One of the best videos out there in explaining this iron bias F2 vs FE. Thank you for this 👍🏼

Great job showing the various scenarios and how it performs!

Did a great job on showing the differences of FE and F2

Most comprehensive testing of the new update I’ve seen, great job bud..

Great test, no bottle caps, amazing.. Can't wait to get out to a beach.

I have mixed feelings about this update. tried it today but didn't have good results. your video gives me hope. excellent review of this update! thank you for taking the time to upload this

Haven't done my update yet but looking forward to it. Thanks for sharing and Gl and HH 😎👍👍

From what I've found if you have fe2 on 6 then check with all metal mode it shows a -grunt for bottle cap,but if fe2 is on 0 with all iron on then you get a 14-15 reading. Conclusion fe2 is better used in conjunction with all metal.

Great demo thanks!

for me the test says keep your iron bias above 5 for trashy sites and if your not sure of a target go to 9 and see if your still gettin it . thanks

Just update mine doing great no more rusty nail and bottle cap. Can use this function before digging the target. But i recommend dig it all because target id 1&2 are gold

Thanks for the test!

Very good run-out of the 800 on your test patch. Honest and fair. Thank you. What baffles me though, is why 7 viewers could possibly find any, obvious, just cause to give this upload a 'thumbs down'. Very odd. But 'Hey Ho!, there is nowt as weird as some folk'. Envy/jealousy probably, the poor sad little trolls. ATB. Keep safe, and Happy Hunting!

Great info Dude, Great job on the video.

Have you tried any test with the 6" coil on the 800? Very informative video

Got all into digging a few years ago. Last detectors I had were Excal and Ctx. Thinking of trying new Vanquish or Nox just for lightweightness and multifreq ability!

I dig everything even those caps, cause if there isent any target, you wont miss anything. Small gold could be covered by caps . But for sure a good option for large and trashy areas.

Great video. What do you use to mark off your test garden targets?

The newer twist off metal beer caps ring up loud with a 27 with factory preset.

I think I will let everyone download it and wait to see if their machines to explode, If they don't I will get get on the download train. LOL It seems like a lot of back and forth between the two modes to make a decision if your gong to dig or not. Somethings look like they are working very well. Thanks for posting this and taking the time to go over so many targets! 🎧🔊✔

So what would you recommend to leave the F2 at 6 or a little bit lower

I've already updated mine but haven't had the chance to use it yet!

Rock On very well done

I think if the cap is rusty like the nails you will get good result..how often you dig up caps in good shape ?

Have you tried a higher recovery speed with the the same comparison (F2/FE)? I hunted the most iron loaded field about the same time the update came out: I had the best luck with a speed of 7 or 8 and F2 at 5. I think faster recovery speed is the difference with good and/or bad targets close together.

Thanks for sharing

Great job Mikey! I have so much fun with my Impact. That is why I don't own a Nox. HH🤘🤘

Updated my 600 yesterday, and will try F2 on a setting of "2" tomorrow (which is 6 on the 800).

Hello. Just watched your test with F2. We’re you in all metal mode doing the test? The flat washer didn’t show any negative value nor did the rusted bottle caps. Just trying to learn how to run it in F2. I’ve heard it like s being ran in al metal. Thanks , Jeff

Iron Bias: If F2 is changed, is FE still at default? Do they work together? How are they activated, ie., set greater than zero?

Updating mine tonight

Hi, I have just done the 2.0 update on my Eq 800 , did not see any difference between the FE and F2 setting on my tests using the small 6 coil. So very disappointed with the impression of having lost my time updating my Equinox… I mainly use the 6 coil because I am often detecting in old and very trashy areas . Alain from North of France

Minelab recommends being in (horseshoe icon) all metal mode when using F2. Were you using all metal mode in your tests? I tried the update / F2 with and without all metal mode and ALL I DUG was iron and aluminum. I got better results before updating by notching out various numbers. I experienced trash having good tones and numbers while using 5 tones, auto ground balance, 20 to 22 sensitivity, park 2, with and without all metal. Something's not right...

