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1 hour ago, HellScript said:

Thanks,

You use 2, 5 or 50 tones? Im trying to get a an average setting to use 😄

Best regards,

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

4 hours ago, HellScript said:

Settings:
Beach 1 or 2
recovery 6
Sensitivity 20-22
FE F2: 0

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! 

2 hours ago, relicmeister said:

So it’s the remote that’s bad and needs replacement? 

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. 

6 hours ago, mn90403 said:

In previous years and hunts I recognized the near 0 and below readings would sometimes be a good target including gold.  Simon and I have mentioned it in threads before.  I normally take the iron volume from 5 (default) up to 10 or maybe 12 so that I don't miss that type of iffy.

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! 

23 hours ago, strick said:

Ground tracking works great...I use it all the time on delta beaches where black sand is concentrated in some areas not so much in others. Use it often in both the Nox and Deus 2...nothing to be afraid of there...

strick

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] 

On 7/31/2022 at 7:41 PM, strick said:

You can always try to up date the machine again if you have not tried that already?

strick

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! 😄

17 hours ago, ROCKINGCM said:

I have them. Haven’t used them much though 

10 hours ago, wltdwiz said:

i have a set are you trying to get a set ?

 

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. 

20 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Dave,

Let us know what eventually worked for you, if anything.

 

Hugh

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.  

8 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Dave, you haven't given us your baseline program settings so these suggestions are now just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

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. 
 

8 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

First of all, don't be afraid to go lower than 90 on sensitivity, if necessary.  90 - 93 is like the sweet spot for ops, so if you haven't lowered it below that then you really aren't attacking stability. 

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. 

20 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

Did you lower salt sensitivity before lowering sensitivity?  I presume you left magnetic reject enabled (default).

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. 

3 hours ago, ColonelDan said:

I continued to raise and lower the setting until I found what I considered the "sweet spot"---that setting where the chatter was minimized but the target signal was a definite "digable" one.  On New Smyrna Beach that day, under those test conditions, the "sweet spot"  was a salt setting of 5 for the gold chain and 2 for the gold ring. 

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? 

2 minutes ago, cdv said:

.it "should" solve the rubbing problem I have on my thumb knuckle. On the stock shaft/handle my thumb rubs on the bottom of the remote. 

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

1 hour ago, rvpopeye said:

Looked a little like an Excal to me.

Absolutely an Excal. Good article! 

10 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Don't see a need to be specific... 🤔 I have used beach modes, relic, the sensitive modes, and just plain old general

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.  😎