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Garais said:Equinox. If you are interested in finding small knibs and nibs with ease.
CTX is expensive, slow, full of bugs and freezes machine.
Mkus said:I have a friend who hunts over 10 hours at a clip on beaches and used to with a CTX he stated there is no better machine for finding gold than the equinox period and his finds are very impressive!
Oh and you have to dig "junk" if you want to find gold!
Don't know what to say about that but there's a guy I believe frank in NH on youtube you should see the amount of rings he finds on beaches with nox 800! holy smokes!bklein said:Not sure what you're saying Jason. Laguna main beach: Good low tide day, 5 rings CTX. A week later, EQ800, same area, aluminum but a quarter mile up erosion and bunch of coins, no rings found though. Week later aluminum and seaweed all over but some good stuff in the wet/dry sand. Any day you pick you can find stuff or you can stay home and wait for the best conditions. I'd rather go and discover the conditions, adjust, and enjoy the day. If you can tell the difference between the aluminum and various jewelry targets with the EQ800 please advise. I still dig everything that sounds solid. If a lot of aluminum in an area I move, but I could be missing some recent drops given all the people that hit this beach each day. I must have dug 10 bottlecaps in the surf that 2nd week - I never really found bottlecaps in the surf before. That was crazy.
I have yet to have a great day with the Equinox at the beach like I have with the CTX. I keep telling myself it is the condtions and dumb luck but its getting really weird. I do find thin gold chains that the CTX probably wouldn't detect. New firmware loaded, anxious to try again this Sunday. Funny, the CTX died after the 5 ring day due to a corroded USB port AND internal dead battery AND external bad battery! Just got it back from repair - got a lot of fixes: new lower shaft (old design, new improvements), new internal display to pod cable, new display panel (was curved), and new battery gasket. I had already rebuilt the battery pack with 3A cells, and replaced the internal battery, so its all ready to go.
Garias, check your internal coin cell battery on the CTX. A dead one will cause all the issues you state. I even saw a display unit at a GPAA Gold show do this. The repair center says they don't see this problem but I've gone through 2 batteries now.
MEV said:I don't know equinox , but i can say ctx is a wonder on gold and on Silver if you know how to use ctx 100% you Will love it , i don't know why they say it's heavy , it's not heavy at all. Yes you dig trash like other machines but it's the best in ID and you will dig a lot less trash , been told equinox is a dig it all, if you want to you can do the same with ctx i mean dig all and your findings will increase a lot
bklein said:Jason, It has been just the opposite for me regarding nickels and the two detectors at the beach. With the CTX there is a sweetness for nickels but I haven't noticed this with the equinox. In fact I don't hear anything special in equinox targets. Maybe it is due to me using the wireless headphones?
Jason in Enid said:I have a friend who hunts over 10 hours at a clip on beaches and used to with a CTX he stated there is no better machine for finding gold than the equinox period and his finds are very impressive!
Oh and you have to dig "junk" if you want to find gold!
Exactly! Anyone complaining of digging aluminum "junk" on a beach, doesnt really know what they are doing.