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  1. Probably not. It’s designed for large, deep contiguous cache’s of metal. Preferably high conductors. It would be harder for it to detect metal caches where the individual items are not fused together. Gold alloy’s would also be harder for it because gold conductivity drops significantly when alloyed with other metals and impurities. Furthermore, this type of target would never occur naturally, so it would be in some sort of container, correct. Unless that container is non-metallic, you would probably be more likely to detect the container rather than the contents. The types of questions you keep asking the forum revolve around non-natural targets, very deep buried caches, perhaps under rock, perhaps in non- metallic containers etc that push beyond the technical limits of the consumer grade detectors you keep asking about, including even the XP Xtreme hunter. You would probably be much better off investing in professional industrial/archeological equipment like ground penetrating radar that can reveal subterranean voids rather than consumer metal detectors for whatever it is you are trying to find. Just a suggestion.
  2. So it looks like Breeze Airlines is restricting recreational items that contain LiIon Batteries above and beyond the TSA restrictions which is certainly within their right to do so to further limit the hazard risk this technology presents to just personal electronics like phones, headphones, tablets, and laptops. Anyway, without knowing what detector rental models or rates will be available to you in the immediate area you are visiting, I can't advise you on that. I've never rented a detector and would be most comfortable with one that I was already familiar with. Another option to consider would be to arrange to ship your detector to your destination in advance and then ship it back home at the end of your trip. It might be more cost effective than renting and you'll have the detector you know you'll like. HTH.
  3. Jane - First a carification. The battery parameter the FAA/TSA is concerned about is actually "Watt-Hours" or "W-H" which is a measure of the energy stored in the battery and the potential for how much "fuel" is available to feed a fire vesus "Watts" which is a measure of the maximum product of volts times current that a battery can supply at any instant in time. The Nox 800 uses a battery rated at 3.7 v at 5000mAH which is equivalent to 18.5 W-H which is well below the 100 W-H limit. More info in my post linked below regarding requirements for checked baggage vs. a carry on bag etc.
  4. I feel as if I was a little misunderstood on my 6000 comments, so I’ll just make a few additional comments addressing that below and exit the thread because I’m just a relic detectorist looking for bullets, no biggie if I leave them in the ground and so forth…. Bottom line if you don’t want to wade through all the words below - Thanks for setting the record straight and I agree with you (in fact I never disagreed in the first place, as relic detectorists and prospectors have many common viewpoints when it comes to a detector’s capabilities but also some divergent points of view on the value of certain features). As I’ve repeatedly stated, it was never my intent to saddle the E1500 with suggested features and capabilities useless to prospectors or to cajole gold detectorists into defending why the E1500 doesn’t have these features out of the box. And I will state again, for the record, that the E1500 is very compelling as is to me as solely a relic detectorist because it appears to hit all those cost/weight/performance wickets Steve set as stretch goals for PI manufacturers. My intent was simply to articulate features and capabilities I have found useful as a relic detectorist that hopefully could be considered in the future for an E1500 without significant cost or complexity. And if the E1500 proves in practice that its existing capabilities wrt to EMI, ground handling, and integrated ID/audio obviate the need for these additional features in a relic detecting context, so much the better. Regarding my original comment on the 6000. My point wasn’t about how the 6000 DD’s are great (I have no knowledge of that as I don’t own a 6000). Nor was I asking for a defense of the Iron Check feature as great or necessary - I know and am constantly reminded by prospectors how utterly useless the feature is. I was simply pointing out IN SUPPORT OF THE E1500 that the 6000 has no iron check feature and I remembered posts and and direct conversations were folks figured out ways to manipulate the GPX 6000 switchable automatic ground handling and timing features and/or used audio clues to interrogate targets on the fly to ID likely iron or junk targets (I.e., proficient 6000 users were not missing the lack of the iron check feature for either prospecting or relic detecting). I just couldn’t remember if a DD was needed as part of the equation. My bad - thanks for chiming in and setting the record straight as I hoped you would. I wasn’t trying to use that whole 6000 thing to justify DD, I am actually glad it’s not necessary. And, yes, I know a lot of of GPX 4K/5K and Axiom users (me included) that integrate the target audio with and without the iron check features to make dig decisions. There are also situations where I would turn off the GPX iron blanking feature altogether because ground conditions were making it break on non-ferrous targets and go solely with audio to make dig decisions. Finally, if I have limited time in a hot dirt field iron patch, I’m personally pulling out a simultaneous frequency VLF (probably a D2) given todays available PI tools and will gladly trade depth for speed and the possibility of getting non-ferrous audio hits in that situation. If the E1500 can keep me from pulling a VLF out in that situation, that would be an impressive and welcome game changer. So, of course, having the visual ID info provided by the E1500 will only help in this regard and could be game changing feature. Thanks for indulging this relic detectorist’s perspective. Chase out. Wake me when these actually make their way to the US. P.S. I finally managed to locate the GPX 6000 thread that Steve H. started on the subject of manipulating PI detector controls to interrogate and characterize different non-ferrous and ferrous targets based on how differently the targets responded to the different settings. Below, I am linking the final post in the thread by Andrew Benson that documented his results on a variety of ferrous and non-ferrous relic test targets You can dive back into that entire thread from this jumping off point, if desired. It's not earth shattering or rocket science, but just providing it here for reference, to show how a PI detector without a dedicated iron check feature can be used to interrogate and differentiate between various ferrous and non-ferrous targets by manipulating controls and interpreting target audio response on the fly. Indeed, as confirmed by Steve and Andrew, this methodology was executed with a mono coil. The visual ID component provided by the E1500 should just add another tool in the toolkit to facilitate similar target interrogation methodologies for relic and gold hunting alike, despite the absence of a dedicated, DD-facilitated ferrous check feature. FWIW.
