earthmansurfer
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My Deus came today and I charged it up. In two hours it said full on both the coil and control box (No wireless headphones for me). I got out for 3 hours or so (battery levels didn't change) and hit a spot that I had hit extensively with my V3i (now departed) and then a little bit with my E-Trac - medium small and stock coils.
I ran with a slightly modified GMP (program 2) - Disc 5, Freq 11.7, Audio Response 3, 4 tones and I moved the two upper breakpoints to fit my average coins here (63-88, 89+). The mineralization index was no bars most of the time and sometimes at 3 - saw it hit the midpoint a few times but think that was an anomaly. The GB was ranging from 80 - 90 most of the time, sometimes lower. I used tracking as the GB point after pumping seemed to move quite a bit and so I thought to ditch pumping, and it worked well apparently.
Curious - How would you rate my soil according to the Deus? Almost all machines I've had have a jumpy Id in my soil - at depth.
I pulled a small jewelry cross (Jesus broke up and off), small jewelry button, partial spoon handle, heart locket, thimble, small pin, another picture locket, 3 smaller coins (1924 & 2X 1925's - all hit around 70), a heavy copper bracelett. (No precious metals with the preceding). The Deus reminded me a little of the T2 in how it was very sensitive to small objects BUT the Deus runs much quiter. I also ran the sensitivity at 92 at the end, was too chatty above that. Took me the first 2 hours to get a feel for the signals as they are shorter than I'm used to on the E-Trac - a bit more condensed with info I guess. I dug some very small metal bits and even pinpointed them to make sure they weren't small bits, but I still got fooled and fooled bad. :veryangry: The deepest target I dug was exactly 7" and it gave NO VID and was around .5" X 2" and flat. I dug another target (screw) that was 2" deep and gave NO VID, except when out of the ground (22 I think) - Must have been near iron is my guess. I mostly dug signals above 65 or so, but played with some down to 50. I was really looking for coins and the 3 I found were only 3" to 5" deep and hit quite well and sounded coin like (2 of them I KNOW I had been over in the past). I dug a few NO VID signals (4 or so) and only one was deep, the others were small targets not deep at all - a bit frustrating. As with many detectors those small bits often are tough on me.
I used my Gray Ghost DMC headphones with an adapter and as others have said the adapters don't fit in all the way and it made for getting a signal tough - I was often fidgeting with the cable where it plugs into the control box. My mp3 buds work fine though, but they don't sound clear, rather a bit fuzzy (and yet they are great quality for music). I have to try to file down the metal at the base on the 3.5mm male end so it can go deeper into the control unit and that will fix things I'm positive. It would be nice if XP sells an adapter as if they find one that fits right it will save the rest of us with wired headphones some searching and trial & error.
The Good - Very light machine & I was able to pack it up in ONE BACKPACK with my digging tools and such! Made for easy biking. Very fast even with reactivity on 2 (played with Deus fast but no real need for it here.). Relatively intuitive to use (My menu is in German and I still was able to go through it pretty easily - most words are almost the same). The sounds have a nice nuance to them, in particular around the edges if that makes sense. Will take some learning for sure.
The "Will take some gettings used to" - The meter really jumps around (at times, not always), again reminding me of my T2. It doesn't do this on all targets though. Buttons could be larger - need to use your finger nail sometimes but not a biggy. Will take time to learn the sounds, they are much shorter than on my E-Trac. Small targets (like 1/4" or less) were a real problem for me, I dug too many of those but started to get a bit better at them by the end of the hunt.
Thx,
Albert
I ran with a slightly modified GMP (program 2) - Disc 5, Freq 11.7, Audio Response 3, 4 tones and I moved the two upper breakpoints to fit my average coins here (63-88, 89+). The mineralization index was no bars most of the time and sometimes at 3 - saw it hit the midpoint a few times but think that was an anomaly. The GB was ranging from 80 - 90 most of the time, sometimes lower. I used tracking as the GB point after pumping seemed to move quite a bit and so I thought to ditch pumping, and it worked well apparently.
Curious - How would you rate my soil according to the Deus? Almost all machines I've had have a jumpy Id in my soil - at depth.
I pulled a small jewelry cross (Jesus broke up and off), small jewelry button, partial spoon handle, heart locket, thimble, small pin, another picture locket, 3 smaller coins (1924 & 2X 1925's - all hit around 70), a heavy copper bracelett. (No precious metals with the preceding). The Deus reminded me a little of the T2 in how it was very sensitive to small objects BUT the Deus runs much quiter. I also ran the sensitivity at 92 at the end, was too chatty above that. Took me the first 2 hours to get a feel for the signals as they are shorter than I'm used to on the E-Trac - a bit more condensed with info I guess. I dug some very small metal bits and even pinpointed them to make sure they weren't small bits, but I still got fooled and fooled bad. :veryangry: The deepest target I dug was exactly 7" and it gave NO VID and was around .5" X 2" and flat. I dug another target (screw) that was 2" deep and gave NO VID, except when out of the ground (22 I think) - Must have been near iron is my guess. I mostly dug signals above 65 or so, but played with some down to 50. I was really looking for coins and the 3 I found were only 3" to 5" deep and hit quite well and sounded coin like (2 of them I KNOW I had been over in the past). I dug a few NO VID signals (4 or so) and only one was deep, the others were small targets not deep at all - a bit frustrating. As with many detectors those small bits often are tough on me.
I used my Gray Ghost DMC headphones with an adapter and as others have said the adapters don't fit in all the way and it made for getting a signal tough - I was often fidgeting with the cable where it plugs into the control box. My mp3 buds work fine though, but they don't sound clear, rather a bit fuzzy (and yet they are great quality for music). I have to try to file down the metal at the base on the 3.5mm male end so it can go deeper into the control unit and that will fix things I'm positive. It would be nice if XP sells an adapter as if they find one that fits right it will save the rest of us with wired headphones some searching and trial & error.
The Good - Very light machine & I was able to pack it up in ONE BACKPACK with my digging tools and such! Made for easy biking. Very fast even with reactivity on 2 (played with Deus fast but no real need for it here.). Relatively intuitive to use (My menu is in German and I still was able to go through it pretty easily - most words are almost the same). The sounds have a nice nuance to them, in particular around the edges if that makes sense. Will take some learning for sure.
The "Will take some gettings used to" - The meter really jumps around (at times, not always), again reminding me of my T2. It doesn't do this on all targets though. Buttons could be larger - need to use your finger nail sometimes but not a biggy. Will take time to learn the sounds, they are much shorter than on my E-Trac. Small targets (like 1/4" or less) were a real problem for me, I dug too many of those but started to get a bit better at them by the end of the hunt.
Thx,
Albert
