Minelab Equinox 900 Ultimate Guide Menus and Settings

hey got a couple really good videos coming out on the Equinox 900 starting with today's video today's video is going to be more about the menu system it's going to be kind of an indoors thing I'm not going to really take it outside or do anything with it but what I am going to do is I'm going to describe to you all the settings in the entire menu system on this machine so if you're the type of person that doesn't like to go online and download the owner's manual and read through all that and you rely more on YouTube and content creators like me to kind of learn about the machine well this is the perfect video for you because I'm going to go nice and easy and slow through the whole thing describe it in simple terms and really take my time to make you understand what all the settings are and all the menu options so it's not as intimidating as you might think a little bit of bonus footage in there for you too a little close-up of the machine you'll see that in the video as well and if you stay tuned to the very end of the video a little surprise at the very end but I will tell you this is a little bit of a dry video If you're not an owner of this machine or you don't want to know how it operates I don't know if you're going to be able to hang because this is going to be me talking about the menu system so if that's for you stay tuned and we'll get right with it all right we have the machine turned on ready to go so I'm going to call this the detect button the Horseshoe button pinpoint frequency button accept reject minus plus and the Cog wheel or setup button we're going to start by going through the different search modes on the machine and you're going to do that with your detect button over here so let's click the detect button and let's go all the way through back to the beginning here Park one so we're in park one right now that's for General and coins and then you have part two which is for jewelry fine jewelry and what's happening right here with this is that inside the machine it's changing the frequencies that are spraying out and generally speaking the high frequencies are really good at fine gold and jewelry and small things and then the lower frequencies are good at hearing deep High conductor coins like a deep silver coin so basically the machine just configures itself in two different ways depending on which program you're in as far as the frequencies that are coming out while in multi-frequency mode you could of course change that to just any frequency like a low frequency which would be good for a deep silver coin or go to a high frequency which would be good for small gold but when you're in multi-frequency the machine kind of does all that for you let's go to the next section over here so now we're in the filled program and this is field one it's for coins and artifacts and Relics and just kind of a general all-around for relics coins and then same thing when you get to the next one the tuning changes a little bit inside a little more high frequency emphasis and you're going to have fine coins and smaller artifacts and maybe gold and stuff like that and then we go to oops then we go to the beach program so beach one is for dry and wet sand and then when you're in the water and the coil is submerged you're going to want to be in beach too then you have prospecting one which is for stable ground if you have nice good soil that's really stable you want to be in prospecting one if you're in tough ground like I live out here in California and we have a lot of mineralization maybe you're in Australia highly mineralized so you'd want to be in prospecting mode number two so that kind of covers the search modes there and now there is a way that you can reset a surge mode and what that does is it just resets the mode that you're in and nothing else on the machine and brings it back to factory settings so if you like the way everything is right now on your machine and you like the way Park one's running in park two but you don't remember how field one was set up when you got it from the factory you don't want to re reset the entire machine you just want to reset that setting right there so to do that while you're on this just hold the detect button in keep it held in and when you hear that noise and see that it has reset that particular search mode back to the factory reset for that mode and while we're in here looking at these different programs or search profiles I want to explain to you that there's a couple different things going on in the machine just a little bit of terminology there's global settings like sensitivity in the backlight and the flashlight the volume the vibrating handle and the threshold pitch for example now if you change any of those it changes it for the entire machine on all programs in other words if you turn the volume up or down on park one and put it at 19 and you jump all the way over to prospecting or to beach one let's say it's still going to be at 19 because it's a global setting so it the volume stays the same no matter which search program you're in however there are other changes that you can do that are local to each different profile and like for example the frequency the noise cancel ground ballots and by the way we'll talk more about this later but anytime you change a frequency you need to do another noise cancel keep that in mind and you should do a ground balance as well so every time you change profiles or the frequency you need to do a new ground balance and noise cancel and actually the way you want to do that is noise cancel first and then ground balance um other things that are local would be like your tone volume your target