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Not all inclusive and just done in air to try to identify the range of gold items. I didn't test all on hand just enough to realize how big of a range gold does fall in on this machine. I used Beach Sensitive for the test....11" coil...your results could vary! Notice how the square tab falls right in the middle of the test pieces range. But you knew that I'm sure..... Cliff

Deus 2 11" just showed up today. I think I made a big mistake. I have searched the ranch and its 5 acre footprint for nearly 20 years. Prior to me the early 1980's Whites machines cleaned up the easy silver but left the mid and low conductors. Minelabs, Fisher, Bounty hunters, Pi dual field, Tesoro, and Whites, I have swept this dirt nearly daily. My earliest item is a powder flask from 1839 which was likely owned by a pre civil war Lieutenant who homesteaded this area. I ran the Whites v3i for 12 years with every coil you could buy. I searched my ground with that Whites machine and Ultimate 13" coil till there was only small foil bits left. I then used a 6x8" till I could not find anymore non ferrous targets, Wheats at 7" have been found with this little coil. I then ran the 4x6" coil squeaking out signals amongst the iron and surprisingly found 3 more silver coins this year. In total I found about 500 coins, 100+ wheats, 7 silvers?, 4 gold rings, 2 silver pocket watches and countless pieces of junk jewelry. There was no more non ferrous targets left other than driveway zincolns and my mission was over, until today... In my 2hr hunt with the Deus 2, with much of it me trying to figure out volume and using the pinpointer(press for half a second to turn off), I found over a dozen non-ferrous targets, and a horse shoe that I would have never expected to find another one of. Here I thought that I had cleaned this property out of all non ferrous targets and now I am finding that I only scratched the surface. I am finding deep mid conductors mingled in the iron, just what I need to find the illusive gold coins. This Deus 2 has now sentenced me to the undertaking of redoing all my efforts again. If XP eventually provides us with a 6x8" coil or something similar I will never be able to leave. Thank you XP for making this machine, its all my fault for buying it.😁

Are there any updates coming for the Deus 2?

Out detecting in the woods on Saturday and the remote fell off the shaft and it hit the ground even with it being tethered with the supplied XP lanyard. Luckily I saw it happen so that was good. It seemed that the "prongs" on the lanyard "shrunk" and allowed the remote to fall off. I tested it several times before hand but it somehow failed. It may have been that it was cold out but the prongs were bent inward and not holding onto the other piece. Needless to say that the lanyard is gone and I'm ordering a better one online. No second chances for it. Just a heads up to keep checking it for yourselves.

I'm sure there has to be some D2 books in the works or is it too early in the release for the writing to have begun?

I'm definitely getting a DEUS II. I need the lightest machine available because of a worn out shoulder being replaced soon. Should I wait until the supposed bugs are addressed like lower shaft flex and other issues? Maybe other coil options I don't know.

I detected an old house in a thickly settled are in Eastern Mass. yesterday and experienced an unbelievable amount of EMI (9" coil). The Deep HC program was unusable, as were pretty much all the other programs (even mono). I did automatic and manual frequency adjustments, turned down the sensitivity, ground balanced. Nothing made a difference. Curiously, the Park program worked mostly fine. The houses are very packed together, 30-50 feet apart. Power lines ran on the far side of the street, and there was a drop line running above the front yard. I noticed similar behavior on the green strip in front of my house. Do power lines across the street have that much of an effect on the Deus II? That would cut out a whole bunch of my usual sites. Else, does anyone have any suggestions?

