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Do the ferrous staples on your coin cards have any effect on the readings?

Hey Chuck to me it sounds like you really want the deus 2. Life’s too short to compromise on a new detector purchase. Plus the legend looks like it’s going to perform similar to the nox, but with hopefully better build quality and reliability. The deus, however is a completely different animal and from the looks of it much better performance than the nox. I say go for it! Lol

I like Gary’s videos too. He’s very knowledgeable and straight up. It’s almost as if he doesn’t have an affiliation with XP. He doesn’t bash or even mention other detectors (in the videos that I’ve seen). He just lets the actions speak for themselves. In this day and age of hype and hyperbole it’s refreshing to be presented with facts without all the bravado.

Congrats on the seated! You have a beautiful place to hunt! Looks like it’s secluded and away from traffic noise.

Looks like a nice, solid machine. I was impressed that it picked up that very thin broken ring.

I usually feel pretty good after purging possessions also. I sold an air rifle, the vaquero and some other miscellaneous items.

Let me see if I understand this correctly. On the deus the disc circuit is in play to disc out ferrous, but you can turn up iron volume and still hear it. But by having the ferrous discriminated out, it doesn’t affect the vdi numbers by averaging. Thus you can hear the iron and have more accurate target ID’s. ?

It was this guy:

If you’re digging in high iron trash areas don’t discount discount lower id’s as the adjacent trash will pull the id down. I’ve dug mercs as low as 18. In that particular instance there was an old rusty bicycle fender right next to it.

Very interesting take on tones from a musician’s point of view. Thanks

I just watched a video of a guy comparing the new legend to the equinox on Monte’s nail board test. Sorry, but I don’t have a link to it, but I think I saw it over on the friendly forum. In the video he is using the nox and says he has the recovery speed set at 8 and sensitivity at 23. Then he also mentions that recovery speed is what’s important on this test, not sensitivity. I have to disagree. Running 23 sense on what is basically an air test with an 11” coil only a few inches above the targets seems like way too much power to me. Monte has confirmed that this test of his was developed from surface finds. So I’m thinking this guy would have gotten better results (with both nox and legend) by lowering the sensitivity dramatically. Like maybe down to 10 or 12 on the nox. Am I correct in my assumptions? I have a site near my house that’s loaded with old iron. Most finds are 3-5” deep or less. I’ve actually compared non ferrous signals with low sensitivity and then bumped the sense up to 20 or so and the signal is more muddled and much more iffy to define than on the lower setting of around 12. I’m just curious why these guys doing the nail board tests aren’t at least trying a lower sensitivity setting?

Congrats on the merc! I would re-search the area where you found that clothespin. Might have been a clothesline there back in the day.

Thanks Jeff. I had read that, but had forgotten about it. Probably because because my conscious brain knows that I hardly ever have to worry about digging a steel and copper coin here in NC so my subconscious erased it from my memory. Lol

Not sure what you mean by under the forklift. It’s the third cardboard box on the backside of the stack right above the pallet jack. Maybe that’s what you’re calling the forklift. It looks like they had a photo op and the boxes on the backside of the stack are probably empty and it caved a little but no one noticed before they posted the pic.

I hope mine’s not in that third carton from the bottom in the back column😧

If you mean that (for example) a quarter rings up at 92 on the deus II in the general program it’ll ring up that same number in the other programs, then yes. If you mean that the nox and deus II ring up the same number on the same item, then no. The vdi scale on the nox goes from -9 to 40. The vdi scale on the deus II goes from -6.4 to 99. (If I’m remembering correctly)

Nice finds! That silver button is really nice! The Knights Templar suspender clip is really something special…😉

Sounds like you’ve got one of those places where you’re going to have to dig out the old cans and large metal to get more good finds. I’ve got a small area like this near my house and though it’s frustrating, it’s a good place to go if I don’t feel like getting in the car to go to another site. Good luck! I’m sure there’s some silver hiding there.

Good video! I only heard your dog growling when you were using the equinox! He’s moved on to the deus II. Lol

I really didn’t think anybody could be more excited about the deus II than Calabash but I think you may have him beat! Thanks for posting.

Nice finds! What state did you find those in? (If you don’t mind me asking)

Welcome to a great forum! There’s tons of info on the equinox. Just check out the equinox forum. You got a great first detector!

Nice finds, congrats!

I couldn’t even make it halfway through that. In my opinion she needs to take the high road and not respond to some of the comments she’s reading.

It probably wouldn’t have made any difference, but he wasn’t running the nox in it’s latest software update. (He didn’t have 4khz)