Vanquish 540

[u2robert]

Just got the Vanquish Pro-pack 540 today ( Thank You River Team Six lightning fast shipping)
I thought It would be a flimsy cheap feeling detector BUT to my pleasant surprised the 540 is the opposite.
It feels sturdy and well made no wobble what so ever & it's lightweight
This is the best part It comes with
12" & 8" coils
ML-80 wireless headphones
Pro-find 20
Ni-MH rechargeable batteries and charger.
so easy to swings
And if it detects as well as the EQ 800 it might be detector #1

 

[Hddeuce03]

I have both the Vanquish 540 and Equinox 800. The 540 is a great detector, but by no means as good as the Equinox 800. The recovery speed on the Vanquish forces me to go much slower....

 

[jmaclen]

I really like all of the Vanquish models. Do they detect as well as an Equinox.........? I too own both. If I setup my Equinox in Park 1 or Beach 1 with recovery speed on 2 (Nox 800 or 1 Nox 600) and iron bias set really high, I get just about the same performance as the Vanquish 540. Depth on coin sized or bigger objects is similar using similar coils, target IDs are just as good and are basically the same, and the 5 tones and their tone breaks are also very similar especially comparing the 540 to the Equinox 600. As Hddeuce03 said, the big differences are recovery speed, target separation, adjustability and not having modes that are super sensitive to small, partially masked targets like Park 2 and Field 2.

My only complaints with the 540 are no manual ground balance and no manual recovery speed adjustment. Watch out for ground noise in the -9, -8 range if you have hot ground and especially watch out for closely located multiple targets. You have to swing slower and smaller over tightly packed targets. I have walked over shallow coin spills several times with the Vanquish in wild target field testing. It just can't separate targets as well as the Equinox. I went back over the same area with a Nox and easily found the shallow coin spills that had sounded like one big target with wildly jumpy IDs on the Vanquish.

Otherwise, the Vanquish models are incredible detectors for the money that absolutely anyone of any skill level can have a lot of fun and success with.