Minelab EQUINOX 700, Instruction Manual

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Great for high-trash recreational areas, including most general detecting.
Park Mode is designed for searching in urban parks or other recently inhabited sites where there may be coins and
jewellery� There is often also lots of metallic litter including aluminium foil, pull tabs and bottle caps�
Park Mode is a good starting point for other general uses such as freshwater detecting�
Park Mode default settings provide great depth, accurate target identification and good discrimination in trash-infested
areas typical of recreational parks� With Frequency set to Multi, Park Mode will be the most sensitive of all of the modes to a
wide range of targets, while rejecting much of the trash� If in doubt in a new area or when first detecting, try Park mode first�
Park Profile 1: General and Coins
Park 1 is optimised for modern coins and larger jewellery
with a default discrimination pattern set to reject many
common aluminium foil-like targets� Therefore this is
the ideal Profile to start with to learn EQUINOX before
experimenting with the other Modes and more specialist
settings�
Park 1 Multi-IQ processes a lower frequency weighting of
the multi-frequency signal, as well as using algorithms
that maximise ground balancing for soil to achieve the
best signal-to-noise ratio� Hence Park 1 is most suited for
general detecting and coin hunting�
Park Profile 2: Fine Jewellery
Park 2 is ideal for smaller targets in trash-infested
(including ferrous trash) locations� It will detect a wider
range of targets including low conductor (or higher
frequency) targets, e�g� fine jewellery� All non-ferrous
targets are accepted by default� Recovery Speed is
increased to clearly identify good targets masked by iron
trash�
Target Tone is set to All Tones (At) (page 33) to
provide as much target information as possible via audio�
Park 2 Multi-IQ processes a higher frequency weighted
multi-frequency signal while ground balancing for soil�
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CONTENTS
Park
Park Detecting Hotspots
Detect in areas where people gather,
such as near park benches, under trees
and other shady spots where people have
been sitting, or at recreation grounds near
clubrooms or spectator stands�
After festivals or events, there are often
many objects to find, especially coins,
however but you may be in competition
with other detectorists�
Always make sure you are allowed to detect
in public parks, recreation areas and on
private property�
Difficult Park Areas — Aluminium Foil
Modern parks typically contain a lot of
aluminium shards from discarded trash
(e�g� drink cans, pull tabs, ring pulls, etc�)
Because aluminium is a non-ferrous very
low conductive target, its Target ID falls
within the same range as fine jewellery�
To dig less aluminium foil while still finding
fine jewellery, use Park 1 which rejects
Target IDs 1 and 2� Reject higher adjacent
ID's if the aluminium trash is larger in size�
Reject Target IDs 1 and 2 in the
discrimination pattern for Park Mode
Search Profiles