Equinox feedback after 10 hours testing/20 hours field time
Preliminary report here,
I claim not be be Equinox expert.
Based on my experiences only, and what detectors I have run.
Equinox compared to all other detectors with stock sized coils (this assumes Xp Deus has 11" coil), Equinox seems for a 11" stock coil to have the widest range of being able to find lower and higher conductors, both biggest, bigger, medium, small, and smallest.
A great one detector, one coil setup to detect with.
Relics hunters I think will enjoy, so will coin hunters.
If Equinox had available a 6" coil, a 9" coil along with the 11" stock coil, I would buy all and likely call it a day. Would not even care for having another model detector for my needs.
This above however is conditional, meaning if smaller coil performance , of a high percentage of performance is transitioned to the smaller coils, realizing an expected loss of depth, would do me.
Equinox is user friendly at reporting targets nonferrous even in my soil. Crystal clear.
The word obsolete has been used. Not by me but you know who.
Well, so far after putting in 9 hours between 3 sites (older), sites I have crushed multiple, multiple, multiple,times with Deus all coils,except the 11x13" LF coil, so far nonferrous finds in these sites using Equinox are scant. But remember what I paid for my Deus and coils, not to mention how many hunts , rehunts, to clean the site out of nonferrous.
Could I have taken Equinox and stocker coil along with 6" coil using Equinox and clean out in fewer hours, with fewer hunts??? I don't know.
But I am reporting what has happened so far.
I did make some finds, but quantities for time spent not earth shattering.
Imo Equinox will give detectorist more green horn detectorist., a shorter learning curve, These folks will be digging nonferrous finds that using a lot of other detectors would take far longer to learn and master to be as successful.
I have not used the headphone module or have plugged in to detector with wired headphones.
So, I have only used wireless headphones.
Based on what I heard today, imo serious iron workers with Equinox should opt for using the headphone module, or plugin to detector. Seems to me, once you get to speed 7 setting, or higher, the wireless headphones using blue tooth, things are starting to get cramped, especially speed 8 setting.
Detector in every site I have used has been very quiet, all hunting done in multi freq, with a few times transitioned to single frequency for doing a few checks.
What instability I have experience , seems was tied to detector getting out of balance. Reground balancing every time made the detector purr.
Today I ran the detector I think on edge as far as I can go with the exception of using sensitivity levels 24 and 25.
Ground here has been exceeding wet. This moisture could be holding Equinox back some on its performance. If When it gets drier, and going back to sites I mentioned above, and have different experiences, I will admit and post.
So I'll post a pic of my finds in these 3 sites.
Two items top right are ferrous- piece of stainless steel and the other a ball of iron.