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I already cleaned out most of the coins with my nox. I did get an indian head penny and a 1912 V nickel last weekend with the D2. Thanks!

Thanks Skate! I’m confident navigating the menu and I know how most of the basic settings like reactivity, sensitivity, and audio response work and know when and how to use them. I’m still using stock settings for silencer and ground stabilizer. I’ve got to put in a lot more hours to get more comfortable with tone nuances especially since there’s so many tone variation options. However It’s coming along and I’m not completely in the dark trying to decipher what it’s telling me. Today was the first day I ever used pitch on it. I noticed that small pieces of tin roofing give a nice sounding signal, but the bigger pieces are easily dismissed using the audio response setting. Overall I think I’m going to really like this detector. I have approximately 12-13 hours on it now.

9” coil without cc is 11.8 ozs or 334.5g with cc 13.0 ozs or 368.5g

I didn’t have a lot of time this morning and it’s going to rain tomorrow so I stayed close to home and hit my only old house permission. This is the same place where I detected under the floor of the old house. There’s around 3 acres at this site and I’m making my way to the areas farther from the house. Today I used the D2 in program 3 except I switched to pitch and lowered the reactivity to 2.5. I set disc at 8.5 and sensitivity to 95 and audio response to 5. Oh, I also used the x/y screen for the first time. My goal was to dig all good sounding targets. About an hour in I got a really nice sounding, solid 66 with a nice straight line on the graph. About four inches down I see yellow and out pops a small 14k wedding band. It fits my pinkie perfectly lol! After that I tried and tried to find a coin, but didn’t find a single one.

My deus 2 with RC, 9” coil and velcro wrist strap is 992 grams or 35 ozs. Just for comparison, my tesoro compadre with the 6” coil is slightly over 32ozs.

With my limited usage (approximately 8 hours), the d2 runs quieter than my nox. Even testing inside my house it’s definitely more quiet. Another thing I noticed with just preliminary usage on the d2 is, if I do get emi and I do a frequency scan it actually works to clear it up and make the detector very quiet if not completely silent where as on the nox I’ve done multiple noise cancels and still get emi noise. Now it hasn’t worked every single time on the d2 and there have been times when a noise cancel on the nox actually works really well and the machine runs very quietly, but that is the exception more than the rule on the nox. I’ve also experienced random emi from my cellphone on the nox. I have yet to experience that kind of emi on the d2.

I agree. I’m guessing carbon fiber would be stiffer but not much, if any heavier. The weight wouldn’t be much of an issue in water though.

Did you screw it in?

Cool finds! What’s the item in the first pic?

When I first glanced at your pic of the knife, without reading the text first, I was thinking “he really uses a nice knife to dig with!” Lol! Congrats on the knife, big copper and wheaties!

I wasn’t with him when he found them. They were dated 1853, 1850 and 1847.

Very nice!

Wow! Congrats on the half dime! Such a neat little coin. I’ve never even found a seated coin, but a seated half dime would be more preferable than a seated dime or even a seated quarter to me. BTW, my buddy dug three half dimes in one hunt this past weekend.

I did a very quick air test last night on how the reactivity function affects depth. I was in deep high conductor, program 6. Reactivity of 0 compared to reactivity of 5. Reactivity of 0 gave almost TWICE the depth of reactivity 5! That was 5-6 inches difference. I was going to check the intermediate settings, but it was getting late and the battery icon for the coil was empty and flashing. I may try it again tonight.

You may know this already, but if I have emi issues with my nox and know where it’s emanating from, I’ll point my coil directly at that source when noise canceling it. It makes a difference rather than just holding the coil at knee or waist height like it says in the manual. Have you tried this with the deus?

