Ogliuga

5 hours ago, steveg said:

Ogliuga -- can you tell me what you mean by this?  Are you saying the mount is "loose," in terms of its fit into the shaft?

Thanks!

Steve

Yes, it’s a bit loose like you say..

Here is the little work which my friend has done on the lower stem to pass antenna through, inside the carbon fiber stem.. 

Al dente is ok but not too much otherwise it breaks up!

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

The Chinese appear to make a XP Deus mount clone, I don't know if this would help anyone with their projects?

 

My D2’s mount swings a little and it doesn’t stop even screwing it. It’s bothersome..

Friend of mine who noticed the bending of the lower stem has solved it with Nokta/Makro carbon fiber lower stem. According to him it’s almost perfect..

I’m sure XP will solve also this problem..

You could try bottle caps function. Range is from 0 to 5. In areas full of trash could help you..

I always used XY graphic with hot Gary program on V4.0 firmware.  But it has been my favourite one since Gary created cold/hot programs with 3.2 firmware. In my opinion full tones are amazing on low mineralized. Instead, things are different on hot soils..

1 hour ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I had a chance to observe a D2 with 11” coil recently, and overall was impressed by what I saw. Seemed just ok on mid to low conductors, but excellent to superior on high conductors. Decided to get back on the order list based on what I saw, thinking it may do better than I thought on silver in my parks. That in mind I switched from 9” to 11” coil, as I’ve decided other units will do better on gold, especially nugget detecting, and that was main reason I wanted the 9” coil, as alternative to 6x11 nugget coil. But for deep silver, I’m thinking the 11” has the edge.

What I did not like was lower rod movement that seemed far in excess from what I remember on my two previous Deus 1 units. Less the rod itself, then slop in the cam lock mechanism. Not sure, but my previous impressions were the XP S shaft was the best of the best. This one… barely ok out of water, and I’d think a disaster swinging in water against resistance.

Anyone else seeing this, or is it a problem isolated to my buddies detector?

I have a friend of mine who always takes D2 to the sea, both on the shoreline and in the first meter of water. Recently ha has told me that the lower rod suffers a lot from friction with water. He’s 1.90 tall and has to stretch the rod a lot..he's disappointed and worried about that. By the way he uses the 11”..

Very good, this is a great news. Thanks for sharing! 👍

I’m not a prospector but I 100% agree with you, Jeff. 

Ah ok...I’d have told you to update again but, if everything works fine now, it’s ok! 

That’s weird..what program were you using?

Nice report!

9 minutes ago, 1moar said:

Might as well set a post while you're at it... lol

That’s a nice idea, a second chapter dedicated to ground stabilizer and its importance for depth.. 😉

During the next test on that hole I’ll demonstrate that the signal is not a false. I’ll change ground stabilizer and, I hope, machine would be even deeper. I say this even though depth is not everything. These tests only show the absolute power of the machine. The target was not heard in all sweeping positions but in 2 (1.5) out of 4. There is total silence as well. That’s not a false signal.

This morning have been in the little wood where I want to organize my test bed. During the last depth test I dug a 18 inches hole while this one is a 20 inches hole, a really extreme depth test. Same coin, 50 euro cent. Weak signal, very difficult test but Deus 2 managed to detect the coin. The signal on the 18” hole was much stronger and I think that, covering the hole, coin was no longer perfectly flat. Settings were extreme: prog 6 with sensitivity 98, reactivity 0. But I stupidly didn’t lower ground stabilizer that on program 6 is set to 3 by default. I think the result would certainly have been better. I’ll try again in the near future..

11 hours ago, mudwhale said:

I have found that threshold does not work in any of the FMF modes. In other words, there is zero break in the threshold sound when any metal is nearby. It works in the Mono modes though.

I have to try in Mono...for the rest I totally agree with you..

I totally agree with you, la torche..

Goldfield and Relic progs have square audio by default. But I have the same threshold issue also with that programs. I thought that it was a pitch problem..I don’t know. 🤔

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Another thing I find annoying is that if you change the frequency of pitch tones it also changes the threshold tone pitch.

Just tried and actually noticed this behavior..

1 hour ago, Jeff McClendon said:

The threshold in Relic and Gold Field works correctly. Why it doesn’t do anything using “pitch” audio in the discrimination modes is bizarre. 

I have the same issue, also in Goldfield and Relic. The same and steady hum..

3 hours ago, la torche said:

I didn't notice this until you pointed it out Ogliuga and indeed there is no break in the Threshold when passing over a target. The XP Threshold is a useless continuous sound. I'll have to get used to it too, I'm used to coming out of the beach with buzzes. These messages are read by XP's ears, maybe they will be heard, a real Threshold function is a real plus on the beach. So I vote +1

It’s my same thought. Yes, “break” is the right term. My opinion is exactly the same. Anyway I’m sure XP will fix it..

Thanks for your nice reports, appreciate a lot. Talking about coils, now I’m with the 11”, I’m sure I’ll take also the 9”,  D2 deserves it. Maybe 9” is better than 11” one on hot soils..

23 hours ago, Gary XP said:

The threshold is a baseline, anything above it is a signal.

The threshold is optional, if you don't like it fair enough, leave it off.

Personally I like it, especially on quiet sites, you know the machine is still switched on 😁

Sorry Gary, I was reading again your post. When you say that anything above the hum is a signal, what do you think of the hum variations and its “interruption”?

I like this thread. I love threshold and always used it with pulse inductions but with VLF as well. During the nulling of the threshold I knew that under the coil there was or iron but a deep target as well. Somewhere else I began a thread about a threshold issue: a steady hum without any variation in my opinion is absolutely useless..