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Awesome pics Phrunt! Looks like you’ve got the whole lake to yourself.

Are these in stock available for purchase in the US? I don’t know why I’m even asking that as I don’t have a detector that’s compatible with it. Lol. Too bad they aren’t making one for tesoros. Even though tesoro is out of business, there’s a ton of them out there.

I’m assuming the garrett apex even though an ace series is a no go with this coil.

I’m curious as to why there aren’t any videos out yet. You’d think XP would want to have some videos showcasing their new detector.

Nice bunch of finds Dan! It’s always fun finding old nickels like that.

Congrats on a nice barber! I love searching around big ole trees and stumps.

When you mention “Nokta’s answer to the Deus2”, do mean their new smf release coming out in a couple of weeks or something in the future? I think Nokta’s new release is their answer to the Equinox.

Here’s why I would pay $1600 for the deus II: This is taken from XP’s website. It looks like xp products are built to last. They have a 5 year warranty! I haven’t checked, but I would suspect this is one of the longer, if not the longest warranty in the metal detector manufacturing business. Kudos to XP!

Wow! An eight silver day is awesome! Congrats on surpassing 100 for the year.

I’m an equinox owner and not jumping ship, but will keep my nox and get a deus II with the 9” coil. I think the two will cover all the bases for me: depth, ergonomics, waterproofness, and most importantly, hopefully one will do better than the other in certain hunting conditions. I keep hearing over and over how the original deus is better than the nox in lots of iron. Hopefully the deus II will be even better. When I need pure depth my nox with 11” coil will probably go deeper than the 9” deus II. If I go water hunting, deus for sure. Coinshooting for clad, probably the nox. Hiking out into the woods, deus. And I’m sure there’s more reasons. If I had to sell my nox to fund the new deus that would be another story. I would probably go with what I’m familiar with and keep the nox. But, I’ve been saving up for a while now expecting something new to come up. So why not have both? plus I’m looking forward to learning a new detector.

I’m with Chase on this also. I had a very basic test garden at our old house. Now that we’ve moved I have no intention of making another. After 3.5 years of at least weekly hunts with my nox I like digging weird, iffy signals just to learn what they are. I wish I had done this more when I first got it. Just too many variables out there to just dig textbook signals.

Besides target size, doesn’t conductivity play a part in this graphic also? Or should I say, shouldn’t target conductivity be included in this graphic?

I have to say I really like the design of the deus. It’s a modular design imo and so versatile. The only things that held me back from the deus 1 was the price and my experience. Now with 3+ years of the equinox under my belt I think I’m ready for it. Lol

Chase, could you please explain in layman’s terms what PWM and square waves are. Is this something we can switch back and forth between on the detector?

The red plug is for underwater use only up to 20m. The gray plug needs to go back in once land hunting or shallow water hunting up to 1 meter.

Go to the XP website where they showcase deus2 and scroll down near the bottom. You’ll see “Our deus II packs”. Click on one of the models and it will take you to another page. At the bottom of that page it lists in red: the coil, the stem, the remote and the headphones. You can click on any of these to learn more. Click on the remote and it will take you to a page describing all the programs and other things. Very informative but not easy to navigate to. https://www.xpmetaldetectors.com/en/gamme/deus-ii-detectors.php

Wow, that was a quick four days! Looks like noon today for those of us on the East coast of the US.

I guess it’s the hope that for those of us who are really passionate about metal detecting a new detector will give us a few more finds from our already pounded sites. And let’s face it: it’s not the detectors holding us back, it’s access to new sites that have had very little to zero activity being detected. Like you mentioned above, I could take my nox to a virgin site and be pretty confident that after hitting it a few times that I have gotten 99% of any good finds out of it.

Yes I was using the Equinox 800. I’ll go back and edit that in. Thanks!

I had some paid holidays to use up before the end of the year so I took today off and drove to my favorite park. There’s an old high school football field there that’s now used as a kids soccer field. Everything old is deep in this field. I’ve pulled other mercs and wheats at about the same depth, but I took a picture of this one. Third target of the morning and if I wasn’t fresh and listening well, I would have walked right over it. I was using my equinox 800 in park 1, F2-0, reaction speed either 4 or 5, can’t remember, sensitivity at 23. Decent enough signal once located, but with some slight iron grunts. I removed the plug and dead center in the hole (a very good sign it’s a coin and not a nail) the pinpointer goes off, one more little scoop of dirt and then the ‘44 merc. The TRX is just a hair over 10”.

Thank you for posting this. With all the chatter about the new deus, N/M’s new machine and the speculation on what minelab’s new detector will be, it’s nice to read about something different!

I would guess that the new deus will be at least as sophisticated and adjustable as the existing deus, but with FMF and some other tweaks. I would also hope and expect it to be as well made as the existing model.

I just posted in the nokta forum what I’d be willing to pay for a new detector. My absolute limit is $2000. What’s yours?

Just my opinion, but adding a flashlight to a metal detector seems gimmicky to me and surely won’t sway my decision to buy this over the deus2. The few times I’ve hunted when it was too dark to see, a $10 headlamp worked well. What is important to me first and foremost is performance in iron and modern trash. Second is ergonomics. I’m definitely in the market to try something new and hopefully better than my nox which I’ve been using almost exclusively for the last three and a half years. Price is another issue up to a certain cost. I’d be willing to pay up to around $1700 or so. My cut off is definitely $2000. (Unless I dig up something really valuable in the next few months. Lol).