maxxkatt
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This has probably been posted before or variations. But it is worth repeating.
On your Equinox increase your threshold so you can hear it. It will tell you the amount of iron and other ferrous or non-ferrous targets under your coil.
For instance I was hunting a trail along the river recently. Parts were loaded with trash and other parts had very little trash.
The threshold tells you which area you are in especially if you discriminate out certain VDI #'s like pull tabs. The threshold tone will break when you have a target under your coil even if that target is discriminated out. It also tells you the amount of trash your coil is passing over.
Thus in a high trash area you increase your recovery speed, reduce your sensitivity some, increase your FE2 settings and thus will have a better hunt finding more masked targets.
When your threshold quiets down you are in a low trash/target area and you can adjust for better signals and depth by reducing your recovery speed, slow your coil swing, reduce your FE2 to 0 and find those deeper targets now you are out of the high trash area.
Using the threshold will be your guide to which settings you should be using. On this hunt I found my 2nd silver a 1945 Washington quarter. That park trail has been hunted quite a bit since I found on several prior hunts only modern clad.
Here is a good article about recovery speed.
https://www.minelab.com/community/treasure-talk/recovery-speed-target-masking
On your Equinox increase your threshold so you can hear it. It will tell you the amount of iron and other ferrous or non-ferrous targets under your coil.
For instance I was hunting a trail along the river recently. Parts were loaded with trash and other parts had very little trash.
The threshold tells you which area you are in especially if you discriminate out certain VDI #'s like pull tabs. The threshold tone will break when you have a target under your coil even if that target is discriminated out. It also tells you the amount of trash your coil is passing over.
Thus in a high trash area you increase your recovery speed, reduce your sensitivity some, increase your FE2 settings and thus will have a better hunt finding more masked targets.
When your threshold quiets down you are in a low trash/target area and you can adjust for better signals and depth by reducing your recovery speed, slow your coil swing, reduce your FE2 to 0 and find those deeper targets now you are out of the high trash area.
Using the threshold will be your guide to which settings you should be using. On this hunt I found my 2nd silver a 1945 Washington quarter. That park trail has been hunted quite a bit since I found on several prior hunts only modern clad.
Here is a good article about recovery speed.
https://www.minelab.com/community/treasure-talk/recovery-speed-target-masking