Jeff McClendon

I am still not liking those numbers. That is a big spread between multi 1 and multi 2. I am not seeing a big spread like that between those two multi settings but I am not where you are........ Still makes me wonder if there may be something detectable in the spot of ground your are using for ground balancing....

As long as it’s way more sensitive to smaller targets than the TDIs, much lighter than the ATX, less susceptible to EMI than the GPX 6000 and is relatively easy to setup and use……..I will be happy.

I have owned and ground balanced the Simplex, AT Gold, ATPro, Deus I, and Deus ll on my test garden. All of those detectors show ground balance numbers on high iron mineralization dirt in the upper 80s to low 90s. I have also ground balanced the Equinox and 1.08/1.09 Legend on this same test garden. The Equinox balances between -1 and +6. The Legend showing 6 bars of mineralization, ground balances between 3 and 8 on the same dirt. So, at least for me the Legend ground balance numbers on my test bed are very similar to the Equinox and are almost the opposite end of the spectrum from the Simplex and ATPro. I have not used tracking ground balance on the Legend on my test garden so can’t comment on that.

I used it today on an area that had been scraped off in order to put in a new park. I was getting a lot of ground feedback (nothing unusual about that being Colorado dirt) but since it was recently disturbed and really dry in some spots and damp in others, it was worse than usual. Tracking calmed Deus 2 Sensitive down well. I had to even put my Equinox 800 in tracking also for my son to quiet it down. We were mostly relic hunting so no danger of losing really small targets.

The online English version manual is correct. That is what the French and German manuals also say. The German manual was incorrect for a while too. Now, if the original French wording is wrong, at least they have all currently been translated the same way.......... I would do what you are doing Colonel Dan and just figure it out for your beach conditions.

I have Monterey on my newer Mac Mini. I just downloaded the installer and it went into the Download folder. No issues with Mac Anti Virus so maybe you won't have any either. I pulled the folder "mac-os-the-legend-update-v1.09" out of the download folder onto my Desktop. When you open the folder there are two items. Click on the first one=DetectorUpdateTool.app.tar.gz and it will automatically unpack/unzip. Now you should have three items in that folder, just like I described in my previous post. If you just click on the DetectorUpdateTool (image of a coil with representation of signal going down from it) you will not be able to open it. Press Cancel. Now hold down the Control key (far bottom left on the keyboard) and click on the DetectorUpdateTool again. A drop down menu will appear with Open on the first line. Click on Open. A new window will appear like the one earlier that wouldn't let you open the DetectorUpdateTool. This new window does have Open as an option. Click on Open and the DetectorUpdateTool will prompt you with instructions on the screen. After you get your Legend in Update mode with the screen lit and the letters UP, you will need to click on the little box with a line of dots in it (towards the bottom right). That will start the process of locating the LEGEND_v1.09.bin file. A window will open with all the possible locations for the folders and files. If you moved the Update folder to your Desktop, click on that. If the folder is still in Downloads click on that. Afterwards choose the "mac-os-the-legend-update-v1.09" file and click on it. Then click on the Legend_v1.09.bin file and you will be prompted to click on the box in the bottom right of the window which says OPEN. Afterwards the Update Tool Window will become active and eventually (it may take up to a minute) the UPDATE box will be highlighted. Click on the UPDATE box and your Legend will be updated.

