Deus 2... Arrived, 2hrs Of Detecting Completed. A Big Mistake?

[burlguy]

 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.?

[palzynski]

Sorry I dont understand , you found 500 coins with your whites or with the D2 ? 

[strick]

With his other detectors. Glad your liking the Deus 2 

strick

[Doc Robby]

Hi Burlguy,

Do you think that had the coils of your previous detectors gone over the exact spots where you recently made finds with the Deus 2, that you still would have found something? Or is there something special about the Deus 2 that made these new findings only now possible? If so, what might that special thing be for you? 

[burlguy]

2 hours ago, Doc Robby said:

Hi Burlguy,

Do you think that had the coils of your previous detectors gone over the exact spots where you recently made finds with the Deus 2, that you still would have found something? Or is there something special about the Deus 2 that made these new findings only now possible? If so, what might that special thing be for you? 

I absolutely went over all these spots with all of my other coils multiple times. There is some sort of secret sauce going on in the Deus. I did dig several ferrous targets that gave me a choppy signal, bolts, hand forged 2" nuts, and several chrome plated lug nuts. The v3i told me they where ferrous.

The Deus frequency weighting must be one of the secrets of its success. The x y factor of the frequency return response must be determining something additional with the decay. They hint of this in the manual with their graph. It shows bending of the return signal, maybe different time sampling or perhaps its just the weighting of the frequency sampling? 

 One thing that I also liked yesterday, I did not get a single ghost signal that I could not find with the Deus after opening the hole. If it says something is there, its there, not a halo signal being broken up.

I am getting more separation at depth with the larger 11" coil than I did with the 6x8 sef butterfly and v3i.

On shallow targets the two coils are very similar but at depth the 11" has better separation in FMF programs than the v3i running 3 frequency and the 6x8.

 I have not tried any of the single frequencies yet and will give this a spin today.

I do have a complaint that the darn pinpoint volume on the Deus is much too loud and I have not found a way to adjust this and there does not appear to be one.

[Calarms]

Very interesting that makes me consider purchasing a DEUS 2 , thanks for the report

[EL NINO77]

Burlguy ... thank you for the nice and accurate information regarding the comparison of Spectra V3 and other detectors and also the new Deus 2 ..

Yes, the Spectra V3 is an excellent and powerful detector ..., but we must realize that even if you use different size coils in the detection on the Spectra V3 .. something will still remain in the field ... because this detector does not excel in particularly good 2D and 3D separations .. ,,

Today's excellent separation detectors can unmask a few new targets even in old, highly detected places .... and that's what feels ...

I'm curious about your other results..

 

[palzynski]

13 hours ago, burlguy said:

I absolutely went over all these spots with all of my other coils multiple times. There is some sort of secret sauce going on in the Deus. I did dig several ferrous targets that gave me a choppy signal, bolts, hand forged 2" nuts, and several chrome plated lug nuts. The v3i told me they where ferrous.
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I am getting more separation at depth with the larger 11" coil than I did with the 6x8 sef butterfly and v3i.
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The D1 had already this secret sauce in the iron trashed areas . It looks like the D2 FMF is at least equal than the D1 in the trash . I would say better knowing I have only used the 11" like you at the moment . Thanks for your very interesting report ...

[Steve Herschbach]

8 hours ago, palzynski said:

The D1 had already this secret sauce in the iron trashed areas . It looks like the D2 FMF is at least equal than the D1 in the trash . I would say better knowing I have only used the 11" like you at the moment . Thanks for your very interesting report ...

I agree. The Deus 1 has already proven it can do what is being reported. I don't know that this proves the D2 is the equal of the D1 in dense trash, but it does at least mean it has some of that XP magic.