XP Deus 2 And Equinox 800 11" Coils On Buried Dime In Arizona Mineralized Dirt

[abenson]

Here's a video of the Deus 2 and Equinox on the buried dimes at 6 & 7 inches. There are a number of things I forgot to do in these videos that I just didn't think about at the time. So they are just an idea of how the detectors perform. I'll have more videos coming with gold nuggets being ran over with various machines and the actual use of the Deus 2 and Equinox in the field nugget hunting. With work and trying to sort out video footage from 3 different sources it may take a few days. I'm open to any comments about what I did wrong or should have done differently. As well as being open to any of you that currently own the Deus 2 and how to set it up in different ways.

 

[phrunt]

I'm surprised on both detectors how a single inch can change the results so much in that soil, pretty crazy.  I'm certainly not used to dealing with soil like that 🙂

 

[Joe D.]

   Deep hi conductor seemed best on both dimes! Vdi seemed more stable than the Nox! And yeah, as Simon stated; that one inch definitely has an effect!

   Would like to find a video of same setup in Culpepper Va. As a comparison for very mineralized soil! Anybody seen one yet?

   I can't be critical of anybody that takes the time to make videos! Thanks for the info!👍👍

[wltdwiz]

thanks for the video

az dirt can play hell with any detector

i deal with it all the time

eagerly awaiting the nugget videos

[abenson]

1 hour ago, Joe D. said:

   Would like to find a video of same setup in Culpepper Va. As a comparison for very mineralized soil! Anybody seen one yet?

Hugh (Chase Goldman) will hopefully be able to at least tell us about how it performs in Culpeper soon. I do know that Matt Howell (Gone Diggin) just got one and he's in VA. He'll most likely be the first one to post a video about the Deus 2 in Culpeper. I've hunted it quite a bit in the past with both the Deus and Equinox. Most everything starts sounding like iron on a VLF at about 6" there. I'd expect the Deus 2 to have similar performance as the Equinox.

[EL NINO77]

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

I'm surprised on both detectors how a single inch can change the results so much in that soil, pretty crazy.  I'm certainly not used to dealing with soil like that 🙂

 

  Simon....That's what is interesting ... on these highly mineralizing tests ... ,, because not a very deep detection of targets quickly stops working reliably .... even one inch deeper and a good signal becomes a border signal .!!!

In tests in highly mineralized magnetite terrain / Equinox GB = 3 /, the imaginary limit of good detection of such large targets is somewhere at the 6 "level for high-performance VLF detectors ..... And ..beyond the 6 "depth level ... the detection power of many detectors is rapidly lost and the 7" detection depth itself can be the limit for reliable detection .. for a coin of conductivity and  size such as a silver Dime. ..

  Even deeper targets at depths of 8"  for 1gram Gold... or  and 9"- for 5gram silver coin ...in such mineralization will be the full limit of the detection capabilities of Vlf detectors ... because many detectors do not prove the signal  for such targets even in all metal mode ..  and it is not yet to identify such signals as good targets. ....!!!

Ps ....I would like to thank Andrew ... / Abenson / for his time and effort in performing this Test..in highly mineralized magnetite terrain ... and comparing Equinox 800  and Deus II... under the same conditions .. on multiple detection programs for both detectors ..

His tests are really realistic ... and at the same time very instructive...👍

[Jeff McClendon]

About as fair as one can get for a recently buried US dime test in mineralized dirt. On established, undisturbed US coin targets in dirt like this using an optimally setup Equinox, more depth is very possible even down to 10" on a US dime, copper penny or larger US coin, IF EMI and soil moisture conditions are favorable. Too much EMI, too dry or too wet and all bets are off.

Deus 2 on the 6" dime approached from Andy's swing direction had very good numerical target ID and tone recognition. So did the Equinox. Deus 2 on the 7" dime had intermittent correct target IDs and tones along with lots of 00s. Similar effect on the Equinox swinging over the 7" dime with intermittent correct target IDs and tones along with iron range numbers and tones. 

For someone with lots of US coin experience with the Equinox in high iron mineralization, the 7" dime target responses would have been an absolutely must dig especially if the target was investigated more and the high numbers were consistently in the high 20s to mid 30s. If the high numbers had been 39/40 only coupled with iron responses, I might have passed up that target as deep iron.

So, virtually identical results that were about what I expected from the testing that has been done by others in milder dirt.

XP's FMF technology has definitely improved the depth and target ID accuracy of Deus 2 over Deus 1.  However, unless one is a saltwater beach hunter or diver, or really is enamored with the Deus platform from long experience or for its great ergonomics, I have not seen any other reason to ditch the Equinox, trash the soon to be released Legend or declare one over the others as the greatest detector in the world.

 

thanks Andrew!!!!!

[Joe D.]

    So basically, all thing being equal! We still seem to be, as before, at a VLF's limit in mineralized soil! Not surprising i suppose!

   So comes down to price and feature set of the newest VLF's! And of course, brand preferences! Since both Equinox and Deus have a following of core users, I'd expect price won't be as much of an issue for Deus 1 users!! Same will probably be said when a new Equinox comes to market!!👍👍

[DIG5050]

Abenson, may I ask what is the soil GB number on the ‘Nox where the test was done?  I’d like to get an idea how your soil compares to soil in my area.

Thanks!

[Jeff McClendon]

It looked like 3 to 5 from what I could see which is about right for the gold prospecting areas I have hunted in central AZ. Most ground balance between 1 and 13