When you have downloaded the 1.09 updater and unzipped it you will have a folder with Detector UpdateTool Legend_v1.9.bin DetectorUpdateTool.app.tar.gz Click on Detector Update Tool. If you get a prompt saying it cannot be opened you will have to to click Cancel on the pop-up window to close it. Try to open Detector Update Tool again by right clicking your mouse and then click Open. Hopefully your mouse has a left and right click function. If it doesn’t press Control while clicking the mouse. When the pop-up window opens you will have the option to Open Detector Update Tool. After you open it it will prompt you to connect you Legend via a USB port. There may or may not be an alert tone. My Mac Mini makes no sound when I connect my Legend. Your Legend will seem to power on momentarily by itself and power down. It is just going into charging mode. Instead you are going to put it into Update mode so press and hold the UP button. The screen will light up and you will see the letters UP. Release the UP button The Detector Update Tool also prompts you to select the Bin file so do that from wherever you have it on your Mini. The Update box in the Detector Update Tool window should become active, so click on it and the Update will begin with numbers scrolling from 1 to 100 on the Legend screen. After it is finished you can disconnect the USB charging cable and enjoy your Legend. I did not download any third party drivers from the site listed in an earlier post. You may not need them either. I have two Mac Minis. The oldest is running Catalina 10.15.7 and it is the one that I used for the Legend update.

1.08 and 1.09 are virtually the same update. 1.09 fixes a minor issue with some low conductor targets having their target IDs change as ground balance is changed. Otherwise, they are the same.

The Legend 1.09 update addressed the issue above. The next update will be a Beta version so that anyone can test it for a limited time before the final release. Bluetooth Threshold anomalies will also be addressed soon.

There is a change in US nickel target ID from 25/26 to 23 if ground balance is changed from 0 to around 40 and above using the Legend in any of its Multi frequency modes. This appears to be a 1.08 update only issue. I don’t ever remember seeing this in 1.05 (never used 1.06 or 1.07) It also can happen on similar conductive targets that have target IDs around the nickel range. I have not been able to duplicate this on higher conductive targets or much lower ones like small gold. 40 kHz single frequency does slightly up average most targets by one target ID segment compared to 10, 15, and 20 kHz no matter what the ground balance setting is. I have updated to 1.08 and have done a User Profile full factory default reset. This change in nickel target IDs is slight (just 2 digits) but shouldn’t be happening in my opinion. If you want to test your 1.08 Legend just take a US nickel which normally has an air test target ID of 25/26 and first sweep it in Park or Field Multi 1, 2 or 3 with ground balance set on 0. Change the ground balance to at least 40 or higher and you may see the nickel ID change to a steady 23……. This anomaly was first noticed by History Teacher whose YouTube channel is Southern Relics.

Definitely, the Legend feels heavier on the arm than the Equinox. However, it is a balanced heavy and so far I have not heard of any Legend coil ears breaking............

So I am not the only one that finds the entire User Profile process very tedious. Maybe it will get easier.....so far it is my least favorite thing about the Legend even though it is great to have so many. Maybe Clive's new book can explain it in a way that makes more sense to me. Maybe there are some navigation short cuts that I don't know about yet too.

Also, is this your first XP detector? They are known for having a sparky behavior with some background noise being perfectly normal at higher sensitivity settings especially using PWM audio.

Deus 2 is the XP’s flagship detector. The fact that it has a very subpar mode on it compared to its predecessors makes zero sense. If Deus 2 Goldfield was at least equal to Deus 1 and ORX running their gold modes even at single frequency 31 kHz or Deus 2 itself running at Mono 45 kHz, I would have no problem with it since the benefits of FMF ground handling would make a big difference in difficult ground. Unfortunately that is not the case. That would give gold prospectors that wanted the benefits of an FMF gold mode the option of buying Deus 2 opposed to Deus 1 or the ORX. Right now that option is not really an option. If XP didn’t want Deus 2 to take sales away from the ORX for gold prospecting…..don’t put a mode called Goldfield on Deus 2!

All of those audio adjustments, preset discrimination settings, along the many User Profiles and with full single digit notching with no limits (three notches only on Deus 2) are really amazing for the price and competitive performance.

I tried it. You can input the coil serial number no problem. However, it will not pair even when Deus 2 starts up already in Mono mode.

That is very helpful information especially for new owners of these detectors. I have had the pleasure and agony of volunteering for two university archeology departments and for some forensic evidence gathering for law enforcement where every single target of any conductivity had to be recovered. The Equinox is really good at that for sure, even down to 1mm sized stuff. Park 1 and Field 1/Field 2 default settings that reject -9 to +1 or -9 to +2 is not just for coke.

