Equinox Systems 800 - User Manual

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Equinox 800 Settings and Startup Procedure

Startup procedure.

Press the power button once until you see the whirling startup procedure on the screen.

Once the machine is on and the display up on the screen press the horseshoe button to put

it into all metal.!You can negate this bit by putting all the black segments back in under your

accept/reject menu which the machine will then remember every time you switch it on.

Now ﬁnd a bit of ground with no metal in and as you scan from left to right adjust sensitivity

using plus or minus buttons until you get a stable threshold.!Don’t noise cancel leave it at 1 (if

your detecting partner also has the same setup decide who changes either up or down one.

Only manual adjust this using the plus and minus buttons if the machine becomes unstable.

Check ground balance by using the same piece of ground as above and press the cog

button twice to get to ground balance. Now pump the coil up and down from about an inch

above to ten inches. Now using the plus and minus buttons adjust so the sound is the same

in pitch and volume going up as going down and vice versa. Once you have ground balanced

press the detect button. (See Icon Legend below)

The clue to not digging bits of iron is using the all metal mode (horseshoe button), you will

get a double hit of the low grunt of Iron and the higher pitch of a digger and the numbers

on screen wont stabilise. This indicates iron so don't dig! However if you get a low tone then

a digger tone and the digger tone is only one way but within two or three numbers this IS a

digger. When you're conﬁdent with the machine drop the Iron bias down to 0.

With your recovery speed set to 3, this is for general hunting, when you ﬁnd a good target

or hit a patch of Iron drop the recovery speed DOWN to 1 and search REALLY slow and grid

the area up/down/left/right and diagonal in both directions, if there's anything there you will

ﬁnd it. Once you move on don't forget to lift the recovery speed back up. Field two is REALLY

sensitive to small stuff and you will spend a lot of time digging the tiniest of targets, use this

if its a really good site and there's small or thin section targets like cut quarters/halves etc

coming up.

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Summary

Equinox 800 Startup and Operation Guide

Power On and Initial Mode Selection

Steps to power on the Equinox 800 and select the all metal mode for initial use.

Sensitivity and Ground Balance Calibration

Guide to adjusting sensitivity and performing manual ground balance for optimal detection.

Distinguishing Iron Targets

Learn to identify iron targets using audio cues and unstable target ID numbers.

Recovery Speed and Field Modes

Adjusting recovery speed for general hunting and using Field 2 for sensitive detection.

Equinox 800 Menu and Button Reference

Settings Menu Overview

Reference for key settings like Noise Cancel, Ground Balance, Volume, Threshold, Target Tone, Accept/Reject, and Recovery Speed.

Accessing Sub Menus

Instructions on how to access and change settings within sub-menus using button combinations.

Button Functions Description

Explanation of the primary functions for the Detect, Accept/Reject, and Menu/Settings buttons.