NCtoad

I never thought about fitting in a backpack. Thanks for mentioning that as I may order the xp280 backpack sometime in the future. I noticed the xp stand has little bumps molded into the feet almost as if they made it so an accessory stand could snap onto it. Is that how yours attaches?

Deus II owners: you all know the shortcomings of the stock arm cuff stand. Has anyone tried this?:

That 5 cent piece is incredible! Congrats!!

Right now Cal the biggest advantage for me over the nox is the ergonomics. Not only is the deus 2 light, it’s also very compact compared to the nox. As far as performance I’m almost positive if I had gotten my nox over any of those targets I dug today, it would have hit on them with good ID. Especially the two silver coins. I’m beginning to tune into the deus and one advantage I’m seeing over the nox is being able to tell an aluminum can top from a coin. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between the two even raising the coil using the nox. With the deus however when you raise the coil a coin fades out very quickly. I’m sure this is due to having the audio response setting on 4. So yeah, the deus has much, much better audio modulation. I still have a lot to learn about the audio nuances of the deus. The other day I was doing some air tests to hear the different tone pitches I had set up in a 5 tone program. I had a quarter, a nickel, a zinc penny, a rusty nail and I had also grabbed a lead pistol bullet. I noticed when I passed the bullet and the nickel over the coil they both rang up as 62 which means they both had the same tone pitch. However to my surprise they sounded quite different. The nickel sounded perfectly “clean” but the bullet didn’t. I tried passing the bullet over the coil while changing its position relative to the coil and the closet I could get it to sounding like the nickel was when I had the rounded point of the bullet facing directly at the coil. I guess this makes sense because the detector is seeing round. Now if I can only learn to pick up on those nuances in the field. Lol

I’m jealous! Lol! Congrats on an awesome find!

I took off work on Friday to see if I could snag some silver with the D2. I hunted for about 7 hours with 6 of those at the old ballpark where I’ve gotten multiple silvers with the nox. I hit the area hard with the deus. I dug mostly silver and nickel signals and a lot of iffy signals just to see what it was, but no silver and only 1 wheatie. Needless to say I was a little bummed. Today I got out to my only permission, the old house on 3 acres. This time I concentrated on a small level field on the other side of the property from the house. I hadn’t really detected this area much at all just doing an exploratory pass last weekend. This time I slowed down. Second target of the day was a nice sweet sounding 91/92 and I figured a silver dime since I have only found one clad coin the entire time I’ve hunted this place. About 7” down was a 1918d merc. I stood up and rescanned that spot and about a foot away I get a 59/60. Turns out to be a toasted buffalo nickel at the same depth. Then about three feet away I got a high 80s and out pops a toasted wheat cent. All three of these were not in the field that’s in the picture, but on the far end to the left. Once I got in the field I hit a nice high tone reading 94-96. At about 6” was a 1907d barber quarter. A couple of feet away was a high 80s and again another toasted wheatie. In between the wheatie and barber I get a jumpy signal in the 60s and out pops a Wahl Ever Sharp silver plated mechanical pencil! Now I start gridding that area and about 50 feet away I get a 96/97 and I’m thinking another quarter, but out pops a small sterling ring. That was about it as I headed back to the car. Today I was mostly using two custom coin programs I had set up last night. One was based on park, and the other based on general. Both with disc at 35, 5 tones with custom tone breaks, reactivity I varied at 1.5-2.5, silencer at 1, sensitivity at 95, audio response at 4. Park used square and the general used pwm.

I found the deus menu easier to…let me say “interpret” than the nox menu. Why? Because it actually tells you what you’re changing. I always had trouble with those symbols on the nox. Lol. The D2 spells it out for you in words.

I’ll add one more: Long press of lower left “-“ button also goes to volume settings. Although I’m right-handed, it’s a nice feature for left-handed users.

I love my nox, but the new deus is such a joy to swing. Has Chase let you take a test run with his deus2 yet?Congrats on all the finds! I’m envious of your site. Lol

Very nice condition! Congrats!

It's explained very well in the Reactivity section in the user manual.

Were the halves still in the paper wrapper? Lol!

Congrats! Before you know it you’ll have enough of those old pulltabs to make another chain!

Congrats on the old ring! Those old sterling marked rings always seem to have a nicer patina than the newer 925 marked ones.

So, no matter how polluted the site is with iron or aluminum you’re saying to stay with reactivity set to zero? If that’s what I’m understanding from your quote above, that’s just plain wrong. Why would XP give you options to adjust the reactivity if like you say “reactivity of 0 in any program finds more items”? Maybe I’m misunderstanding you and if so I apologize, but to say no one should run reactivity other than 0 is misinformation and could lead someone who’s new to a deus II to get quite frustrated by following what you posted.

I agree. Today for the first time (because of this thread), I checked the mineralization graph a few times just out of curiosity. The screen alternates so fast after pumping the coil I barely have time to see the graph much less being able to count the bars to compare to other areas. Sometimes I may want to post that the area I hunted had “7 bars on the mineralization graph” but it changes so fast I’d have to pump the coil multiple times to be able to count those little bars.

I’m not losing sleep over it either. I do wonder at times about how many gold rings I’ve passed over because I was too lazy to dig another pulltab. 😂

What’s the chances of there being a roll of quarters like that in the ground? Seems like an unrealistic test to me.

I hope no one takes my comparison between Jeremy and Gary the wrong way. All I’m trying to say is Jeremy’s videos are, shall we say high energy and Gary’s are calm and laidback. Both are very informative, but get their points across in different manners.

My lips are sealed! I think you get my drift though.

I’ve been watching quite a few of paystreak’s videos. I like him! He’s definitely unfiltered. Lol. His vids look to be unedited and whatever happens, happens. It’s just him detecting and he knows his machines well. I get a kick out of the contrast between Paystreak and Gary Blackwell. It’s like 3 cups of coffee verses smoking a joint. Lol!

I’m a little leery of “permanently”attaching anything to my detectors. I could probably remove it with a heatgun if I had to, but I would rather have a mechanical connection rather than glue. I wonder how it would hold up long term in salt water. If there’s any ingress into that charging port door I would think the contacts would corrode over time. However I do like the fact of being able to hunt with a battery pack hooked up to the coil if you had to. I’m noticing the coil battery loses its charge the fastest of all three components.

I wonder how it attaches to the coil?

Yes, that’s what mine does….steady on with a faint blink. Thanks for confirming!

I’m new to xp also, but if you practice navigating the menu on the remote for 15 minutes or so it’s not that bad at all. In fact, you can’t mess any settings up since it reverts to default settings when it’s turned off and back on again. Now if you’re talking about learning the tonal nuances and such, I think it’ll take me awhile to become as proficient with the deus as I am with my equinox. It just takes practice. And since it’s fun to practice it’s not that big of deal to me.