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Waterdog
I went out with the XP Deus for the first time today. I had a friend of mine out there that had a XP deus with a nine inch coil. He showed me a few things to help me get started. I hunt for a while and was finding a few coins, but nothing deep. Then one of my other friends come by and buried a coin and went over it with his machine. We could all hear it beeping in his headphones. My friend with the Nine inch coil goes over the coin... Nothing. So I go over it with my 11 inch coil, and I get nothing. I am running with my sensitivity at 90 and this coin ( a dime) is about 6 inches deep. I have a machine I paid half the price for and it could find this dime. Any advice would help.
Well,
For one thing sensivity isn't the only thing that affects depth,,,depending on the conductivity of target-- freq selected could affect,,,for example,, 4 and 8khz not as deep on nickels vs 12 and 18 kHz.
Next reactivity setting,,3 will be shallower than 2,, 2 shallower than 1 , etc.
Also silencer setting can affect depth,,,and here ground minerals can affect too,,,-1 setting deepest,,the. 0, and so on.
As far as comparing the 9" coil to the 11" coil at depth,,,a close rule of thumb,,,this on solo sitting targets in the ground,,,whichever reactivity setting is necessary to hit the target with using 9" coil,,,a person using a 11" coil can usually dial reactivity up one level and hit the same target.
Overall running Deus flat out,, one can expect about 1-2" extra depth when comparing coils-- using optimum settings when comparing fringe depth detectable targets.
I have 2 complete Deus units,,one with 9" coil, and one with 11" coil,,,and have an extra 11" coil to boot.
I also have countless hours on a Deus,,,and have coin hunted, relic hunted with them,,no water hunting.
Deus is a very good detector,,,some folks who hunt a lot of modern trash sites,, get discouraged and many bolt from the Deus--- well I can say without reservation,, Deus if set up correctly will flat out hunt in modern trash---- key is notch setting,,and or freq selection used.
And the notch setting used,, can be somewhat misleading--- meaning you don't want to just notch out targets you don't want to hear ( Vdi wise),, an operator needs to come over the top about 10-12 points Vdi wise--- doing this will clean the Deus tone up ( not meter reading) on targets where the Deus is blending signals. With correct notch,,Deus can sniff out silver and copper out of smaller can slaw and tabs very good-- actually better than some of the higher priced minelabs-- I also have a Minelab CTX. And have also run Etrac,,,so again,, trust me on this. I have both tested and hunted,, and I see the overall results.
Folks need to give their Deus units a chance,,,,I have seen many folks bail from them,,only later to return to them after they saw folks finding the good stuff, and many of these folks,,the light bulb tuned on.
Deus doesn't" act like most detectors on deeper targets,,,this though in some respects is a good thing,,, once a person realizes what the Deus depending on the settings is telling them.
You have an specific questions,, fell free to ask.
No question is a dumb question.