  5. I don't want to derail this thread into a debate on the pros and cons of having some means of iron identification on a PI. As as a gold detectorist, your lack of enthusiasm for the feature vs. mine or other relic detectorists is totally understandable. I can see where it can be perceived as a low value feature that is not worth paying extra for or adding to the complexity of operating the detector. I'm not trying to change your position, just trying to better explain my POV and to re-emphasize a point made by Steve H. regarding the E1500's ID numbers in this context. In relic detecting in hot to very hot ground (the sole logical use case for most relic hunters to consider a PI over a vlf), the ability to invoke iron check or blanking with a DD is a useful feature provided the detectorist understands its limitations (it is depth limited, far from foolproof as it is subject to both false positives and false negatives, and practically useless in iron patches, at least in the Minelab GPX iron blanking implementation). For the latter reason, I too prefer the Axiom "on demand" implementation as it enables iron patches to be managed - though most are likely better off just trying to sift through them with a VLF regardless of ground conditions. That being said, with 7 years of GPX experience and just under 1 year of Axiom experience under my belt, I would have to say the GPX iron blanking implementation is slightly more reliable at depth than Axiom's in correctly signaling iron. But not enough that I prefer it over Axiom's on demand iron grunt feature. All that being said, I know very experienced detectorists like Steve and Andrew Benson who can manipulate controls on the fly on the GPX 6000 (which has no explicit iron check features) to derive ferrous telltale responses. I believe this does require a DD coil to be attached, but Steve or Andrew can set the record straight on that. The other thing to note about the GPX and Axiom iron check features is that they work (with varying reliability) on both big iron (which typically manifests as high conductive low tones) and most iron bits (which manifest as high tones). They routinely get fooled by barbed wire, small circular iron, and bent square nails but those targets can also have audio tell tales that an experienced PI user can identify to make an informed dig judgment call. Now regarding E1500's numerical ID. That is a fascinating feature and I am excited to see it in action, but I just want to point out (and Steve has already done this) that since it is just going to be a number corresponding to the relative conductivity of the target derived from it's time constant, it is going to be limited in providing a positive iron ID because iron (just as some other metals like aluminum, gold and lead) have derived conductivities that vary widely with the mass and shape of the target. Iron and to a lesser extent lead and gold can show up as either high or low conductors. Sophisticated frequency domain signal processing algorithms benefitting from simultaneous multifrequency operation in vlf induction balance Detectors with DD coils have resulted in some very sophisticated iron filters that go beyond simple TID discrimination. Excited to see how the E1500 integrates its on demand TID feature with its audio to help a detectorist make an informed call on the nature of the target under a mono coil. If it proves out to be a breakthrough combo that obviates the need to have heavy DD coils or pseudo reliable iron check features, then Win-Win. If DD compatibility can be added to further enhance the E1500's capabilities down the road enabling detectorists additional options and choices, that would be great as well. Overall, all the other boxes the E1500 checks on paper (price point, light weight, relative ease of use, coil optimization, dual channel GB, bring your own power and coil, and visual target signal feedback) makes this a very compelling detector regardless of your use case.
