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1 hour ago, Digalicious said:

if he actually hunted with that program in iron infested ground, then it would probably result in massive iron falsing. Turns out, that is exactly what happened when experienced hunters tried the program.

If he would ever stick his experiments on a Salt Beach one finds out that it will make a bench test/air test rendered useless. 

9 minutes ago, iron_buzz said:

did some testing on my own to see if discrimination affected depth, and I was satisfied that it does not.

You are 100% correct. The level of depth is not affected for the targets out of discrimination on a D2.  Although not tested I am confident depth not affected by level of notch either. 

19 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

I feel like I can use quite a bit of extra filters, notch and disc, etc without causing major performance degradation, but I seldom use much filtering out of an abundance of caution.

There are a few people that think running the notch rather than discrimination to your set point on a D2 has some secret sauce.
For instance, I start my Disc at 22 for beach hunting. Some seem to think that notching to 22 is better?  I don't know. Never experimented with it much but going to do some testing this year.   

Congrats on the gold. MAN, that is lots of diggin!! 

1 hour ago, Skull diver said:

completely removing discrimination and notch, raising audio response to 7

I have done much testing and there is nothing to gain with Audio Response at 7   In a Salt environment a 7 setting can really hurt.  I would only recommend 6 max. 

2 hours ago, Sven1 said:

He is an independent electronics engineer who has been in the hobby a long time.

 

If you can cut Black Sand....I am interested!!  Not sure how 90khz will be able to do that? 

WOW>>>I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!!!!   Awesome finds!!! 

4 hours ago, Skull diver said:

Just try any piece of tiny gold with an air test in mono and P12 after...You'll realize what I mean.

I'm searching the same spot since a month ago, exactly the same place where I found a few pieces.

For me personally. Tiny gold is not worth my effort and does not pay the bills. The time lost chasing specks can lend itself to miss other opportunities. 

1 minute ago, Skull diver said:

Exactly! Beach Pitch is just a copy of P12 (and P12 is the program I use a bit modified).

Here I'm comparing The Mono program with P12.

Problem is...The same of almost all of other programs.

Unusable underwater in saltwater. 

Mono programs are not even a consideration on a wet salt beach. Not sure why you are surprised or disappointed? 

7 hours ago, Skull diver said:

I'm not complaining at all about the instrument as it work as it should but what am I missing if the actual setting found me this with half depth power?

Just to be clear. In depth testing on fringe targets we did not find Beach Pitch superior to another beach program.  

5 hours ago, Sinclair said:

Audio Response does A LOT to the perceived depth, imho. I usually keep it at 5.

YES>I keep mine at 6.

5 hours ago, Sinclair said:

I've played around with the Reactivity and for my feelings, the machine behaves completely different with settings >=2. The signals get very short + quiet, so you really have to listen very carefully.

YES> I use the 9" coil and am VERY uncomfortable hunting past a reactivity of.5 

7 hours ago, Skull diver said:

I'm not complaining at all about the instrument as it work as it should but what am I missing if the actual setting found me this with half depth power?

I am not sure how you are coming to the conclusion that Seach Sensitive has 50% less power than Beach P. For the record I cannot stand Beach P even on wet sand. What is the most important is frequency weighting and hunting cleanly. If you can hunt pretty clean at a sensitivity of 92 with Beach Sensitive, you will NOT find another program on the Deus2 better for gold. 

Nice work!!!  Man, big jellyfish. 

To be clear, the Deus2 9" coil is actually 8 3/4 inches. 

On 10/25/2023 at 12:12 PM, KDX said:

I haven't seen a video or article yet that advocates for using the auto ground tracking feature on the Manticore.

I am not sure what the manual states?  I think where most are using tracking is at a salt beach. I run tracking GB regardless of the detector I am using. 

10 hours ago, H20waterhunter said:

There is a 5 x 9 inch coil for the deus, I'd go for that.

What is a 5X9 coil going to do that the 9" round will not???  I hunt water with the 9" now. 

On 10/25/2023 at 6:58 PM, Jeff McClendon said:

I am saddened by what I see being reported as depth issues after performing online available software updates for detectors like Deus 2, Equinox 600/800 and of course, everyones whipping post, the Legend.

Software updates are a rather new reality in detecting.  I fully believe an update has the possibility of going wrong. I myself experienced this with my first update of the Equinox 800. I thought someone broke my detector. Flashed back and did a new install and everything was fine! 

I do not think this is the norm. But is an issue that needs to be watched. I can fully understand how a detector may operate different on an update. But when it goes wrong like in the case of mine, it had nothing to do with new detector settings or modes. 
I highly recommend someone is very into their machine before doing any updates. Otherwise, how do you really know the differences of the update?  In July I opted not to update my Deus 2. I didn't think 4 or 5 times out with the machine after a layoff was enough time to be 100% up to speed and do an update. I will get that done when I am fully up to speed on the machine and can-do proper fringe depth testing after the update.   

4 hours ago, Compass said:

This morning I see posts from mn90403 and cjc and think to myself, "Wow...I need to up my game!" 😅

For cripes sake...Yous guys are killing me!!!!!!!!!  

9 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I went to my local beach that I know so well and began using the 800/11

The NOX 800 is washed up>>>> That's why I own three of them.  Absolutely outstanding and fantastic!!! LOVE those 2 signals!!!  Can't wait to start my winter season. Going to be at my beach for New Years and Easter for the first time [both]!!! Should be EPIC!!! 

57 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

a long time ago I had a feeling I should stop at a particular

Great hunt!!!!   I would be a Billionaire if all my "feelings" hit!  😁

Wow, with the scrap you dug.....you deserve the gold!!!  

1 hour ago, cjc said:

They would  kidnap me right off the plane...

cjc

Naw, Canadians get a free pass!! 

2 hours ago, TampaBayBrad said:

Glad he lives in Canada. Please don't vacation in Florida!

Actually, I would welcome Clive down to where I hunt in Mexico. Even if he did kick my arse. 

19 hours ago, dsb said:

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Our price: $164.95

I second this scoop!!!  Have been using two of these for over 25 years. Just keep up and re-weld any small cracks that start!

On 10/16/2023 at 8:04 PM, fishersari said:

to me manticore is more sensitive than the equinox.. I don't know if 'more sensitive' is the right word.. the equinox can  detect as same but the manticore will detect deeper especially on low conductor.

The Equinox is a great machine when it comes to small gold and chains. Our testing of the Manticore did in fact show it beat the Equinox on every target we tested. In some cases, the detectable depth on chains was double.  The Manticore is a chain killer! 

Very nice!  Good work!