XP Deus 2 V1.0 I Like It Too

[Jeff McClendon]

In the same spirit as CPT_Ghostlight's posts, I have had two hunts this week with Deus 2 version 1.0. These were coin and jewelry hunts so nothing special, just getting used to a few of the differences between 0.71 and 1.0 during hunts.

I have usually used silencer on 0, bottle cap 1 and iron volume on 3 in my Square Wave custom 5 tone USA coin program based on Sensitive. In version 1.0 the changes XP made have made it necessary for me to run silencer 1 or 2, bottle cap 1 and iron volume on default 7. I also have been trying out Hi Square Wave audio since is seems to be more reactive and modulated than Square Wave.

Today I had a hunt at a public school scrape off that also shared a public park. All of it is being sold for new housing. There was aluminum trash, nails, bolts, nuts, and all of the other stuff one finds at a scrape off. So tons of aluminum and iron trash. 

On top of that, this iron rich dirt was damp and was maxing out the iron mineralization meter.. 

I had never hunted this site. I did not know what to expect. I just wanted to see if Deus 2 with 9" coil and version 1.0 software running Sensitive 5 tone Hi Square audio with disc 10, bottle cap 1, notch OFF, silencer 1, sensitivity 95, frequency max 40 kHz, iron volume 7, reactivity 2 to 2.5, audio response 4, audio filter 0, Fe TID ON could find some decent mid and high conductors without too much iron falsing. In these kind of dirt conditions running silencer too high is a bad idea and so is running bottle cap reject set too high. Ground mineralization masking becomes an issue. So I was willing to deal with some iron falsing in the hope of getting enough accurate audio and target ID information to make a dig/no dig decision on mid and high conductors.

I dug 5 deep rusty nails, 2 big deep rusty bolts and couple of golf ball sized deep rusty iron blobs. By deep, I mean these targets were at least 8" deep and they had iron and mid to high tone audio responses and accompanying numbers. I also dug about 25 pull tabs on purpose hoping for gold!!!!!

The rest of the targets are in the photo.

Many of these targets had nails and aluminum trash very close by or in the hole with them.

The oldest wheat penny was a 1917. There is also a 1935 New Mexico copper 5 mill tax token, a silver/turquoise ring, titanium ring and a hammered copper ring. The only shallow targets were the crusty zinc pennies. The rest of these targets were in the 4" to 8" deep range.

Basically, I had no problems distinguishing ferrous from non ferrous and aluminum trash from good non-ferrous targets during this hunt.

I really like Hi Square tones so far. 

[CPT_GhostLight]

Nice haul, Jeff, well done and congrats on the silver and other rings!

[Lodge Scent]

Wow, that's a lot of non ferrous targets! Yeah that has to be a challenge to find the right balance of filters in that type of soil. What you did worked well! I haven't tried the High Square yet, but people are liking it.

[GB_Amateur]

Seven Wheats -- could be a silver dime or two awaiting, if you can get in another hunt before they backfill.  How old is the tax token?

I figured you'd have something objective to say about the new XP Deus 2 update.  👍  "Whole lotta internet noise goin' on...."

[Jeff McClendon]

2 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Seven Wheats -- could be a silver dime or two awaiting, if you can get in another hunt before they backfill.  How old is the tax token?

I figured you'd have something objective to say about the new XP Deus 2 update.  👍  "Whole lotta internet noise goin' on...."

Tax token was from 1935 to 1941.

Since I rarely have the opportunity to use default settings on any of these latest SMF detectors, I spend some time before I go our for the first hunts with them, trying to get an idea about settings. It was pretty obvious that version 1.0's default silencer setting of 2 was more aggressive and at least in my dirt, it acted like a much higher silencer setting using version 0.71. Also, the previous default iron bias setting of 3 using 0.71 was not going to work well for me and my hearing. For me, it was all about learning what XP had given me to work with and not some kind of major flaw or stupidity on the part of XP. People need to try out these new settings parameters if they do the software update instead of getting involved in a bunch of speculation. Then there are the people that don't even own a Deus 2 that are fueling the fire.

The insensitivity of Goldfield that I and others have well documented......that's another story.

[GB_Amateur]

11 minutes ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Tax token was from 1935 to 1941.

That helps nail down a date range minimum lower limit for the site, IMO.  (Exception could be if this was a "show-and-tell" item from Grandma's droor.  😁)  A good find in its own right, regardless.  I'm even more optimistic that there are silvers awaiting if you can just get back there before it's too late.

 

[Lodge Scent]

1 hour ago, Jeff McClendon said:

For me, it was all about learning what XP had given me to work with and not some kind of major flaw or stupidity on the part of XP. People need to try out these new settings parameters if they do the software update instead of getting involved in a bunch of speculation. Then there are the people that don't even own a Deus 2 that are fueling the fire.

 

I am with you there Jeff. Half these people that are complaining just tried V1.0 once, found it to be "different" , and have not bothered to put some effort into learning the new features and are rushing to judgement. I am sure V1.0 isn't perfect and V1.1 will "fix" a few things, but geesh, some folks need to take a breath and calm down. Maybe focus on the positives...of which there are many in V1.0. 

[abenson]

I think in general people jump to conclusions to quickly when they get anything new. I've done it myself. I used version 1.0 a few hours on Sunday and after making some adjustments to a few programs I really didn't see any real issues with the update. In fact there were quite a few things I really liked over version .71. People need to use the new version 1.0 at least a good 50 hours in my opinion before they make any rash decisions about it's performance. Obviously it's going to perform different from .71 and is going to take some getting used to.