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Your F-Pulse should be blind to the mineralization as it is a pi pointer.
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If you ready my post history, it's pretty clear I have highly mineralized soil. My AT Max's GB reading is usually in the 80s and sometimes low 90s.
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My Vanquish, when pressing the horseshoe button, will read in the negative numbers (more than -1 or -2) no matter what part of the ground I'm swinging my coil over.ĥ. My Vanquish is basically blind to anything located in the clay layer.Ĥ. The clay layer, when wet, will ring up as a quarter or dime on the Vanquish.ģ. The clay layer will make my Garrett Carrot and F-Pulse false (unless I touch the tip of either on the soil when turning them on).Ģ. I know it has high mineralization because:ġ.
#Profind 15 beep when switihing on free#
Does your Vanquish 340 get good depth with stable and accurate target IDs on 4” or deeper mid conductive targets like US nickels and pull tabs? Does it give ground feedback in the -9 to -7 range when swinging over target free ground at the end of each swing or when you slowly pump the coil? How do you know that your soil has high mineralization? Did you contact your local Agriculture station or another soil testing agency? You do not own a detector with an Fe3O4 meter as far as I know. But I don't know if it's worth getting COVID to do that.) I can run these tests while I wait for an opportunity to test an Equinox on the nail board (perhaps someone from my local MD group will let me borrow a machine. Right now I'm leaning towards buying a used 5x8 AT coil and running my battery of tests on all my machines and their various coils (the Fisher F2 has a 4 inch sniper coil, for example). The cheapest I ever saw for a used Apex was $250 and that was still too rich for my blood. But if I'm able to find a used one for very cheap, I'll consider it. But even if my predictions are correct, there may be a slight influx of used Equinox 600s and/or 800s on the resale market, so perhaps it's worth waiting, whether to buy a used Equinox or new N/M.Īs for the Apex, I've heard it struggles in mineralized soil, so that's a no-go for me. N/M's offering will probably be affordable, but it'll probably has some growing pains I'd like to avoid. However, XP's offering is likely going to cost my soul to buy. Not sure if you would like the audio on that but it handles iron infestation and trash very well.
#Profind 15 beep when switihing on pro#
I do agree the Max can be tough in very trashy areas, even my AT Pro is similar in that aspect though small coils make significant difference. Personally I would hold up on buying any machine until I see how those perform. There are some new SMF's coming out that may do better than the Nox, XP is rolling one out and Nokta. However, the AT Max's advantages aren't enough to overcome the potential Equinox advantage of being able to hunt through trashy conditions better than the AT Max, even if the latter has the 5x8 coil. Here's the deal: The AT Max's advatanges with ruggedness, use of AA batteries, S-shaft design and coil selection are the equivalent of the Equinox's advantages of more stable VDIs and more accurate VDIs at depth (to me).
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But it'll take some time away from hunting and I want to make sure I'm not missing some setting or factor for the test that will essentially nullify my results. I'm prepared to do use Monte's Nail Board test. Short of putting in several dozen hours comparing each setup in real-world conditions, I have a feeling this nailboard test might be the next best thing. I'm trying to figure out if getting the 5x8 coil and keeping the AT Max is worth it compared to just getting the Equinox 600 and using its stock coil (at least in terms of hunting in trash). When I hunt iron riddled areas I take a swing in couple different directions over each target. Using a smaller coil will help separate the targets and help isolate them. Iron next to a dime you may get a number in the aluminum range in one direction and iron only in another. One direction may only have an iron response while another you may get a double target or even just a spike in the numbers. Lastly iron + a target nearby will give you 2 different signals depending which way you swing over the area. Investigating targets that are not those particular numbers or sound different is important.
#Profind 15 beep when switihing on series#
As an example on the AT series and even the Apex a typcial square tab will be 53-55 and often higher and a nickel will be below that.
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Higher recovery speeds and more sensitive machines may pick up on targets next to trash better but again coil size is a bigger factor. No matter what machine you choose by nature detectors sense targets on top. No matter what machine you use, in high trash areas the smaller coils will be much better.