  6. With the GPX DD cancel feature, I never encountered an economically sound use case for investing in an AI coil while relic detecting. The stock 11" DD Commander did exactly what I needed it to do in DD or Cancel mode (recognizing the depth limitations in the latter it silenced a nasty aeronautical transmitter beacon and enabled me to recover targets at depth that would have been impossible to recover if I was only rocking a mono coil). As a result, I had no need for the extra expense of a special AI coil even if it performed deeper than a DD in cancel, nor be continuously depth limited while having an AI coil attached or to go to the extra effort to switch back to my standard DD with ferrous blanking when I was out of the EMI field to get back to full performance capability. I just flipped the GPX toggle back to DD and was good to go with full DD capability. Besides, correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe AI's are Mono coils therefore would also not be compatible with this rig. So even if I had owned AI coils in my arsenal, I wouldn't be able to use them with this detector. I guess all I am saying is E1500 simple compatibility with DD (fully recognizing they would be suboptimal to mono coils for maximum depth) would have been nice for those already invested in GPX DD coil. Furthermore, the E1500 being able to optionally utilize the inherent noise cancellation capability (recognizing the tradeoff in depth, etc) and/or ferrous check capabilities could have been the icing on the cake for those intending to use this rig for non-prospecting detecting in high EMI and or hot ground or salt. Again, not a showstopper, just would have been a nice to have as long as those features did not have a significant impact on price point. All the points regarding DD coil advantages with respect to EMI, ground handling, and ferrous disc (because the E1500 TID and audio features might be sufficient to aid in reliably differentiating ferrous from non-ferrous) might be moot once the real world capabilities of the Algo are known. With the exception that those of us with only DD GPX coils (primarily relic and beach hunters) are in the same boat as those with no coils and will have to purchase some compatible coils, increasing the required investment vs. those who already have mono coils (i.e., gold detectorists). And to be clear, I am not raining on this parade whatsoever. I am still excited to see what this detector has to offer to both the gold and relic/beach detectorist communities. DD compatibility would have been a nice but not necessary capability for the reasons already stated.
  7. I have been in several broadband common mode noise situations near airports and electrical transformers with the GPX where channel scan is worthless and the only solution is using a DD and going to cancel. And for those of us who built up a collection comprised solely of DD GPX compatible Coils to facilitate the ferrous blanking and Cancel mode features of the GPX, we're SOL. So I'm with Jeff McClendon wrt the disappointment that DD Coils or noise cancelling coils are not compatible. Not a complete showstopper, but something that relic, coin, and Beach hunters that relied on features facilitated by DD coils need to consider.
  8. Good, I can sit back and wait for the unbiased report on whether it is living up to all its claims.
  9. It's deformed (bent in different axial directions) probably from whatever snapped it in the first place but also some of that curvature could be intentional. Also, it seems too narrow and lacks the multiple fastener holes you would expect to attach it to footware. So, yeah, a likely musket attachment.
  10. I think you may be right. Probably too thick for heel plate looking at it again, and my digging partner found a similar piece nearby, as well as a dropped minie ball in the vicinity.
  11. Yep. Glad that's over. I was starting to wonder... 🤣 Regarding the Digs mount and your shaft system, I believe it is a great match up, especially for water work, where one failed D2 remote control retention lock and/or lanyard can really ruin your day. No such concerns with this setup. I also like the angled display a lot more than I thought I would. The screw-in mount is secure and I have not identified any weaknesses. Thumbs up all around.
  12. We're thinking some sort of fancy saddle or horse tack adornment. It was found where near other decorative brass saddle studs were located.
  13. As Jeff stated and also implied, it's not something you can really describe or put into words in terms of tonal nuances. It is very subtle and far from foolproof. The best you can do is just get out there dig everything to train your brain on what does and doesn't sound like probable junk until it becomes something you don't consciously think about you just react based on experience and what you are hearing and seeing. At this point, you simply need to rack up swing hours and target recoveries and recognize you are just always going to dig a lot more trash than treasure (set realistic expectations) but that with time you will learn how to make good dig decisions and will dig higher percentages of good targets.
  14. Yes. You just remove the thumb screws. Takes about 15 - 20 seconds or so to do it.
  15. It sounds like the coil is still alive if you are getting the heartbeat light. So regardless of whether you can get the coil charge light to glow steady, I would think you should be able to connect the coil. I would delete the coil from your remote, unplug the shaft battery from the HF coil wait a minute and then plug the battery back in and then try to re-connect as if you are adding a new coil. That may also reset the coil such that it sees the charger again. Not sure what you mean by plugging the coil in directly to USB. Did you homebrew a connector or something? If you are still having issues after unplugging and reconnecting the HF coil external battery, I would get a replacement battery.