Back in my college days I spent a fair amount of time studying with this beautiful french girl. We always sat across the table from each other and spent more time talking than studying. These days I don't remember the class or even her name anymore but can still see her in all her natural beauty.... long dark hair, big brown eyes, always smiling and dressed nicely....I could keep going but this is supposed to be about a metal detector... Disclaimer: There are no great finds here just junk 😄 but I thought I might as well post something in this slow moving sub forum as 350 platinum has been doing all the heavy lifting lately. I received my deus 2 last week and have been itching to try it out so yesterday I went out for a 2 hour hunt. The site is an old town site..I've been hunting it since 2015 off and on and I think I've got only 7 silver coins. None have come easy. There is lots of shot gun caps 22 casings and a variety of other junk still in the ground but true high conductors are very rare, In fact I've found my last 3 silver coins off the beaten path far from where the small town was. For this hunt I stayed in the pounded iron ridden ground as I wanted to see if could scrape anything up that may have been missed. I ran the Deus 2 in deep HC and park 5? I think it was. Previously to the hunt I had turned on the detector and fiddled with the buttons at home for a total of about 15 minutes and read about 7 pages of the manual 🙂 so I really did not know what I was doing but I do have a dues 1 that I kinda know how to operate. I hunted the two stock programs only changing the disk, recovery speed and the silencer. I did not hunt slow like mentioned in the article by Mr. Stout. I hunted my normal speed which is medium fast. Impressions: It's deep. Deeper than the Deus 1 with regular 9 inch coil. The targets that would have been squeakers on the deus 1 came in loud and clear with the deus 2. It seems to see into the nails well as I dug a couple targets that had nails in the hole with the target. I only dug a couple of deep iron targets out of curiosity just to confirm they were in fact iron. It's fast like the Deus 1 but the tones are different and will take some getting used to as with any new detector. In the short 2 hour hunt I came away impressed..mainly by it's depth. I really need to get it up in the foot hills now and see how it does in the dirt up there... I think it's going to be a keeper and I'm looking forward to spending some time with this new french girl. strick

From what I’ve read there are no small sniper coils, like a 6” round because of there not being enough room for a battery. I wonder if it’s possible for XP to make a conventional wired coil that plugs into the back of the remote? The coil would probably be less expensive and you could use it in water without the antenna. Might be a killer coil for gold hunters and trashy curbstrip hunters. What I mean by using it in water is wading where just the coil is submerged. You wouldn’t be able to submerge the RC because you’d lose your wireless headphone signal.

I had my old XP Deus 1 out checking the charge and wandered if the Mi6 would still pair and it did. Now, I had the new XP Deus 2 powered off and in another part of the house. I don't understand it but it still worked with both. I guess I was so tickled when I got it working with the XP Deus 2, I failed to un-pair with my old XP Deus 1. As I once asked this question----It would be so nice if the old high frequency coils would still work with the mono program on the new XP Deus 2.

I used a similar configuration on my Equinox which proved somewhat popular so I thought I’d post my Deus version. Keep in mind that everything below is just my personal preference. Rationale: Over more than a few years, I tried numerous ways through a combination of Target Identification (TID) and tones to better identify what was under my coil. It didn’t take long to discover that trying to cut the tone and TID distinction too fine in an attempt to accurately identify all targets was unproductive. Thru tedious trial and error, the obvious became clear. TID is not an exact science by any measure. TID can be affected by numerous variables such as depth, soil composition, the metallurgical make up and orientation of the targets in the soil. Expecting a consistently exact value for each possible target was unrealistic. I finally concluded that what I wanted was only an indication of what might be under my coil rather than expecting or trying for a precise ID. Can TID and tones do that for me? Yes After realizing what I wanted or needed from of a TID/tone combination, I settled on a 3 tone option. Below is a summary of my rationale for adopting that 3 tone solution. ~ My attempt at using full or 50 tones proved impossible for me...information overload! I then tried 5 tones and although more understandable, I felt that 5 tones was unnecessary and might even be overkill...for me. Why? ~ ALL targets fall within 3 conductive categories/zones--Low, Medium or High. So it made more sense for me to focus on those 3 zones and align the tones accordingly. The tones provided information on what zone I was dealing with while the TID gave me some rough indication as to where the target fell within the range of that zone. ~ I also wanted a system that wasn't apt to cause me to ignore good targets because they were similar in make up to worthless targets. Example; gold and aluminum are both mid level conductors and generate similar TID within that range. Yes, I'll dig aluminum so as not to pass up potential gold and dig other high conductive targets such as copper pennies so as not to pass up silver. Then as I was just learning the Deus II, Calabash Digger cautioned me that a too high discrimination setting could cause a good target to be masked by junk...and ol’ Calabash was right! I didn’t want to risk that either. ~ The question: How to get around junk that ranged from 0 to 20 or 25 on the Deus scale without risk of masking the good ones because of a high discrimination setting. I simply converted the 4 tone option to 3 tones using a combination of selected tones and tone breaks. Solution: I tested quite a number common targets of varying size and metallurgical composition and came up with some common TID ranges that I see on our beaches for each of the conductivity zones. This 3 tone configuration suited me just fine for the beach hunting I do. For the lowest conductive junk targets ranging from 0 to 7, I set tone level 1 at 100 kHz using a discrimination level of 7. (Disc setting of 7 seemed to prevent the masking of a good target even with reactivity set at 1 or less.) For other low conductive targets ranging from 8 to 20, I set tone level 2 at 100 kHz also. (Using 100kHz for both tone levels 1 and 2, I get the iron grunt for those junk targets which range from 0-20) Mid level conductors ranged from 21 to 85 so I set tone level 3 at 450 kHz..a nice mid tone. High conductors ranged from 86 to 99 so I set tone level 4 at 993 kHz I prefer the volume level of each zone to be at maximum--including ferrous items...personal preference. ~ In my work with a local museum however, I could use the 1 or 2 tone option. When digging museum quality artifacts, iron could be a valued artifact so I dig everything. I also dig it all when detecting along Florida's Treasure Coast as remnants of the ships fall within the iron or low conductive range and are periodically found along our beaches. Just one solution that works for me…your solution could be even better! 😉

