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A couple questions I have on the X-Terra pro. Is any of the other tones or bins you set up adjustable for volume besides the iron volume which I know you can?
Other question is park mode and field mode. In this single freq detector what really is the difference or what is optimized over one or the other? With the Equinox we knew there was a certain set of frequencies that were used in park and
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I dont get it. How is this switchable frequency technology different from multi-frequency detectors. What they say is Well, can I not put the equinox or manticore in a single frequency mode and call it switchable frequency which I just did. Need some enlightment here. What single freqs is the Xterra using anyway.
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Thank you Tom for taking the time explaining this to us. Now I get audio is king, repeat audio is king. Those times you mentioned that your detected iron was laying right on the non- ferrous line in the shape of a nice round dot, was your audio telling? did you know without a doubt it was going to be iron. Do you think in that instance if you switched over to some single frequency, the audio woul
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Thank you Tom for that explanation. But if I am in an area where there are loads of nails and not any b-caps, will switching from multi to some single frequency help me in making the dig no dig decision? Lets say there are smears, dots, elongated dots everywhere on the 2D screen, will a single frequency help with giving me a cleaner audio? Like SteveG said, can the 2D screen even work in single f
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I dont know if this was talked about yet, but please forgive if it has. Then I missed it.
When the Equinox first came out I remember the issue with bottle caps it had. Then we figured out switching the detector into a higher single frequency and then look again at the ID #s that that was helpful determining if we had a bottle cap or not compared to a good non-ferrous target.
Well my questi
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Hi there Tom, enjoying very much you testing the Deus 2. I also have one and have learned to like it a lot in trashy areas of fresh water lakes that I do a lot of my hunting. With the Deus 2 I'm finding small brass and thin cut silver artifacts from the fur trade era along with copper culture artifacts. This location is really quite unique to be on a water site that shares 2 and possibly mo
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Hi there Tom, you have talked about the expanded iron range which really sounds exciting. Are you able to talk a bit about possibly expanding the high conductor VDI range? More resolution perhaps between the coin denominations, copper/silver coins/higher conductors. Where does a quarter fall?, half dollar?, silver dime? What VDI #s ?
You might have noticed that on the Deus 2 every high conduc
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I guess Steve if it was me I would probably just make them one way with the entry and exit points and could you then install rubber plugs/ grommets in the pre existing holes you already drilled? Grommets for guys that are running the antenna and plugs for non water users.
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Check your web site Steve for pics I sent you. Hi there Steve, wanted to do this on Dankowski forum but I couldn't figure out for the life of wife and I how to get these pics posted. Kept getting a unsafe site message. Thought these might help. It could be a little cramped with the headphone jack on the left side if you were to route the antenna over there. Right side is open but you can se
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Hey Steve, there are times where I would like to take the control off the handle and actually wear it around my neck, to make it easier to see the control screen because of the deep water that I wade into. Up to my neck/chest in a lot of cases. But then I have to deal with the antenna. Instead of having my antenna coming out thru the shoe currently, does your shaft design allow for the antenna
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Hey Steve, I understand. What about drilling on either left or right side of shoe if top side cant work because of clamp devise? Or drill thru the handle so as the hole will go thru the part of shoe that sits into upper handle being held by the 2 tiny screws. You would have to make sure the drill hole is far enough away from the 2 mount screws.3/16 or 1/4 inch hole at most.
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Hi there Steve, I have your rod for the equinox and have been very happy thus far. Quality craftsmanship I must say.
Im a water hunter most of the time when I can get out. The antenna your talking about. How I run my Deus 2, antenna enters the bottom in the original wide slot they have on lower shaft and up the shaft and out the actual shoe clip that holds remote. I drilled a hole on
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David, I like your idea of a different id scale depending on which group of frequencies you are working in. That would be great. The lower freqs you are using, you would be able to see a higher resolution of the upper ID #s.
Or could they just bring back the normalization ID scale like what was on the Deus 1 if that would be the easier way to go. Are you able to talk to the engineers about tha
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Hi there tnsharpshooter. Not sure if this could be done in a software update or how hard it would be. But from the videos I have seen, the VDI screen seems to lack in resolution on upper end. A lot of the high conductors seem to be jammed up there in the 94-99 VDI. Dime, quarter and half. Coin Denominations are only a few #s away from each other. I know your going to end up digging those #s anywa
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OK EL NINO, I think I'm starting to see this. So with this test of burying a nickel and a silver dime at 6 inches separately, I'm looking at the VDI #s to go up or down. If they drop down into the lower mid conductors or even iron range is this telling me I have hematite type soil. But if the ground has magnetite wont that bring the VDI #s down also?
