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Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
It will find every single one. 🫤 -
Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
I seriously wouldn't put it past those guys. 😁 I wonder what I win? 🤔 -
Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
Y'all may not believe this, but something clicked on the number "42" for me, I looked it up and I was right. 🤣 Remember the Douglas Adams series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything... Is 42. Take it or leave it. 😏 -
Finally, Aptx-ll Bone Conduction Headphones For Equinox
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in Minelab Equinox Forum
I never had ML 80s, so I always do a reset, just to clear the pairing log. Chase is probably right. 👍 -
Finally, Aptx-ll Bone Conduction Headphones For Equinox
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in Minelab Equinox Forum
Hey Jane, Nope this is what we are here for. 🙂 Just a slight adjustment: Do a system reset Turn the equinox on and wait until the Wi-Fi sign goes away and the Bluetooth "B" comes up, then turn the headphones on and listen for "power on" then "pairing". If you hear it, Put them near the equinox, I hang them on it, and walk away. Make some coffee or tea or something. By the time you come back they should be paired, with a B+ in the top right corner. 🙂 It can take more than 2 minutes. If this doesn't work turn everything off and do it again. Worst case you might read the headphone instructions on resetting them, but it should work. The procedure from then on is turn the detector on, then hold the big button on the headphones until you hear "power on". You'll look cool doing it! 😜 -
Well you sir, are the cufflink King. 👑 Always fun man!
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Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
Hey NC, Nice bit of pickin' there. 👍 Cool you were able to do that with the 13x11", when there's a tremendous amount of junk and nails, the big coil tends to down average, as does the 11", but you can still get great separation in the center. 🙂 I'm sure you've heard the "triple tap" from side to center to side on a single small object in a clear spot. When there is dense stuff, the 9" coil sees quite a bit less ground, so it should sniff out even more. I've found I can lower reactivity to 2, I hear a lot more stuff, but you can go higher for the trashy shallow mix. Despite any complaints I might have about Tekkna, it's definitely a great tool. You do have to force yourself not to dig anything that isn't repeatable in all directions, but if something gives you 50% or more good tones it could be worth a look. I can pretty much do the same thing with Relic but the extreme sounds are much easier to take with Tekkna. Did you find you had to lower iron volume? I'm down to 6 or 7 now. -
Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
That's pretty much why I use my modified Relic program more than anything. 🙂 Kettle fragments, plow shares, even big stuff like axe heads and mauls are everywhere. Horse and ox shoes too. 😬 Also an abundance of hard-forged nails. This site has lots of steel junk, brass, and aluminum as well as iron. I've tried all the programs in pitch, but find for myself that full tones in high square is best as it allows for some audible identification of aluminum. -
Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
For anyone interested, here are the settings based on the Fast program: Disc 4.2 Silencer 0 Threshold expert Pitch 603 ?? Sensitivity 75 ?? Frequency shift 4 Iron volume 0 Reactivity 4 Audio response 6 After a while using it I switched notch from 23-24 to 00-00, which eliminated "some" falsing on deep iron, but not all of it. This works very well with Relic. -
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Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
I did try it after watching the video again. I got the settings as best as I could, one thing I didn't understand at all is the threshold expert setting at 603khz. 🤔 He probably explained it but no captions. I'm lucky enough to have an old 1850-1900s home site right in front of my house, probably one of the nastiest demolition sites I have in my portfolio. Tekkna managed to squeak a few things out of all the junk there previously, but at the cost of digging a lot of trash. Lifting the coil was the only thing that saved me from deleting it. I can see JTTFast as a very specialized tool, but just for the heck of it as I was leaving my yard, I ran the coil over some steel rebar that marks property lines here, and it hit it hard as a good non-ferrous target. 