canslawhero

how about 'Manacle' cause you're going to want to be using it all the time...

13 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

As long as we're butchering the name, is this a good mascot?

nice 'Mandible', kind of reminds me of "Jaws"

and Canadians also!

Excellent post Steve, I'll be holding off (buying D2) for sure since I don't even detect the fresh water lakes where I live!

I was running Park 2 @ 40Khz last season with my EQ with some good success and will simply continue with that. Reality is I was simply 'blinded by the light' as the song goes...

looking forward to the 'thaw' to get out detecting again this season. Like'n the 5x10 on my EQ btw, it's a winner.

After many years of 'admiring' the Deus but turned off by the high price here in Canada, I've already decided to 'bite' on the Deus 2 (with 9" coil). BTW, it'll cost $2100 + 13% up here, ouch!

I like that it's a better Deus 1 (Deus 2 Mono program) AND an SMF machine that will get a lot of SW updates over the months/years to come. It's ergos/light weight speak to me... I should be able to spend more time moving it around before tiring.

Being new, it will allow me to visit every old (can you say exhausted) spot within a 40 minute driving radius of my home and I 'probably' will be able to find a few more keepers, well, just because it's new and I'll be trying different programs/settings with it. Should be fun which is what it's ultimately all about, eh...and as I long as it can sniff out loonies and toonies, it will eventually pay for itself (faster if I can find a few gold rings!). 

cheers all from the frigid north (hopefully the new Deus won't be delivered by truck, lol)

you're going to like it Buzzard, just run park 1 with stock settings for awhile and go to all of your 'old' sites...

good luck...

not interested in the 6 or big coil.....I'll buy the 6x10 as soon as it's available!

congrats! posts like this are bound to bring a lot of conversions from other mfg'ers detectors...

and etrac/ctx users, lol

did you look for an 'S' on the back of your '08 IH? congrats on the several firsts you had. I hadn't found an IH for several years and scored an 1865 in nice shape just today, pretty happy with it. Still want to find a seated and especially a standing liberty quarter. Good luck on the $5 gold, I think you've got a very good shot at it,  especially with some research into more old locales....

UNREAL! congrats....what's the name of that park again, lol

Tyran, big thanks, I was too lazy to do what you did...

I'm going to incorporate this info into my park 1 settings and give it a shot today, cheers

heck, enough loonies and toonies and it'll pay for itself, lol

I tried several variations and for me the WM-08 + my over-ear Sennheiser HD515's are the cat's meow....

very very crisp precise tones and I've been running the horseshoe button with T1 zone set to 1.

audio nirvana, lol

I use an aftermarket 3.5mm cord (short) for the headphones...never any 'dropout' issues either.

it is a cutting edge machine for non-ferrous items.....modern Canadian clad is steel core, ferrous....

and the older 'nickel' core coinage has a ferrous component, hence it's being magnetic...bouncy readings...

now the deeper, older silver/copper coinage is where it will shine, ask me how I know, lol

simply not the right machine if you want to dig Cdn clad. I've had mine for a while now and have only found a few of the earlier 'nickel' based clad coins, some by accident, ie co-located with a copper penny.

if you really want to try to ID them then hit the horseshoe button and experiment with where they show up in the ferrous T1 area. I believe the nickel coins bounce around 16-17 or there-a-bout....

sorry I can't help more but I use a dedicated machine for clad....cheers

16 minutes ago, Cabin Fever said:

That works great for relic hunting,  but in a nice city park with lots of nails and surface trash, the pinpoint function is a fantastic tool to shape, size and judge depth of deep old coins, or nails that sound like coins.. You cant just tare the place up digging everything..

Bryan

good advice Bryan, I'll give that a try next time I'm out....if depth can be judged it would indeed be very useful (I am a very neat digger btw and right now it's all deadsville in the parks due to the big freeze)

I'll add that I don't use pinpoint....feel my time is better spent just digging it....ymmv

Sunday/Monday were nice days up here in the far north also so got out for about 2 hours each day. Note that by the time I hit 2 hours I'm very tired (probably have a few years on you Brian @ 67). I've been working on that issue exactly but from the standpoint of better utilizing my time, ie how not to dig newer copper pennies and try to differentiate toward the deeper ones that could be older. Audio volume nuance is critical and I've become a fan of using the coil lift to try and gauge depth (provided meter is pretty useless). I am getting better though I'm sure I'll probably eventually get most of the obvious copper pennies. Not many silver dimes here but I got one that was a softer 22-23 (trashy area). nearby was a nail and the ubiquitous copper penny. So moral of the story is don't believe what you see (ID's) and any doubt investigate. I'm pretty certain I wouldn't have dug any of those flattened cans (or at least I hope so). cheers and hope you get on another gold coin to show Tom, lol

I hit the horseshoe button with the zone 1 (T1) volume set down to 1, works like a champ...

you should have that etrac buy you a lottery ticket, lol

Lou's Theorem: For every VDI # (or range of #'s) you wish to dig, there will be an infinite number of misshapen (or not) pieces of aluminum to produce it exactly.

the day it was announced I saw the specs and told my dealer I wanted one, put me on the list...

I believe that was Saturday, Sept 16th...I was #1 on the list and received 1 of 2 my dealer received.

"a nod is the same as a wink to a blind horse"

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

When in doubt use the stock settings. That is what they are for. Will it be perfect? Well, no... but oh well. I guess you could dig all the targets out of a two foot square then ground balance.

People that have a Deus do just fine with the factory preset ground balance and many never fuss with it. Lots of lower end detectors are preset with no adjustment at all. We all obsess over getting absolute best performance, but for most coin size targets in parks if you can’t find clean ground to balance over you probably have more problems than ground balance. Like masking. Equinox of course will help you there also. That is the simple answer to why CTX owners are going to find that depth is not everything.

thanks Steve, good advice...I actually thought about trying to clean out a smaller section (would give me a chance to use gold mode, lol).

so initially (upon the great thaw) I'll just go with the defaults and simply see how it works out with coin size targets in Park 1 here....it's painful not being able to dig, lol

as an aside I never ground balance my G2+, just turn on and go but I'm just looking for shallow (< 6") stuff with it...cheers

just used the video to setup my 800, nice!

curious if I now change to 2 tone and set things up there will the custom 5 tone settings be ok.....

I'll try it out....

nice writeup Dan, very useful...when you say manual GB, you mean you did the 'pump' method to set the GB? if so, what was the GB number it settled on?

hey Mark, so the default of GB 0 still got you decent depth....

once my ground thaws I'll just have to experiment a bit and first off just see what kind of depth I get on 

decent coin size targets with the default settings. I'll also try 'auto tracking' in the mix to see how that works, wish I knew more about it, ie how much bandwidth is it taking up and can these noisy ground conditions drive the 'auto tracking' batty and just not allow it to function properly. time will tell.