Yeah, I would like to hear what you are seeing.
I did talk to one prerelesse 900 model tester Iffy signals.
He doesn’t have small coil.
I haven’t sent anything on this issue to Minelab yet.
Others here with the equipment can weigh in too.
I then consider sending info to Minelab Engineer.
I was never part of Eqx 700 or 900 prerelease testing.
Still though I don’t mind sending info if it may help overall with the situation.
Dave good evening. I was going to do an air test but decided to wait and do it in my somewhat limited test garden. About 4 years ago I buried a wheat, Ihp, a memorial and a clad dime flat at 6 in. They are now at just about 9 in down as I had to dig an iffy signal to confirm it was indeed one of the coins I buried. Then at a flat 10 in. down I buried a clad dime, quarter, a Kennedy half and an Ike dollar. The Ike was the only one I could hit today besides the 6in. coins.
Trying to keep as close apples to apples as I could I did a factory reset on both machines. I then put my settings into Field 2 and Beach 1. Which are 5 tone, no disc. rec. 4 Ib 0, sens. 23 and horseshoe engaged. I left Park 1 at factory default and used those 3 modes for testing. I started with their respective 6 in coils. Then switched the coils up. I have to say I saw no real discrepancies. The numbers may have fluctuated a little bit in different modes a bit but nothing alarming.
I spent about 3 hrs. and what I saw pretty much mirrored my original test garden trial back in December. The 900 does see the inground targets more definitively than the 800. The 800 lets you know there is most likely a good target there but the 900 says dig me. However the 800 will hammer a good target, anyone who has one knows this, the 900 is more subtle . If you know Minelab not a problem, you'll know a coin or a good non-ferrous target. But someone new to Minelab may have a steeper learning curve. Also running 5 tone on the 800 from volume I could tell how wide and deep to start a plug. Not so on the 900, a 6in. target sounds as loud as a 3 in. target does.
The audio is different. The machines, although both Equinox's seems to be different critters.
I have used the 6in. coils most of the time for the last 1 1/2 years and will continue to do so. They do make rusty iron sound a little better than with the stock coils but they also can laser down in the iron and trashy areas and go about as deep as I want to dig.
One last thing, before I called it quits I put the stock coil on the 900 lowered rec. to 2, even tried raising sensitivity to 26. Could not locate the dime, quarter or half. Apparently they have sunk a good bit over the years
Anyway short story long I couldn't see any real differences between my original 6 in. coil from 2-2018 and the one I got with the 900 in December 2023. Mark
