Advice please

[Toddy654]

I have been detecting for 30 years or more and for the past 25 with a whites spectrum but it has now given up on me, so I have upgraded to a equinox 900 I thought the transition would be easy but how wrong was I been having a nightmare with it.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience with it and what was the outcome. Cheers

 

[Tom_in_CA]

The spectrum was a fast swing machine (when in disc.). The Eq's are slower swing machines. Try slowing down your swing over suspected targets with a "wiggle" over them (when you are "x-marking-the-spots"). Practice with coins tossed down on a clean stretch of ground. And bury test coins, etc....

 

[Toddy654]

The spectrum was a fast swing machine (when in disc.). The Eq's are slower swing machines. Try slowing down your swing over suspected targets with a "wiggle" over them (when you are "x-marking-the-spots"). Practice with coins tossed down on a clean stretch of ground. And bury test coins, etc....

Thanks Tom I will give it a go.

 

[Diga]

What sensitivity are you running at? Too high and you'll get falsing, erratic ID's, and probably EMI. Try significantly reducing the sensitivity to start out.

 

[mike_i]

What problems are you having?

 

[Cherry Picker]

I loved my Spectrum. I have never gotten the pleasure to swing the 900, yet, but I think Tom has the key. The Spectrum was a fast swing detector for best performance and TID. From what I see the new 900 can be swung much slower and that will allow you to isolate targets better. It works on my Deus as well.

 

[CalReg]

All good advice (swing slower and lower your sensitivity). I would also add to use the stock settings until you get used to it...

 

[davemill]

I have been detecting for 30 years or more and for the past 25 with a whites spectrum but it has now given up on me, so I have upgraded to a equinox 900 I thought the transition would be easy but how wrong was I been having a nightmare with it.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience with it and what was the outcome. Cheers

I swung the DFX for 12+ years. When it died, I never was thrilled with the AT-Pro inherited from my daughter, but did succeed with it. For my birthday, my wife bought me a near-new DFX. It was like hearing your favorite song for the first time in years! Yes, older tech, but I'm a happy camper.

 

[robby4570]

I have been detecting for 30 years or more and for the past 25 with a whites spectrum but it has now given up on me, so I have upgraded to a equinox 900 I thought the transition would be easy but how wrong was I been having a nightmare with it.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience with it and what was the outcome. Cheers

I did too, I went from an E-Trac to the 800... what a mistake! It's a good detector, but it just doesn't give enough ID info for dirt hunting for me. I'm spoiled by my E-Trac (and now my CTX3030) so I used the 800 as a beach machine and in exceedingly clean sites but NOT in the typically very trashy parks I normally hunt.

 

[robby4570]

I swung the DFX for 12+ years. When it died, I never was thrilled with the AT-Pro inherited from my daughter, but did succeed with it. For my birthday, my wife bought me a near-new DFX. It was like hearing your favorite song for the first time in years! Yes, older tech, but I'm a happy camper.

Sometimes older is better, I had a DFX for a while but never got a handle on it before a friend asked me to sell it to them (I picked it up used on the cheap and let them have it for what I paid for it. Great machine, as is my trusty OLD CTX3030...