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This sounds like a typical Geotech1 thread:
"i am wanting finding golden treasures 10 metres deep. what depest detector i am needing please"
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Top tip when using Photobucket: crop off the top and bottom of the image by different amounts, so that the 'centre-piece' of the image is at the bottom. Then the stupid big "host.store.share photobucket" watermark doesn't sit all over the top of your hammered coin.
( or maybe add a load of plain white border on the top edge to get the same effect. )
My guess is that M
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These comparisons do raise interesting questions. ( interesting to me, as I've just recently purchased an Eqx 600 ).
A tiny coin like a cut farthing [ 9mm or 1/3rd inch on its straight edge ] should ideally be best found with a smaller search-coil, say 6 or 7 inch, when talking about single-freq machines. And the "corner-frequency / -3dB freq" of that coin is about 25 kHz, so a de
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Q:"Also how much will it cost to replace the battery?"
26650 size Lithium cells are under 10 US dollars. How much they will cost when fitted with the appropriate little plug on a short cable is an unknown. If you're handy with a soldering iron, it's likely you could transfer the connector over.
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Mike's idea about adding a boom on the rear of the shaft is a good one. Make sure the last 2 inches / 50mm is away from metal, as the end 30mm of the cable is the antenna.
Standard Deus waveguides are 115 cm long, longer than you would ideally want for the Nox, but the excess can be dealt with easily.
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Simple. Use a Deus 'waveguide' cable. Fix one end along the top edge of the NoxBox , attach the other to a float, eg. polystyrene block.
Genuine XP 'guides have unneccesary mouldings on the ends, so you may as well buy the cheaper simpler aftermarket ones with heatshrinked ends.
See this earlier thread:
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... or large ones.
Here's a post I made on a UK forum on the topic of metal coil bolts: whether they would work, what's the best metal etc.
Stainless steel is certainly a poor electrical conductor. And a poor heat conductor, too, making it a bad choice for saucepans, you would reason...
{ the Wiedemann-Franz Law: }
Yes, Rick, other CuNi alloys had been on our 'radar'
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Rick: The ear-ring is certainly a good subject for replacing with an equivalent 'dummy' that is reproduceable. But its odd shape of wire combined with the clasp on the end makes it trickier.
Interesting that you're mentioning aluminium foil as a test target. This is a 'love' of Mr Green over on Geotech1, and I dislike it with equal enthusiasm. While it does generally s
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Quote Rick: "Another thing standardized - lead shot. World wide sizes and weights are standard and they are pure lead. Anybody want to hunt some #12 “rat shot”
This one came up in a recent Geotech1 thread about targets, modelling/simulation etc. Lead shot is NOT pure lead, it has other elements alloyed with it, to give it a particular flow characteristic when molten, which is critical to th
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Off-topic: I think Fisher could've made a digital version of the CZ machines. A 13 / 39 kHz version,( rather than CZ's 5 / 15k ) would've been a great idea, in my opinion as a European hunter. The Equinox pretty much ticks that box, and more, hence its growing number of adopters here. [ and I'm one of them, having got a 600 last month ]
Rutus ( or NokMak ) could still produ
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The Alter71 has some new features, primarily the frequency generation circuitry. On the receive side of things, it's using the microprocessor to do nearly all the work - demodulation, filtering, discrimination blahblah, much like the MineLab X-Terra machines.
It's possible that it's their stepping-stone to a multi-freq machine. It's an easy step to generate a multi-freq trans
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The message box 'tool bar' is generated by scripting, and the link to the script location is insecure, and active, hence it is blocked by default by browsers like Chrome / Firefox.
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I've just tried the forum using Chrome this afternoon, which by default blocks the insecure content on secure pages. Using the 'developer' diagnostic page, it flags up additional errors:
line 13: the scripting link is http
line 137: the search button is http.
<form id="header-search-form" action="http : //www . dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/search.php?2&
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I should add: it depends on how you view the html code for the page. If I use Firefox's "view page source" function, it shows the link to the css file as a full hypertext link, with the full address shown, and underlined. If I use a dumb text editor, I see something different. Not a link to the css file address directly, but some more obtuse reference to:
href="Thomas%20Da
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"I really don't know what to do. I haven't edited any script for a while."
I don't think it's script-related, Wally. If I turn off browser scripting, the problem is still there.
The problem is in the main page html. Just looking through it, there are dozens of insecure http links. The ones that specifically cause the problems are ones that are considered 'acti
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The solution in Firefox involves tinkering with the browsers settings, using the 'about:config' function.
See here:
Pretty straightforwards, but I do have some PC know-how ...
I can't work out why deleting cookies should've caused this problem , surely Firefox stores its browser settings somewhere seperate?
Unfortunately this doesn't help Marty, as he uses Chrom
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OK, I'm making headway. It's to do with the 'mixed content' on the site. That is --- most of the page is secure https, but some is insecure, http. Some of the insecure stuff is things like the gold price charts at the bottom of the page. But some must be more critical, and my Firefox isn't loading whatever it is it needs to display the page pretty. I've found out how
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Damn. Now it's happened to me. I've just cleared my browsers cookies. Now Toms forum has lost its layout. Plain text, white background, zero page layout, awful.
It's pretty much like the css (cascading style sheet) is missing, it's that bad.
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Surely what we all want to see is lower prices, not just for the machine as a whole, but its constituent parts, too. So no expensive search-coils, no big-bucks battery packs.
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If you have another machine that has a numeric GB readout, you could use that to try out any -/+ biasing methods, then having devised the correct approach, use it on the Deeptech.
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I'm not familiar with the Vaquero, but is "Negative" closer to neutral ground, and "Positive" referring to ground with more minerals?
If so, I think you can make a 'positive' bias by not lowering your coil so close to the ground when you pump it.
I've never tried this, but I would imagine placing a lump of ferrite on the ground when pumping would fool
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I'm an engineer, not a Marketing man, I admit. And I don't have an Equinox, either. But updated software will be installed on brand new machines too, increasing their shelf appeal, surely ? But I don't want to take TNSS' thread off topic.
I hope he gets some good proper replies. (Not the fanciful stuff about seeing images of the buried item, etc)
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You're probably quite correct, Rick.
However, ML are doubtless working on the "Equinox 1000" and "Equinox 200" etc, and suggestions about feature changes to the existing Equinox line just may influence the design of these future products. True, it's not what TNSS (and others ) want, but it's worth presenting/discussing these ideas 'on paper' , I think
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