Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Search results

  1. J

    Whites dfx or whites mxt pro

    I agree with Monte, even though I really liked the Signagraph and full tones on the DFX. Otherwise, it was not able to get around design issues that caused its depth to be very anemic even in good ground. It was also an EMI magnet. Fairly slow recovery speed also in trash. The MXT Pro is a...
  2. J

    The writing is on the wall.

    Good luck Dan with MInelabAmerica. Keep after them if you have to leave a message on the phone and email them everyday until they respond. It took three weeks for me to receive an RMA#. Not complaining, just the way things are right now. I own two Equinox just for the issue you are having. They...
  3. J

    Coin Numbers

    The numbers I posted are for the Minelab Vanquish which has the same results for all modes and are always multi frequency numbers. They are similar on the Equinox depending what mode you are using and when you are in multi frequency. Single frequencies will give different numbers. Also, forgot...
  4. J

    Coin Numbers

    Vanquish 340 air test numbers. In the ground numbers and masking could make them different. 1904 Indian Head Penny 19,20,21 1937 Wheat Penny 23,24,25 1944 Wheat Penny 24,25 1970 Copper Lincoln 25,26 1900 V Nickel 12,13 1936 Buffalo Nickel...
  5. J

    coin shooting with the G2+

    Try this setup. I have used it and it works very well on US coins. You could lower the upper V break to include the lower conductive IHPs.
  6. J

    6 inch coil

    Like Doug said, with the 6" coil I'm looking for separation and target recovery speed not depth. Sure it will go deeper than it's size but the point is to pick good targets out of thick trash. Turning up the sensitivity to max is just going to make iron false louder and shallow aluminum mask...
  7. J

    whats the best detector you ever owned?

    By far the best metal detector I have ever owned is the Whites V3i. So far, the best "detecting" metal detector I have ever owned is the Equinox 800. If I could put the innards and waterproofing of the Equinox into the beautiful V3i control housing, ditch the metal box and upgrade the V3i...
  8. J

    How to Avoid Steel Crown Caps and most Aluminum

    You can use any program that is made from the Deus Fast program for sure. For hearing the residual aluminum sounds as you move the coil away from the target, you need to be using full tones to get the best results. That makes the pull back sound check for aluminum and bottle caps a little harder...
  9. J

    Why Do High Tones Vanish..?

    Yep, the pinpoint function takes you to a momentarily amplified version of whatever mode you are in with all metal targets accepted. If you get a 25 VDI and a momentary high tone, go into pinpoint mode and get absolutely nothing in the coil area, the target could have been tiny magnetite...
  10. J

    Why Do High Tones Vanish..?

    If you have a really small target, or a small deep target AND you are in Auto Ground Tracking, the Equinox might detune over your target. If you did a manual or ground grab ground balance or just left it on Zero with tracking off, it won't. Using the pinpoint function on the Equinox is another...
  11. J

    Why Do High Tones Vanish..?

    So, you said you got a high tone with 25 VDI at recovery speed 3, in default Park 2 on the Nox 600. Did you get the 25 with 4 depth arrows on both left and right sweeps with equal intensity in both directions? And before you changed the recovery speed, did you turn 90 degrees and sweep again...
  12. J

    Big Brother is Watching..!

    Coin popping is actually easy with a long shafted flat head screwdriver or knife. I already have a really good guess about what the target is with the Equinox. So using your 8" dime example I really zero in on the target location with the pinpoint function on my detector (Equinox usually), then...
  13. J

    Big Brother is Watching..!

    Here in the Denver area, the club I belong to have handshake agreements with the park staffs (not the administration but the actual on the ground workers) to restrict digging to screwdrivers only so we don't wear out the parks with larger plug digging and we don't encourage once in awhile...
  14. J

    Nox 800 Mods

    Midalake is not down on the Equinox. He just does a very strenuous type of detecting in saltwater surf that is really tough on detectors specially made for saltwater hunting and for the user. So, what he, Mkus and many other saltwater surf hunters do is beat the crap out of their detectors which...
  15. J

    How many updates?

    two weeks ago, Version 3 which is actually called 3.13
  16. J

    White's Spectra V3i desirable freg./kHz display.

    Minelab tries do deal with what the best frequency for EMI is by using the Auto Noise Cancel function and by offering easily selectable single frequencies. Neither will completely shut out EMI unless you turn down the sensitivity. Nothing will on any high gain detector aside from cutting...
  17. J

    MX5 Issue

    Is the battery tray totally inserted and locked? Are all of the batteries fully charged?
  18. J

    Anyone been/felt threatened while detecting?

    I usually hunt urban/suburban area parks and schools accompanied by a fierce little 9 pound dog named Mike Tyson. He is my eyes and ears when I am too distracted by a possible awesome deep target!!!! If anyone tries to get close to me he will snarl, bark or at least yank his leash attached to...
  19. J

    Discrimination in metal detectors

    You have received the best advice. Discrimination is never perfect on any detector and as you have noticed iron can break through the discrimination filters just about anywhere on the target ID scale especially rusted, older, hand forged iron objects and modern nails which have many different...
  20. J

    Does Anyone Hunt in Field-2 Mode ..?

    It works just fine in factory default mode as long as you aren't looking for targets in the 0,+1, +2 range to produce a target response. If you are expecting those to respond, they will be discriminated out in default Field 2.
Top