Went out yesterday with the Equinox 600, first good signal was around the 21-22 in dry sand, ended up digging a good sized hole 300mm deep, signal gone and nothing to be found in what came out, bit miffed, filled in the hole and went further along the beach, tourists had stopped nearby and were using cameras and bits, thought that may have something to do with the problem.
Ended up in the tidal area still on beach 1 and on two occasions had a good solid 28 signal (two different areas of beach) dug a small hole on each occasion with scoop, once the signal was still there, so another scoop full and it was gone, checked the sand out of the scoop very carefully, pushed it out flat, but nothing was found and on checking the hole again it was a 4, the other occasion nothing was found at all. Tried switching to beach 2 and ground balance each time. Wife also had similar on different area of beach. The area we were in has layer of sand over rocks and a good layer of shell grit, I am sure from other finds that there has been a boat wreck in the past as we dug down to about 350mm, the pin pointer was going berserk over a very large area, but too many rocks and our hands were covered in what looked like black ink, so covered it all up again. The Equinox is steady, no other noises until we hit as described above, just wondering if we are doing anything wrong. Using the factory preset at present.
Graham
Ended up in the tidal area still on beach 1 and on two occasions had a good solid 28 signal (two different areas of beach) dug a small hole on each occasion with scoop, once the signal was still there, so another scoop full and it was gone, checked the sand out of the scoop very carefully, pushed it out flat, but nothing was found and on checking the hole again it was a 4, the other occasion nothing was found at all. Tried switching to beach 2 and ground balance each time. Wife also had similar on different area of beach. The area we were in has layer of sand over rocks and a good layer of shell grit, I am sure from other finds that there has been a boat wreck in the past as we dug down to about 350mm, the pin pointer was going berserk over a very large area, but too many rocks and our hands were covered in what looked like black ink, so covered it all up again. The Equinox is steady, no other noises until we hit as described above, just wondering if we are doing anything wrong. Using the factory preset at present.
Graham