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Had my hands on an Equinox This weekend
- Thread starter azdigger
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JASONSPAZ1
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NorCalGold
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I appreciate the comments by azdigger on the Equinox. His first hand impressions of the detector in use, the weight, the balance, the overall function. 
But then again, he didn't get a photo, or even any grainy video footage. This sounds like another Bigfoot sighting to me.
But then again, he didn't get a photo, or even any grainy video footage. This sounds like another Bigfoot sighting to me.
dewcon4414
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Ok....... when's she going to get a vacation to FL and show it off? One video of a salt water hunt might get a lot of us off the fence. Im starting to feel like a red headed step child. If its not as capable in the dirt as the pricy CTX..... or FBS machines, then hows it stack up to the Xcal and CTX in salt water? If its as good then you'd think the PR guys would be boasting that point? IF its as good even, there are advantages to crow about.
Dew
Dew
Thanks for sharing AZ diggerNorCalGold said:I appreciate the comments by azdigger on the Equinox. His first hand impressions of the detector in use, the weight, the balance, the overall function.
Now that's funny
, you know norcalgold your messin' with Sasquatch 
NorCalGold
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laplander said:Thanks for sharing AZ diggerNorCalGold said:I appreciate the comments by azdigger on the Equinox. His first hand impressions of the detector in use, the weight, the balance, the overall function.
Now that's funny
You're right! I'm going to have to leave a couple of bottles of homebrew out in the redwoods for him. Good call!
Jason in Enid
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lytle78 said:
:veryangry: Grrrr, I take offense to your Jeep comment sir, and I challenge you to a duel! I don't know how or when we can make this happen but you shall consider yourself thus challenged! Jeeps are the easiest vehicles to work on and the most capable offroad vehicles.
Jason in Enid
Active member
lytle78 said:No thanks on the duel Jason, I’m too busy unsticking my Suburban. Yes, it is me - Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia - 1993.
shoulda had a jeep! LOL
The trip from Riyadh was about 1000 miles on a brand new highway no traffic no cops we made it in under 12 hours in perfect comfort - Cruising at about 105 mph on the GPS. Those were the days. It was an absolutely magnificent car would cover the open desert at 30 to 40 miles an hour with the transmission locked up in fourth gear sipping gas ishile all the land rovers and jeeps and the rest with manual shift were racing around into lower gear afraid to get stuck into higher gear and run out of rpm -
with big extra gas cans strapped on everywhere.
with big extra gas cans strapped on everywhere.
Thanks for putting up with my reminiscences. But meanwhile back in today’s world. I expect the Equinox to be a huge success. Not perfect - nothing is.
It’s a “totem” for some folks - got to have the hot, shiny, new object metal detector - possess it.
Others will find it to be a tool - useful - perhaps - depends on what job they have for it to do.
As my old buddy Bob D. Once sang .... “Time will tell, who has fell - and who’se been left behind.....”
I think it will be a fine machine and a clear advance on current technology. That is to say, it combines two proven VLF Induction Balance detecting systems - simultaneous (or perhaps sequential) multifrequency detection with selectable single frequency detection. This is new development - not new technology. That honor belongs to Minelab’s GPZ Gold Machine.
Other new technology will emerge - from Minelab - or from others.
It’s a “totem” for some folks - got to have the hot, shiny, new object metal detector - possess it.
Others will find it to be a tool - useful - perhaps - depends on what job they have for it to do.
As my old buddy Bob D. Once sang .... “Time will tell, who has fell - and who’se been left behind.....”
I think it will be a fine machine and a clear advance on current technology. That is to say, it combines two proven VLF Induction Balance detecting systems - simultaneous (or perhaps sequential) multifrequency detection with selectable single frequency detection. This is new development - not new technology. That honor belongs to Minelab’s GPZ Gold Machine.
Other new technology will emerge - from Minelab - or from others.
Apologies to all for more off topic, but fond memories have overcome my dedication to Detectors and detecting - please feel free to skip what follows as irrelevant to what we all care about on the forum.
12 Years in KSA. Aerospace/defense work with Lockheed and then Northrop, then after a break in Norway in the oil business, back with a Swedish Construction Company - subcontracts, purchasing, etc.
The Suburban was a brand new 1992 Model - new design, first time the 454 was available with 4WD. I used undue influence to get one of the first ones in Riyadh (but when I asked for a discount as well - they laughed at me). Funny footnote about the Sub. It was a 3/4 ton, so the rocker panel trim said 2500 ( the 1/2 tons said 1500). One of the ‘brits In the office was admiring it one day and noticing the “2500” - he asked me innocently - “I say Rick - do you find the 2.5 liter motor adequate?” I watched his expression when I explained that it was 7.4 liters displacement! Good old big block Chevy.
Saudi was great then - of course it was a PITA in a lot of ways, but if you got the right paperwork, you could go anywhere. Not great metal detecting (illegal - like pretty much everything else) - but I did get a 2nd Century Roman coin from near Riyadh. The great stuff was prehistoric - stone tools made by Homo Erectus - 200 - 300,000 years old - handaxes and choppers - Achulean.
In the Empty Quarter the stuff was Neolithic 6 - 10,000 year old beautiful scrapers, blades, points, drills.
Here’s a guy looking for the goodies- thanks to greatly different weather in the Indian Ocean from about 10,000 years ago, monsoon rains - which stopped about 5,000 years ago - fell yearly - the dunes were once Sandhills covered with scrub and seasonal grass - and the playas in between were seasonal shallow lakes and marshes. And now - on the flats and on the windward side of the long parallel dunes, all the tools of those people who lived there were exposed, glistening in the low angle morning and evening sun.
I’m sure now it’s all a restricted area - not far from the border with Yemen where the Saudis are having a hot war.
12 Years in KSA. Aerospace/defense work with Lockheed and then Northrop, then after a break in Norway in the oil business, back with a Swedish Construction Company - subcontracts, purchasing, etc.
The Suburban was a brand new 1992 Model - new design, first time the 454 was available with 4WD. I used undue influence to get one of the first ones in Riyadh (but when I asked for a discount as well - they laughed at me). Funny footnote about the Sub. It was a 3/4 ton, so the rocker panel trim said 2500 ( the 1/2 tons said 1500). One of the ‘brits In the office was admiring it one day and noticing the “2500” - he asked me innocently - “I say Rick - do you find the 2.5 liter motor adequate?” I watched his expression when I explained that it was 7.4 liters displacement! Good old big block Chevy.
Saudi was great then - of course it was a PITA in a lot of ways, but if you got the right paperwork, you could go anywhere. Not great metal detecting (illegal - like pretty much everything else) - but I did get a 2nd Century Roman coin from near Riyadh. The great stuff was prehistoric - stone tools made by Homo Erectus - 200 - 300,000 years old - handaxes and choppers - Achulean.
In the Empty Quarter the stuff was Neolithic 6 - 10,000 year old beautiful scrapers, blades, points, drills.
Here’s a guy looking for the goodies- thanks to greatly different weather in the Indian Ocean from about 10,000 years ago, monsoon rains - which stopped about 5,000 years ago - fell yearly - the dunes were once Sandhills covered with scrub and seasonal grass - and the playas in between were seasonal shallow lakes and marshes. And now - on the flats and on the windward side of the long parallel dunes, all the tools of those people who lived there were exposed, glistening in the low angle morning and evening sun.
I’m sure now it’s all a restricted area - not far from the border with Yemen where the Saudis are having a hot war.