tone the tone pitch itself the Discrimination pattern on each search profile and your tone breaks that are in that pattern let's see recovery speed iron bias these are all things that are local to each profile so we'll just call those local and we'll call the other ones global okay to change frequencies you would use this button right here you can see right now we're in multi-frequency watch the center of the screen right here four five this is in kilohertz 10 kilohertz 15 kilohertz 20 40 and then back to multi frequency when you're in multi-frequency it's spraying out several different frequencies at once we don't know what they are it's a trade secret with the company and just rest assured that every time you're in a different search profile multiple frequencies are coming out that are tuned specifically to that profile so while you're in here I want to say again if you're going to change a frequency to like five make sure as soon as you change it you go and do a noise cancel and a ground balance right after that's super important now I want to show you that in part one we're in five kilohertz if I jump over to part two and change that one to ten remember these are local settings so now as I jump across through all this and come all the way back around again you'll see still in five and still in ten so these are local settings that stay on each of those search profiles let's put those back to multi-frequency all right gonna do sensitivity now that would be your minus and plus so sensitivity you won't see it until you push one of these as soon as you push it you'll see it I have it turned all the way down right now because I'm indoors and there would be a lot of Emi in here if I brought this up you can hear the Emi coming in I'm gonna turn the sensitivity back down if you get into a situation where you're detecting and your machine starts getting chatty like that and Emi stands for electromagnetic interference you start filling your machines getting real chatty and it's just sounds like it's turned up a little bit too high before you lower your sensitivity make sure again I'm going to keep saying this but make sure you do a nice fresh noise cancel and ground balance before you ever lower your sensitivity because you want your sensitivity ideally to be as high as possible so don't just turn it down because it's starting to get chatty without trying a noise canceling ground balance first like I said you always want that sensitivity up as high as we can run it all right we're going to turn the backlight on with this button right here now on the Equinox 900 there are four settings you have off low medium and high on the Equinox 700 you only have three you have off low and high so let's go ahead and turn that on right now with this button right here and there's High and then you have medium low and off and if you watch up here in the top left corner you'll see the cursor up there to let you know that the back lights on I'm sorry the icon see the little icon there showing you that the backlight is on and then the icon goes away when we're back to off and keep in mind when you have your backlight on or even your flashlight or the vibrating handle on it can shorten the battery life for that hunt a little bit so it can run the battery down a little bit quicker than normal just keep that in mind all right to turn the flashlight on which shoots a light from the back of the control head right down the shaft and right to the coil hold in the light button over here just holding in and there you go and it's on and off there's no settings for just on or off again there's a little icon up there see the little icon up there showing you that it's on watch that icon on the top left corner go away when we shut it off here we go all right to turn the vibrating handle on we're going to use this setup or Cog wheel here button click that and just follow this little icon as it moves across as you click this when you get to this one this is the volume icon while you're here you're going to come down here to the frequency and tap it once and when you do this you're going to fill a vibrating handle turn on and you'll get a real quick buzz off the handle and if you look up here in the top of the corner you can see a little icon just appeared to show you that it is on it's important to watch that icon and know it's up there and I'll tell you why the next part here we're going to show you how you can turn the vibrating handle on and different tone breaks and a multi-tone setting for example if you don't want the handle to vibrate on iron or low conductors you can disable it if you want it only to vibrate on high conductors I'm going to show you how to do that next but you cannot do that you can't set that section up unless the master vibration is on so you need to see that icon on to even be able to go in there and set that up so make sure it's on before we do that next part and we'll go ahead and Skip to that part right now all right while we're still in this section down here in volume we're going to go ahead and hold in the little setup Cog wheel here and go into the advanced volume watch the little line up here at the bottom there it is and now we're in an advanced section you can toggle through the steps of this particular machine is set up right now on a program where it has five tones and I can see that on the screen right now and if I use the accept reject button over here I can toggle through those tone sections there's the second one third fourth and last so these are the tone sections one two three four and five what does that mean that means that you're telling the machine's telling you when it's iron down here it'll give you a load sound and