You want to buy it?
Thanks. It’s good to hear that some 800 perform as they should. I guess I got a lemon but I’m not the only one.
I was just asking if anyone else had the same problem and some people did. Go to Fox News if you want to rant.
Billy,
If you didn't see this series of posts on another forum here is a short exchange between a professional field trainer for Minelab and XP and a newer user of the Equinox 800 who has very similar questions to yours CTbadbilly.
www.detectorprospector.com
You know I thought the same thing but figured it was my imagination. My one 6 in. seems to hit way more, harder and deeper targets. How is that even possible unless the good one is as it should be and the other is a dud. The longer I'm in this hobby the more I learn how much I don't know.
You know I thought the same thing but figured it was my imagination. My one 6 in. seems to hit way more, harder and deeper targets. How is that even possible unless the good one is as it should be and the other is a dud. The longer I'm in this hobby the more I learn how much I don't know.
Why all metal mode? Is that the only way my detector should recognize a dime at 3 inches?
P.S. why the F—- should I lie? Unless I work for the competition, which I don’t.
All Metal to be sure you weren't using some sort of discrimination pattern, that discriminated out the dime if its ID was being dragged down by iron in the hole.
I didn't say you were lying. Try reading my post more carefully.
It is actually called the Horseshoe Mode.
It’s because he’s full of crap. Minelab doesn’t hire customer service reps to lie to customers telling them that their machine is fine when it’s not.
I posted exactly what he said unless you want a screen shot of the e-mail.
No, you did not post exactly what the tech said. You posted your interpretation of what the tech said. Given that you misinterpreted my post about the lying thing, then it's totally possible you misinterpreted what the tech said.
And if you don't get your coil over it you won't find it either. I have seen (and don't take this to mean YOU) detectorists who's swing doesn't overlap and they leave great swaths of dirt undetected. Hell, I've done it myself I'm sure. That's why I do a grid one way, then the next hunt, same area but I grid 90 degrees off. THEN one more time I'll grid 45 degrees across the previously gridded area. I still won't call that area "hunted out" but I feel I've gotten all I can from it.