Just got my D2 (11 inch coil) in the mail yesterday and got to take it out today for the first time, for about 1.5 hours. This is my first MF machine, the closest I’ve used prior to this is my Simplex+ which I really enjoy. I was worried when I bought the D2, that It would be way too advanced for a complete newbie to MF machines but Ive spent quite a bit of time watching videos and reading the manual. Anyway, I made a few tweaks to the park program, switched to the XY screen and gave it a go at a local park. Long story short, I ended up finding 25 pennies, 9 quarters, 3 dimes ( 1 Silver Rosie) and 2 nickels. From my new guy perspective, I have to say that Im really liking this machine ALOT. Im not going to touch on all the things that everyone already knows about the quality of it, but I have to say that for me, it seems pretty intuitive to operate. What I mean by that is, I was expecting the remote to be much more complicated than in reality. Now, having said that, I still don't completely understand what all the different programs and options do, but its not as daunting as I was expecting. Additionally, the XY screen really does work very well. I got fooled a couple times by pop tabs, until I figured out the tone nuance but after that I didn’t dig any more pop tabs. Im retired from the military and deaf in my left ear, so it is difficult to hear the audio on some machines but I have to admit that what everyone is saying about it being a tone machine, is true. Using the headphones, I could start to pick up on those subtle tones although I have to say I’m not a big fan of the headphones as they tend to hurt my ears after a little while. Anyway, just wanted to share and to let folks know that just because you’ve never used a Deus in the past, don't be afraid to give it a try.

This is an actual XP made item, with tiny XP logo on it. XP DEUS 2 Remote Control Headphone Jack Adapter Part Number D2-RC1-G0-002. It adapts from the waterproof controller audio to a standard 1/8" jack. It appears well made, my only complaint being I wish a 1/4" version were readily available, as most pro version detector wired headphones still come with 1/4" jacks. It sells for $12.90, As a XP item, you should be able to order this from any XP dealer. Google Results Here Looks an awful lot like the Tarsacci adapter. Might be something one could find generic, assuming that IP68 five pin adapter is standard stuff, which I’m sure it is. Long story short I prefer this to the puck adapter, so I can use the full controller, and with headphones I prefer instead of the "on ear" phones XP provides. I'm an over the ear guy, and don't want to spring for the XP proprietary version. XP DEUS 2 Remote Control Headphone Jack Adapter D2-RC1-G0-002

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?