then if it's something that's a low conductor it'll give you a little bit higher but still pretty low sound something up here in the middle is going to give you a middle tone and then the tones start getting higher over here and really high over here so the machine makes five tones depending on what you're swinging over so while we're in here right now we're going to turn the vibrating handle on or off for each one of these sections that we want it to be on right now in tone five you can see it's on and as we toggle through this and the iron it's not on again we'll go to the next section it's not on when we get up to the mids it's not on let's say we do want it on then we just hit this button here and we'll fill it vibrate again and you can see the icons on saying that now in tone break three it's going it's going to have a vibration on and let's go to the next one and check that it's on and then of course the last one it's on so it's going to vibrate on all the stuff from here up but on the lower stuff it's not so anyway that's how you do the vibrating handle and the tone breaks all right you can see a little icon over here it looks like a person's head that's a user definable button that will allow you to save one of these programs the way you want it so that you can quickly recall it by just hitting that button so let me give you a good example of that let's say we're out at the beach and I'll tell you let's go to beach one we're at the beach and we're in the wet sand and we're doing really good we're working our way up to the dry sand and not much is going on and you're still going up and all of a sudden you find yourself in a situation where you're in more of a park one setting because the sand kind of stopped and now it turned to dirt and there's a little bit of grass right there at the edge of the beach with some picnic benches and you don't want to hunt in beach one anymore you want to be in park one because you think that there might be some coins up there in the area right where the grass starts and the sand ends so what we can do for example is save let's go jump back over to park one and have it all set up the way you want let's say we're going to really try to find deep silver today in this setting so what you would do is you go to the frequency and we're going to say hey we only want to hear five kilohertz today that's what we're going for trying to find that deep silver up in the grass and you have everything else set the way you want it and then you come over here and we're going to save it by holding this in you're going to listen and watch what happens just hold it in so I've made a noise and then now you have an icon up there saying that that has been saved to this button so had you already had that set up and ready to go back in our scenario we were just talking about we're in beach one and we're in the wet sand and we work our way up to the dry sand and now we're in the grass we quickly just switch this and now we're in park one with five kilohertz and when we're all done we want to go back down to the sand we just one button click and you're right back in the sand so that's what's useful about that button very powerful feature if you want to overwrite this with another program no problem just pick a different one and let's say we change this one up to 20 and we're in Relic 120 and if you hold this in it's going to overwrite what you already had now that user definable button is this setting right here so if we go back to the beach thing again and we're on the beach we're detecting and we get up on the grass and you hit this it's not going to be in park anymore because you overrode it now it's field one [Music] foreign [Music] all right I'm going to show you how to raise or lower the volume so we're going to go to the Cog wheel here and as soon as you click it it takes you down to these little icons on the bottom down here and you can toggle along until you get to the third one which is volume I left it on here to show you a possible situation you might come across and how to overcome it if you come in here and you see that lined underneath the volume icon that means that the last time you were in there you were in the advanced settings and when you toggle back to it you're still still in the advanced section so we're going to hold this in to get out of advanced and now you can see this number is your volume you can lower it with the minus sign or raise it with the plus sign and that's just your regular volume there to get to the advanced part of it you just hold this in again the Cog wheel and it'll jump over to the volume now you can see the tone breaks are on here again we can toggle through those like we did earlier with this tone one two three four and five and you can set a volume for each section so if you don't want the iron to be very loud you notice that right now it's only at 12. the volume on this section is 25 and you can see that the mid conductors for some reason are at a volume of 17. we'll bring that back up and then we go to the last two sections here and they're full volume so that's how you set the volume and each of the tone breaks all right let's get out of the advanced hit the detect button and let's see we'll talk about threshold now so for threshold again we go to the Cog wheel and we work our way from volume to the very next one now this is threshold and threshold is a sound that will stay on all the time so that you kind of know the machine's working because if you didn't hear threshold and you were swinging over a field that had nothing in it you wouldn't even realize if the machine was on or off if you didn't look down and see that it's on but a threshold will assure you that it is