Hey everyone, I'm totally new to metal detecting and just picked up my first detector the Minelab Equinox 900. Super excited to get started but could really use some help figuring out the best settings. The soil around me is pretty tough, lots of mineralized rocky limestone, reddish clay, and som...

Understanding the Context

The Minelab Equinox 900 metal detector was introduced in 2022 and is still in production. The Equinox 900 is a fully submersible VLF metal detector aimed primarily at coin, jewelry, relic detecting, and saltwater beach detecting as well as gold prospecting. Park 2 or Field 2 give you the ability of cranking the Equinox into "6th gear" where there aren't as many competing targets, which allows the machine to be more sensitive to smaller and potentially deeper targets. Is Park 2 The Magic Mode??

Key Insights

- Minelab Equinox Forum - DetectorProspector.com Hey guys sorry if this question is talked about in other posts but now that theres a good amount of you all using yer equinoxs id like some feed back on depth of the two machines, info that ive been reading is 50/50 its not a deep machine and it is a deep machine, doesnt make me alot of differenc... Mar 7 The title was changed to Nokta Legend 2 Versus Equinox 900 - 11” Coils - Iron Test Nokta Legend 2 Versus Equinox 900 - 11” Coils - Iron Test During Equinox late prototype testing….. The secret when cross checking is don’t even bother with good targets. Hunt for the weakest iffiest targets, and only compare on those. There are clear differences between the Equinox 800 and Deus 2 for instance.

Final Thoughts

Took less than an hour for me to sort that out.