First Impressions Of The Deus II

[phrunt]

I personally love the way the CTX 3030 does target ID's, it also may have been another option for you Erik, although just as pricey as the Deus 2 but works well in the salt for me and is waterproof.  I'd not trust a second hand one in the water though unless pretty recent as they initially had leaking with subpar seals but you can buy the seal replacement kits to get the better ones.

Anyway, not trying to move you off the Deus 2 to a CTX, may as well run the newest tech and the Deus can go a lot deeper.

But have a look at about the 1 minute 30 mark in this video where he runs targets over the coil, the ID's stay there for quite a while, it's great as you can waive over a target as you're walking along and then look down after you've already been over the target and see what ID it was, you don't need to rush to look down ?  It's quite a good way of doing it I think

I've set the video to start at the right spot.

The CTX also allows you to choose between large ID like in the video or smaller ID so you can see the other information better in the background, I find it's smaller ID size just fine, it's still plenty big enough.

I would think having ID's hang around on the screen for a bit is a good way to go, especially on a detector with good reliable ID's like the Deus 2 appears to have.

[Erik Oostra]

Deus II hard at work this morning at the back of Alma Bay.. Edit: Truth be known I got lost underwater again.. I came up for a look to see where I was.. 

[Erik Oostra]

4 minutes ago, phrunt said:

The CTX also allows you to choose between large ID like in the video or smaller ID so you can see the other information better in the background, I find it's smaller ID size just fine, it's still plenty big enough.

As you've mentioned this would be a great update for the Deus II.. I like the large target ID on the CTX and the length of time the info stays on the screen, but it was off my bucket-list as I needed a detector for deeper water.. I really hope XP does keep us whiners in mind when they start to bring out updates for the Deus.. 

[F350Platinum]

I've been watching these discussions for a while, and it occurred to me that at some stage it gets pointless and expensive for a company to keep tweaking a product. If they made the perfect cell phone, why the heck would you buy the new one unless you broke yours? The industry would crash.

I think the point is coming soon that you are gonna get what you're gonna get. I'm eventually going to get a Deus 2 or 2.5 SE, but by then I hope the price isn't too high from constant retooling and re-engineering. Some of us out here are retired, or in some other way financially challenged. 

[Jeff McClendon]

Erik, I sure hope the bone phones can help your hearing situation. The good thing about the Deus 1, Deus 2 and the Equinox 800 is you can lower and raise the pitches to suit your hearing ability since you have some hearing loss. I know on the Equinox that some of the lower tones will make the handle vibrate more than the higher ones. The same may happen for you with the bone phones.....so just using the default tone setups may not be your best option. Maybe you would do better with just two tones like a really low ferrous and a somewhat higher non-ferrous when you get the Deus 2 bone phones.

Good luck.

[CPT_GhostLight]

You may have tried this, but have you fiddled with the Equalizer function on the tones (Page 26 in the manual) to see if you can get more out of the low end or low mid tones? That might give you the vibration effect at higher sound levels.

[Erik Oostra]

19 minutes ago, Jeff McClendon said:

I know on the Equinox that some of the lower tones will make the handle vibrate more than the higher ones. The same may happen for you with the bone phones.....so just using the default tone setups may not be your best option. Maybe you would do better with just two tones like a really low ferrous and a somewhat higher non-ferrous when you get the Deus 2 bone phones.

Thanks Jeff.. I thought the same about the vibrations of the bone phones, I hope it works the same way.. I did try the lower tones in two tones and various amplifications etc. on land, but to hear these lower tones underwater I'll need the latest wiz-bang headphones.. With the Deus II there's also no vibration through the shaft from the speaker in the lower tones, yet alone anything higher..   

[Chase Goldman]

1 hour ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

You may have tried this, but have you fiddled with the Equalizer function on the tones (Page 26 in the manual) to see if you can get more out of the low end or low mid tones? That might give you the vibration effect at higher sound levels.

Equalizer doesn’t work on the Remote Control Speaker per the manual.  Bone phones are the best bet for Erik.

[Erik Oostra]

I just nicked this from Steve on Chase's excellent thread.. I had to laugh.. Yes please!