From a long time user of Minelab products , including the CTX3030 and is a tester who is also featured here at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-zgVwbatcg&list=PL-wOIlBb-BId41w7SXIKU3sEMKtShv6Vk
Quoting from an Australian forum ( in part) on the Equinox :
"The speed setting makes a major difference amongst the trash. Be aware if you run in the slower speeds you get the best depth and although you lose a bit of depth with the fast speeds it is great amongst trash, it doesn't mask targets like the CTX so you are going to pull targets from ground you have detected."
"Definately new technology and as for how it performs in the field I have been testing it for some time now and will say without any doubt it hits coins at depth that CTX has missed. I pinged a penny at about 13 inches on an oval. I took it to the bottomless pit and pulled three threepence and one shilling in a session along with other coins that had clearly been victims of the CTX masking them out"
"Its hard for me to say as when your testing it isn't straight forward like a hunt as you are always looking for and ironing out any glitches. Its not like we get a completely releasable model to use and often I am back and forth to Minelab getting new software so it gets recharged a lot mid testing if that makes sense. I have done a few 3 to 4 hour hunts over a few days without charging. Hope that helps but try to understand that testing is very much all over the place as you are constantly changing between all modes and settings etc. For example one day I spent a couple of hours just using the pinpoint mode pinpointing targets not exactly fun and probably puts heavy draw on the battery"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-zgVwbatcg&list=PL-wOIlBb-BId41w7SXIKU3sEMKtShv6Vk
Quoting from an Australian forum ( in part) on the Equinox :
"The speed setting makes a major difference amongst the trash. Be aware if you run in the slower speeds you get the best depth and although you lose a bit of depth with the fast speeds it is great amongst trash, it doesn't mask targets like the CTX so you are going to pull targets from ground you have detected."
"Definately new technology and as for how it performs in the field I have been testing it for some time now and will say without any doubt it hits coins at depth that CTX has missed. I pinged a penny at about 13 inches on an oval. I took it to the bottomless pit and pulled three threepence and one shilling in a session along with other coins that had clearly been victims of the CTX masking them out"
"Its hard for me to say as when your testing it isn't straight forward like a hunt as you are always looking for and ironing out any glitches. Its not like we get a completely releasable model to use and often I am back and forth to Minelab getting new software so it gets recharged a lot mid testing if that makes sense. I have done a few 3 to 4 hour hunts over a few days without charging. Hope that helps but try to understand that testing is very much all over the place as you are constantly changing between all modes and settings etc. For example one day I spent a couple of hours just using the pinpoint mode pinpointing targets not exactly fun and probably puts heavy draw on the battery"
