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  1. Excellent! That's what I was looking for. Thanks!
  2. I'm planning a trip to the Rye Patch in Nevada this year. I have some questions regarding the area and usable detectors. 1) I understand that there is a split of ownership between BLM and a railroad. Is it OK to detect on the railroad's land? 2) I understand some of the BLM land has claims on it which one should respect when detecting. How do you know where the claims are? 3) Is there a readily available map of the area showing the claims and coordinates? 4) How is the mineralization? Do you have to use a PI or can a good VLF be just as effective? Put another way, if you could only bring one detector, which would it be? Thanks! George in Oregon
  3. Thanks. Why doesn't XP document this? Also, I knew the Deus 1 could configure the MI-6. No mention of that in the Deus 2 manual either!? I did discover it by accident by pushing MENU while in pinpoint.
  4. Just got my Deus 2. It has V0.71 update. However I cannot find any information anywhere on what the changes are. I did see Gary's video on some of the changes to menu items, but no mention of P13 "Fast 40" and P14 "Beach P". Anyone know where I can find some documentation on all of this? Thanks, George in Oregon
  5. Monte has said he won't be there. (He has 4 Apexes, each with a different coil!) He now lives in Texas, just got a house and it is too long of a drive for him in his condition. I'll be there 😁 I'll be bringing the Apex, the EQ800, Fisher F5 and the Impact. I can tell you that I've done much testing in ghost town conditions, and the name of the game is SMALL coil and separation speed due to the "masks" of nails and rusted tin. I've found the Classic III with Mr. Bill's mods to be an excellent performer in those conditions, only because it has a 3.5" concentric coil (Blue Max 350).
  6. Put them in distilled water and thoroughly soak. Then dry completely, they should be OK.
  7. Try this. Works great for me. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AU6G64S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 WB6YZZ
  8. Try rubbing the contacts (very lightly) with a pencil eraser.
  9. An explanation of how VLF detectors work may be in order. When a target upsets the null between the Tx and Rx coils, there is a signal read which has a phase shift and an amplitude amount. It is the ratio between this phase shift and amplitude that is used to analyze what that target may be. A clad penny, or a silver dime, or a nickel, always has the same ratio. The ground also has a ratio - this is why you "ground balance". To ignore this particular ratio, given what environment you are in.
  10. Rich, ground balance (a setting to ignore the ground) is *always* "on" in any VLF machine. Think more of a ground balance of "0" as the same as a general ground balance set in a Tesoro machine. It is a fixed average, determined by the Minelab engineers. The way they analyze the target in software, they think they know how to separate ground noise - and well they may in many conditions. In many of their machines, Tesoro simply set a fixed "average" value (whatever that is) for mineralization. This would be akin to Minelab's "0" ground balance. Some of Tesoro's machines had an external control, many were "fixed" internally. I think it was a selling point - simplification for the user! You *can* get away without exact ground balance, but you lose that little bit of extra sensitivity. Another classic (so to speak ? ) case is the Classic series from Whites. There was no ground balance control (actually there was a trim pot located under the American flag sticker that you could adjust) - it was set internally (with that trimmer) to some "average" value. Mr. Bill's modification added a ground balance control knob to that unit, which improved sensitivity. Ironic, since I just completed that mod myself on a Classic III today! I'll show it to you in Nevada. I was doing some testing with my 800 today. A ground balance of "0" results is a big positive signal when the coil is lowered to my moderately mineralized test bed. If I do an auto balance, it ends up on "6". Then when in all metal/pinpoint, there is no change in tone when the coil is lowered to the ground. That, to me, is the proper way to set up a detector. I downloaded and read that CT-3030 manual. I noticed there is no mention of ground "tracking" in it. I believe their 2 settings, "Start ground balance" and "enable ground" on, refer to manually ground balancing, and when enabled, ground TRACKING. That's why it would not be recommended in lightly mineralized soils. I NEVER use tracking. Don't trust it. I sweep over a target fast+slow+ and every which way, zeroing in on it. There's too much chance of "tracking out" a weak target. The reason it is default in the gold modes, is that the ground in gold areas is usually heavily mineralized and varying, such that you have to track in order to eliminate ground noise and pick up those little "pickers". I admit, I've never done nugget hunting, but I understand the principles.
  11. I completely agree with Chase. Unless you have "0" ground condition, it cannot hurt to ground balance to obtain the maximum sensitivity to a target other than the ground. It also helps when pinpointing - especially a very weak target. When you pinpoint, you should hear no signal when the coil approaches the ground. If the GB is not correct, you could lose a weak target, either by getting a positive or a negative signal from the ground.
  12. With all due respect to GEOTECH (I've met him), he was measuring the waveform on the coil with an oscilloscope. That is a difficult way to determine how many frequencies are present. The best way to "see" multiple frequencies is with a spectrum analyzer. That is what I did. I used a pickup coil near the detector coil to receive whatever was being transmitted. When in "Multi", there are several (more than 2) frequencies being transmitted. I'm certain, the "secret sauce" is in how the receive signal is processed. You can see this in the diagrams below. The X axis is frequency (1KHz - 50KHz). Multiple frequencies are evident.
  13. This is probably pretty close. Remember, in the Equinox, all the analysis of a signal takes place in software. Naturally, this is Minelab's proprietary intellectual property, so we don't know exactly what they are doing. Being a retired SW engineer, I can venture a couple of guesses. One thing they could do is spend more time, and obtain more VID accuracy when analyzing a signal when in a slow recovery mode. If you demand increased recovery speed, they might a) Spend less time in the function that analyzes the data, or b) analyze less than all 5 frequencies, or c)?
  14. Once you pair with wireless phones, or plug in headphones, the speaker is disabled.
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