on and it's also a very powerful feature I use it all the time in fact I use it exclusively because I'm hunting in areas where there's a lot of iron a lot of nails and I'm looking for places where people live where there was habitation human habitation they might have lost stuff and because of that I'm usually around a lot of trash a lot of iron and I'm trying to find the goodies kind of hiding in the middle of all of it so I like to leave threshold on so that when I'm in a discrimination mode I can actually hear the iron because the machine won't make a sound on the iron because it's discriminating it out but what it will do is the threshold will go away and you'll get a break in the threshold so that's an audible clue to me that I'm still in the iron because I always want to stay in the iron so I like the threshold to be on so we just raise it up and you can listen that's what it sounds like let's lower the volume just a little bit and I'll tell you what now we're going to go into the advanced part so we can change that tone so hold this in so now this is the pitch that's the actual tone you hear I don't know what it is Factory I think it might be four from the factory um I like six but you don't want it too high the reason you don't want it too high you want to keep it down here somewhere is because these are tones that you probably wouldn't want to dig anyway ever because they're too low and they're down in the iron section if you wanted your pitch your threshold pitch to be way up here at 20 and it was making that sound all the time in your ear while you're swinging it to let you know it's on well if you swing over a 20 you wouldn't even know it because that's already on 20. do you understand what I'm saying you wouldn't want to have your pitch too high because it'd be competing with signals that you want to hear so you want it low down here because you don't want to dig a five so it's okay to leave the threshold on five let's get back out of there and let's go ahead and turn this down and back to the detect button all right now I kind of skipped ahead a little bit and I hope I didn't confuse you but a few times now I've talked about five tones in this the five tone sections so we're going to discuss what that really is now and we're going to go to the Cog wheel here and we're gonna go to let's see past volume past threshold the next one is your tone break your tone section here now you can see that right now we're in five tones and we'll change that by going either up or down let's take a look from the beginning so what's One Tone that just means that everything you swing over no matter what it is a piece of iron or a gold ring or a silver quarter it's going to sound the same tone it's one tone now when you get to two tones you could say hey wait a minute now I got two tones and you can tell it which two tones you want there's a place where you can tell it from everything from 14 up I want tone two and from 13 down I want tone one so that's definable and the same thing happens when you get up to five and then all tone all tone is where it's it's got a huge scale from 0 to 99 and 0 to negative 19. so it's got a scale that goes negative 19 all the way to zero past zero all the way back up to 99. and then we have one more which is depth that's kind of a cool setting on this detector that is very powerful feature if you're a park Hunter and you're trying to hear the deep silver coins man that's a good feature you want I'll tell you why is if you're getting sick and tired of deep in digging quarters or dimes you know and you're trying to get the silver ones and every time you hear a good number on here and it sounds good nice high conductor sound and the number looks good and you dig it it's always and then one or two inch range and it's always a new common clad coin but you want the silver right so with this setting right here the Deep coins are really quiet and they sound amazing on here so basically what happens is you can hear depth now so a shallow coin is going to be loud and a deep coin is going to be quiet it still has the high tone and the numbers are okay it's still showing you the good number and the the tone sounds good but it's quiet so that's occluding you that that could be a deep silver coin instead of a shallow clad coin so that's what the DP is all right so now let's go into the advanced part of this section you're going to hold this button in here and we get into advanced Target tone so basically what this is doing is we can toggle through remember we're in five tone we can toggle through these sections and these are the tones that are going to play in each section so right now anything in here that comes up down here all the low stuff is going to just make a tone of one just a little grunt just really quiet then we get over here to the next one and now it's going to make tone 11. that's tone 11. listen to the tones you can hear them let's say we want everything down here to be nine so it was one down here now this is going to be nine go to the next section and we want this part to be let's say 17. and we went this part here to sound like let's do 21 and then you don't have to set this last one because it's automatically going to jump to 25. but what I would suggest to you is that if it's less than 25 bring it up to 25 and leave it there that way you get those nice high tones up here if you come into this section for some reason it's not 25 bump it up and that covers the advanced part of the target tones all right now we're going to look at your discrimination pattern so it's all these little lines on here that are in this dial if you look at this and counted all those little notches there's 99 of those notches