Jeff McClendon

I have had 2 times when the WS6 did not automatically power on when the Deus 2 remote powered on. Very annoying and kind of freaked me out. I turned the WS6 on manually both times and it worked fine. The WS6 works fine for me if there is very light wind and no other loud ambient noise. I put a layer of thin adhesive felt around the area that touches my ears and I put on my sun glasses after putting on the WS6. Works for me with just a little top of the ear pain after 3 hours. Without the felt padding, I can stand them for about 30 minutes. However, at a crowded beach with wind AND wave noise.........not for me. Hopefully XP will replace your WS6 quickly.

There are several 6" coils listed on eBay right now from reputable sellers/dealers along with one on Treasure Classifieds.

Both are excellent coils and I own and use both. For really small gold nugget targets in high mineralization I would go with the 6". The Coiltek is also very good in that scenario. For any other general type of coin/relic/jewelry/micro jewelry hunting, I would go with the Coiltek for separation, coverage, ergonomics and EMI stability. If deeper targets are more important, I wouldn't use either one.

Some of the 10K class rings I have tested on the Legend have target IDs from air testing in the 28 to 32 range.

Even allowing for a 5% to 10% margin of error for that poll.....those numbers are not very good. Being someone that often has to use the 14" DD coil, will shaft fix/replacements be offered under warranty in North America or will any shaft fix be an upgrade that needs to be purchased? Add the Rutus Atrex to the list of Deus 2, Legend and Equinox mud rolling. It is getting pounded on several USA forums and YouTube channels by people who may or may not own one or really know how to use it.. At least this poll seems to have been used by people that have plenty of gold prospecting experience with the GPX 6000.

I have owned both. Still own the Equinox and Deus 1 and Deus 2 which are more complicated versions of the ORX. So, for me it all depends on what targets you are hunting and what kind of sites you are hunting. Also do you need the best ergonomics available for a VLF detector (ORX, Deus 1, Deus 2) or do you need a very versatile, simultaneous multi frequency, hunt just about anywhere on any target types detector with the features and settings adjustability to keep you busy (and learning) for a long time???? = Equinox 800 and now also Deus 2. Since this is the gold prospecting section of this forum....I will say without a doubt that the Equinox 800's gold prospecting modes are fantastic and near or at the top of the VLF gold prospecting detector hill. The Equinox having outstanding simultaneous multi frequency technology, enables it to ground balance well on most difficult ground conditions while it also has extreme sensitivity to tiny targets. The ORX gold prospecting modes are also excellent. I have found small to tiny nuggets with both detectors. The reason I moved on from the selectable single frequency ORX was because the coin/jewelry/relic modes had far too limited features and settings for me, my targets and sites. The ORX, at least in the dirt I often hunt in, had accurate target IDs for the first 3 to 4" of dirt on coin sized targets. Deeper than that, the ORX in its coin/jewelry/relic mode was basically an "if it beeps.....dig" detector which gave me very little information other than there was a target under the coil......The Gold modes for gold prospecting were outstanding. I wouldn't hesitate to own an ORX for gold prospecting........Those gold modes are half of the modes on the ORX however. So, the Equinox 800 is still one of the best simultaneous multi frequency metal detectors ever made. It is also one of the hottest, meaning even in default Park 1 it will sound off on the tiniest targets you can imagine and some really deep targets also. Turning down the sensitivity and using the Equinox really nice single digit notching can really help cut down on the amount of target chatter. Even though it has had some leaking issues, it is still basically waterproof and if it is under warranty, water damage to the control box is covered. It will also work very well at saltwater beaches too. Not so for the ORX....(been there and did that). So the Equinox is an Australian/Malaysian Swiss army knife detector......go anywhere do any type of detecting basically. The ORX is based on XP's excellent gold prospecting specific detector the Depar 600 with very simplified 3 tone only Deus 1 Fast and Deep programs added. Either detector can be setup for switch on a go operation easily by the way.

Waterworn Quartz.

We found the usual for a big public park our club has hunted before. There were 12 of us. Luckily this park is on the east side of Denver where the dirt is only moderately mineralized South Platte River sediments.

