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Thanks, this is a great idea. 👍 Might take a bit to find other lower priced models with an external jack for a transceiver.

I'd like to know the answer to this too, and would like to know as well why I have to loosen it with pliers when I want to recharge it no matter how much I grease it up. 🫤Otherwise it's the best pinpointer I own.

This will probably be the last post from me about Tekkna for the Deus 2, I might mention it in passing but I want to show y'all a typical day out using it. Brutal start today, when I got to this field I've named The Jewelry Box, one that Chase and I found a good amount of silver jewelry in. It was 38 degrees, it never got warmer than 50 and the wind was strong. I've come back a couple of times, but today I really wanted to use Tekkna the whole day with both the 13" and the 9" coil, after seeing how well @NCtoad did with his 13". Sadly it didn't really work out as well as I hoped, this field is so loaded with non-ferrous junk and iron it became apparent that I had to switch to the 9" coil for about half of it. Tekkna really does a nice job of finding small stuff in iron, I can imagine if I had a spot with nothing but iron I'd be able to find a few more things there. But that's about where it ends, I can use my heavily modified Relic program too with the same end result, just varying Reactivity where necessary. I try to be very honest about the trash I end up with, here's a photo of everything I dug today that I will not be keeping: Only one piece of iron fooled every program on my machine, everything else is Non-Ferrous. Clock and Pocket watch parts, flatware, pocket knife bits, knobs, shotgun shells and bullets, along with foil and other annoying aluminum are everywhere in a portion of this field. I rue the day the Concertina was invented, I think we have found just about every reed now. 🤬 Chase and I hit it really hard, almost all the silver stuff is gone, but I still managed to squeak a few more things out of it today: Got a brooch that is really shot through with bronze disease but it's one of the more unique things I've ever found: Even the back of it is interesting. There are multiple ages of activity in this small field, probably from the 1700s to the 1890s, and then from about the 1920s to the 60s, there are things representing both eras. It was probably cherry picked long ago because no large coins have been found here and there should be some. Regardless, the Tekkna program is great for a spot like this, but I still think the 9" coil is preferable to use with it. Bottom line is if there is a lot of non-ferrous junk, you are going to dig a lot of non-ferrous junk if there is the possibility of finding jewelry. That, it did quite well. I'll be keeping it on my machine, with the 9" coil handy. There was another bright spot, a gentleman almost in his 90s approached me in this field today, and after an hour or so of talking with him he gave me permission to his 100 acre farm next door 🥳

Welcome to the forum! I'd say this is the place for the most dedicated (and obsessive) detectorists. I'm in just about the oldest part of the USA, and started detecting over 3 years ago. I don't do videos, but I do get out detecting more than most. History is all we have where I am.

Welcome to the forum Mr. Metal, I second the choice of the Coiltek 10x5, it's still on my Equinox 600. If you search the forum for 10x5 (alternately 5x10), you'll bring up lots of stuff I found with that combination.

I really like those headphones, they are incredibly loud if you want them to be, and I used them all summer hunting beaches. I wish they would pair with my Deus 2, but I like the XP backphones that come with it as well because they don't go over my head. They are "on ear" too.

Thanks! 🙂 To me a buckle like that is as good as finding an old coin. This place was established about 1670, maybe even earlier. It was a grant from King Charles I or two anyway... So it's probably one of the first things they lost 🤣 I do have a Gnat Hat, but I already look scary enough. 😬 I wear that mowing at home. 🤣 I'm used to it but my wife never will be. I'm glad we don't have the black flies you do up there, but we have deer flies and horse flies that are most annoying.

Let us know how it worked out! 🙂

It will find every single one. 🫤

I seriously wouldn't put it past those guys. 😁 I wonder what I win? 🤔

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. 😏

I never had ML 80s, so I always do a reset, just to clear the pairing log. Chase is probably right. 👍

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!

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.

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.

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.

Here ya go, GG. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08QRQMLVY Excellent headphones and inexpensive.

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". 🫤

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. 🙂

@simsa, Where can we find the settings for Jack Fast? Thank you for posting these videos. 👍

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!

Thanks VL, Probably the first point I'd make in a book would be that in order to score big you have to be where the stuff is. 🤔 The hardest part is getting permission to look. I can say for certain that there are many others that do as well as I do, but some only post now and again. I've met a few people who are very secretive about what they find. There are risks to sharing, luckily for me other types of hunting are more popular here. I have definitely learned a lot, and have posted some of the methods I use here. I have considered writing it up in a book but finding a publisher that would make it worth doing is probably difficult. As long as Steve H doesn't mind, I'm happy enough to share it with all of you that are specifically interested, and I appreciate the kind comments. I've found however that I can wave any detector around pretty much anywhere and find a great amount of stuff, and the finds get better as I learn the tool. Having a place to talk about it with others is the key.

Thanks Colonel! Sure was a bit of soldiering, we put in about 6 miles of walking. It's a big place but we got the unusual benefit of being able to park closer to the area. Sadly the farmers are going to be in a bit of a rush to get the fields planted now, we're looking at a long rainy event late next week. This year has been a banner year for me, so I don't mind. When I'm near the end of beach season I look forward to relic season, and now I'm looking forward to the beaches. 🤔 I like relic season more because it's quiet and solitary for the most part, but I get tired of stepping on corn and bean stalks, you should see what they do to my shoes, never mind the mud. I do consider myself fortunate to live where I do, I probably would not have got into this hobby otherwise. 🙂