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Minelab Equinox 800 tips and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Guessologist" data-source="post: 479010" data-attributes="member: 11952"><p>Sounds like EM interference for sure, there's a strip of my olds' front lawn I can't detect with the 600 because the ancient buried power cable gives off so much noise, makes it go crazy!</p><p></p><p>Distance is obviously the best fix, but of course eventually you are going to want to know what's in your backyard. Could try running the Noise Cancel function, may help a lot or not at all. Then I'd try switching it to a single frequency, one might not be affected as much as the rest. This worked the best for me, 5kHz was unusable, 15kHz was much improved but not perfect. If none of that worked, I'd drop the sensitivity to 15 or less as a last resort. Better to have the detector stable with less depth than not be able to get a reliable target at any depth!</p><p></p><p>Probably keep it in Park 1 in that situation too when just starting out, don't need the 'hotter' sensitivity of the #2 modes giving you iffy signals when you're trying to calm the thing down in the first place!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guessologist, post: 479010, member: 11952"] Sounds like EM interference for sure, there's a strip of my olds' front lawn I can't detect with the 600 because the ancient buried power cable gives off so much noise, makes it go crazy! Distance is obviously the best fix, but of course eventually you are going to want to know what's in your backyard. Could try running the Noise Cancel function, may help a lot or not at all. Then I'd try switching it to a single frequency, one might not be affected as much as the rest. This worked the best for me, 5kHz was unusable, 15kHz was much improved but not perfect. If none of that worked, I'd drop the sensitivity to 15 or less as a last resort. Better to have the detector stable with less depth than not be able to get a reliable target at any depth! Probably keep it in Park 1 in that situation too when just starting out, don't need the 'hotter' sensitivity of the #2 modes giving you iffy signals when you're trying to calm the thing down in the first place! [/QUOTE]
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