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using tracking is risky . it dosent calculate when the best time to refresh so it might do so on a target , and this screws up everything , so i would only use it if at all on very clean ground
Old nails ring up because they have good metal mixed in. I now use a combination of Deep HC and Relic to tell what is iron. I'll be making a video soon.
Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed that. Do you Relic hunt or mainly just park hunt? I’m still trying to figure out the absolute deepest program for Civil War relics, and I keep jumping back and forth between Beach Sensitive and Deep HC. I’ll have to give the Park program a shot.
I hunt for everything but really look for coins. I hunt mainly woods and sometimes venture out to homesites on farms. Relic mode loses depth as the item gets smaller. So it would start missing coins at 10". Deep HC does not lose depth on small items, but even with audio response maxed, items sound softer, so you can miss them.
Interesting, I would suggest to put audio response on 4 for the confirm program, because the X Y screen is relevant for more shallow targets. that way if you hear the item is deep, you can know the X Y screen is not reliable in that case.
what happens if you set the discrimination to 0? Does this do away with tone 1 (iron) and everything will come in at tones 2/3 if you are using a 3 tone program. Does discrimination actually affect depth. I heard that only reactivity affects depth. Thanks, Teche Ridge Digger
I liked that idea and tried gold all day with mono at 13khz and 17khz for my switch over program. I'm wondering why you chose general and not the "deeper" sensitive. Thanks
I don't understand, why do you need to turn most things off to detect, and then use a program with things turned on to check it, why not just use the things turned on programme if it does the same?
Having done some technical writing, I can tell you engineering is close minded about a manual written for the end user. Traditionally these products have been viewed as complete technical descriptions of the product, and they’ll view anything else as incomplete or “dumbed down.” Some companies are doing it right, but they’re the exception to the rule. And to say that every tech writer is completely uninformed about the product is inaccurate as they are usually involved in the writing of specs, internal communications, etc. during the product development cycle.
Just have the XY screen up and you don’t need to keep swapping programs because it literally shows you that your over big iron from the direction of the line. Unless you’re over such big iron that it overloads it and gives a positive signal but that’s easy enough to hear from the way it sounds.
I understand your concept and somewhat agree with it. I do think you may have a few of the settings reversed. I would think you would want the iron volume as high as it could go. Just thinking logically by setting it to 0 you are making the processor distinguish between ferrous and non ferrous and calculating which to quiet and which to not quiet. Setting it as high as it can go would mean that the detector wouldnt care what it was, every signal would be the same volume. I don't know if that would matter with the discrimination set to -6.4 though as you have removed any iron discrimination anyway. Also I would think you would set the audio response to its highest value, this would mean that every target no matter how deep would have the same audio response. Anything lower would cause the detector to have to figure out which signals need to be higher than others due to size and or depth.
I have now had some time to try it out! I really like the ideas. I also use general with xy-screen as confirmation prgr! I find it deep and loud and sensitive. Use it for pinpointing. Hit it very often spot on! Tried to use the Goldfield, and like it. BUT it is almost everytime very noisy😔. Dont know how to come around that. Tried frequ-scan and Groundgrab, but no effekt.... Is it the ground disturbing? Or EMI? When I compare some default prgrs like Sens or Park or Gen, with Hecksyeahs setup, I find that he has a point! Switch between his setups and some default prgrs on the same target out there! 🇸🇪👍
Just guessing but try ground stabiliser On 2, on 1 the idea is to go deeper but more chatty, reduce sensitivity down a tad, say 94 ish, high reactivity can also make machine chatter, play around with settings next time out, just my thoughts 💭 we are all different and some people love a hot open chatty machine whilst others hate it and enjoy the silence 🤣🤣🤣🥳🥳😀😀
Can you show how reactivity 0 does in heavy iron with your settings in Gold Field? My testing has confirmed that Reactivity 2.5 or greater does much better where non ferrous is next to ferrous. But maybe it is better with 0???
I’ve never used park but I see why you’ve based this deep program on it. I have a Tudor coin Spill site. 3 silver coins from the 1500s they were between 8 and 10 inches. The uneven patina on the first one up suggested it had been stuck to others. Found two more 30 centimetres away. We’ve matched the uneven patina on two suggesting they were touching. The third coin has that patina too but doesn’t match the other coins. Suggesting it may have been stuck to a fourth. I’ll go back in park with all fillers off and see how I get on. Thanks 😊
Why would you ever want to make a target sound quieter, causing you to potentially miss it? Why would you ever care if any target sounded differently at 10" over 2"? Don't you dig until you find the target?
Thanks for the heal tip- I have the 11 inch coil and I have been wanting to go smaller - now I don’t have to. I’m looking forward to trying the super J program as well. I appreciate the information you are giving me. It’s helping me to understand this incredible machine better.
Intresting, can you please make a video with using your setting vs other XpD2 setting to show the difference on both test deep targets and also live digs, really interested to see the results 😀😀😀
@@BC-dig I just updated to 7! They added Notch for the goldfield!!! I’m going to change my superj and try to lower IAR and up notch to 30. I have an area where they dumped dirt on a pile of 1700-1800s coins, so they are 18” deep. 😭
That’s not the case. The Deus 2 passes the nail board test with reactivity at zero. All I do is hunt in iron patches. Old 1800s houses knocked over. If you set your reactivity to anything but zero then you’re losing targets.
@@hecksyeah5196 nail board tests are notoriously unreliable because they don’t account for variable depth. This method is going to cause confirmation bias because you’ll occasionally hit a deep signal that sounds great, and when you lose a target to masking you’ll be unaware of it. So you’ll only ever get positive feedback.
@@woodrowengle I’m sorry but I have a pile of settlement silver that says otherwise. Have you even tested? I have as well as others and the consensus with the Deus 2 is reactivity zero.
@@hecksyeah5196 come on man, you’re an engineer, approach this scientifically. You’ve found some silver. Here’s what you need to know: 1. How often would you have still detected that silver at a reactivity setting of 2 during normal use? 2. How often are you losing a signal to iron masking during normal use? You don’t know the answer to either of these things, you’re just letting a positive result confirm your beliefs.
@@woodrowengle I check all the time. I increase reactivity and the signal disappears. Deus used to have that reactivity was recovery AND transmit power in their manual. So it seems XP may have used transmit power to mimic a pseudo recovery setting.