🤬 Quite frankly this continued at the house site, and with iron volume at 0 there was no way to know when I was there, so I had to use Tekkna to find the spot. I also often switch between Relic and the other two, Relic was way more accurate and hit targets much deeper. Probably the 24kHz max setting. I found the fast program sounded off great on all really deep iron, some that both Tekkna and Relic (my main hunting program) also did. Worse, it couldn't "see" targets more than about 4" deep with sensitivity at 75, again something I don't get. 🤔 Lifting the coil to get the target to disappear is also a waste, sensitivity is too low. Here's the result after an hour of hunting this nightmare: Nothing but roof steel. Lots of early houses in the Southern USA are covered by steel roofing, some think it romantic, but when cut small, twisted and broken it's horrible. I noticed one interesting thing in the video, he has a probably tough coin to find with a nail directly ahead of it, and never really passes the coil over the nail. Honestly I know there are coins out there, but unless they can overwhelm the iron above them like the group of coins with nails on them, this is not "unmasking" either, again merely reactivity playing its part. I can turn it up with just about any program, and it will separate better, but higher than 3 without high sensitivity means loss of deep targets. These are my impressions from a real site, not a test garden or wood blocks. The patterns he was sweeping over would almost never be something you would find in the real world. So, my conclusion is "meh". 🫤 -
Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
Thank you! 🙂 I see that we are closer to what I'm getting at, excellent reply. 🏆 This forum is the last place we should be posting discouraging disinformation. I did a little digging and found this video by Jack the Templar, very good in-ground test that makes way more sense than any I've seen yet, and it is clever: It's not captioned but I am going to try and pull the settings from it. Luckily his D2 is set up in English 😀 I think this is the closest to "unmasking" as one can get. Stay tuned. 🙂 -
Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
@simsa, Where can we find the settings for Jack Fast? Thank you for posting these videos. 👍 -
Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 2)
F350Platinum replied to F350Platinum's topic in XP Deus II Forum
I guess I'm equally dubious and curious about this subject of "unmasking". 🤔 It's been mentioned many times in this thread, and yet Tekkna doesn't seem to do that at all. It merely "plucks" a desirable target from an abundance of junk. The goal is to get a consistent repeatable signal. "Unmasking" to me is the ability to ignore an undesirable target using discrimination or any other filter to locate a desirable target that is either nearby or under an undesirable target. I have only used one machine with which I was able to do that, literally set discrimination at a level that completely ignored the iron nails placed over a silver coin, by first dialing them out before placing them on the coin. No sound at all passing the coil over the nails alone. That machine is a Tesoro Vaquero, I'm told that many of the other models made by Tesoro are also able to do it. However, the machine only indicated a target was there, not what it was. That's less cool than what Tekkna does in a sense. At least you have the additional ID information. What is under the nails could be anything. I tried the Deus 2 and the Equinox, both excellent modern digital machines, first by ignoring the iron signal separately using discrimination and then notch, hoping to "see" the coin ID with the nails placed on the silver coin. Sorry about the detail, but I didn't wish to be thought mistaken in my method. If I am that might be the explanation I seek. 🙂 Both the Deus 2 and the Equinox failed the test at any response level, either generating an iron tone or nothing at all. There might have been a slight chirp but nothing indicated the coin was "unmasked", no steady tone or ID. I would not have made the dig decision. I performed this test on a board with two very old nails, covering a Barber quarter and dime with them. All Tekkna does is discriminate one ID, and utilizes fast reactivity and very little filtering, with whatever other unknown advantages Sensitive FT has. I can pretty much get the same effect from other programs by just cranking up reactivity. Ultimately depth is lost, as I don't hear as many targets the faster I turn up reactivity/recovery. So, I'm curious, what is this "unmasking" mentioned many times here? I watched one video posted in this thread as some sort of truth, but to me it was doing only a "nearby" comparison. To be fair I have not tried this under V2 on the Deus, perhaps that will help. -
Thanks NJ, Looks like you had a pretty spectacular run lately too, thanks for posting it. 🏆 It's been the best year ever for me so far. Really hitting stride with the Deus 2, the V2 update made quite a difference. I've been finding a lot of gold and silver this year, I really hope that carries over to beach hunting this spring!