Considering he was using his Vaquero (which I always liked) when I met up with him, I don't know. He found out fairly quickly how great the separation is on Deus 2. He also experienced PWM and Square Wave audio. When he gets a chance I think he will let you know.

Always great to have GB Amateur (Chuck) join us for one of our impromptu Eureka Treasure Hunters Club group wild hunts in a local Denver area park. We didn't find anything great today but Chuck got about 2 hours hunting with my Deus 2 while I got to use my Legend. Chuck is on his way to Nevada for one of Monte's Ghost Town hunts and got to break up his trip with a nice hunt today with our club. Forum members that are traveling through the Denver area can always PM me about possible hunting time if you are staying over for a few days. Great to see you again today Chuck and good luck!

I also detected a shoelace rivet with Deus 2 using the General program. I was impressed that it hit that target at about 2" depth in 10 bar mineralization. I weighed it and it came in at .34 grams. I am definitely one of the people that has wondered where the target size/weight drop off is on Deus 2 since I do a lot of tiny gold prospecting. I will say that my Deus 1 is more sensitive to smaller targets under .25 gram than Deus 2 using what should be their most sensitive modes and settings so far. The same goes for Deus 2 Mono at 40+ kHz vs Deus 2 in any of its 40 kHz FMF modes. Throw in salt or iron mineralization and who knows.......

Have you adjusted the volume on the Bluetooth headphones? They do have independent volume settings. Sorry if I have answered this before….

I own one of these. After using it 3 times it came apart at a seam that it hard to see but it separates near the LED screen and mini connector so that those parts and the wiring can be installed. I just glued it back together and it still works fine. I have not found it to be vastly easier to attach to the two XP Deus coils that I own than the stock charging clip which certainly had something to do with it falling apart. So, the voltage reading going to the coil is a great feature and I think this clip is a viable alternative. You just might need to have some super glue with you if you are depending on this clip when on the road hunting for days and/or when charging with it away from home in general.

As a GPX 6000 owner, I have been learning to best use my GPX 6000 in really bad ground that also has substantial EMI. JP and everyone else that has offered tips and hints about how to best use the Normal/Difficult settings, Cancel and Salt settings, sensitivity settings on bad ground, warm-up time, which coils do best in certain situations.......all of this is helping me as an end user deal with this really great PI that acts like a super hot SMF VLF at the same time. I don't see where this poll is hurting anything when looking at the big picture. Judging by the poll responses so far, it helps me personally trust my investment in the GPX 6000 and in all of you that have been reporting in your experiences and finds. I have not had a super rosy time with this detector. It is not the detector's fault that the only places that I have been able to detect with it are very difficult sites. But with everyone's honest input and with this impromptu poll, I know it will get easier.

Other than the sort of stated in the manual frequency weighting between Park and Field modes 1 and 2, I don't see a huge difference in iron infested or aluminum/steel infested areas between the Park and Field multi modes. I add about half of the iron target ID range to each one for coin/jewelry/relic hunting in each mode and use the 1 modes for most hunting and go over the area (if possible) with the 2 modes afterwards. For micro jewelry hunting on land/freshwater I am usually using either Park 2 or Field 2. For gold prospecting I am definitely using either Park 2, Field 2 or the Gold modes. Iron or aluminum trash......it is all the same to me in all of the land based 1 and 2 modes.

If your coil has a battery issue the XP USA repair center may be able to repair it. A member of another forum who claims to have inside information said that the USA repair center has/had some stock of Deus ll replacement coils. Whether that is true as of now?????

Absolutely. Just hoping for an “easy” fix. I wouldn’t want you to wait months for a replacement coil in case it was good after all.

I Actually, if the coil’s battery runs down enough it will unpair……or at least display the no coil connected symbols. It pairs up immediately when the battery charge level increases enough. It’s happened to me twice. I didn’t notice that my coil battery level was low.

The photo of the display screen shows your coil as having little or no charge. That is what mine did when I forgot to notice its battery level. Are you sure that the charging clip is really making good contact when charging. Does the coil LED stay on continuously when charging?

