Chase Goldman Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 17 minutes ago, Rick N. MI said: I did a test with Orx on a sand beach. I buried a 14k gold ring, 3.77 grams at 14" and it hit it hard. What frequency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Dawg Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 Will we be able to notch for hotrocks with the deus 2? I know the equinox notches very well on hot rocks. If i remember right, -12 down to -7 got rid of most all hot rocks, yet would retain good signal on a one grain nugget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abenson Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I have a feeling the Deus 2 will do just fine prospecting. Although I know of no one currently or even in the past that has worked with XP directly that is an expert gold prospector. Maybe someone has spoke up in the past and I don't recall or is just keeping quiet. XP isn't really known for their gold detectors at least in the US. Most people turn their nose up at them. The biggest issue is lack of a small 5 or 6 inch coil. I have personally hunted behind a few people using Gold monsters and Equinoxes using 6" coils with the ORX and Deus. The really tiny stuff the ORX and Deus couldn't hear with a 9" coil. One nugget we dropped out of the scoop accentually I couldn't even find on top of the ground with the ORX. That's going to be most peoples grip with the Deus 2, a small coil. For larger nuggets it's not going to be a problem. But sometimes I'm just looking for any size nugget so I don't go home empty handed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff McClendon Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, Mxt Sniper said: Will we be able to notch for hotrocks with the deus 2? I know the equinox notches very well on hot rocks. If i remember right, -12 down to -7 got rid of most all hot rocks, yet would retain good signal on a one grain nugget. No notching on Deus 2, Deus 1 or ORX in the Gold modes………..compared to the Equinox single digit notching…….huge negative in my opinion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abenson Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 6 minutes ago, Mxt Sniper said: Will we be able to notch for hotrocks with the deus 2? I know the equinox notches very well on hot rocks. If i remember right, -12 down to -7 got rid of most all hot rocks, yet would retain good signal on a one grain nugget. Hot rocks with the Deus 1 aren't really all that hard to tell once you've encountered a few. I would assume the Deus 2 will be similar, I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff McClendon Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, abenson said: Hot rocks with the Deus 1 aren't really all that hard to tell once you've encountered a few. I would assume the Deus 2 will be similar, I could be wrong. Hot rocks on these XPs are definitely easy to hear and identify by audio if they are big enough. However, you will hear all of them clearly. I am hoping that Deus 2’s FMF might at least unmask small gold targets better than Deus 1 and ORX single frequency. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. MI Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 I tried all the frequencies and all modes. All frequencies and modes hit the ring. 54khz hit was weaker. Gold mode was a weaker hit. I think it was 28khz. 3 tone mode hit was weaker. I was surprised it hit at all. I think I tested all the frequencies in 4 tone mode only. I should have wrote it all down when I did the tests. My ground is very mild. Was tested on a sandy beach. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Dawg Posted January 5, 2022 Author Share Posted January 5, 2022 I found I could ID a 1 or 2 grain nugget with the nox with a steady low number vdi fairly accurately. Something my other vlfs could never do in medium soils. I just never meshed well with the machine so eventually sold it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. MI Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Still the way the Deus 2 is overall I still might have to get one lol. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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