right there and there would be an additional 19 going backwards this way so basically what discrimination does is it takes out little slices in this area so for example if you had a pull tab that kept coming up at 20 and you're just tired of digging pull tabs no more pull tabs at 20 and you wanted to notch that out this is how you're going to be able to do that so we're going to go into the cogwheel and work our way over to the accept reject area which is right here you can see the little check mark it looks just like this right here and while you're in here you can use the minus and plus to navigate around in here so let's go from negative 19 all the way up past zero all the way you can hold it too it'll jump up faster and we said we wanted to get rid of 20. we're going to notch 20 out because the pull tabs are coming up 20 every time and you don't want to dig them anymore so now that we're on 20 you can click this button to disable 20 so it won't hear 20 anymore and you can re-enable it just by clicking it again let's say you want to notch out from 21 to 23 so we go up to 21 Notch it out 22 Notch it out 23. that whole section now is notched out and we'll undo it so basically that's how you do your accept and reject to set up your discrimination pattern all right and while we're in here let's go into the advanced menu all right so now here is where you can Define where are those five tone breaks it's actually like where are those four tone breaks because we're in five tone and we need to Define where the four breaks are that make the five parts so if you look at this right now let's toggle up to the next one here it's going to make a tone break at 22. so tone one is going to be defined as anything down here but tone two is from 0 to 22. and remember this is a scale of 99. and then we'll go to the next one and that the third tone is going to be defined from 23 to 57. and then we're going to be 58 to 82. and then 83 to 99 but you can't set that because that's automatic right you just can only set these so here we go again we got this one at zero if you wanted to bring that down you could you want to bring it up you could we're going to leave it at zero and the next one is at 22 and then up to 57 82 so that's the advanced section and how you can actually Define where those tone breaks are all right we're almost done here we got just a couple things left to talk about and talk about recovery speed and iron bias now if for some reason you don't want to open up the owner's manual and you're fine with just watching my video here and you learned everything you need to know I do recommend however at some point you do go online and open up the owner's manual on the mylab website and go into the section on recovery speed and just read it real quick it's nothing crazy and read your iron bias as well but I'm going to try to explain it to you right here right now so basically let's use the Cog wheel and jump over to the last icon right here and right now we're on recovery speed so recovery speed goes from one up to eight so those are the settings you have now I'm going to do drastics so you understand what these what the range of it does drastic so recovery speed of one you're telling the machine right now if you're in recovery speed of one that the only thing you really care about right now is depth you just went deep you are in a school or a park and a big old field where there's not a lot of signals you've been there before and all the trash is kind of this is no trash there it's nothing there except those deep coins that you might have missed last time and you got a big coil on you're swinging slow and you're going for depth today you got your frequency maybe down and the low frequencies you're trying to find coins and hey machine I want to just really focus on depth right now and that's what one does it tilts the processor inside to work very hard at depth now on the other side of this let's go to eight now you're telling the machine I don't care about depth anymore my priority now is I want you to be able to hear things where like silver coins are right next to nails so I want you to be so fast as a processor that you're able to hear the difference quickly between two items that are right next to each other so I want you to hear the nail here but I want it to be able to hear the coin right next to the nail and I know when I ask you to do this and you focus very hard on being able to hear the two separate signals I know I'm going to lose depth because I'm way up on this end of the scale and I'm tilting the processor heavily to spend all of its processing power on being able to separate those targets that are right next to each other so again that's the high separation and this is depth so you've got to try to find something in here that works for you if you're kind of worried about a little bit of separation and you kind of went depth to then you know four is probably a better number if you're just starting to get into the trash but you still want your depth you start creeping up to five or six it's a balancing act and again read the owner's manual for more on that all right let's talk about iron bias now we're going to hold the Cog wheel in and get into the advanced and here we go you see Fe on the screen right here that stands for ferrous and ferrous means that it has a lot of iron in it so iron is the metal that is attracted to a magnet that will stick hard to a magnet it's different than let's say a silver quarter that will not stick to a magnet a silver quarter has no iron in it and iron has no silver in it so having said that the circuit that we're going to be talking about right here is designed to ignore the iron part now