  16. Possibly, but the teeth are pretty small so I think it's more likely a clock gear.
  17. Had the great fortune to get out with Bob again to explore a new time machine, er field. I've commented before on Bob's situation being a detectorist's paradise. He lives in an area steeped in history dating back to Colonial times and older if you take into account the artifacts of Native American presence that pre-dated the Colonists. Furthermore, he has convenient access to history right out his front door or he can choose from a number of permissions that each are unique in terms of the finds they produce both in type and timeframe. Finally, from a technical perspective, the digging is ideal consisting vast flat farm fields of harvested soybeans or corn and sandy unmineralized soil. The choices that are available for selecting an outing is like having a time machine you can you can dial back to just about any point in US history. Pre-Colonial or Colonial - no problem, War of 1812 - it's there, Civil War - not plentiful, but definitely present, Victorian - check, early 20th century - you bet. This time out was a new field that had a mixture of almost all of the above and we were able to benefit from what it was willing to give up. It was a long, exhausting but fantastic digging day and I appreciate that Bob let me accompany him on the new field and appreciated his advance research and surveys that enabled us to efficiently tackle the immense acreage. Bob had been out already getting a few targets in an adjacent area we had hit previously waiting for me to finally get there after my 2 hour drive. I was able to get the day going by digging a keeper flat cuff button on my first recovery. At that point it was game on for both of us. Bob got on the board with the first coin, a very nice 1907 IHP. We both dug a few brass whatzits and then Bob dug a rare (to this area) dropped Minie Ball. Great, we were less than an hour in and covered Colonial, Civil War, Victorian, and early 20th century. It's unusual for a site in that area to give up finds that spanned such a wide time frame. That increased our motivation because we knew that there were going to likely be additional surprises. And we were not disappointed. We recovered mostly a lot of miscellaneous brass targets, some identifiable, others had us scratching our heads. I managed a couple of firsts and was elated. I managed to get on the silver board with a Mercury dime to keep my silver streak alive, dug some miscellaneous brass stuff including a heel plate and some pocket knife parts and briefly chatted with the adjacent property owner (really nice guy) Then we headed to an iron hotspot that Bob had previously identified. There we started alternating horse tack finds that confirmed the area was likely a stable. I got a nice star shaped decorative piece and a part of a fancy bit boss. Then I got surprised with one of my firsts - a Civil War Block A coat button face that once belonged to a Confederate Artillery Officer. Only my third Confederate civil war button piece and first Civil War artillery button piece. I recovered some more miscellaneous brass and aluminum junk. I then recovered a local aluminum trade token that rang up as a 91. Then my second "first". I have recovered a lot of silver coins and especially silver quarters of many varieties (Capped Bust, Seated, Standing Liberty, and Washington) but never a Barber. In fact, I mentioned my Barber drought to Bob when I recovered the 1919 Merc. We started detecting an old road bed on the site and I finally broke my Barber drought with a 1903 Barber quarter. A common date, but I was as happy getting that one under my belt as the Spanish 2-Reale I recovered a month earlier. I wrapped up with an early 1900's Army General Service button and a 1944 P silver war nickel and Bob came home with an early 1800's silver spoon handle. Hadn't had a three-silver day in quite awhile. It made the post-hunt coffee taste great. Thanks, yet again, Bob, for giving me the opportunity to add some firsts and bucket listers to my collection. Tested some new gear that Bob has also discussed including the RCDigs mount on the standard shaft and also some limited testing of a tilted RCDigs mount variant for @steveg's excellent Carbon Fiber shaft setup that I primarily use for beach and water hunting. I need to get some more swing time but I like both set ups a lot. No more worrying about the remote popping off, and the angled variant I am using on Steve's CF shaft system provides great visibility of the screen and accommodates the Deus 2 waveguide aerial well. Until next time - Happy Hunting.
