Equinox carbon-fiber rods / shafts (black AND colored), and CTX 3030 rods, IN STOCK

[Found-It]

Just visited your site and they look great! I am eager to order one in the next few months.
I like the color options and that they are carbon fiber.
How do you know when to use a counterweight?

 

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[sgoss66]

Found-It -- thanks for the kind words! I look forward to hearing from you in the future, when you are ready to order.

It's a very good question that you ask -- about "how to know when you need a counterweight," and it's one that I am asked frequently Fortunately, the answer is pretty simple. When you are feeling pain or fatigue in your wrist in particular, but also potentially in your forearm/elbow/shoulder, or even your back, after using the Equinox -- especially after a longer hunt, and especially when using a larger coil -- that's when you know you would benefit from the application of counterweighting. That's honestly the simple answer. I am not here to sell folks things they don't need, and so if the nose-heaviness of the Equinox does not cause you any issues, then there is little reason for you to purchase the counterweight. For these folks, who don't have any issues with the machine's ergonomics, it simply means that keeping the coil floating above the ground does not require more muscular effort than they are capable of comfortably providing. So, again, there's little need then, for counterweighting, for these EQX users.

However, if you are "feeling it," after a hunt with the Equinox, that's the clear indication that the nose-heaviness/ergonomic imbalance of the unit is such that it is taxing your muscles -- i.e., the strain is more than can be comfortably managed -- and thus counteweighting can "pick up the slack," so to speak, relieving that strain and bringing comfort to your detecting experience. Properly applied, the counterweighting assists you in swinging the machine comfortably, by reducing the amount of work that YOU do, by doing some (or all, if so desired) of the work FOR you, in terms of keeping the coil "floating" in "detecting position."

How much counterweighting is needed (i.e. how much assistance you need, to give your muscles a break and bring the machine's balance to a comfortable level) differs from person to person, and I work with each customer to determine this "optimal" amount of counterweighting for their specific needs. It's not a "one-size-fits-all" thing, because the amount of "work" each person can comfortably do, differs from person to person. But I work with you to get this all figured out, at time of purchase.

Hopefully that helps to answer your question; please let me know if anything is still unclear.

Thank you!

Steve