Equinox 800 at Once Tobacco Farm

[dlaczko]

My first Post - yeah... Equinox 800 11' coil at Once Tobacco Farm & horse pasture - Noisy Response in rich deep soil with no good finds. GB often ended at or near zero and no power lines. I feel this is potentially just a bad location. I would like to understand the noise mainly to not remain discouraged about this site. I see this as a great learning experience.

I want to start a dialog on my difficulties at a friends house located near Baltimore where Indians roamed and smack center of an old tobacco farm. Used Park 1 and played around with setting. The ground is soft as far as I can dig and extremely fertile which frankly is new to me. The yard is certainly topsoil from the tobacco field. Anything good would be deep in horse pasture. The response was noisy in all areas; ground balancing seemed challenging for that reason though GB often ended at or near zero. Even along driveway there was a lot of noise. What is that telling me? My guess is it is not mineralization but noise from iron and perhaps trash etc which I chose to dig to see what was going on. That is basically what I found so the NOX is working fine. In short, I could not tune out the noise; no power line. Tried the decommissioned horse pasture and same results, interesting. Expected to find deep treasures from tobacco field worker; found small rolled up aluminum in some spot. Tobacco & aluminum, huh, but this may not explain the response globally. I feel this is potentially just a bad location. I would like to understand the noise mainly to not remain discouraged about this site.

I have done a deep dive on the NOX 800 and now have about 10 hours on it. A lot to learn no doubt but I am quite the investigator an enthusiast. Dan

 

[Florida Son]

I read where one detector decided to test a site by shoveling up an area about 10 inches deep and dropping it through a screen to sample what might be there. Was able to get coins and other items not metallic. Might be an idea.

 

[chuck ky]

Do you still get the noise if you turn the disc. up. In a really trashy site you may have turn it up to be able to dig a few high sounding targets if the iron is too bad.

 

[laplander]

Just a thought if you have ruled out the detector, your deep loamy soil sounds like it might have some compost which might contain urban waste ie foil can slaw etc. In England it is referred to as Green waste and basically is not huntable. JA thought
HH Jeff

 

[BigTony]

Dan, and it is the same when you use Noise Cancel?

Also, there could be plenty of rusted bits in that soil from years of farm usage.

Tony NJ

 

[dlaczko]

Tobacco Farm Hunt
Do you still get the noise if you turn the disc. up. ...rusted bits in that soil from years of farm usage.

What do you mean by "Turing up disc"? ... also, It is hard to believe that rusted bits would be spread so evenly .

Lets focus in on GB. Do fertile fields come back with a 0 ground balance generally? It is uncanny how GB was 0, everywhere. Feel like I was making a error or something. That is mystery to me.

Dan

 

[laplander]

0 GB is the factory default so the machine should theoretically operate well. I haven't experienced your chatty symptoms with any GB settings. Just for grins lets try some single frequency settings, try them one at a time just to see if its some type of emi. We should also discuss where you are running sensitivity.
HH Jeff

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

Can you try some soil that is not on that farm? Maybe as a property owner next to it if you can try their soil with your detector?

 

[chuck ky]

40 disc. will eliminate all iron. If you're still getting too many signals raise the disc until the signals are manageable. You can lower the disc as signals are eliminated.

 

[pasttom]

First do a Factory Preset reset to make sure you haven't screwed up settings (it's easier than you might think). 10 hours is nothing, most think in terms of 100 hours as basic break in time. You have had luck hunting elsewhere, right? OK. check your Sensitivity setting and try dropping it until it is quiet and hunt for a bit to see how it goes (you lose some depth, but not as much as you would think).
A couple other things to try:
1) see if Beach 1 works
2) see if it is the same 50-100 feet away (further?) You've probably done this I guess
3) Noise cancel with the coil up about 4 feet 4 times if need be to get a quiet result then see if it goes noisy when you go back to ground level hunting.

Good luck!

 

[dlaczko]

Thanks for suggestions all. So I will get back to:this Tobacco Field: Will try single frequency setting, rejecting 40 disc, lowing sensitivity, evaluating urban waste ie foil can slaw. Likely won't sift soil but interesting idea. In the meantime, noted this volume zero based discrimination program and will experiment with an alternate discriminate based program. This one is said to be quieter if that is the final goal but I will likely dial in volume/tone sas I get dialed in.

Tried this and it works pretty good for sifting a known trashy area or focusing on a quick coin run.

Bin one is -9 - 10 (iron, foil, small gold) and is muted
Bin two is 11-13 (nickels), low tone max volume.
Bin three is 14-17 (pull-tabs, canslaw, jewelry) muted. ... Might pull in 18.
Bin four is 18-22 (IHP, zinc), mid tone max volume.
Bin five is 23+ (copper, silver), highest tone max volume.
No discrimination used.

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