nails and ax heads and Horseshoes and all these things have both ferrous and non-ferrous in them so a nail for example laying in the ground is not going to be even though it will stick to a magnet doesn't mean it's all ferrous or all Iron it also has a lot of conductivity in it as well so it confuses the machine just a little bit in this section here it goes from all the way down from one or I'm sorry zero all the way up to 9. so 0 to 9 is our range running a low iron bias is telling the machine that you really want to hear every single coin right next to a nail so that allows the machine to hear the nail and the coin nail coin just quickly but as soon as you start raising this up and telling it to ignore the nail at some point it's going to just start to ignore the nail let's say that right now the nail is getting a little choppy and right there at five the nail is gone and now when you swing over that coin that was right next to it that you heard both of them a minute ago when you're down at zero you could hear the nail and then the coin so boop beep boop beep right next to each other and as you brought this up you notice that the nail started to go away but now the coin is not being heard at all if you move the coin over a little bit and put it over here just another inch away you might hear the coin as it gets further away so it's a balancing act here you start getting way up here you're going to knock out the all the iron that you don't want to hear but you're also going to miss those coins that are pretty close to the iron so if you get this way all the way down here you're going to hear all those coins those silver coins in there but you're going to hear every single piece of iron as well so you got to try to sneak up sneak up this direction until you get to a point where you can still knock out some of the Annoying iron but still hear that coin right next to it and I recommend that you do this in a test Garden at home just put a little area out there in your yard maybe in a place where you don't have a lot of Emi and lay a nail down right next to a quarter and test this and and see what I'm talking about here so you understand how it works and if you get up let's say for example let's say you're trying to knock out a iron bottle cap and you're in the park and you swing over the iron bottle cap and it's still there it sounds loud on three you're like I am done with these iron bottle caps you listen to it again on four it's still there five it's still there but it's just starting to break up a little bit you're like hey this might be working six now it's really breaking up and the iron bottle cap is not really sounding too good anymore you get to seven and you realize ah the iron bottle cap is gone now that coin that you put right next to that bottle cap see how how far away you have to be to hear that that coin if you lay that coin down over here and you can hear the bottle cap gone but you can still hear the coin right next to it as you sneak the coin in this way slowly but surely you're going to realize that now as you come this direction towards the bottle cap you're going to lose the coin you bring this down the bottle cap comes back but the coin comes back so play with that a little bit at home and try to learn about you know read the owner's manual and try to learn what you can about it and use it to your advantage I want to tell you also that this mode right here iron bias is not going to show up if you're not in multi-frequency let me say that again you have to be in multi-frequency mode to use iron bias and to even see this so this only applies to multi-frequency and I would also tell you that don't forget that this button down here let's go back to the detect screen this button down here which is the all metal mode when you click that it opens up this bottom section down here so that you can hear the iron down there it's an all metal if you click that again you won't hear all those little Staples and tacks and small little bits of iron it'll knock them out automatically by the way that the machine is set up and like I said to hear them you'd have to open this back up so anyway think about all that for a minute and if you're not really worried about iron and you're out just looking for coins and there's not a lot of iron you don't have to worry about this and you can um more focus on the recovery speed so all right that concludes our video today like I said before go down in that comment section and leave me comments down there and ask me questions if you have any I'd love to hear from you guys I answer all my questions my email is down in the video description as well if you'd rather email me if you have a really super big question you want to ask me happy to check those and answer my emails as well so hey before I sign off I want to ask you if you could also jump down in the comment section real quick and tell me what do you think about this backlight the red backlight I'm kind of just asking you guys to tell me what is your feedback on do you like the red tactical red backlight there's the high medium low and off notice that the buttons light up too down here with it which is really cool at night you can see your buttons wondering what do you guys think about that and have you taken it under water and if you have if you've been underwater with the machine what do you think about the red underwater how's it look to you compared to a white backlight let's say all right that's it catch you guys later thanks for tuning in and I look forward to seeing you again real soon [Music]

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Length: 35min 43sec (2143 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 31 2023