NCtoad

I’m new to XP products and have only charged my coil twice so far. In the manual it says the light stays on constantly while charging. When I put the charging clip on my coil the light goes solid but does a real quick blink every 4 or 5 seconds. Is that what xp means by the light staying on constantly? My coil charges up like this I’m just wondering if it’s normal to have that quick blink.

How’s that hold up in wet areas?

That’s a great bunch of finds, especially for the shortest month of the year! What’s your overall silver coin count for 2022?

The target should be right under the center of the coil. I don’t use the pinpoint mode as much as I use the method your using of swinging in one direction and then swinging at 90 degrees to that. I mostly use the pinpoint function to size the target.

I agree. I’m one of the lucky ones that got a nine. I don’t see me wanting or needing an 11” so I probably won’t buy one. However if it was the other way around and I could only have gotten an 11, I would have bought a nine when they became available. Shrewd marketing on XP’s part!

That’s about the timeframe I was thinking of too. Do you know when fineness stamps started showing up on rings?

That’s genius!!

Can you elaborate on this some more? I’m having a hard time visualizing this.

What would I say? I’d say that Thoreau would have said something different if metal detectors were around back then.

I was the first in line with my dealer, no pre-pay or deposit. I got my nine inch version about two weeks ago. I guess you have to get on the waitlist early. I would hope opalboy’s dealer would waive the $40 restocking fee since demand is so high.

Very nice! Congrats on getting out with your new deus2 and having success with it right off the bat!

Is it? I don’t see anything else out there except the deus I or the ORX that can compete for the title of Ultimate Woods Hunting Detector. I went out in the woods behind my house yesterday afternoon for a couple of hours. I live in the mountains of Western NC which are filled with mountain laurel, rhododendrons and hemlocks. (Unfortunately a lot of the hemlocks are dying due to the woolly adelgid (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_woolly_adelgid). Anyways, the point I’m trying to make is that the mountains here are steep and in places full of tangled undergrowth especially the rhododendrons. They have lots of tangled branches to catch on any part of a detector that sticks out. With the DeusII being wireless you can put the remote in your pocket and make the detector more streamlined plus you have no cables to get caught on branches. Even the ws6 backphones (I normally like full coverage conventional headphones, but I’m warming up to these. Lol) are less bulky and since the strap goes behind your neck, are much less likely to get knocked off. It’s also so easy to adjust the rod length. Decreasing it to go up really steep mountainsides and increasing it when going back down. I remember some people saying that they didn’t see an advantage to the wireless concept of the deus. And until I went in the woods yesterday I didn’t realize how nice it was not to have the coil cable getting caught on branches all the time. BTW, I was using program 2 in pitch tones with the rc safely tucked in my zippered shirt pocket and digging all good sounding signals. I got two old headstamps, two .22 shell casings, two .22 lead bullets, a modern nickel and two pieces of junk jewelry! Plus a couple of balled up foil gum wrappers.

The 9” version of the deus2 is a joy to swing!

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!