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Update Minelab Equinox on Windows 7

Apparently I can start the Minelab Update Utility but then the wheel starts spinning and that’s it. So I googled how to update the equinox on Windows 7 and found the way:


From Detectorprospector.com

Before running the program,

Highlight and right click on the program and scroll down to troubleshoot compatibility.

Click on troubleshoot compatibility and click on Try recommended settings, click next, and then start program.

That is all you need to do to get it to work.

Started with a 3D printer with my buddy and the plan is to print stuff for Metal detectors. Now, the Deus isn’t exactly anything else but perfect, but i have noticed lots and lots of upgrades are done to the Equinox: shaft, coil thing, handle-hand-stopper, snake-skinz..

Now that I bought a secondhand Equinox 600.. I cannot imagine what those designers where thinking. But anyway. Gotta use what you have, right ? I’m already thinking on how to get the unit off that horrible handle, and out of that horrible ‘please hit me against the door side as hard as you can and BREAK me forever’ position. De faaaaak, dude, de faaakk !! There you have the Perfect Xp Deus design, existing for about what.. 10 -12 yrs ? Let’s not look at that AT ALL when we design our new detector that will take the world by storm. Nope, let’s not do that. ERgonomy, what is that ? XD

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Ground Balancing and low frequency on the XP deus

On Ground balance

When you use other detectors, the manual says that a Ground Balance reading is necessary, and we should actually always do it to make our detector better adapted to soil conditions. On the XP Deus website, however, it is stated that you don’t need to change it.

I still fiddle with it, just to be sure.
Unfortunately, I have never felt I got a very good reading after doing the pump, but after reading up on people’s advice, one guy said you should do the pump when the detector is set in a basic program. Don’t make it very sensitive first with custom settings and then pump it. But i haven’t tried it still since I just adjust Ground Balance manually so I can have a bit of chatter. It felt like my detector wasn’t picking up on anything in the Fall months and I felt so desperate. I tried lowering the GB from 90 to 78 in one particular field and it did seem to work a lot better. Consequently, I now set up my detector for every hunt by changing the GB until I hear enough small chatter. My GB is usually around 80 lately (lots of rain, maybe it matters). If I want more chatter, I lower it to 78, or if I want less, I can go up to 88. I adjust to avoid getting the false good-sounding beeps but I don’t want it to be all quiet.

Using the lower frequency on the XP DEUS

This is actually the first time I read this:
The 8khz is:
– more forgiving if you use a slightly off Ground Balance: it will not react to the soil itself so much. So it’s good to use it on soil that is a bit difficult.
– better on wet land
– “high frequencies can completely ignore a coin right under the surface.” Huh ??

XP Deus 8Khz explained