Does anyone see or know any reason this WS4 adapter would not also work for the WS6?

My D2 with 9” coil arrived Friday night. Rained most of the day Saturday, finally got out this morning. I purposely went to my most pounded colonial site to see what the D2 could do that the D1 couldn’t. I was very impressed with the D2’s performance. This is a small site, 100’ by 60’ tops. It’s enclosed on 4 sides by stonewalls so it is easy to grid and be thorough. This site has been hit with multiple machines and over the years I have thrown everything at it that the D1 was capable of with multiple coils and every program and setting. I’ve pulled a lot of good targets out of it, but over the last couple of years I’ve been lucky to snag a small cuff button from the iron now and then. I’ve been shut out more times than not at this site over the last couple of years. The Deus 2 managed to sniff out an additional 6 buttons and a knee buckle fragment from this site. I would have been pleased if the D2 had just pulled out 1 button. My plan going in was to hit it with a couple of Pitch programs then try a Deep HC program. One thing I noticed yesterday when trying out the D2 in my test patch at my house was that the SMF platform allowed me to hit iron-masked targets using a very low Reactivity setting. With the D1, this iron-masked dime at 6 inches, could only be heard with a Reactivity of 2.5 or 3. I could actually hit it with R=0 with the D2 and that surprised the heck out of me. And it wasn’t the nails sounding off, it was the dime. I couldn’t bring my self to actually use an R=0 with all the iron at this site but I did use a Reactivity of 0.5 to snag a couple of deep small buttons. But I had to swing the coil very slowly at that Reactivity speed. After that I went over the site again with the Reactivity at 2.5 and snagged a couple more fairly deep buttons. I switched over to Deep HC before I called it a morning. I wasn’t really feeling it with the Deep HC so after a while I made a couple of adjustments to suit my preferences and pulled a couple more buttons. I liked hunting in Pitch using Square Tones. The iron has a distinctive sound. The tonal nuances are a big part of the D2's performance but I was also surprised to see the TID lock in on a couple of these small deep targets. So yes, I was very impressed with the D2 on its maiden voyage. As an added bonus, one of the buttons I pulled today was a Rev War Continental Navy Officer’s button! It appears to be the French-manufactured yellow metal style and I think it will clean up nicely.

Weird thing today hunting. I didn't like the audio tones and discovered that when I turned on the machine, it was in Square tones not PWM which I prefer. I tried changing it in the field but PWM wasn't on the menu. Only Square tones was there. I get home, turn on the machine and PWM is back. Any ideas?? 🤔

I posted a while back that I had purchased the bone phones to try with my hearing aids. I just got my Deus 2 a couple of days ago. Today I tried the bone phones for the first time. They work wonderfully with my hearing aids. Now I can wear my hearing aids when I am detecting. That is a big difference for me when I am detecting. I am very happy with them.

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..

For anyone interested in underwater use of the Deus 2 here is a link of my test done for a dealer I'm partner with. I tried to push it to the limit with the P11 beach, slightly less blind to thin stuff, on a hot rock site plenty of weeds and trash of any kind. With a sensitivity over 90 and salt sens of 8, the keypoint was to raise immediately the reactivity up to 2 and stay for a good compromise among falsing and true signals. That's an extreme setting just for the purpose of a test. Pure sound, long video. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/r_pO7_Ckzbw