*EDIT: I forgot to mention that my deus2 has the 9” coil.* Well my deus2 arrived last monday, but I didn’t get a chance to actually use it on the ground until Saturday. I’ve never used or even held an XP machine before so the deus2 is completely new to me. I’ve been using my nox almost exclusively for the past nearly four years so I’m very familiar with it. For my first outings with the deus2 I decided I would hit places that I’ve been over with my nox. The first sight was the old ballpark that I’ve been to three times with the nox. I mostly concentrated on a smaller area that gave up the majority of silvers hoping maybe the deus would unmask another…or find one that I had possibly missed with the nox. I was running #1 General program. I did change the tones around a little, but kept everything else stock. I’m mostly a silver coin hunter, but I do dig nickel signals. Out of this small section (10x60’) of turf I managed to get a clad dime and a copper memorial. Also probably because I was subconsciously wanting to pull a silver with my new deus, I dug some iffy high signals knowing that it would probably have to be an iffy signal if I had missed it with the nox. Those iffy signals turned out to be nails. I also dug a lot of aluminum screwcaps, but I knew they would be either a screwcap or a zinc penny which I got a few of those too. This place probably isn’t old enough for indian cents so I wasn’t concerned about that I just wanted to see what those mid to high 80s tid numbers were. After giving up at the ballfield I went to another site close by that had some long gone mill houses on it. There’s a smallish area that I have hit hard with my nox with both the 11” and 6” coils. Where as the ballpark has moderate trash and lots of clad, this site has basically no clad and lots of iron, coal pieces, and other metallic plumbing and electrical pieces. On this site I decided to run program 3 Sensitive FT. I have to say I like full tones. When you hit a non-ferrous it really stands out. I did manage to hit a ‘50s wheatie and a 61 memorial. The wheatie came in at 90/91 and before I dug it I tried program 6 Deep High Conductor. It definitely gave a stronger signal and hit higher above the ground as I raised my coil compared to the Sensitive FT program. These didn’t seem to be masked and were in the 6” range and gave a good signal. I probably just missed these in previous hunts with the nox. Saturday afternoon I hit a small area in the woods by an old spring that’s very near my house. This is my go to place when I don’t feel like driving anywhere. I’ve hit this place many, many times with the nox with both coils, and all of my tesoros. Although I’ve found five or six silvers and maybe 13 or 14 wheaties here I’m lucky now to even pull a non-ferrous. This place is LOADED with nails, old steel can remnants, rusty old crown bottlecaps and any other kind of metal you can think of. I’m pretty sure from the trash here it was a dump at one point. I even unearthed an old rototiller blade before. So there’s big pieces of ferrous too. I again used the deus in program 3. I even bumped the reactivity up to 4 because of the density of the iron. About all I got was an old .22 shell that looked unfired, but was very corroded. Again this is a pretty small area. I also dug some iffy signals that were bent, rusty nails. *Edit #2* While detecting at this old spring site I dug two very old and very rusty bottle caps that rang in in the high 50s. When I encountered another high 50s signal I put the bottle cap rejection at 5 and sure enough it knocked out that 50s signal and when I dug it, it was a bottle cap! On Sunday I decided to hit a site that had an old 1890s house on it that’s in the process of being torn down. This is a much larger place of three acres, but some of it is undetectable because the guy that bought it is clearing trees and there’s lots of brush piles, etc. Again I concentrated on the areas that I had previously hit with the nox (both coils). Didn’t get anything worth mentioning running program 3 and program 1. Very, very trashy around the house and outbuildings. On the way back to the car I hit the field areas that I hadn’t hit before with the nox. This area was relatively clean with little trash. Running program 3 and dropped the reactivity down to 2.5 and even 2, I hit a couple of shotshell headstamps. Then I got nice 58 signal and thinking another headstamp I pull an old very corroded nickel from about six inches. Then checking the immediate area I got a solid 76 a couple of feet away. Four or five inches down is another coin! This time an indian head penny. By this time it was time to go, but I’ll definitely hit the field areas again. Initial thoughts: I really like the lightweight and ergonomics of the deus2. My nox feels like a tank in comparison (11” coil). As far as performance goes, and me being a silver coin hunter, I feel the silver range on the deus is more compressed than the nox. Silver range on deus2 is about 90-96. The silver range on the nox is 26/27-35/36. Both of these ranges are for dime to half dollar. As Steve said in another post the deus seems to be made more for beach hunting with an expanded low to mid conductor range that would work well on gold rings. I’m not selling my nox, but I realize I have a lot to learn on the deus2 and just need to get more time on it.

Nice review, thanks!

Was this with 11” or 9” coil?

Interesting that a silver half dollar comes in higher than a silver dollar. Btw, thanks for posting this as my deus2 will take its maiden voyage this weekend! I just noticed that a silver dime comes in higher than the dollar also!

I’m confused. Which version is correct, the English or French?

Ha ha, you understand exactly what I mean! Those really nice, clear, tight, high tone signals are addicting!

I ordered the 9” coil and mine arrived monday. I’ve only had time to learn all the buttons and what they do. I haven’t had a chance to try it outside yet. I do love the ergos though!

I was wondering the same thing. Also does doing this affect the warranty?

Congrats! I’m still looking for my first seated. I’d be super happy with those two!

Way to go Fabio! Keep those gold coins coming! Congrats to you and your brother! That is a monster gold coin!!!