I think the Deus would be a great coin shooter

[woodchiphustler]

I stopped shooting coins many moons ago but decided to play around with some settings and some silver buried in a test bed. Disc. 40, Relic Mode at 4khz, reactivity at 1, sensitivity for your ground conditions, 2 tones. Tone 1 391 hz, tone 2 782 hz. ( my preference) Listen for a repeatable high pitch short "ping" on deep coins. Reminds me of a CZ. 10" silver dime hit without a problem. All Indian pennies came in also. VDI readings will be between the low 40's to 80 on larger coins. Silver dimes and quarters read in the 70's at 4khz. Notch out problem targets reading from the 50's to 60's as you go. . Give it a try.

 

[scoopjohnb]

The coins aren't the problem, the trash is.

Crowncaps have a TID that range from 85 to 94 in my area on 8 kHz.
The coil hasn't got much feeling in the fingertips, hereby I mean you have a very small margin for identifying the iron in a crowncap as you sweep toward it.
The rib in the DD is also very sharp, it will get fooled by small surface trash and not see the coin below.
The detection field will not float around the trash as much as a wider DD or concentric.

I didn't get it figured out how to easily ID a deep low conductor with abundant surface foil around.

Very nice relic hunter on airy soil, 12 kHz, 18 kHz.
But the 8 kHz coinshooting frequency didn't do the business for me. All though it will go deep on coins.
Tried the 4 kHz to expand the high conductor range even more. You couldn't lower the transmit power, why I would have really liked to.

Anyhow, just my personal opinion. Maybe I should have persevered, but other machines do a better job at coin shooting. With a lot less adjustment needed to the settings.
Would really like to hear how you get on with it.
Only when we are bested and proved wrong in our findings or assumptions do we learn.

HH

 

[kevinmi]

I think it is a good coin hunter. I keep a ledger of the coins I dig and since I started hunting with the deus this April there certainly has been no drop in the number of coins I'm finding. It excels in iron, in sites less irony back the reactivity down.

 

[Aaron]

I've tried the Deus many times in the park and basically unless there's a spot w alot of iron I'd just rather use my CZ or CTX. There's nothing in my arsenal that compares to the Deus at the old iron infested homesites though.

 

[mrwilburino]

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[mudpuppy]

Good subject...i've been watching you boys here deciding whether to try the Deus...can you drop sens enough to sweep around in the totlots near the poles sucessfully? The videos look convincing to me, maybe I'll run into somebody someday to give it a try.
Mud

 

[hopper2]

Pretty much all I do is coin shoot with my deus and my coin count has gone up dramatically since I got it. It is extremely easy to pick coins with this unit.