30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
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30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
First time out with the Equinox... 30 minutes detecting & it's broken.
The pinpoint button appears to be stuck in and prevents anything else working.
Bearing in mind that this is a brand new machine & I was being very gentle with it, I wasn't expecting this.
Add to this the fact that I'm 200 miles from home on a "detecting" holiday and now left without a detector.
Not amused.
The pinpoint button appears to be stuck in and prevents anything else working.
Bearing in mind that this is a brand new machine & I was being very gentle with it, I wasn't expecting this.
Add to this the fact that I'm 200 miles from home on a "detecting" holiday and now left without a detector.
Not amused.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Have you pressed the button a second time, once for on, once for off
Walk that line, torn apart
spend your whole life trying.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Also have you tried a factory reset
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Its pressed in... as in it wont un press if you know what I mean.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Did you try the factory reset as BM suggested Phil?
Just a thought, but do you use a control box cover? The Pure radio that I keep in my shed has similar buttons to the nox and one of those got stuck - it was dust/fine grit in the button recess.
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Just a thought, but do you use a control box cover? The Pure radio that I keep in my shed has similar buttons to the nox and one of those got stuck - it was dust/fine grit in the button recess.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
A touch of W&D should do the trick, works wonders, the plastic surface will have stuck to the barrel of the hole, Liam 

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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Returned it to shop.
They can sort it.
They can sort it.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
That`s worrying as I had a new one arrive a couple of hours ago.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
But yours didn't cost as much as Phil's:)
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Well I haven't personally heard of any similar bad reports about the manufacturing quality of the machine but as with any mass-produced product there will be occasional duffers that get past the quality control people....hopefully yours will not be one of them

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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Not a good start i hope you can get it sorted , not a good advert for a new machine 

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At work at the moment so cant check, but I thought to get out of pin point, you press the detect button, not the pin point? I could be wrong.
Just checked the Manual, I am wrong, its the same button sorry
Just checked the Manual, I am wrong, its the same button sorry

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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Perhaps they should have been manufactured in Australia and not in the Far East.
Happy Hunting,
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Returned it to the retailer....they sent it on to Steve Cox at MSR .....
Replacement sent to me within 3 days.
Brilliant service.
Well chuffed now
Replacement sent to me within 3 days.
Brilliant service.
Well chuffed now

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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Good customer service Jerry by the looks of it.... I'm also watching the thread to see if any similar problems are reported, but..just wondering whether you have yet used / intend to use the Equinox?
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Hi Phil.
The American sites are the ones to visit for hands on reports as they have many more Exquinox on the go than our little island.
Ian very pleased to read that you are getting good support.
I was a Minelab nut from the early Sovereign days through to the e-trac coming out with our good emerald isle friends especially Des Dunne.
Then along came the XP Deus and I purchased machine 008 10 years ago and the rest is history.
The Equinox box is looking at me and I cant make up my mind whether to use it or not.
Iam 84 next week and still finding with the XP deus when out 3 times a week, but only for 4 hours stints these days.
Happy Hunting,
Jerry.
The American sites are the ones to visit for hands on reports as they have many more Exquinox on the go than our little island.
Ian very pleased to read that you are getting good support.
I was a Minelab nut from the early Sovereign days through to the e-trac coming out with our good emerald isle friends especially Des Dunne.
Then along came the XP Deus and I purchased machine 008 10 years ago and the rest is history.
The Equinox box is looking at me and I cant make up my mind whether to use it or not.
Iam 84 next week and still finding with the XP deus when out 3 times a week, but only for 4 hours stints these days.
Happy Hunting,
Jerry.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Nothing to worry about...i've had my Equinox 800 for 6 months and had ZERO problem at all.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
JERRY get it out of it's box and let it loose my Deus is currently of no fixed abode on eBay, let the animal loose you won't regret it !!!
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
Well after all the tribulations....it works
First finds with the Nox this morning - a watch winder,a spindle whirly wotsit,a shoe buckle and a couple of musket balls.
Am impressed with it so far.

First finds with the Nox this morning - a watch winder,a spindle whirly wotsit,a shoe buckle and a couple of musket balls.
Am impressed with it so far.
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Re: 30 minutes with Brand new Equinox
If only the machine was as sturdy as the box it comes in lol
When mine arrived i thought a explorer had arrived !
The machine is very frail indeed unlike most!
When mine arrived i thought a explorer had arrived !
The machine is very frail indeed unlike most!