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Thanks! The dog & truck came out of a sand volleyball court. There's a metal spring inside the dog and some screws that made it ID at 24. The marks on the "nugget" ring are MM 6_9_9 and a tiny mark that I can't make out.

I found kind of an older park I hadn't been to before and did a couple of hunts two days in a row. I was using my Equinox, 10x5" coil, Park=2, Sensitivity=20, FE2=0, Recovery=6, Horseshoe=On, Discrimination=Mental. The first day I was passing on obvious iron and trash. I found a 1964 Memorial penny, so I thought there might be hope. The first day no silver, but I did find what I thought might be a gold ring, but now I'm not so sure. It has a weird stamp so I think it might be plated. The second day, same settings, but I hit the woods across from the park and dug everything that sounded good. That acounts for the older looking junk. Then I went back to the sports field in the park and got a pretty good 12 with a little iron sounds about 6 inches down. I thought it could be a deep nickel, but when I brought the target up, it was another ring. There were a bunch of people in the park by this time so I quietly slipped the ring in my pouch and moved on. This time I thought I had silver for sure, but when I got home and cleaned it up a little I found out I was wrong again... it turned out to be 10K White Gold! 4.8 grams. So I'm still chasing the Silver Unicoin, but I'm sure happy about a little gold. Day 1 Day 2

Great stuff again, Dan the Man! I'm envious, I have yet to find a silver coin. I need to find some older parks, but you are killing it! Keep up the good work!

I'm a landlubber but I've been to the beach twice and to lakes and rivers with the Equinox and dunked it unintentionally quite a few times with no problems. I don't dive so I never intended to go deep with the Nox. I think if I was a diver, I'd get an Excalibur II for that or something similar. When I was researching the Equinox, I never really thought of it as a diving detector. My impression was that it was just an all terain detector that could get wet and keep on working. That was one of the deciding factors for me to go with the Equinox.

It's fun to speculate about all the potential of the new machines coming out and I hope they all live up to the hype. But we've only seen some, but not all of the data on the new XP and nothing on the Nokta until the 19th. Hopefully we'll get to see the manuals on both machines before they hit the streets. Meanwhile, I'll keep on swinging my Nox and enjoying every minute I get to go out with it. And even if I do get a new machine down the road, it would have to be so spectacularly better than the Nox in every way to ever consider retiring it from service. But that's just me.

I certainly understand what you are saying, Cipher. There has always existed in business the "let somebody else spend the time and money creating the better mouse trap, then when it's a hit, we'll just copy it" mindset. It's terribly time and money consuming to create a new product and then you don't know if the public will embrace it. Many companies just wait to see what happens, then copy whatever sells. I'm not saying that other detector companies do that, but am I the only one who thinks the Simplex looks a little too much like the Equinox which came out a year earlier? Just saying... I too hope that competition breeds innovation, but sometime it does and sometimes it does not.

I agree, the new shiney looks cool, but nobody has seen any of it in actual use yet. That will be when we really see what's what.

No charge, LOL! It's not my design. I saw a UK video of a detectorist who made a depth test something like this out of 50 gallon drum. I just made a quick and dirty model to illustrate the concept for 3D separation testing rather than try to describe it. 😎

I would think that a coin (laying flat) would have stronger eddy current since it has a larger surface area than a ring in general.

You could make a depth test bucket which could also function as a 3D separation test bucket and fill it with whatever sand or soil you need to test in to try multiple different scenarios.

Personally, I'm not going to sell my Equinox now that I'm finally getting comfortable with it. But, I only have 2 older detectors that I keep for sentimental reasons and don't use anymore, so the Deus 2 really looks good to me, but I'll wait and give the Nokta a chance and would like to see if Minelab has an ace up their sleeve before committing to another detector.

Here's the D2 Program # 8... GOLD FIELD: FMF • Max. freq. 40khz • Frequency addition. GOLD FIELD is intended for highly-mineralized gold-bearing ground. Gold nuggets are often seen as the ground or ferrous items in these tricky environments. It is set to “all metal” for deeper detection and only rejects the localised ground to which you should regularly adjust by Grabbing (see Ground). It will accept ground above and below your Ground setting. Interestingly, it looks like all 12 Preset Programs top out at 40KHz except for Program 7, Deus Mono, which will let you select single frequency operation up to 45KHz. Here's the link to the Remote Control: Deus 2 Control

Chiper "I agree. I find it interesting that it was necessary to create wired headphones for underwater. Why wouldn’t the technology from remote to coil be also sufficient from remote to headphones it it was up to par with wired coils?" Moving salt water is the obstical. It can be overcome, but requires a lot more power, more circuits, and much larger batteries. I'm curious to see how all this works too. Where's the manual? Do the coils, shafts, and control box have hidden contacts?

