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Do not take the deus to a salt water beach, I tryed it on the wet sand when the tide was out, tryed every setting at different sensitivity levels and GB and freq, I deem it unusable, my etrac purrs like a kitten on the beach, at pro even does better on the wet sand. if I missed some magical setting please feel free to comment. Cheers
 
Glad to hear some info on this will try mine soon at the beach have ask a time or two on setting my self and have not got any info other than what was in the manual. Will do a little dry sand hunting if nothing else at the beach and use my CTX in the wet stuff.

Jason
 
Did you turn on the wet beach beach mode and say "yes" to the wet selection? I have tested the Deus on florida beaches and it purred like a kitten, as you say. I know plenty of guys that are having great success at the beach with the Deus as well. Why don't you give us some info about your problem rather than just coming out with such a generalized comment as "don't use the Deus at the beach." There are many factors at play here. Its like me saying not to use the Deus in parks, just because I happen to have a littered park near me that I hunt at.

We appreciate all information that people share with us here, but generalized comments with no merit/background information doesn't really help anyone. Maybe you can post the area of the country you are hunting in, the ground conditions on that beach etc and then maybe we can help you figure out how to get the settings right for you.

I'm not trying to beat on you but you come on here and make some seriously generalized comments sometimes rather than trying to figure out what the real problem is. It's not always the machines fault..... -Marc
 
I have to agree with Mark...
I took my Deus to the beach here in No. Cal. and in the wet it went nuts.
I just hunted the dry and it worked out fine..
It wasn't the machines fault.
Just operator error.
I (like a dummy) left the manual at home and didn't read it enough to know/remember to "say yes" to wet selection.
I'm not giving up on the beach.
The Deus is a great machine and I will learn it!!
Don't give up...
Practice, practice, practice.....

HH
 
Yes I had it on the beach mode and said yes, I live in NB canada, I will def make a video and post it haha. I'm sure its a great saltwater beach hunter and love hearing stories of such a thing, Does anyone have a link to a video of the deus saltwater detecting? Cheers
 
There is one on YouTube looks like it works great just not in a language I can understand. Would be awesome if some one would do one and show the set up ground balance and that type thing.

Jason
 
GL shadowman!!!! I will be in florida next month for 2 weeks, gonna bring the multi freq detector thou :)
 
MHirschmann said:
Did you turn on the wet beach beach mode and say "yes" to the wet selection? I have tested the Deus on florida beaches and it purred like a kitten, as you say. I know plenty of guys that are having great success at the beach with the Deus as well. Why don't you give us some info about your problem rather than just coming out with such a generalized comment as "don't use the Deus at the beach." There are many factors at play here. Its like me saying not to use the Deus in parks, just because I happen to have a littered park near me that I hunt at.

We appreciate all information that people share with us here, but generalized comments with no merit/background information doesn't really help anyone. Maybe you can post the area of the country you are hunting in, the ground conditions on that beach etc and then maybe we can help you figure out how to get the settings right for you.

I'm not trying to beat on you but you come on here and make some seriously generalized comments sometimes rather than trying to figure out what the real problem is. It's not always the machines fault..... -Marc
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Great reply Marc!:clapping:
 
No problem at all. So why don't you tell us about your ground conditions so we can get going with helping you?

1) What happens when you try to ground balance in wet beach with yes? Does it accept a GB or does it fail?

2) How mineralized is your ground?

3) What type of sand?

4) What are the sens settings you were using?

-Marc
 
After I ground balance and say yes, it reads 26 on the top and 0 on the bottom, it was falsing badly so I raised the GB to match the top which still didnt seem to help with the falsing I tried lowering the sens all the way down to 50 which helped a bit on the flat surface but once I got to where there where wripples in the sand it falsed on every wripple. This was during low tide, we have the biggest tide changes in the world so the tide was out 300 yards. Im no expect on sand type, seems to me to be just regular sand, there is black sand built up where the high tide line is, our ground is moderatly minerilized inland.
 
Hello all,
The Deus has become my main detector now on the Beach, primarily because of how light and fast the thing is. I run the WetBeach program with manual ground balancing (not pumping) in wet/medium dry sand and switch to the DrySand program or one of the others depending on what it is i am looking for in very dry sand, again with manual ground balancing. I keep a close eye on what the ground readings are and then adjust to within 2 digits of it, seems to work great. Lowering the sensitivity does help if you want a completely silent detector but i find it quite stable up to about 87. Bottle caps were a challenge in the beginning coming from the Whites V3i but now i can hear them on the Deus which is MUCH quicker than going over and over a target looking at a screen trying to decide if its another one or not. The large coil does cover a lot more ground but i have been using the small coil more on the beach due to how light and balanced it is, i also save more time because i rarely have to pinpoint a target. Faster detecting means more ground covered and hopefully more treasure :)

All in all, i love the Deus, looking forward to 3 weeks in England soon to dig some older ring pulls :wiggle:

Julian
 
I am an XP Dealer, but giving false info would not help anyone including me. 12 years of living at the Beach and detecting on it has seen me use lots of different machines and i will be using this one until a better one comes along. I'm hoping to make some videos soon, just bought a GoPro Camera.

Julian
 
On my beaches I've been able to get it running stable on the wet and dry stuff.
Problem is the transitions between dry and wet, where some of the older finds come up.
Haven't persevered with the settings, just enjoying the detector on the dry stuff at the moment.
 
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