I got my 9" XP II yesterday and after charging it up I started to play with it. After about 5 minutes I could see where this thing was going. It's incredibly easy to use and set up for whatever task in terms of detecting I could ask of it. Here's what helped me and got me ready to use it: 1. Gary- Seriously about the best detector teacher on the Interwebs. I could listen to him teach about shoe tying and come away satisfied. If I die before him I'm going to ask my wife to contact him to do my eulogy. Pay him whatever he wants as no one tells a better story. 2. Calabash- his videos are short and to the point. Who cares if he says how great the XP is? If you get all riled up over metal detector videos you ought to consider other hobbies. I learned a great deal about getting started by watching. I'd love to hunt with him someday because it would be FUN! 3. Mental Metal Guy- Another great use of youtube. You'll want to skip the first 1-2 minutes of the videos because it's basically dramatic music and a Fort Bedford ad but the rest of the videos are great. He will teach you all the basics in a different way than CB but between the two you will know how to operate the D2. I think he called me a clown in a forum post awhile back but I don't hold grudges so if he could help me find a gold ring I'll be a clown all day. 4. Griffinds guy- more good how-to stuff on the D2. I'm a school teacher and the kid at the end (I'm assuming his son) is a bit like the smart a$$ know it all who always tells the teacher they are wrong but the info is top notch and will help you if you'll listen. 5. Chase- Read what he says. If he says something he is likely right. I flew clear across the country 5 years ago and did an XP bootcamp with he and Andy in Gettysburg. He was right then about detecting and he is right now. Don't question him just listen. I hit the beach this morning for my first time out. Started in Beach. I did a frequency scan. Hit the wet sand and it was chatty. I remembered something about what Chase said about Beach P (remember, do what Chase says) and I switched to Beach P. OMG, it became so quiet and I began to hunt. The tone was in pitch and while it was different than my 800 I just decided to go with it. It was fine. After about 4-5 targets you could easily tell what something was. Iron sounds crappy, you can easily tell. I dug everything and Modelo is now #1 in terms of what drunk people drink at the beach in 2022. The bottom line was this D2 is a breeze to swing and if you'll take the time to learn it BEFORE you get into the field or beach you will have zero problems. If you make a mistake TURN IT OFF and then turn it back on. I dug a silver medallion that was at least 16 inches deep in the wet sand. Could my Nox 800 have found it? Who cares? Performance wise this thing is sweet. Again I dug everything this morning, and after an hour I could tell what everything was going to be based on the tone and the ID. Every signal that said "I'M IRON" was iron. Every bottle cap was a bottle cap and every penny was a penny. The hardest thing for me today was putting the RC on the stem and yes I had removed the cover(like I said, Idiot proof) but I finally got it on. I'm going to figure out a way to tether it on to the shaft because I had to traverse about 20 feet of boulders to get to me spot and all I could think about was what if I slipped and knocked it off into the abyss. I solved the problem by taking it off and putting it into my pocket. Now there are some folks who will complain that for $1600 XP should have included a cup holder, a place to rest your cigarette and beer but if you paid $1600 you likely missed out a better deal elsewhere but in the end it's only money and XP has produced a winner. For a person with a junk elbow it's the bomb. I'll admit I'm going to become a fanboy and buy the 280 backpack because I'm tired of getting yelled at that my detectors take up too much space in the car. I hung my 800 up on the wall and I don't plan on using it for the forseeable future as I want to put the hours on the D2. I'm going to hit a park tomorrow so I'll do some dirt fishing with it and see how it goes but I suspect that it will kick some serious booty. Hope this eases some minds about what detector to save up for if you're on the fence. Skate

I’m going to tell everyone in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa to not buy this machine or cancel your order. I would hold off until they can figure out those loose screws and other major issues. Truthfully, this machine is absolutely fantastic and so much fun to use. I have just been using the Deep HC program, only change I made was 5 tones and I use the XY screen. Today alone I got: 24 quarters, 36 dimes and 16 pennies ( 1 wheat). I got fooled 4 times with items I thought would be keepers and weren’t. The park I was at was completely full of trash but the audio and XY screen are amazing. I have the ORX and have only had it for a short time and haven’t got to use it much. So my experience with XP machines is limited but I watched a lot of videos on YouTube and that really helped. I don’t care what machine you use but I figured I would tell you my experience from someone with very limited exposure to XP products.

Hi all, I noticed that D2 threshold which I select when I’m in pitch is useless. It’s a steady hum, without any variation, not even on discriminated iron. I love threshold and, in my opinion, D2 hum is useless. What’s your opinion about this?

I have noticed a few times where on the XY screen the line is a solid perfectly horizontal line in the middle. Doesn't seem to matter on the TID, some representing good numbers, some junk numbers and sometimes no TID number. Is this some type of error?