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Yeah it's just a play on words. The video says water resistant control pod "WITH" included rain cover. Light rain might not hurt it, but any long term rain exposure will eventually find it's way into the pod without the cover.

Yeah, the battery cover is pretty cheaply made. Water would run right under it the way it's designed. Have to have the dust cover in the rain. Not sure about the face plate either. 

When I do the pumping method it still comes in around 78 with the ground reading around 77. Manually setting it to 85-86 seems to be the best compromise. Never touched the ground notch. Wonder if ground notch at 85 will still give an audible target signal with a VDI of 85, or is that completely different from regular notch?

Thanks for the info. Not used to the Deus level of sensitivity. Been used to the pump and go method with other detectors.

Probably what I should do also, but with all the adjustments I might go crazy.

Just bought the XP Deus and trying to learn the machine. I've watched all the videos I can find about the XP Deus and ground balancing. They are almost all in the UK, and the dirt here in the US is a little different. I've proven to myself in the test garden that the default GB of 90 will not hit my 9"-10" dime. The tracking and pumping method both come in at 78 and the ground reading is 77. At those numbers the Deus will hit my 9"-10" silver dime, but the coil becomes ridiculously sensitive and falses on the slightest bumps. It is impossible to hunt soybean stubble or tall grass. I can manually set it as high as 86-87 and the dime signal almost disappears, but it stops the falsing. Is there something I've missed regarding GB, or is this just a Deus thing? Any suggestions?

Never tried digging negative numbers. They are usually nails or rusty chunks. If you use the old FE setting of zero, the bigger iron pieces will ring up between 13-19. I've had weird readings with iron backed buttons. What kind of button is it?

With high iron bias most of them will sound very bad. Low iron bias will still let them through. Don't think orientation will matter. It will be an awesome machine for trashy areas. You can see the difference here...

They really are decent machines for the money. I'll just copy and paste my post I just made on another forum.

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I had an epiphany today while I was at work. I catch myself daydreaming about metal detecting when I should be thinking of other things(I know I have a problem). I think me and the Vanquish got off on the wrong foot. In the 2 years I've had the Equinox I have turned into a "detector snob". I've gotten so spoiled by being able to tune the Nox settings to out perform most machines on the market today. This must be how Deus users feel . The first time I turned on the Vanquish I was comparing it to the Nox. I was thinking about it today and that's when it hit me. I wondered how the Nox would do with factory defaults. I did a factory reset on each mode. You can do this on each mode by long pressing the mode button while the mode is selected. It will show SP and change that modes settings to Minelab defaults. The Nox and the Vanquish were very similar on the "old dime between the nails" trick with the newer F2 iron bias. You can adjust the Nox to eventually hit the dime with a normal swing speed but that would only be at a heavy iron site. You wouldn't hunt everywhere with those settings, and the Vanquish wasn't made to compete with the Nox at relic hunting. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I owe my Vanquish an apology.

You could cancel that order and just get the regular 540 for $369. The only difference in it and the pro pack is the 8 inch coil and headphones.

Reminds me of a Pinkerton badge, but never seen one without the "pinkerton" name.

Do you want wireless headphones? The regular Vanquish 540 for $369 doesn't come with headphones. The Simplex for $340 does. You would have to bump it up to $499 for the Vanquish Pro pack to get headphones. I hate that because the multi IQ tech is really awesome.

I'm with Jeff. Don't buy Vanquish or Simplex to save money for relic hunting. You will regret it later. Better to step up into Equinox or Anfibio.

Even with the 540 you can't "turn off" the iron discrimination. The Vanquish series are better suited for clean yards and beaches. The Simplex would be better in WW2 situations, but in my experience, it is hard to get a decent relic machine for less than $500-600. The Simplex has depth in field mode, but crappy separation. In coin mode it has fast separation, but loses a lot of depth. There is no in between.

The 340 and 440 only have high iron bias so it will try to discriminate out all iron. The 540 is the only model that has low iron bias setting and will let large iron through while still blocking nails.

10 hours ago, EL NINO77 said:

Of course, I don't expect performance like Equinox ... but the multifrequency and sensitivity and impact on small targets, and the accuracy of the ID at Vanquish, I think, will be good enough for the price.
I also like the 7x10" coil size .. because there's something between the 6 "coil ... and the 11" coil at Equinox .. so the Vanquish 340 will be a great addition to my Equinox 800 ..

I ordered it...

Still some ... from some tests on YT .. I have the impression that Vanquish gives a low conductive coin a higher ID than Equinox ..

Can anyone confirm it? .....
 

The TID's are VERY close to the Nox. There might be a shift of 1 or 2 numbers on some items. Coins have been the same for me so far.

You can try them all and see which you like the best. You can upgrade or downgrade to any firmware version with the update app from Minelab. You just have to choose the firmware version you want. IMHO, if you hunt in a lot of iron you should try the new F2 setting.

The GB of 1 isn't right. You will get in the 30-40 range on mild soil. 

Had to check out the manual. Looks like the 600 defaults to 3 on all but Beach 1.😮

Your recovery speed affects depth also. I think Park 1 defaults to 3 (fastest) on the 600. Dropping that down to 2 or 1 might get you another 1/4-1/2 in depth, but you lose some separation speed.

Sometimes iron can bring the numbers down. I dug a 1917 Merc at 7" with three square nails in the plug. It was only hitting 16-17 one direction, but was a good repeatable signal. 

I was about to pull the trigger on these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VD3M6M3/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza when I read that they are supposed to pair to a device separately. I might be misunderstanding, but it sounded like you would have two earbuds paired separately and work together, or is it one earbud paired to the device and the other earbud connected to the first earbud? I wasn't sure if the Equinox would simultaneously connect to two devices this way. Anyone have any experience with this type of earbud?

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There may be limited use Chrome OS or Android apps that could be used to run Win programs natively in the OS but that seems hit or miss and I personally really wouldn't want to be running a science experiment when trying to flash firmware, quite frankly.

I have bricked a motherboard trying to install a bios update from linux using Wine windows emulator

I have it working on an x86 proc, but you have to use virtualbox source code and compile your own kernel modules to get usb support. I haven't tried getting it to work on any arm based machines. If you aren't familiar with using the command line, it can make you pull your hair out. Did you get it updated?

If your Chromebook has enough memory you can install Windows inside Virtualbox and update through the virtual machine. I only run Linux at home and keep a virtual Windows machine just for this sort of thing.