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That thing frickin ROCKS!!!!

Tony E makes all of my custom cables. He has connectors right now. Not sure how long the one is in the picture, but he will make them as long as you want.

Yup, confirmed by my Salt Water testing review. https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/18421-deus-2-review-for-salt-beach-hunters/ The headphones included are junk as well..........

The diving program is is weakest of the beach programs.

This target has lots of water contact. So I identified by sold 360 tone. It rings 14..........

This is not true. The WS6 headphones are complete junk and the shaft is not usable in water.

Not known for very purdy stuff here. But did manage to snag this with the Equinox. VERY quality setting. Marked 10KR [rose gold] Hope these are all diamonds!!!

I have written about this before, but will again. Everything I reference is hunting beach mode 2 in wet sand. IB 6, Recovery 6. The Equinox in Horseshoe Mode is a very powerful discriminator and will identify nonferrous targets that register as iron Tid numbers, and sometimes no number if the signal is faint enough. I run one or two threshold level. Which, is not really audible even with the best of phones, and am usually able to work at 22 or 23 sensitivity. By doing this it enhances deep targets. When a deep target is heard identify the center, then start a 360 sweep around the target making sure you are passing the center of the coil over the target. Coil control is important, go slow. If possible, increase your sensitivity to look at just this target to identify better. If at anytime that target double rings, or has a breakdown in response in one direction it is iron 100% of the time. If the target remains consistent in response it is nonferrous. Very accurate, probably 92 percent of the time, Meaning I have about 8 targets out of a 100 that fool me. I have no idea if this works in other modes for the Equinox, but it sure does in Beach 2. This is how we compared the depth of the Deus 2 for targets that were past identification. The Deus 2 has issues with clean tones at depth, where the Equinox is whisper clean. I find true threshold breaks very hard to hunt, and time is spent chasing ghost targets. This method of enhancing small bumps is more effective.

Weird

How are you able to download again? Do you not just get a message that says you have the current version?

Test done without the lab coat???? Has to be fake......

Welcome back Aaron. Hope you get out detecting....lots!!!!

With modern processing detectors threshold hunting might be a thing of the past. The effectiveness does not seem worth any effort.

I am sure Deus will get this figured out. However people are going to be gun shy about putting an update on and not having an uninstall feature! Maybe the Chinese parts do not like the Chinese language addition.

VERY NICE work!!! Like the rubber grommet on top. Do you have a rubber grommet on the bottom too? Can you share where you got the ip68 at??? Tony said there are supply issues.

Thanks Chase, I am going to plug in directly alright. However it will be with my Black Widows or a pair of Eisenhower's...........

My friend is an accomplished beach user of the CTX and Equinox. He always called the Deus 1 his favorite dirt hunting machine. It was because of his knowledge of Deus 1 we were able to write programs better than the stock beach programs. No one is accomplished on the Deus 2 yet. I have no doubt the Deus 2 may have the capability of pulling a 16" gold ring. Just not at the beaches we tested and not in factory programs. 😉

Thank you for pointing out my error. I changed it to the factory Spec 11" coil...not 12" either....... Yes it was very difficult in forceful wave wash with my leg against the detector rod trying to keep it steady from vibrating side to side. [very uncomfortable] I was bound and determined to get this important testing done.

The beaches I hunt are on the Pacific ocean, large wave action, and have moderate black sand.

Yes told my friend before he left this morning not to do the download. 🙄 There was a series of settings we moved. Not really comfortable to just blurt them out yet. One day of running a machine is not conclusive enough. But users need to experiment. I am 100% sure that factory setting will not beat the Equinox. Using my experience to locate deep nonferrous targets that would not tid was a gamechanger.