Well all I can say is WOW! Multi-Frequency, Waterproof, Bone-Phones, VDI... it's almost like XP has been listening in on all our squawking about what we want in a detector! I just hope it works as good as it looks. I've been looking for an excuse to want a Deus... looks like I might have to cash in all my Christmases and Birthdays for the next 10 years! 😎

I've noticed my F-Pulse (PI) pinpointer struggles with hitting the tiniest targets, but my Profind 35 (VLF) hits them, so it may be an issue with pulse induction. If I'm going after tiny targets, I carry the VLF pinpointer and for everything else I'll use the PI pinpointer for more depth. We just can't have everything in one machine, can we. 😁 As for volume on the detector, I run mine about 22 and adust the headphone volume to whatever is comfortable for my ears.

Well it's beginning to look like 2022 could be an expensive year. 😎 No detector will ever be the do all, be all... or will it? But with the spirit of competition very alive and well, we win, and this coming year may be the best ever for detector choices.

Awesome recoveries, Joe! That compact was a time capsule, so cool!

I can't necessarily trace out an object like a cross but it's fairly easy to tell oblong targets from round ones and large ones from small ones. I've been using the drag pinoint method most of the time. That's where you try to center the target in pinpoint mode touching the ground, then drag the coil back towards you until the sound just disappears while watching that point on the ground and then turn 90 degrees and do it again. The spot where the target sound disappears in both directions will be where the target is located. I can then usually quickly verify that spot with my handheld pinpointer. Also I've noticed to watch for the last number showing on the TID before hitting pinpoint mode. If I find a target next to iron or other trash and the TID shows -4 for example and I hit pinpoint, it will pinpoint the -4 target and may miss the good target. So make sure your good target's number is showing before hitting pinpoint. But don't hit pinpoint directly over the target because it will tune out that number and won't be able to find it. HTH

I haven't noticed more falsing between the 10x5" and 11" coils per se, but I do notice more falsing in my iron impregnated park soils when it is wet with either coil. I really saw that out yesterday as the park I was in has areas that have really dried out and low areas that are still very wet. There was almost no falsing in the dry areas and a lot of falsing in the soggy areas. I also see more falsing using Iron Bias FE2 set at 0 than I do with the factory set at 6, but I've been hunting FE2 mostly at 0 lately and checking targets with FE2 at 6. This seems to be about the same in Park 1 and 2.

You might want to do a factory reset (FP) with the 10x5 connected. I did that and haven't noticed the higher TIDs. In my mineralized soil, I get pretty much the same numbers with the 10x5" as with the 11" in Park 1 and Park 2. Zincolns = 19-21 depending on level of deterioration Copper Pennies = 20-22 Nickels = 12 and sometimes 13 Clad Dimes = 25-26 Clad Quarters = 28-30 Sorry, I haven't hit any silver coins yet so I do'nt know where those come in. HTH

Thanks for that tip. I hadn't noticed that before, but saw it happen in a sand volleyball court this week. The 10x5 picked out a tiny target in the sand that I couldn't find with my handheld pinponter. So while trying to re-pinpoint the target with the Nox, I inadvertently found it with the tip of the coil. It was a little push-on earring back for a stud earring. I tested it on my pinpointer and could only detect it if it was touching the side of the tip, and only if the flat part was touching it. The 10x5 picked it up with no problem regardless of the earring back's orientation.

Great finds! Yeah I too think the foot print jug is an urn for cat's ashes. I found one for a dog's ashes last week. Stainless steel and quite heavy. There should be a screw in the bottom which is where they insert the ashes. Thanks for showing your hauls!

Yep it is probably lead. It just looked copperish when I pulled it out of the ground, but by the weight, it's most likely lead. 1950s would be about right for that park. Thanks for the info.

I've been so busy that I almost for to post this... a week or two ago, I took the Nox with my 10x5" coil to an older park in my area which has been there since before WWII. I ran Park 2, 50 tones, FE2=6, Recovery at 6, and was able to run Sensitivity at 21-22. The park was surprisingly clean and most of the targets were fairly deep at 5-8" or so with some deeper. I was hoping to score a silver rosie or maybe a merc but all I was getting was more modern clad and a taunting from a 1965 Washington quarter. I moved toward the middle of the park and found a few copper memorial pennies when I hit a real nice sounding target. I thought it might be a wheatie or something but out popped this odd copper looking round thingie. I thought might be an older button as it was pretty heavy for its size. I was later told it is a hem weight. I'm not familiar with those and have no idea of its age. I decided to move towards the baseball field which has been there longer than the park has and then it happened. I got a nice high 28 tone at about 4" and the turf gave up a nice Silver ring with stones that I figured were CZs. I tested them when I got home and low and behold they all tested diamond. The ring is stamped 925 Mex and weighs 6.96 grams. So I didn't find any silver coins, but that ring will do just fine. 😎

That's awesome! I'm so happy for you. What a great story, would you mind if I submit that to my metal detecting club for their newsletter with a few pictures? I think everyone could use an uplifting story of perseverence paying off. 🙂