pondering the minelab equinox please chime in multi freq mode

[UtahRich]

We’ll see when someone puts the required test instruments on it.

Minelibe is likely to NEVER tell us - after all, they speed that 28 frequency fairy tale for decades.

They have excellent technology - but they persist is letting their Marketing Department tell fairy tales.

Rick,

I think you read Geotechs recent comments regarding the BBS and FBS methodologies. I've heard reference to these thoughts for years but had never had it spelled out and diagrammed that way.

Knowing this, it would seem to make the equinox even MORE attractive in that you can move up and down the frequency scale to optimize finding items down and up the conductivity scale and still have the Minelab ground handling.

What would be interesting is if Minelab has come up with a way of doing 3 or 4 frequencies sequentially. Similar in fashion to the V3i where you can watch the target response to each of the different frequencies hitting it. Which signal responds BEST. That would be a bit of a power pig though.

Interesting.


Rich -

 

[lytle78]

we'll see - but they will never TELL us.

 

[UtahRich]

we'll see - but they will never TELL us.

There would have to be just a little confessing there, so I think you're right. I've enjoyed using my Explorer XS and E-trac's over the last 17 or so years, so I won't complain.

I'm trying to determine what changes I should expect to see in my finds pouch, IF I continue to frequent the same types of places I normally hunt.

Rich -

 

[Ksdirt]

I always thought that if minelab and whites got together and made an Etrac / V3i lumped in one you wouldn't need anything else...

 

[UtahRich]

I always thought that if minelab and whites got together and made an Etrac / V3i lumped in one you wouldn't need anything else...

Maybe that is what we're going to see. With a little bit of Deus throw in for SIZE.

Rich

 

[calabash digger]

not a bad combo imo!

 

[vanner]

Reading in there literature it says it has several preset programs , park , field , beach etc. In each of these mode the multi frequency is set up different. I recall seeing one of these multi frequency modes set up at running only the three lower frequencies. Been a while since I've read it. Hope thishelps

 

[calabash digger]

it does! that would be killer if a relic program spand 5 kh to 20 kh

 

[Ksdirt]

if I'm getting it right... if you listen to Brandon as he shows alittle bit about setting it up...you can go into each program and change the settings to your likeing....don't no what all you can change but I would think friq. would be one of them..

 

[metalpopper]

Hi there Cal.

Using any higher frequency than 25 KHz (as an example), will do just what you have rightly described as 'light-up all the 'good, bad and ugly' stuff.

Higher frequencies are OK for tiny, thin, money metals, etc just as long as there's limited crap surrounding such.

Bad ground will attenuate depth in an exponential manner, which becomes an obvious limitation for the higher frequencies.

So for me, I think that 40 KHz or higher, is a detecting 'Tooth pick', to be used for sussing out near surface, valuable minutia......Matt

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[calabash digger]

my machine now will run 4kh, 8 kh, 12 kh, 14kh, 17 kh, 28,kh, 50 kh, and 80 kh and its very interesting to see how it behaves at higher freq on targets. Small hoop earring open at 7 inchs it will nail in 50 and 74kh, the at gold , at pro, etrac, ctx couldn't see the earring either... it will be interesting to see what the nox does on it.

 

[sprchng]

The 3 coils you need to see those frequencies cost 50% more than the Nox alone and it still doesn't have the ability to use more than one frequency at a time , which is where the real benefit probably lies. Add the cost of the remote , the headphones receiver , the handle and the fact that you have to charge/maintain 3 separate batteries and the Deus sounds like a pretty high maintenance PITA.

 

[NorCalGold]

These are the exact reasons I never purchased a Deus. The Equinox on the other hand is on pre-order. I agree with what was mentioned before, the Nox probably uses different frequency combinations for the different hunting modes.

 

[Buddy_TX]

[size=large]You may be correct but in my 46 years of hunting (water) and old whites running 100kz has found me more beach gold that any machine I have ever used.[/size]

Buddy_TX