Good one iffy I'm loving the update!!...hh

I did exactly what you did and when they’re already in the ground so rusted bottle top scoring up good and that iron from F2 will sound off on iron on in the ground

Hey iffy just did the upgrade and i don't understand how to change it from FE to F2 how do you do that ?

I've been waiting to do the update until I've seen some feedback by those who have. This was great. Did you notice if the update caused the readout numbers to change any when swinging over a target? I've just got used to mine and am fairly new to detecting. Thanks for sharing, GL, HH and take care.

Nice..I was out testing the opposite today ...6 inch coil...and nail discrimination....I couldn't find any benefit to knocking out high nail signals on the 600 with the new F2 vs Fe....I will be retesting the exact same scenario with the 11 inch this week at some point...

So what is recommended one for overall? Fe2: 6? Currently using Fe:4

Which mode are you in? Park 1 or All metal Mode?

In a iron patch what do you recommend?

With the Deus, if you get a steel bottle cap that sounds like a coin, watch the mineralization indicator and see if it shows 3 or more bars. If it shows then it's probably a bottle cap.

When you use f2 do you have to set the fe to 0 ?

I updated mine and the new feature still isn’t showing up.

Love the update.. Our country's fine nickel where invisible on the last update.. They all came back with this update.. and silver is good and the new F2 mode just made this control freak-dome.. Your close bottle cap investigation dillema.. make me wonder about some signals I remember.. Might be a good idea to do a decent above ground run down of your strategy to get used to what stuff sound like "their distribution" and it's effect.. Gonna be a good season!! Only thing that the last update made me aware of and I think it's a good thing to remind folks of.. None of the multi modes include 40Khz on either machine(The only mode I could use for nickels on the last update).... Keep that in mind because I know sometimes if your strategy is to start homing in onto the finest stuff like broken earnings etc.. you would want to use 40Khz exclusively.

Great info, thank you for taking the time to share this.

400 views, it’s growing!

Bought a Nox 2 times...sold it 2 times ! If you need an accurate Iron ID get a CTX or a Sovereign !!! If you are blessed , find a Discovery treasure Baron....

If you are running heavy Fe or F2 on a colonial sight with heavy square nails, you will miss non ferrous guaranteed, been there, done that. I run 0 FE + F2 in cellar holes in all metal and have had great luck in Western Massachusetts. Of course not many bottle caps a mile in the forest on a remote hole. If I hunted close to civilization, I think the FE and F2 would be useful, to a point, like in a Park or school location. I still dig some curvy square nails or a clump of them, or square nails with big heads can sound like buttons. so ya, I dig a lot of square nails. But most of them just give an iron grunt in all metal. No need to crank your sensitivity either targets aren't that deep here. Digging more nails means more Colonial relics, buttons and of course coins. Its nice to know you aren't missing the find of a lifetime because of too heavy iron bias.

I'll just leave mine in stock the way it come

To me, before you dig the screw out it was a jumpy signal giving a minus to 20 I wouldn’t have dug that anyway..

I believe the nox 600 goes much deeper then 9 inches cause I know my etrac is a deep machine

people need to do more tests with coins on edge etc etc to many tests are giving the detector to easy of a task

The f2 program scares me a bit. I am no expert in the technology of minelabs multi frequency, but I am drawing my conclusion to common sense and principles of basic metal detecting discrimination. The stock program detects most bottle caps with a broken tone that is pretty simple to hear. There are some caps that have come up a solid 13 to 15 range that have fooled me. The f2 program supposedly does something to help discriminate out bottlecaps which ring up between 13 to 15 in the gold range. That is what scares me. When you use the F2 program you are masking out a certain type of metal that rings in the gold range. I would rather know that something is buried in the ground and to be given a choice of wether or not I want to dig that target. With the f2 program, you arent given a choice to dig because the program masks it out so that you dont even know its there. If you have a gold ring on top of an iron nail it could mimic the footprint of a bottlecap. Scary.

To use the F2 correctly the horseshoe or iron discrimination needs to be on.

I noticed when in F2 when you change your sensitive to 10 - 15 -20 and 25 you get different readings also. On the bottle caps

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