Popular Post Mark Gillespie Posted December 26, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2018 This was my first hunt with my own modified Equinox program. Went through all the good jewelry I'd found and set the machine up to give one tone for the range of gold rings. Dug every nickel signal, didn't dig any gold rings but found one nice .925 ring that ID as a solid 31. Very unusual and it sparked me to dig. Of all the rings I've dug the majority range from 6-13 and most will read 13. Amazing machine, very enjoyable to hunt with. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeBoxer Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 What ID number does your gold tone go up to? You might be leaving some nice chunky rings out by cutting off at 13. I found a men's 14k band, 6.1 grams that rang a solid 14 and another 18k, 9.9 gram band that I tested rang as 15 or 16. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gillespie Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 Well after a length phone conversation with "Tinfoil" last night I might have programmed my range a little off. Originally the gold range was 3-13 and the reason it was this range was, of all the rings I've found, all fell between those numbers with the exception of two wedding bands that rang up as 17 and 18. Normally I dig quite of bit of pull tabs but wanting to cover more ground in hopes of finding a ring I limited the tabs I dug that day. But during our talk he mentioned my range and then indicated that most chains might fall down to maybe a -2. Jerry "Tinfoil" is one of the original ole timers to the forums and has a wealth of detecting knowledge that he has shared with me over the years. Thinking more deeply, he is right as usual. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alluminati Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 It is tough, I've found gold all the way up to 22. 1 or 2 is a common number for non-ring jewelry, for that reason if I had to pick a range, I guess I would dig 1 and 2. With higher number gold, you know its going to most likely be a ring. Low number gold has all the fine jewelry including chains which can still pack on the weight. More variety. If you dig 1 and 2, it can only be aluminum foil or gold jewelry. ? Pretty easy when you think about it that way. If you choose to actually disc out numbers, give yourself a bit of space so as to not clip signals 1-4 or 1-5 etc. You may even consider just flipping over to the Gold mode. Since you are digging such a narrow range of targets, multi tone is of little to no use anyway. Gold mode has that analog feel which is great for sizing and returns the fastest numbers when the horseshoe is depressed. After that it's just a numbers game, turn and burn. More foil = more gold. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Alluminati said: After that it's just a numbers game, turn and burn. More foil = more gold. Truer words have never been spoken. strick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gillespie Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 Well I broke into my wife's jewelry box, not really, she dug out the gold bracelets and necklaces for me to test. Sure enough they read anywhere from -1 to 3. And stretching them out on the ground proved one thing, the equinox can detect the finer stuff. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 The gold chain and crucifix I found back in April. The chain comes in as a scratchy unreadable target to a 1-2 depending on which program I'm using. The crucifix is a repeatable 3-4 pretty much. strick 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alluminati Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 oof, nice haul! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gillespie Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 That is an awesome piece of gold. To me that is very valuable. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Nice haul indeed! I think it's tough to make a jewelry hunting program, there's far too many variables. Silver dimes for example, I've had the shallow ones hit at 24, and deep ones hit at 32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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