Minelab Vanquish 540 pro pack or Equinox 600

Exbrit

I've been toying with the idea of adding a second detector to my arsenal. I've been going back and forth between the Minelab Vanquish 540 pro pack and the Equinox 600. I live in a very heavy mineralized area. Both have good offers at the moment. I mainly detect for coins and relics.

Any suggestions? I believe the 600 would be better in the type of soil I'll be searching. I am currently using a single VLF 6.6 kHz detector with an eight inch coil.

Bayard1908

If you have heavily mineralized soil, you will get better depth and ID with an Equinox 600.

Exbrit

I decided on the nox 600 - now the experiment:

I'll go over a couple of sights that I have detected in the past with the VLF 6.6 and see if I find anything I missed. There were stil,signals with the old detector that I didn't dig, but dug most of them.

Bayard1908

@Exbrit said:
I decided on the nox 600 - now the experiment:

I'll go over a couple of sights that I have detected in the past with the VLF 6.6 and see if I find anything I missed. There were stil,signals with the old detector that I didn't dig, but dug most of them.

You will make some additional finds, especially on highly mineralized or extremely trashy sites. When I got my Equinox 600 three years ago, I rehunted several sites that I had beaten to death with my Etrac. I got several Mercury dimes plus a Barber half, among other coins. All of these coins were masked by iron, but unlike the Etrac, the Equinox processor was quick enough to find them.

I usually run my Equinox in Park 2, and it will lock onto deep nickels like no other machine that I have used.

I did not like the default tones on the Equinox and run mine in two tone with the tone break set about where a zincoln would be.