  18. Gray Ghost makes XP Deus 2 compatible over-the-ear waterproof phones that plug directly into the D2 multifunction connector, as well. For reference, here's a link to Serious Detecting which sells them, but they're available from other dealers as well. https://seriousdetecting.com/products/detectorpro-gray-ghost-amphibian-ii-waterproof-headphones-for-xp-deus-ii-metal-detectors?variant=45211098874140&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAwbitBhDIARIsABfFYIIS151kEyyM5Kb5eJVYOyirR8iRQokyGoUBtyy59aJcCjd4-dpo1z4aAmkcEALw_wcB There is another brand called Thresher that is also compatible. https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiFyaDBu_KDAxXxW0cBHZEcBgoYABAMGgJxdQ&ase=2&gclid=Cj0KCQiAwbitBhDIARIsABfFYIKwuSUIBfR9d_n413pXd1Wjm3UzVvPrRdfprEvTBJshSaWsDNJN0PEaAu-8EALw_wcB&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESwwHg9hGHArcnFtP_Bfkx0R1lC7I5ufEvyFsJYB0RtXU42oOFVu0qX7lY5zldsyPEIk7Yf0EP3-QHazyt4H6QzBuWyWgFFvP-SR7xq4gBxX19PXabS9F3elIMOfwx3tcQr55lzkovgJzS9m1Z6-21ATF_-eKFppq74wswD2-SYjqk-nYlOh_rUrWy1dfNxzmJk6pWAKh40L648jA3mpdc70hFAROBJuSjVwgNF5Gp0uWS8vjMqXC7XAi6Vt2QvEpT17M3Xko&sig=AOD64_2XPm0Fcyx44telBSz-aNbVR9B50w&ctype=5&q=&nis=4&ved=2ahUKEwiMzpfBu_KDAxU3ElkFHX_6DwEQwg8oAHoECAMQHA&adurl=
  19. Yeah, those bone phones can be problematic. Glad you found an alternative. 👍
  20. Erik - Are you consuming this new concoction? It's a great value and compact, but would be interested in knowing how it's doing in submerged salt water given that it's a single frequency machine (fresh water, a different story). I know people find it to be OK on wet salt sand, but surf and submerged in salt water are a different story and a challenge for detectors that don't have the advantage of simultaneous multi-frequency for salt balance stability.
  21. Carl can verify, but I think the SF modes are indeed "true" SF in the sense that a prominent single frequency is transmitted as has been verified by oscilloscope traces on the Nox in SF mode. Speculation: The issue probably lies in the input filter on a SF/SMF detector not necessarily being as selective (narrow) as that on dedicated SF machines because it serves a dual purpose. This is a cost/complexity tradeoff to enable a single set of hardware filters to be used regardless of mode selected with Digital Signal Processing used to clean up whatever the filter let's through. It works but may not be optimal. It is not a technological challenge to go the the full mile and provide appropriate switchable filters and more sophisticated signal processing, and is only limited by the ability of the designers to hit management's design budget and assigned unit cost objective for the detector.
  22. Thanks Carl, I was hoping you'd chime in on this because what actually happens on this FMF/Multi-IQ/SMF channel shift thing has been a mystery to me for awhile. Bottom line: as long as the shift between channels is relatively small and the discrete frequency ratios are maintained you can mitigate interference with little impact to performance similar to single frequency shifts for noise mitigation.
  23. Don't put yourself down. Whoever you are talking about is taking advantage of the more enhanced audio nuances provided by pitch. They've tuned their ear to these nuances so they can pay more attention to the audio clues and not just have their eyes glued to a TID screen or the limited audio cues provided by coarse multi-tone (i.e., 2 tone, 3 tone, 4 tone, 5 tone Tone ID). Pitch audio can give you those nuances but the drawback is you need target ID to make a general or more precise call on the probable target conductivity and is a great tool if you are just looking to audibly distinguish ferrous from non-ferrous and likely trash from keepers. 60-tone, All Tone, or Full Tone audio setups do better than limited multi-tone audio at giving you more nuanced audio target information (but still not as good as pitch in my opinion) and a non-visual sense of whether you are swinging over a high or low conductor (but visual TID is still needed for precise ID). Mastering the ability to decide on the optimal audio setup for your ear and for the detecting objective you desire is a key skill. As mentioned earlier in this thread, there is no one size fits all answer. Getting plenty of swing hours in so you can try out different setups to see what works best for you is important to improving your detecting outcomes. HTH
  24. To JohnnyDigs: That's the key. You can't really call a specific target within a type (e.g., penny coin vs. quarter coin) with certainty in Pitch alone without a TID other than the general ferrous/non-ferrous and irregular (trash) vs. symmetric (coin/button) tonality clues, as Jeff described. Anyone who tells you they can tell a coin denomination or even a coin from a button from a non-ferrous washer from a ring in Pitch without glancing at TID is probably "embellishing" their actual abilities. (Nice way of saying they are probably lying to you).
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