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I would not be surprised if Minelab got a patent on the magnetic coupling, but you'd think they could certainly come up with some sort of wireless induction charging. Perhaps even utilizing the coils of wire already in the coil. (NOT an electrical engineer here... there may be practical reasons this wouldn't work)

XP Deus 2. XP is the company name. XP is the machine.

Oh, OK... so they are made by XP. I wasn't sure they weren't 3rd party. Thanks.

Where do you get them?

Thanks, Chase. Yeah, I agree that it sounds like much ado about next to nothing. It does sound (former programmer here) that some variable or parameter is not getting cleared or reset properly, but under extremely unlikely circumstances. Its something that XP would want to know about and correct, of course, but I'm not losing any sleep over it, I guess. Thanks for doing the translation for me... you're a true MVP!

Reactivity and sensitivity

Napolean? Well, that's just crazy! 😉

I'm not even sure what the actual bug is... what is supposed to be happening when you switch from Relic to SFT without resetting?

Hah! Fun and informative both, Jeff. Much thanks. I Do use Relic with AIR 5 and frequently switch over to SFT, so I may have to keep an eye on this. I haven't updated to 2.0 yet, but I guess we don't know for sure if this started there, or if it existed already in 1.1

I don't speak Tennesseean and have a hard time understanding his videos, and it gets even harder when he's going through the settings with glare on his screen or the camera cutting off part of it. I do use the Relic program pretty regularly though. Could somebody give a short written explanation of this bug so I will at least know if it is something that I should be concerned about enough to try to decypher the video? Thanks.

Yeah, a dime at 8 inches is just on the edge of the detection zone for the soil in my area, at any rate.

Exactly. The way that I understand masking (or, at least the way that I'm using the term) is when the RF from the coil hits iron and causes a magnetic field around it that hides the non-ferrous object. That's why reducing power can sometimes help to minimize it.

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Gary, I don't think I've heard how you came to hear about Tekkna. You are certainly the one that has made it a household word but who put it together? Also, (and more importantly) do you know why discrim was set to 42, and not 41 or 43 or some other number?

Silencer is only supposed to reduce falsing, isn't it?

As I understand it, there are only a few settings that can really do any true "unmasking"... a lower sensitivity to reduce induced magnetism, and a higher reactivity to speed up the processing from one target to the next. And in a sense, I suppose it could be argued that silencer helps with unmasking.

I'm sorry that you are taking what I said so personally... it was never meant to be anything other than a general criticism of offering subjective observations as actual fact, no matter who does it. I didn't call you names, such as the one you just called me... it wasn't personal, but calling me "the high and mighty Iron Buzz" is. What's so hard about preferencing your opinion with "IMO", anyway?

> feel as though you were implying I'm misinforming Not at all. I was simply taking exception that you stated opinion as an absolute fact. Unless you have some sort of inside knowledge, then you don't know any more than we do. Your opinion may be better informed than someone else's, but it is still opinion. Yes, I have been using V2 and I have not seen a difference in bump sensitivity, and I often detect in harvested corn fields where I am constantly bumping corn stalks.

I have no idea what your point is by that comment, F350. I'm simply saying that I like to have my information sourced.

There is a LOT of speculation, 2nd guessing, subjectivity, and outright misinformation in this hobby. I DO like to see information sourced. I'm sorry but I have about as much experience with the Deus and Deus II as you do, I'm sure, yet I also haven't heard anything from XP about the improvements that you say they included in the V2 update. I suspect XP engineers and programmers get a big chuckle out of the claims they see in the forums about things that never happened.

Sometimes I'm willing to risk that though, if it reduces the signal/noise ratio for me.

That's interesting, but not enough information yet. What were the conditions like there... both ground mineralization and nails (and anything else that may be relevant, like hot rocks, etc)? What were the other settings, and why did you notch out (zero volume) 0-38?

I dug a 1904 Barber dime today, and my partner an 1888 Seated dime. The ground was not one bit frozen!

I'm in Minnesota, and we are STILL detecting here!

Definitely something wrong. I'd be emailing tech support asap. Couldn't happen at a better time of year, at least.