If my ground is predominantly c
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Thank you EL NINO for being quite informative on the different mineralizations. So then if these 3 are the basic forms of ground mineralization, am I able to tell what type of mineralization is in my soil?
I know I have very little top soil, maybe 6-8 inches and the rest is an orange clay. Im thinking the iron red hematite possibly. With my Equinox 800 I do ground balance at a consistant number
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Thank you Mike for that explanation. I think I understand it better now. Especially when you said think of the scale not in terms of linear but circular. Yes 60 is right next to 1 in a circle. So when someone says that iron that is buried next to a high conductor coin, it will tend to pull the VDI #s down, what is really happening is that the VDI #s are rolling forward past the highest # and into
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Yes Tom, still here. No longer have the CZ-3D. I just was not using it enough, so I sold it. I sure wish now that I had it for comparison.
Tom, I like the idea of gluing your targets on the end of 3/4 PVC. Are you just pushing them into your soil then at the predetermined depth? Do you enter the soil at 90 degrees or on a 45 degree angle so as the soil is not as disturbed under the coil? You m
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Thank you SteveG for your thoughts. Your #s are not getting pulled down like mine? What depth are you at with your quarter in the test garden? Is your mineralization mild? I would say Im certain that when I dug the hole for the quarter, I checked before I dug, while the hole was open I checked and certainly scanned the dirt going back in. Had the detector in all metal, clean. But I never used a r
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This is all becoming more clear now why the detector is doing what it is doing and presenting to me. Will try to move the test garden to a different part of the yard so as not to get slammed with so much EMI.
I like your tip on finding another freq or mode that just might be more clearer and free of EMI and still maintain as high a sensitivity as possible. I can see doing it that more and more
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Thank you Tom. Yes the test garden does teach me alot. But I did forget to mention that I have to put up with emi from the pole wires. That silent and unsilent emi you guys talk about, can that be killing my depth on the quarter when Im in the single 4 or 5 Khtz and or in one of the park and field 1 modes? Even on some days I know Im not hearing any EMI but is it really still there affecting the
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Thank you guys for helping me with that. Tom, the way you explained it puts it in prospective, more clear to me now.
The reason I asked this is because I have a clad quarter buried in my test garden at about 14 inches now for several years. I have low to medium mineralization. With my Equinox wearing the 11 inch coil, I can get the quarter with about a 2 inch air gap above ground in both
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Yes, the way I understand it is IAR is a form of iron depth rejection. 1-5. A setting of IAR at 1 rejects minimum small iron near the surface. A setting of 5 rejects more iron at depth. I dont know at what depth or how big the iron is when it gets rejected at 5. What I like to know is can we use that new square tone in relic or deep high conductors programs?
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A question for Tom and anyone else probably smarter than me. If a high conductor is detected very deep, at the edge of the detectors range, will the detector now see it as a medium to low conductor now? Will the silver or copper coin or artifact resonate better with a higher frequency dialed in like on the equinox than a lower one. If you know that high conductors are being found at the edge of
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Yes I agree with dewcon. Finally I think a replacement for the X-caliber. I had a few over the years but just too heavy in the water and slow to retune. Also not hot enough for the small gold. This new detector appears to solve these issues and lets just hope that it will be every bit as deep as the X-cal is and is a true multi-frequency detector. Now you throw in the x-tra coils that will be ava
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Say there TNSS, I would like to know also what is going on electronically. I can not think of anyone else that has this feature. ILL tell you when I discovered this feature thru other smarter people than me on the forums and taking Andys boot camp class the Deus was a whole new detector for me. I mainly use it in the fresh water w/11 inch coil. I could never get it to ground balance while in the
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Say Old California, that was a good tip you just gave on if the detector is still sounding on an empty hole by readjusting the GB. I never thought of it that way. Thanks. Say TNSS, about the Blisstool GB. Have you noticed that the higher you set your gain, the lower you reduce the GB dial. What I mean is if you run the gain at 2 and you balance out at 7. Now if you can bump up the gain to 4 you n
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Hi there TNSS, did you have the descrim toggle on #1? If so I would imagine #2 and #3 position would probably make the detector a bit more noisier with your small coil on?
In your ground, what # do you ground balance at on the GB course knob with stock coil on? With small coil on? That is in the manual GB position. Thanks, Steve
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