First Hunt with Equinox 800

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My finds for my first day out with my new Equinox 800. Received my 800 a few days ago, and began charging everything up. Weather was good today and decided to take it out and see what happens. Total of 21 coins, 3 quarters, 3 nickles, 4 dimes, 11 penny's, 1 car wash token and a nice piece of jewelry. Pretty sure it's the real McCoy. Hunted in Park 1&2 & Field 1&2. Turned up the volume so I had a Threshold and made sure I had Tracking Ground Balance turned on and did a noise cancel. Every now and then I increased and decreased the Sensitivity just to see what happens. Have to say, coming from a CTX 3030 was pretty easy to figure things out.

 

[surf n turf]

Congrats, great first hunt.

 

[dewcon4414]

Is your soil that HOT? Just asking why you choose TRACKING over auto GB?

 

[pan4au]

Congrats on a great hunt

 

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Thought I'd post another photo of my finds from my first outing with my Nox. Total of 21 coins, 3 quarters, 3 nickles, 4 dimes, 11 penny's, 1 car wash token and a nice piece of jewelry. Pretty sure it's the real McCoy. Hunted in Park 1&2 & Field 1&2. Turned up the volume so I had a Threshold and made sure I had Tracking Ground Balance turned on and did a noise cancel. Every now and then I increased and decreased the Sensitivity just to see what happens. Have to say, coming from a CTX 3030 was pretty easy to figure things out.

 

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Is your soil that HOT? Just asking why you choose TRACKING over auto GB?

Several had suggested to do so. On page 41 of the manual it states:

"Tracking Ground Balance
When Tracking Ground Balance is active, the detector continuously
adjusts the Ground Balance automatically during detecting. This
ensures that Ground Balance is always set correctly".

Not sure if this is the correct way to go, but thought I'd give it a try and see what happens. But to address the question pertaining to "Hot Soil", yes is pretty hot here.

 

[Old California]

Very nice, looks real to me that's a keeper!

You'll like the Equinox, enjoy!
Paul

 

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Thanks to everyone for their kind words.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Is your soil that HOT? Just asking why you choose TRACKING over auto GB?

Several had suggested to do so. On page 41 of the manual it states:

"Tracking Ground Balance
When Tracking Ground Balance is active, the detector continuously
adjusts the Ground Balance automatically during detecting. This
ensures that Ground Balance is always set correctly".

Not sure if this is the correct way to go, but thought I'd give it a try and see what happens. But to address the question pertaining to "Hot Soil", yes is pretty hot here.

read the rest of the manual where says not to use it unless you are having problems from ground minerals.

 

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I read that but decided to enable it anyway/ I'm going to re-hunt the area again without enabling it.

Is your soil that HOT? Just asking why you choose TRACKING over auto GB?

Several had suggested to do so. On page 41 of the manual it states:

"Tracking Ground Balance
When Tracking Ground Balance is active, the detector continuously
adjusts the Ground Balance automatically during detecting. This
ensures that Ground Balance is always set correctly".

Not sure if this is the correct way to go, but thought I'd give it a try and see what happens. But to address the question pertaining to "Hot Soil", yes is pretty hot here.

read the rest of the manual where says not to use it unless you are having problems from ground minerals.

 

[sgoss66]

NICE digs, tbw! Did you find out of the jewelry piece is real?

Steve

 

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Not yet.

NICE digs, tbw! Did you find out of the jewelry piece is real?

Steve

 

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Had the broach check today. Unfortunately, it's sterling and czs.

 

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Update. After learning and gaining more experience with my Nox 800, I've gone back to the exact same location I found what I posted at the beginning of this thread. After hunting the same area again for a little more than 3 hours, I found 23 more coins. Some where surface coins around 1" deep, all others were around 3" to 4"s plus deep. No additional bling. I used the all metal option and a saved User Profile utilizing single frequency 10 KHz to check the targets before digging. I ended up digging a lot less garbage compared to keepers this time. FYI, I hunted in Field 2 with a slight Threshold, no others changes made. I utilized Park 1 for my User Profile, changing Multi Frequency to 10 KHz, no other changes made to Park 1.

 

[laplander]

Lots to learn when using the Equinox tbw, where did you run ground balance on your last hunt? Curious what numbers are you seeing in tracking verses automatic. Keep up the good work!
Laplander

 

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Lots to learn when using the Equinox tbw, where did you run ground balance on your last hunt? Curious what numbers are you seeing in tracking verses automatic. Keep up the good work!
Laplander

No, did not run auto gb with tracking on this hunt. Did factory reset and left everything as is based on a factory reset except for theThreshold. Like a little Threshold when detecting.

 

[pacer]

Lots to learn when using the Equinox tbw, where did you run ground balance on your last hunt? Curious what numbers are you seeing in tracking verses automatic. Keep up the good work!
Laplander

As stated, went back to the exact same location I hunted in my first post in this thread. As far as the ground balance is concerned, I went with the default ground balance of 0. Here's a photo of the coins I found the 2nd time around.