Aaron

The BEST discrimination is your SHOVEL

Aaron 

The D2’s discrimination is similar to the ATPro’s in that it has a adjustable tone break on the size of the iron you want to disc out, or rather it has broad iron range. Let’s say your working on a site that has a lot of a specific size nail(s). You can adjust that broad iron disc just to point to where it breaks that specific iron up (tone break), not totally out, or whatever you prefer.

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1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks for doing these (painfully) honest videos, Aaron. 🙂 I'm getting used to concentrating more on the audio than the ID. I've noticed the more pure the target is, the less drop off (hook?) or "scratch" it will have over a pull tab or aluminum, and the loudness is a better gauge of depth than the horseshoe. Guess that's a given for the Deus 1 users, never had the pleasure. This helps a lot!

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Thanks!👍 I really think it’s really important for your first X amount of hours to dig a lot of junk. In turn, building confidence in your decision to dig or not too. As I said in the video, there’s definitely a lot of audio nuances in this D2 audio, it’s also in the Goldmaxx Power also, ( a 20yr old machine!). Those French REALLY know what their doing….

Aaron

6 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Bingo.  You nailed it Aaron.  The audio is and always has been the Deus secret sauce coupled with its iron performance.  D2 with FMF has brought some much needed enhancements to the UI, physical packaging/water tightness, stability in salt, more stable and accurate TID, and improved iron/bc filtering making it even more versatile. But it all comes back to the nuanced audio and the D2 even improved on that with the additional audio options associated with the equalizer and square audio.  If you can master the art of subconsciously integrating  the audio nuances coupled with the TID info and the ferrous/non-ferrous horseshoe graph, you can reduce your sole dependency on the TID numbers which can only reveal a fraction of the target information contained in the audio.  You'll still dig your share of aluminum, just to be sure, but the audio will flip your expectations from possible gold ring, to likely aluminum and the occasional pleasant gold surprise.

Yes Chase, in short audio is really most important aspect of discrimination, and it really is GREAT on the D2. However the ultimate discriminator is your shovel,,,so you just never know…

Aaron 

I found this very interesting….

IDK, maybe it’s just me but I wouldn’t be walking around NYC w all the au unless I had a armed guard next to me.

Aaron

Yep, agreed. One thing though, the intelligent audio of the D2 can at least help you weed through a lot of the irregular or mangled pieces of aluminum.  A nice round ring is always gonna sound nice. 
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Yes, been out 2x’s. 2 weeks ago,(posted a video of that) and last week, didn’t find much. Waters warming up, people started swimming last week. There’s very little to find but hopefully that will change with the warm weather coming…

Thanks

Aaron

WTG👍Judging by all the non fe targets you found, there’s probably still plenty more there.  The D2 like all w all XP machines are fantastic in iron, and more time you get on it the less you’ll be digging, especially the BIG iron. 

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This is not a exciting video, however I am hunting in ground that has been POUNDED by myself over many years now. The Tarsacci and Etrac didn’t leave much behind in this area except in the mid conductor range. I still manage to find Buffalos here and once in a great while some gold. Notice the difference in audio between the various pieces of aluminum….

Aaron

I’ve been discussing this issue of target ID’s  with Keith Southern, and that’s exactly what he is saying. When using a multiple frequency program, various targets in different frequencies are going to weight different, and w that wide VDI range, their gonna have that type of irregular pattern….

Great job on the categorization, that’s A LOT of work!

Yes, I noticed the gold ring numbers a couple weeks ago when I tested my jewelry. I’m actually disappointed w these numbers especially w the ones in the 80s & 90s. I don’t understand why silver dollars are at 99, usually items that high are in the iron wrap around.

There’s very little differentiation between medium to large silver coins, not good….

Im no engineer, however I do know it’s not a good idea to be intermingling gold targets w silver. Hopefully this will be addressed in a future update…..

Aaron

Unfortunately, your going to have to dig A LOT of foil to find that elusive gold chain, (that I’m still looking for too!). I strongly believe that if your looking for small gold that that, you need to be looking in places it is lost most often, and trash being on the low side.
For example soccer and football fields where there is physical contact amongst people, or tot lots where mothers lose bracelets and chains playing w their kids.

Also, being too reliant on your VDI can be a mistake as the audio is even more important, volumes could be said on this. The guys w the old beep and digs especially the Tesoro’s know what I’m talking about….

Now if only the Deus 2 could have the same audio that the good old Goldmaxx Power has,,, now that’s a machine thats TUNED to find gold and does NOT like foil!