For the gold prospectors........why didn't the tester use Goldfield for the 9mm sized .25 gram copper fragment? Instead he used Deus 2 Mono and the Sensitive FMF mode. Those are the two modes that have easily done the best for me on .25 gram and smaller gold bits and that I would use right now for gold prospecting also. Just put the audio on Pitch tones for starters, jack up the frequency on Deus 2 Mono, lower the discrimination as low as possible for the site and forget about Goldfield. I sure hope they can fix whatever is wrong with Goldfield.......

Excellent instructional video from XP Detectors about depth, field testing and expert tips. In French but dubbing in English.

I actually bought a slightly used Dell Laptop thinking the problem was me or my computers. I am a Mac person but I have a few "Dad I am getting a new laptop, you can have my old one" sitting in a closet Windows laptops that I kept for doing XP and Nokta Makro updates. I never could get my original Legend system box to update with those or with any of my very recently manufactured Macs. Hours and hours and hours of trying so I can relate to your frustration DSMITH and anyone else that has this issue. Nokta Makro sent me a replacement system box. It now updates on all of my computers the first time, no hassle. Hopefully, Nokta Makro will release something about this other than user error or a hardware incompatablility. In my opinion, they should have told the truth about this already even though it may cost them some $$$$s.

Bill (Dirt Fishing YouTube) has deleted the video on 07/07/2022. Just follow the clear instructions......and that includes me for sure since I haven't reset mine yet!!!!!

Like CPT_Ghostlight said and you discovered, changing frequency between high and low to sort of reverse discriminate sub gram gold will also discriminate similar weight AND sized low conductors like lead and brass. I remember some of your earliest posts where you wanted some detector and settings suggestions for cherry picking surface to 6” deep gold. However a sub gram say .5 gram sized piece of aluminum or aluminum foil is a very big target as far as size. A beaver tail from a ring pull tab can be an easy target to detect using any frequency but a .5 gram gold nugget, .22 short shell casing or .5 gram piece of lead is a far smaller target and moderate iron mineralization may pull the target ID and audio response close to the bottom of the iron range. If you accept all target IDs and have your iron volume turned up a bit, you may still hear those small low conductor targets grunting like they are iron. So you could use your idea to try and identify small gold nuggets but you will still be digging plenty of similar sized and weight low conductor trash.

Hi Dilek Bill’s YouTube channel is Dirt Fishing. That is the only way I know to contact him. His comments are turned On. He is a good guy and really likes the Legend. Just leave a comment and he will get back to you.

Using 20 or 40 kHz for gold nugget prospecting, yeah I have done it when EMI was really bad. Otherwise, at least in the high mineralization I hunt in, multi works way better especially on hot ground that is hard to ground balance. I have never tested this, but it is conceivable that using 40 kHz could up average some detectable small nuggets enough to keep them from being pulled down into the iron range by mineralization when using the Gold Modes. Using 4 kHz in one of the other modes........why?

Are you referring to using this technique for gold jewelry detecting or gold nugget detector prospecting? I get that all of us who hunt for gold jewelry are looking for an advantage. When I am gold jewelry hunting with the Equinox, I use multi and I listen for very good sounding targets in the correct ID range. Just like coins in good shape, gold rings, pendants and other larger gold items that are not being effected by really high mineralization and depth, will sound similar to most USA coins with steady numbers and tones that sound fairly equal in either swing direction and with clearly defined edges to the tone. Aluminum objects can sound like that also but they usually have less defined edges during swings. They can sound elongated with no hard hit in the center of the tone and often have more than one target ID. It is hard to explain. I will say, practicing with US nickels can really train the ear for how clear and percussive they sound. Many of the gold rings I have found with the Equinox also had those sound characteristics. Using single frequency for diagnostic purposes may work. However, depending on depth, mineralization and the frequency being used, the target IDs can be skewed quite a bit and if you have notches set in a discrimination pattern, they may no longer apply.....