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1 hour ago, Gwcracker said:

Your faith in MF is greatly appreciated... apparently. Someone needs to ask the smart one, XPCalabash, SSDD.

😉

They don't know how to use a detector. They swing their detectors like it's one from 1975. Check out my Hecks Yeah! YouTube for real info on detectors. 

5 hours ago, brys said:

if you make a good find    how dya know which frequ found it ?? for future reference

The Deus II uses weighted multi-frequency. It doesn't shoot 100% of the available signals into the ground and then read 100% of the signals from the ground. You can think of it as creating a new type of signal that has characteristics of all of the individual signals available and shooting that into the ground. Each program of the Deus II creates a different type of new, blended signal. 

The Whites V3i detector does shoot all frequencies into the ground and reads all frequencies, so it will report which frequency resulted in the hit. It's the only true multi-frequency machine I know. But they are out of business now. 

I posted the above video but the reason you want multi-frequency is that for 1900s silver coins you need 4 kHz but for 1700-1800s small silver such as reales, half-dimes, seated dimes, etc you need 20 kHz. With the Deus 1 or Anfibio Multi you would first hunt in 4 kHz and then go back over the area in 20 kHz. Now you can hunt in both kHz at the same time.

21 hours ago, Rrnp said:

On the Deus 2 if I just wanted to cherry pick silver coins vdi 90 and above, which is better , to notch till 89 or discriminate to 89?  Pros and cons or just use two tones, tone 1 to 89 and tone 2 to 99.  Thanks

Small silver coins (such as from the 1700-1800s) will read lower than 89/90 and as they get deeper the VDI will drop further. You are better to enter goldfield mode, IAR  = 0, reactivity = 0, notch 0-20, turn on tracking. 

Hi everyone,

I upgraded to v7 and when in the goldfield mode the sound for the pinpointer mode doesn't work anymore. If I watch the screen I can see the square filling in, but no sound. If I switch to something like the general mode it works. 

Any thoughts?

On 4/17/2022 at 3:17 PM, ☠ Cipher said:

I tried VirtualBox and Windows 10. Got no recognition of the remote at all, any which way 

You have to enable the USB port under devices at the top of the screen. Plug the remote in, and then click on DEVICES and USB and you'll see the Deus listed.

On 4/15/2022 at 3:02 PM, Happa54 said:

Hello Everyone;

Has anyone experienced an 0.7 update fail yet?

I received my update download from XP yesterday.

Ran through the procedures including Gary Blackwell’s update tutorial.

I must have made at least 20-30 attempts and my remote just locks up/freezes.

I’ve gone back and forth between 2 computers and results are the same. Uninstalled & reinstalled software several times, to no avail.

The remote works fine in 0.6 so I can at least use it until I get this problem resolved.

I’ve contacted my distributor and he says he will contact XP for assistance. If there is a way we can circumvent the problem within the remote, then we may have a shot. If not, then he will send me a new remote with a return box back to him.

My distributor also stated that if XP is monitoring the forums, there is a chance they may read this and work through this issue.

I look forward to your feedback.

I wonder if your XP usb cable is bad. 

6 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

This brings up an interesting point. XP states that you must use USB 2 or 3, and not USB 1, when updating. This is probably because the updater program was compiled for use with more recent hardware using the USB 2 & 3 standard. USB 1 is extremely slow compared to USB 2 &3 which are 10-20 times faster. So if you use a USB 1 port on your computer to update the D2, it will cause data flow problems and probably buffer problems as well, which could lead to some of the issues reported during updating.

So if you only have USB 1 ports on your computer, you will have to use a different computer that has USB 2 or USB 3 ports. Now how do you tell what speed your USB ports are on your computer? Easy, just look at the plastic rectangular tab inside the port. The color of the tab will indicate which type of USB port it is. A White tab is a USB 1 port (cannot be used to update the D2), a Black tab is a USB 2 port, and a Blue tab is a USB 3 port.

USB 3 is backwards compatible with USB 2 so either can be used to update your D2. So check those ports before you plug in the update cable into your computer and make sure the port is Black or Blue inside the opening. It might just save you a major updating headache! HTH

I used USB 1.0 on a Mac and it updated fine. TheY must just not want to support 1.0. 