This is just some preliminary observations so it could all change with a Deus 2 and/or Equinox online software update. Here is my take on some striking differences after 4 hours of head to head wild target hunting. I was using the Equinox in Park 1 Multi, 5 tones with otherwise basic settings, recovery speed 5, iron bias 4, sensitivity 22 and with -4 to 40 accepted...so rejecting -9 to -5. I was using Deus 2 in General with adjusted for my hearing..5 tones and with default settings. On paper, Deus 2 General with a max. frequency of 40 kHz should be hotter on smaller targets than Equinox Park 1 which most would agree is weighted towards 15 to 20 kHz. The actual head to head hunting shows just the opposite. Park 1 lights up the ground and gets solid hits on very small targets better than Deus 2 General. That could be a good thing and it could also be why many new Equinox users coming from some other detectors go nuts with all of the target responses even in Park 1. Someone mentioned how much better Deus 2 handles EMI.....could what I wrote above be related to that. Whether one is deeper than the other on coin sized targets, I don't know. On smaller than coin sized targets.....there seems to be a steep drop off point size wise with Deus 2 in the .25 to .5 gram size/weight just from early results. Whether that effects masking and poorly oriented targets.......not from my experience so far. Deus 2 is really hitting hard on coins on edge so far. In thick modern trash that is a good thing and Deus 2 has shown me it will really hit hard on coins and jewelry. It hits bottle caps and pull tabs really hard too, but it will ignore most of the little stuff that the Equinox even in Park 1 will make all kinds of noise on.

That .15 gram nugget is easy to hit so, yeah, Deus 2 could not see it. If I lowered the threshold to 5 it would barely even detect it in the air test I had setup........... I think it is the coils and XP wanting Deus 2 FMF tech to ignore tiny trash targets more than anything. I could be wrong. If I setup Deus 2 Mono in PWM Pitch audio and Deus 1 Goldfield with similar settings and frequency, the 9" FMF and the 9" X-35 have almost identical results. They are way better than Deus 2 FMF Goldfield. Both single frequency versions of Deus 2 Mono and Deus 1 Goldfield will easily hit the .15 gram nugget in that dirt sample at 1". Just like Deus 1 with the HF elliptical coil in the video, getting them to ground balance is another story. Being able to remotely ground balance in that dirt is what sets the Equinox way apart from the others. The Legend did pretty well too.

Yep, stupid me......I totally forgot to noise cancel the Legend both times when I turned it on.....DUH. It will quieten down nicely if one follows instructions. There are huge overhead power lines about 1/4 mile to the west of that site where I did the testing. My big bad.....sorry Nokta Makro! I really enjoy using the GPX 5000 at that devil dirt site as far as adjustability and coil choices. I don't like swinging it at 11,000 feet however for very long even with a small coil and a well fitted Hip Stick.

This may not be practical for you, but I often will use both on the same site and literally go behind myself or hunt the same ground from a different direction using Park 1 or Park 2.

My Deus 1 actually does fairly well on that dirt too when it is running at 54 kHz or higher. I have found some nice specimen gold mixed with quartz with it at that site. Some of the dirt has been hydraulicked and rearranged and some is natural. Since this site is on an 11,000 foot mountain side some of the dirt horizon is tilted upward and I can literally swing my coil and pass over several cross-sections of dirt with different ground phases. Mostly with the GPX 6000 I just end up in Auto 1 (11). Also there is the pea sized to ping pong ball sized magnetite that is all over the ground and virtually every metamorphic rock is a hot/cold rock. All of that stuff is easy to recognize with the Equinox 6" coil using a wide open Gold 1 or Gold 2 and then having a modified 2 tone Field 2 in the User Profile. With the GPX 6000, those subtle differences in the soil horizons sound like good targets. So do many of the smaller pieces of magnetite and hot rocks that are under the surface....... Maybe a smaller coil will help.

Right now I keep bottle cap reject on zero. That may be dumb but it has worked for me so far. I go by the tones and their characteristics and sometimes check the horseshoe graph. The dirt here is so mineralized that even good coin targets start to get iffy at about 6” depth with sporadic iron responses. When I use bottle cap reject the deeper borderline good targets get even more iffy.