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I've been using the settings Tom suggested (Thanks Tom for the Knowledge you share) for the last few days in Field 2. The Pre-Civil War site I'm hunting has been hit hard for the last 25 years and has a fair amount of iron trash. Some areas are carpet of nails others have only a few iron hits per sweep. This particular area I've have wandered through but never spent any time until
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Tom-I love all the info and explanation concerning the Equinox. As far as the MDT vs the Equinox, in my soil the MDT liked black sand ON salt OFF and is definitely deeper than the Equinox by a good inch or so.
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Tom-thanks for the explanation about the different modes. Like David I'm unable to run anything less than 2 (4 on the 800) because I lose targets in my mineralized soil. When I get the video done on Monday you'll see the small targets I find using Field 2. So guess it's time for me to try Park 1 on the next hunt. Strange though because I've tested in field targets using all th
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Question NASA Tom-are these settings optimized for silver only? Looks like most people are talking about hunting parks for silver in this thread. Seems Park 1 would be best in that case but what about relics which for the most part are lower conductors. Field 2 is what I generally use do you think Park 1 is better? I did go out today to my favorite iron infested relic site and adjusted my setting
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Should probably start with settings on the Equinox 600 Field 2, sensitivity 20-22, 50 tones, 0 disc, iron volume 10, recover 2 or 3 depending on site (equal to 4 or 6 on the 800) and in my soil I always ground balance numbers are usually anywhere from 25-70.
Iron Bias....Works a little different on the Equinox as compared to the Deus. One both units I run ZERO DISC. On the Deus I run "0&
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My opinion is it's going to be simultaneous multi-frequency. Minelab defines Multi IQ as Simultaneous Multi-Frequency on their website. I think it's going to be below the Equinox. It will probably have different detection modes to choose from like Park, Beach and Field but you won't be able to internally adjust anything to do with the mode like you can on the Equinox. Recovery spee
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I think iron masking is a bigger problem than many of us realize. The option to change the recovery speed on detectors like the Deus, ORX and Equinox have made it less of a problem but it's no where near resolved. This is especially true when you get iron above and next to good targets.
I've done many tests in my coin garden (my soil is moderately mineralized). If the targets are ne
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Thanks Rick. Hard to explain a PI to someone whose never used or used one very little. If you use one for any length of time you get very good and at distinguishing the audio and knowing what to dig and what to leave behind.
A PI is just another tool. I'm not saying people should March into a park or a trash infested ghost town and use one. That's insanity. I'm telling you what
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GPX doesn't have high and low tones? Having used one for 1000's of hours I beg to differ. Unless you set it up to have a mono tone factory preset it low for high conductors and high for low conductors. Low-high or high-low signal raises and falls or falls and then raises.
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A few more things. You want to ignore all low tones and dig just the high tones, unless you get a deeper smooth low tone. But 99% of the time your low tone is going to be iron. I like to run sensitive extra in iron, gain at about 5 and if I run any disc is usually very low like 4-5, just enough to make nails sound bad but not blank out. All my other settings are the same for other sites. You will
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Yes it can be done I run my GPX in iron all the time. You have to go real slow and use small coils. I have a 8 by 12 and a 5 by 10 DD just for thick iron. You must approach from multiple directions and overlap each sweep. Helps to just turn the iron disc off as well then you don't have to deal with the blanking issue, recovers faster off. You should have got everything down to 5 inches with
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If the Vista X had multi tones or tone breaks, I would try one out. I don't really hunt by the numbers anyway, but numbers do give you a good idea of what you're going to dig up. That's what's so nice about the Deus, you can hunt by tone or you can look at the VDI. You also have the option to change the settings for the site to your hearts content. You would have to have way m
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The Fisher Impluse AQ is a PI, all Pi's that I'm aware of have no meter. If XP had stayed with an analog design they wouldn't be what they are today.
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Awesome hunt love those D buttons. Congrats on the Reale, only found a few of those myself. Oldest was a 1786 half Reale, a nice 1814 2R and a few 1R's with date worn off. I'm surprised you do so well running Park 1 when most of what you are digging are low conductors. In my dirt here in Utah Park 2 or Field 2 are what I use as Park 1 and Field 1 do not do well in the iron trash and hig
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Congrats on the R I've only dug 2 myself. Sounds like you have a great place for relics and yes its addicting to say the least. I have a 600 and use mine quite a bit for relic hunting. I like your settings and run mine similar with the exception of I run in park 2. Find it hits harder on low conductors like small pewters, round balls, small gold etc. Love to hear what else you find.
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I live in Northern Utah and also have the f19. My ground here is at 83 on the f19. The 3 detectors I found that work the best are the XP Deus, Minelab GPX and Minelab Equinox. CTX and etrac are OK. Even with the Deus or Equinox I'm still barely hearing a dime at 6 inches.
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> CONGRAT'S Andrew! That's my 'dream' coin to find!
> Even more-so than a Double Eagle. Yes...… these T
> ype-1 U.S. 1-Dollar gold coins ID as 11/12 on EQX
> platform. Just below a Nickel. The Type-2 and Type
> -3's ID as '11'...… and sometimes bounce to '10'
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Pasttom Wrote:
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> Nice short, yet fairly complete, video of you scra
> tching off the top of my bucket list. Any generic
> description of site? State and type of area would
> be nice.
> Thanks for sharing!
Well I was told by the few people who know about this area that I would be hung if I told where it was LOL. But
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I had 2 Sovereigns they were great for the beach and deep as well, found a hundred rings or so with them. But in iron trash the recovery is just too slow to compete with others like the Deus or Equinox. I have a relic site that I hunted for years with my Sovereigns and Explorers. I found a lot of good stuff. But then I got a Deus and took it over the same ground. Found 3 shield nickles, a few ind
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I use both sonar programs, they are not as deep as other programs because you are running reactivity at 4. They are good in iron trash but when you get out in the open I would recommend using the deep program it is by far the deepest stock program other than goldfield. I used the sonar program based on deep at DIV 45 in Culpeper, VA and it did very well in that bad soil. Higher reactivity speeds
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OK maybe I'll pay $2500 that's what my GPX costs. But it works on the beach and inland.
OBN you know this thread won't end.......Once it's out it will be just like the Tarsacci thread with users reporting......Or maybe not, might be so good nobody will say anything hoping to keep the competition down. LOL
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We've heard so much now about this machine over the last few years I don't know what to believe. I'm definitely not buying one until I see it used by the public and we get some reports comparing it to other detectors on the market. And if it's not priced under 2K, chances are I'll never make the purchase.
I really hope they don't wait until Christmas to release i
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Dew-Yes I've seen that video, I've owned 4 TDI's and run them through my test garden. The best I could get with GB off was 14 inches at the salt only beach and 10 inches at the black sand beach. So the GPX is inches deeper when set up correctly. Digging a 17 inch hole in wet sand is no easy task, I don't think people who use the low powered PI's/VLF's know what they
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dewcon4414 Wrote:
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> It can be accurately tested without digging a huge
> hole. I am curious for those of you who have an
> AquaStar (Tom) or one of those super expensive and
> deep MLs PIs.....what can you get in the wet sand
> on a nickel? Are we indeed looking at a game chan
> ger? Sooo did the update get us
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Very nice finds! We have a few 1850's Military sites here that we find older buttons and Spanish silver in. That older stuff is really nice when it turns up. Thanks for sharing.
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If you've got a coin on edge in iron it's going to be real hard to see according to that video. It's hard enough to evaluate those double tones as it is and then add some junk to the site and you're really going to have to slow down evaluate each signal. I love the Equinox but it's also been a little hard for me to run in trash compared to the Deus.
Just last weekend I
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