Hi everyone,

I updated my Deus 2 to version 7 using my Mac by using VirtualBox and Windows 7, both are free on the Internet.

Sam

Just now, Chase Goldman said:

First: That statement technically/factually incorrect.  Second:  Has nothing to to with the issue at hand.

It's absolutely correct, and if you don't believe me, just try yourself, as others have done. Second, he lost depth, and so I said make sure he is at reactivity zero, so that his transmit power is high -- since he complained that his depth is less now.

On 3/8/2022 at 8:12 PM, Jayhop said:

In short, I'm talking about the Deus II tones on deeper coins.

I mainly hunt farm fields where coins can go deep, so at times the depth of a detector is very important to me. 

I test all my detectors on three coins I have in my test garden. The nickel, dime and quarter are at 10 1/2 to 11 inches deep and have been buried for 3 years and 4 months. 

The stock programs on the Equinox 800 and the Deus II don't do well on these coins. 

With very few adjustments to the Equinox 800 each of these coins sounds very sweet. The ID is very close on the nickel, it's a little low on the quarter and jumps up on the dime. 

The Deep High Conductor program on the Deus II does very well on the dime and quarter as it should and does ok on the nickel but not great. This is using a 5 tone program. Using pitch they all sound better but the nickel is still a little broken. 

Using pitch isn't what I want to do all the time. The low conductors close to the surface cost me a lot of time because they sound really good. So I want a five tone program so I can hunt by tone and not have to check the numbers continuously. 

I discriminate to 6.8 and set the second tone break at 45 with a 100 HZ tone. 

The problem is that in all programs except Deep HC the dime and quarter IDs bounce back and forth between the 30s and 90s. This gives a very unpleasant tone. I don't see a solution.  

Any ideas?

 

You should be running at reactivity 0. Reactivity is both recovery and transmit power, incase you didn't know.

On 3/16/2022 at 5:43 AM, Carolina said:

This update has caused the same results for myself and one other friend. Loss of depth and no matter if using XY, Horseshoe or large number profile screen at times now, a strong signal results with no TID only dashed lines which did not happen before loading the new version v0.06. Adding this new profile certainly changed the performance of our machines. Since this profile was just added to the old v0.06 rather than applying a new v0.07, I see no way to return to the old version once you install the new v0.06. This is upsetting to say the least.

Reactivity is both recovery and transmit power. Set it to zero. 

Make sure you run reactivity at 0. It is both recovery and transmit power.

Hi everyone,

I did a quick video about the Deus 2 programs in the user manual. It's not an end all but it should help. Enjoy!

27 minutes ago, Lodge Scent said:

Shopkins have you ever actually hunted in heavy iron with a Reactivity of 0, then gone back over the same spot with a Reactivity of 3? R=0 is fine in clean, mild ground, but in heavy iron or trashy sites you will leave a lot of good targets in the ground if you just use R=0.

Yes. I was standing in an 1800s house that was knocked over. My video shows R5 versus R0 in heavy iron rubble and square nails. Hunt in R0 and you’ll be like 👁 👄 👁. 

13 hours ago, abenson said:

What video is this? You hunting at a park or beach when you did video? Id like to see some in field results if you wouldn't mind sharing that video.

Here’s one for you. 
 

10 hours ago, NCtoad said:

So, no matter how polluted the site is with iron or aluminum you’re saying to stay with reactivity set to zero?   If that’s what I’m understanding from your quote above, that’s just plain wrong.  Why would XP give you options to adjust the reactivity if like you say “reactivity of 0 in any program finds more items”?  Maybe I’m misunderstanding you and if so I apologize, but to say no one should run reactivity other than 0 is misinformation and could lead someone who’s new to a deus II to get quite frustrated by following what you posted.  

Why would XP give a sensitivity setting of 3? Who knows. But they really messed by making most, if not all programs,  2-3 reactivity when the machine should be set at 0. 
 

I have yet to see anyone show a reactivity of 3 is better than 0. 

10 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Um. Ok then.  Good luck with that.

No luck needed, just reactivity of zero. 

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Bottom line: as to your question regarding what it means for other items the ground?  It means you have a very versatile detector and I am sure you are not going to miss much of consequence if you manage to get your coil over a viable target while swinging with the default settings in general mode.