Hope not to wander. Going to break it down to the actual machine, working the machine, and conditions. All to be applied to saltwater use. The physical machine: This machine is not Salt Water usable and users will find several components unacceptable. Detector rod, D- The only reason it did not get an F is because it is usable on the wet and dry sand. The rod flexes too much with ANY kind of water contact. In larger waves it is completely unusable and will vibrate if the wave wash has enough force. It is almost impossible to center targets in wave wash. Surf hunters will need a different rod. Detector pod B, seems well built. But could use bigger numbers, which they are working on. 11" coil D, What part do manufactures not understand about rear mounted coils. The rear mounted coil is harder to hunt and is not weighted correctly when the mount is not in the center. The taller you are the worse this condition is. STOP offsetting coil mounts to the rear of the coil. Wireless WS6 Headphones F- These headphones are the biggest hunk of junk I have ever seen. Uncomfortable, poor fit, wind and noise walks in right into your ears. not one beach hunter will find these acceptable. Antenna connection, coil to pod ??? While the connection seemed to be fine just after a few days of hunting water seeped into the cable at the coil and a discoloration started [rust colored] Live environment testing and comparing to the Equinox. Over 5 days we spent many hours going after the meat and potatoes. Getting the Deus to identify Nonferrous targets that will not Tid. All of the factory Beach programs WILL NOT go deeper than the Equinox. AGAIN, ALL of the factory preset Beach modes will not go deeper than the Equinox. It was not until the user who is an experienced Deus 1 user started to customize programs did we see equality in nonferrous targets that will not Tid. All of that can be found here: https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/18385-deus-2-beach-testing/ Other operating important issues to detectorists: EMI: In both of the beach locations we hunted there is EMI from communication's equipment present. At both places the EMI did not seem to have any effect on the Deus 2. However, with how crappy the headphones are I can not be 100% sure. But pretty sure! Hunting in active wave wash, air-entrained fast water : Looks like an area where the Deus will excel. I was surprised how the Deus was unaffected by the amount or speed of moving Salt Water. The signal reports were unwavering, and recovery in difficult conditions will be much easier with the Deus. [once a appropriate detector rod is used] Wet sand/Black Sand: Found the unit to be stable and huntable in the conditions we had at both beaches. Both the Equinox and Deus could run a similar sensitivity settings. Nothing abnormal to report here. The Deus worked like a multi frequency machine should at the beach. TID function: It seems the Equinox and Deus are close in losing a TID on a target at about the same depth. Users should not expect to squeeze much more out of the Tid function. Final: It was disappointing that the only time I tested the Deus was in fast water testing. But the incompetence of the headphones was too much for me to overcome [shaft too]. I would of not really been able to learn anything from a new machine with the headphones supplied. I have big issues with the cost of this detector being what it is and not have a unit be huntable to my standards. For me, hunting the wave wash is important. But it will be sometime before I purchase one as I do not see that big of a separation in machines for the wet sand. Hopefully aftermarket shaft makers can step up to the plate. HH from the beach! Your results may and will vary.

Last day of beach testing. We put a big 5 hour session in. During this session we were able to accomplish getting the Deus to match the Equinox on deep nonferrous and still able to keep it huntable in the beach conditions we have. 360 identification on non tid targets was much more acceptable. In almost all cases the target was identified correctly by the Deus and when removed was nonferrous. I am going to move to actual reviews on the machine in the Deus Forum. Our testing on gold for this final day went well to. There was a definite matching of machines in performance, and the Deus was finally sounding off on solid non tid targets, 360 degrees around. If you have any questions, please ask. We put 90 years of detecting experience between us to good use for the last 5 days.

Well we did some testing yesterday and it seems there may be some slight gains on using magnetic accept. We did notice a little more instability in the moderate black sand we have here. More testing will need to be done. Also stainless steel is not just "steel" It should ring in on every detector on the nonferrous numbers. Stainless mimics gold numbers 100%.

We will do some testing on this today. A couple of general thoughts. The higher the quality of Stainless Steel the harder time a detector usually has picking up the target. By the color and knowing hooks, I would say you have a 316 stainless hook. You may or may not have noticed, but we did take this off the other day and the detector did get a little chatty, had to do a sensitivity reduction. Will report later.........

The Glimmer The Deus hit gold. Toward the end of our hunt my friend called me over with and had a small Childs gold ring. We figure 5-6 inches down, said he had a solid lock at 54. We went into gold testing mode. First we took the same gold ring from yesterday that the Dues could not confirm good 360 tones on and wanted to test it on this other beach. The operator had made a few slight adjustments to some of the factory settings. This time, even though the Deus could still not tid the ring, the 360 tone was better. It had a non-confirming breakdown in one direction. Ring depth again was set near 11". The found gold ring: We then took the small childs ring. I put it at the edge on my detection at 9" plus. We then concentrated on different factory settings and had similar results in the past with the Deus. We had difficulty confirming 360 nice tones to dig. Then because the operator is experienced with Deus, [1] we started to change some of the factory programs. Finally we were able to get the small ring to respond to a full 360 unbroken tone that I think anyone would of dug. We had the sensitivity at 94 but, could actually accomplish this turning the sensitivity down to 88, No tid, but did throw a positive number about every 6 swings. The numbers were all over the map. BTW, the ring was a solid 54 when he found it. I have hesitated to get behind the Deus 2, [more on that later] but today after we get some settings smoothed out I am going to do some moving water recovery testing. Also will be working on deep nonferrous today as well.