Aaron

So far, the only gold I’ve found is the crucifix I posted a few weeks ago. It was a solid 37-38, and I was using the XY. It was making a little squiggly dot in the center of the screen. I’ll try to do a video on small gold conductors ….

Aaron

According to the link, it recommends charging it for 3hrs, and not charging it overnight. And also, not running it dry, but keeping it “topped off” Glad this thread was started👍
 

Aaron

Here’s another video demonstration using a really tough to disc rusty BC. From what I’m seeing so far, they usually ring up around 45, they are a scratchy but still deceptive tone. You can bust it up by whipping the coil. BC 2 seems the ideal setting if you don’t want to miss anything due to masking. Even w the nickel under the BC, in reject 2 you’ll still get the nickel, though the VDI will drag the nickel down to the high 50’s. 
I haven’t tested high conductors like copper and silver, I’m betting it will probably work.

Now, the next thing is to see how BC 2 works w a lower conductor in the thin to medium gold ring class….

Thanks,

Aaron

Tom, yes the TARSACCI’s response was basically the same w or w out the nickel. However, in BC reject 3, the D2 rejects the BC & nickel. In BC 1, w the D2 sounds off on the BC w nickel, bumped up 10 points, however the NF meter was over 50% which is interesting. More testing is needed….

Aaron

Hmmmm, if your hunting woods, I’d say the 9”, but for beach obviously the 11”. Since you can only have one, and since you can’t buy separately, (yet)….I’d say (IMHO your best bet is the 9”.  Don’t underestimate the power of the 9” XP coil! 

Aaron

What type of hunting are you going to be using the D2 for?

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Agreed, zincs need to be dug.
That’s a MONSTER gold ring, seldom are they dug that big.

Aaron

On 2/26/2022 at 1:20 PM, NCtoad said:

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.  

Gold sooo sweet to find….CONGRATS!

Aaron

On 4/11/2022 at 4:41 PM, Kaolin washer said:

Was going to go to McCullough park this morning but got behind a school bus ,it was stopping every 10 ft and picking up more kids, so I made a U turn and went in the opposite direction. hit a Tot lot and found 35 cents and moved on to another location, and amidst so much trash up comes what i thought was a junk ring , but later i held it and it was heavy, unlike the junk rings, but i could not read it so when i got home sure it reads 14K and it weighs 6 grams white Gold its was reading in coin fast on my ORX 53.54 . and in coin deep 56-57- right where a lot of heavy foils and slaws read, its been well over 15 years since my last Gold ring find

Looks bigger than 6grms, great find!👍

Aaron

Great stuff! 👍

On 4/22/2022 at 11:28 PM, cuniagau said:

Ok, here is what I know for sure. The black keys are inlaid.  It has a rim on one side and somewhat beveled on the other side.  It rings up 13 on the Equinox. It is size 7.  It weighs 8.5 grams.  It acid test 14k.  (it test negative on 18K acid) It does not have any hallmark.  It is just an odd duck.  I think that I need to take it to a jewelry store before I add it to my gold box.  Has anyone seen one like this?

Very unique, congrats! 
 

Aaron

On 5/1/2022 at 6:09 PM, Skate said:

Love me or hate me, I belong to The Ringfinders and I got a call last night to rescue a men's gold wedding band from the surf up in Santa Barbara. My customer had just applied sunscreen and waded out into the surf, brought his hands up and you can figure out the rest. Off came the ring. I had one chance to get out there early enough to hopefully locate it in the wet and not have to fight the shore break so I got left this morning at 4:30 and headed to the beach. He had mentioned that he thought he was near an area of rocks and guess what, there were large rocks everywhere so I stood there in the dawn and made a decision to search an area I thought made sense.

This beach was hopping with iron, targets were everywhere but because of the oncoming tide I decided I would only did solid tones 62-86. After about my 5th pass in my grid I got a LOUD 72 and I mean LOUD. It was screaming "here I am, please dig me" and two scoops later I had the ring.  When I met with the owner to return it he shared that even though it was a simple band it was made in the exact image of his father's wedding ring so it was more than just a ring for him. Some of the best moments I've ever had detecting have included giving things back to the original owner and this one was the same. To see a grown man crying for joy that he got his ring back is a feeling that can't be adequately described but it's good. 

I hope your weekend was at least half as good as mine because if it was, it was great.

Returning stuff is always the BEST!

WTG 👍

2 years ago I found a wedding w a wedding date back in 49’ w 2 sets of initials, wish I could find the owner😔

Aaron

Nice kettlebell!👍