I’ve already proven that reactivity of 0 in any program finds more items. And I’ve shown why in another video. And I’ve proven it by detecting a roll of quarters in general mode. No one should run reactivity other than 0. And that’s facts. 
 

19 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Thanks for reverifying Faraday’s Law and the principle of magnetic induction. See Capt_GhostLight’s post for part of the explanation regarding magnetically induced eddy currents, their magnitude and orientation to the coil are important and why edge on coins isolated or in clusters are difficult to detect.  Most VLF detectors have this issue crop up in some way with quarter rolls or large stacks of high conductors.  The subtleties of the eddy current orientation to  the coil also somewhat explains how the different D2 modes (and mono frequencies) react to the quarter roll.   Note that it is not surprising that Deep HC seemed to deal with the situation the best.  It is summed up by the mode description.

DEEP HIGH CONDUCTOR adds together very low and medium frequencies up to 14 kHz.
Designed to better locate good conductivity targets, it is ideal for clusters of coins whilst maintaining ex- cellent sensitivity to isolated coins using its 14 kHz frequency.

Simultaneous Multi-frequency seems to be more susceptible for some reason (do a search on Equinox for similar “Nox can’t detect big silver” videos).  Anyway, not unique to Deus 2.  

Love watching this novelty test come out with every new detector release as if it is some new discovery or a gotcha.

Nevertheless, it is an interesting phenomenon.

Thanks for sharing.

Hi. Faraday had nothing on this. If you set Reactivity to off, the Deus 2 detects the roll on all angles as expected. The question is why, and what does this mean for other items in the ground if the default programs are all set to 2.5-3? 

17 hours ago, Gwcracker said:

Been beep diggin for decades now and have not found the first stack of quarters or the first stacked cache of coins.

Now, by God, I know why!

LMAO,

Geo

Testers being taken too seriously! Hello Dr. Calabash!

See. Now you know why you haven't found them. What else did you miss?

7 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Glad you stepped in, Jeff.  I was wondering about this.  Here are some of my thoughts:

1) We went through this exact same "expose' " when the ML Equinox was released.  (I wonder if this is the same poster....)  Someone wants to be a hero by finding an obscure weakness and then putting it up on the internet so s/he can pop the buttons off his/her shirt with pride at being "the one" who shot down the mighty new detector.

2) BTW, if comparing a stack of quarters edge-on with a control/standard (single quarter), that control should be oriented the same way -- edge on.  But the impact wouldn't be as great, and that's the important thing -- impact.  (said facetiously)

3) Why do people make videos with part of the VDI spectrum silenced?  Those of us watching often have no idea this is going on.  (I sure don't.)  Back when a detector only gave one tone, the way to eliminate digging ferrous was to silence it -- your only choice.  With multi-tone detectors, particularly ones where the ferrous region can be quited but still heard, the need for silencing has diminished considerably.  Fine, silence it when you hunt if it bothers you that much but don't do it when you're trying to share with the world how a detector works.

Did ML's 'fix' of the Equinox problem cost in other areas?  Wrap-around (both directions) seems to be an intrinsic issue in all IB/VLF detectors with digital TID readout.  I, for one, don't want to see detector performance watered down to eliminate a complaint for something that comes up once in a blue moon.  Sometimes the squeeky wheel should just be allowed to squeek.

Hi. I'm bringing problems and post videos to make people think. See my response video. It shows reactivity at zero and the Deus 2 works fine and detects the roll of coins at all angles. Why would that be? What does that mean to other items in the ground? 

14 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Deus 2 fails at quarters.

 

actually the detector operator failed at quarters.

had you lowered the discrimination to -6.4 all of your “nothing” responses would have been “reading as iron” or 00 which is accurate for many detectors when detecting high conductor coin spills  and coin rolls that wrap around into that no target ID area on Deus 2 between 99 and 0…..

Hi. See my response video. Disc has nothing to do with it. If you set Reactivity to zero the Deus 2 works as expected and detects the roll of quarters at all angles. 

Good news everyone, the Deus 2 can detect a roll of quarters in every direction if you turn the reactivity off. This makes sense because the higher the reactivity the less CPU ticks available to process the signal. So moral of the story and reactivity of zero is the way to go. Here's a video: