Sinclair Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 Couldn't resist and went out again before they put the beach chairs back in place this week. When I arrived, they've put fresh sand on the beach and plowed everything Been there for 2h and only did a 10mx80m stripe. Didn't expect to find anything.. but: This thing is a coin magnet for sure! Still struggle with 2€ peaces but managed to find one I went waaaay slower than I normally would. It seems like you have to really slow down on trashy sites to hear all the good stuff. Could have keept diggin' the whole night long, but .. hard day at work tommorow 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinclair Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 Gotta love those sundowners on the beach - that alone is worth coming along. The phone pictures really do no justice: Not too bad, since we still had no beach-weather: I'm digging pretty deep holes all the time.. probably cleaning up, what the others have missed Got some junk-bling bling, too. Not sure what that golden colored earring is made of, but the little heart-shaped one is 925 silver! That thing is friggin small .. had been laying 2" deep maybe. On monday I've been to the probably most trashy beach ever - no fun with the nox there and I would have missed that earring for sure. Iron discrim doesn't work pretty well in those locations and I still get headaches from those damn bottletops! Who can explain, why the Nox can't handle them? MF or single frequency doesn't matter. Is it the coil design? I've dug countless bottletops the last two weeks .. some of them have a pretty stable ID and while I know the "tricks" to recognize them, it always wastes plenty of my time! I have beaches with 5 false bleeps per swing in certain spots.. that's no fun at all. My fisher is completely silent if I discrim iron only. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 3 hours ago, Sinclair said: I've dug countless bottletops the last two weeks .. some of them have a pretty stable ID and while I know the "tricks" to recognize them, it always wastes plenty of my time! I have beaches with 5 false bleeps per swing in certain spots.. that's no fun at all. My fisher is completely silent if I discrim iron only. Why not just ditch the Equinox and go back to using the Fisher then? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinclair Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Steve Herschbach said: Why not just ditch the Equinox and go back to using the Fisher then? It's an entry level machine (great one imho by the way) .. no wireless, too small coil for me, audio pitch control, adjustable tonebrake and so on... I do love the nox for it's features, it has pretty much everything I've been missing so far. But: I've thought it'll do at least as good as a detector, which is less than 1/4 the price in terms of something "simple" as bottlecaps. It took me 1 1/2 years to get the money together to buy this machine (retails for ~ 1150$ over here) + 7 month waiting for delivery .. I guess I am simply disappointed with its discrim capabilities. Even an analog 100€ detector does better.. seriously. Maybe the european market is just too small.. I don't know - see 2€ coin problem .. I can live with that one, cause I'll dig 15-16 signals anyway..Hm, they should have given me a testmachine just kidding.. How ever .. as I love the other features, I am searching for answers and solutions to make the machine work better in such conditions - if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinclair Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 5 hours ago, Sinclair said: Even an analog 100€ detector does better.. seriously. Maybe I'm just having the wrong point of view and the nox is the only machine which "sees" no non ferrous components of the bottlecaps .. I've dug many of them with the Teknetics T2, too.. I think it has something to do with the coils. Find of the day on the beach: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 You will dig more bottle caps with the Nox for sure but it's the speed that makes up for it. If you dont like digging bottle caps the CTX will completely ignore them. Choose the right machine for the environment you target. strick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinclair Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 Here's the roundup after ~4 weeks noxin': 51€ clad ~ 60$ > 28DM old-school clad and two foreign coins. 15 pcs very old clad (one missing on the photo). Oldest: 1905 3x silver and some junk jewelry At least one bucket full of trash... All in all not too bad for my beaches. The season didn't even start. Here's an example of what I have to deal with on some of my beaches: Problems so far: Loose lower rod. Grip shows some signs of wear on the rubber. Bottletops + IDs for Euro clad are sub-optimal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bado1 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Sell the Nox while the demand is high. Get a CTX or perhaps the Kruzer. The Kruzer would probably be a in line money wise from the Nox sale. Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 3 hours ago, Sinclair said: 28DM old-school clad Are you able to cash in or convert those obsolete coins to modern Euros? IMO the 'score' really comes down to what you are looking for. Modern coins have their own nemeses, but so do collectible coins. (I see aluminum drink can lids in your junk bucket. Those fool me, too.) Jewelry and native gold -- ditto. The Eqx does seem to pack a lot of targets into the 12-13 region (nickels here in the US but apparently modern Euros over on your continent), but are there tricks to maximize the reward vs. the risk? Time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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