Equinox shown finding coin, with depth on wet sand.

[lespaul]

I'm not sure how to copy and paste a video on here, but on one of the Equinox Facebook groups it shows a person digging a hole in the wet sand on the beach, covering it up and going over it with the Equinox.
Machine was set on multi and they even turned the sensitivity all the way up. There wasn't any chatter and it picked up that coin without and problems. Even raised the coil up, and it still got a signal.
I'm a little impressed.

 

[lespaul]

https://m.facebook.com/groups/157635448164052?view=permalink&id=182330455694551

 

[lespaul]

Hope its ok to post the link?

 

[Jason in Enid]

Video was pretty poor, but it looked like the poor guy was standing in freezing surf with strong winds so I'll cut him some slack.

Not a lot of info to go with, I know most surf hunters are looking for gold sensitivity but the ability to handle surf without falsing is good to see and corroborates what I have read from another tester.

 

[coherent]

Poor sound but take note coin was on edge in hole also. NIce.

 

[pasttom]

One small piece of positive new info. Thanks! Its all good so far. Only the grumps who haven't touched one are negative about it's performance. I say let's wait for more data to get a clear picture. Still this is encouraging.

 

[Mr. Carolina]

Does anyone know what the coin was? Not sure if it flattened out when he stepped on it but still fairly decent depth. It appeared he was in beach mode 1 and multi frequency at first with some discrimination and then raised the sensitivity but could not tell what mode after that. Can someone elaborate on this as I am not familiar with the controls or screen. Thanks and good luck to all in 2018.

 

[rob.ream258]

One small piece of positive new info. Thanks! Its all good so far. Only the grumps who haven't touched one are negative about it's performance. I say let's wait for more data to get a clear picture. Still this is encouraging.

Completely agree..... very encouraging.....

It would be a great machine to take to the beach when the surf is too rough to go deep.

I'm very curious about the 800 and how it will handle gold chains at the beach........ most machines are blind to them. Anyone heard any rumors?

 

[Jason in Enid]

One small piece of positive new info. Thanks! Its all good so far. Only the grumps who haven't touched one are negative about it's performance. I say let's wait for more data to get a clear picture. Still this is encouraging.

Completely agree..... very encouraging.....

It would be a great machine to take to the beach when the surf is too rough to go deep.

I'm very curious about the 800 and how it will handle gold chains at the beach........ most machines are blind to them. Anyone heard any rumors?

Well, the single high freq setting would be a killer on them, but thats not supposed to work well in salt, just the dry. I have seen a tester who said it performs great in surf, but I havent seen anything about target type response. I'm sure in a few weeks we will start to find out for sure.

 

[sgoss66]

rob.ream258 -- as Jason said, single freq. 20 kHz or 40kHz in the dry will absolutely, without question, be very good at finding them in the dry, though you'd need Multi in the wet. WITH THAT SAID, I think it's fair to say that it will ALSO do well with small gold/chains "in the wet." I have seen some tiny gold flakes that it appears were found in Multi/Field Mode, and assuming so, there should be NO issues in Multi, finding what you seek, dry OR wet...

"Carolina" -- I saw on another forum someone said the coin was a £1 coin...

Steve

 

[Ksdirt]

Now before someone jumps in here ..(oh my machine would pick that up)...is your machine a heavy $1500 machine or $2000+ machine.....point is the EQ picks it up too...and lightweight ...and picks up gold like no other ....and a good price.....can't wait

 

[Southwind]

Thanks for the video but why is it all we seem to see out of these "testers" is they trow a coin in the hole and say see, I can hit this freshly buried coin I know is there? I have plenty of sites with old coins I know are there deep and I'm sure lots of others do as well. Why are these sites never the subject of a video meant to show what a detector is capable of?

 

[Ksdirt]

Thanks for the video but why is it all we seem to see out of these "testers" is they trow a coin in the hole and say see, I can hit this freshly buried coin I know is there? I have plenty of sites with old coins I know are there deep and I'm sure lots of others do as well. Why are these sites never the subject of a video meant to show what a detector is capable of?

With that point ...yes I no what you mean...if you know it's there already ...well ..still not the same..but..if I had that strong of signal just making my regular swing ...NICE...I'm digg'n...but your still right..would like to see a LIVE "search and dig" vid ....I'll make one when I get mine....

 

[pasttom]

In a perfect comparison between two machines you would swing both over the ideal target and compare the hits (varying settings would be nice). NEVER happens. So we can air test or drop and bury a target. Both give some info, but only so much. Take it for a piece of the puzzle and leave it at that.
I had a guy approach me on the beach a few weeks ago who had developed a new detector (seriously!). I happened to have my $1 test gold coin on a 7 inch dowel with me so we drove it into the sand and ran my CTX with standard beach settings and 11 inch stock coil he used his mystery unit that was beautifully fit & finished. He said it was single frequency but not exactly old school VLF tech. Anyway, it put banged every target we tried in black sand and ankle deep salt surf. I though it was a very fair test and how can you do a single test any other way? A proven unit verses the new, over the same targets and in the same time and environment.

 

[Mr. Carolina]

Pastom: You did not say how your CTX faired in the tests?

Carolina

 

[Neil]

rob.ream258 -- as Jason said, single freq. 20 kHz or 40kHz in the dry will absolutely, without question, be very good at finding them in the dry, though you'd need Multi in the wet. WITH THAT SAID, I think it's fair to say that it will ALSO do well with small gold/chains "in the wet." I have seen some tiny gold flakes that it appears were found in Multi/Field Mode, and assuming so, there should be NO issues in Multi, finding what you seek, dry OR wet...

"Carolina" -- I saw on another forum someone said the coin was a £1 coin...

Steve

If thats true, that it will detect small chains in wet sand, then that would be a clear improvement over other detectors. Even CZs and pulses dont hit those on wet salt sand, not just the bbs or fbs machines.

 

[sgoss66]

Neil --

I agree, it would be QUITE different, and QUITE welcome.

This picture was posted by Jonathan Porter (The Outback Prospector), on another site, of some finds he made running his prototype Equinox. Note that his machine is in "field" mode, and "Multi" frequency...

[attachment 353396 EQGOLD.jpg]

Based on this picture, there is some pretty good evidence that small gold, in the wet, will be no problem for the Equinox.

Steve

 

[amberjack]

what's the horse shoe button for is that "lucky" mode

AJ

 

[orgone500]

It turns notching on and off, sort of like the iron audio button on the AT Pro. If you are cherry picking silver targets by having low numbers notched out, but want to check a signal to see if its iron that is reading high, press the horse shoe button and you will hear all tones.

 

[lytle78]

Small gold like in the picture above in wet dirt - no problem. Small gold in wet salt sand - big problem. No VLF ground cancelling Detector - not even multifrequency ones, does this well because the target return has characteristics very close th the ground balance setting of the salt. Likewise no current PI machine can do it because the short pulse delay <10 microseconds required isn’t available and even if it were, no current machine can be reliably operated at such short delays in the presence of salt water.