detecting..   Greatly appreciated!

[scoopjohnb]

We are at best simple users which enjoy the genius and knowhow off those that design and build and help finetune. Often fall pray to overthinking stuff when out of the box it just plain performs!

Great read Mr H

[Cal_Cobra]

WOW Steve when you said you replied to my inquiry you weren’t kidding ?

I'm visiting family for Easter weekend and only brought my iPhone so I’ll read this again when I get home so I can read all the links and videos, great stuff!

i know in the Minelab Equinox Treasure blogs they talked about Multi IQ transmitting AND receiving simultaneous multiple frequencies as to do real-time ground sampling and analysis.  Pretty sophisticated stuff going on under the hood.

Thanks again for taking the time to post the detailed reply, I’ll give it the read it deserves when I return home.

[Cal_Cobra]

On 3/28/2018 at 4:48 PM, cladzilla said:

Yes even as it was chirping and chipping, signals from actual targets still came through clearly. I just have a lot less fun if my ears are getting bombarded all the time :-)

Sounds like a normal hunt on my F75 

[Judy]

I was never ever going to look at how they work as I knew it would mess with my head . Thanks Steve now I need to know more . Or if I leave it a couple of days the urge might go and life will be as I knew it ??

[Mark Gillespie]

On ‎3‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 2:50 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

I have made mention several times that every search profile has its own ground balance and so it is critical in bad ground to ground balance each search profile separately. Again, in milder ground just leave it be. How to know when to ground balance? In any mode, hit the horseshoe button and detect over metal free ground. If you get lots of puttering in the -9 and -8 and possibly -7 area that is the ground signal as is shown in the phase chart above. This is another reason why running full tones (no items rejected) can be beneficial as you do hear the ground signal. You might eliminate that signal by dropping the sensitivity a notch or two. But if it is persistent it does indicate you probably should be ground balancing the detector. Even when you notch out this region the ground signal is still there and so trying to get that negative range to settle down is the best bet for most people to help eliminate ground masking effects. For shallower targets you might also ground balance, then jack the sensitivity up and block out the negative numbers. This will make shallow targets like perhaps small gold nuggets pop but does risk deeper items going missed due to ground masking.

Absolutely, positivity 100% true Steve.  Amazing how you put technical data in layman terms.

[Chase Goldman]

2 hours ago, Mark Gillespie said:

For shallower targets you might also ground balance, then jack the sensitivity up and block out the negative numbers. This will make shallow targets like perhaps small gold nuggets pop but does risk deeper items going missed due to ground masking.

Cool tip, Steve, thanks!