midalake

I hunt in Beach 2, horseshoe mode, 1 tone.

Not doing anything wrong, but I would make some adjustments. > If you are in the regular Disc mode gold will NOT come in with negative numbers. >If you're in solid wet sand contact, I would run beach 2 and your Iron Bias to the regular F-6 or 5. This will allow you to run a higher sensitivity setting. > Try to always work your low tides. If you want to try something, use your horseshoe mode to listen to everything. It will go deeper than disc mode. If your target single rings solid 360, the target is nonferrous 95%, if the target double rings or breaks down on a 360 look is is ferrous. GL, HH

Nice looking finds!!! Congrats!

Well the remote, is going back. I am still traveling and have not reached home where I have the required receipt copy needed. I see another person on TreasureNet had this same issue and they did a replacement. I will let everyone know how it goes.

This is where horseshoe mode comes in. Listen to everything. At depth, if the target double rings or breaks down on a 360 look, it is ferrous. If the target single rings steady at a 360 look it is nonferrous. I don't care if the Equinox is posting a -5 number....it is nonferrous! 95 out of 100 targets.

Really surprised you did not bag other gold in that spot. Great work!

Nice day! Good Job!

As I ALWAYS try to say......better to be pissed off than PISSED ON. 👍 I am using beach pitch here with moving water/black sand and liking it. Still not sure on the depth I am getting!

I have also used it on black sand here with the Deus2 and always with the Equinox. Whenever I have done a separate ground grab it is always a point or two away from where the tracking GB was. I plan on using it all the time with water contact. While the Deus instructions are vague on tracking, Minelab is clear, and that it should be used at the beach. [good enough for me]

Yes, I am a big proponent of reinstalling software if there are operating issues within the programs. However in this case, with battery drain, this is a hardware issue. The unit came to me with 0.71 installed and worked great through testing for a month. The battery drain has happened in the last two weeks. It will be going back.

Yup, confirmed today again. 1/2 battery left yesterday and this morning not enough battery to even power the machine on. Will let everyone know how the replacement goes! 🙄

So this morning had everything disconnected and my machine was dead as a doornail. Not even enough battery to power on the unit. Thanks to all who double checked their machines. Will let everyone know how the return and replacement goes.

My hats off and I bow down to schoolofhardNox, I could never walk on a beach with a PI. The trash digging would kill me. I used to do it, but the switch flipped when I turned 57. Yesterday, I identified over 50 ferrous targets. With my soft collapsing sand right now I would be lucky to get each target out in a minute. That would of been an extra hour alone in digging yesterday. That is a beach service I can not provide! Going to have to stick with VLF and admire the brave PI souls from the sidelines! 😄

I am trying to factor a few things out. It seems like my Deus is discharging at a fast rate when turned off. [like dead in 24hrs after the prior days hunt] I had a pair of bone phones plugged in. Just wondering is someone can make sure their machine is in that mode with the phones still connected and turn it off. Then see in a day is the battery has been drawn down. Thanks. Dave

Wondering who has a pair of Bone Phones? Please respond, thanks.

Working on it Hugh. Now I can not be 100% sure my remote is working 100% correctly with the battery drain going on.

OK, thought it was me but it is not. Shut down my remote yesterday with half the power left. Just went to power it up and it is dead. So the remote is discharging when turned off. Does anyone have the contact for XP United States service? Thanks.

Yes, this was on purpose. I did not want to taint the gene pool. Also helps me understand any recommendations I get more. I did run a program yesterday that helped. Not sure I can fine tune that one any more. The thing about Black Sand is Chase, it is a double edge sword. Not only does it cause a detector all kinds of problems, it is a depth killer too. I already know I lose depth at 90. Anything lower and it will be painful. To note I am able to run the Equinox at 21-22 with the same conditions.

The salt sensitivity setting is irrelevant to the Black Sand affect, be it at 2 or 7. Ya, it took 30 seconds to figure out the machine would not even function in Magnetic Sand accepted. So is has been in factory reject. I have the 9"coil too.

Well my beach conditions are tough. The black sand here is pretty bad right now. I can not seem to get Deus 2 to shut up even running at 90 sens and lots of other adjustments tried. Anyone have any thoughts? My ears hurt.

HI Dan Great info! Did you try to keep the machine in S.S.9 and clean up the noise by lowering sensitivity? The reason I ask, when testing on deep gold we found the machine had the ability for the same depth at 88 sensitivity. It was below this point with sensitivity 87 and lower that the D2 seem to lose depth. I was out with my Equinox yesterday and will be today, but hope to get that D2 out by the end of the week and will test lowering the sensitivity with keeping salt sens at 9. We had a hurricane out in the ocean and it is very rough here.

So have we figured this out? Is 9 the high of the scale or low of the scale?

That is why I use a hand stop on the set-up I made. With the forces of waves, it has been an important part of my set-up for years. HH

Absolutely an Excal. Good article!

Not my point, I do believe you like the "sound". The Deus has an incredible array of ways to set the tonal abilities of the machine. You have Pitch audio, which is adjustable from 150to 603Hz. Next is audio in Square and PWM which is adjustable from 100 to 933Hz. This is important for customers and buyers to know. For myself, I have picked square tones and raised the Hz up to mimic the sounds of the Equinox. I will be using both machines and when doing so, I do not like them singing different music to my ears. I understand both machines will have their own language per say, but I want the tones I hear to be similar. 😎