Target analysis observations among the Minelab Manticore, Equinox 800 and XP Deus II 

Loren, thank you for this video. I just started detecting a little over a year ago and have both the D2 and the MC. I learn by understanding “why” something happens, not so much by repetition. What I mean by that is, I can go out and do something that I’m told to do, but it doesn't click, until I understand the reasons or theory behind it. Once I understand the “why”, it is so much easier for me to apply correctly. Your videos explain the why, in a way that is educational, without coming across as biased or confrontational, which I appreciate. Great job.

Good to have you back posing detector info. Loren.

Just found your stuff and it's great. Brings a more informed engineering perspective to the detector analysis. Thanks! I have found your videos much more informative than the bulk of the videos out there. Keep up the great work. Not sure if I missed it, if you cited it, but what was the approximate distance from the target where you experienced the shift from the near field to far field audio on the manticore?

You are perhaps the most technically adept person I’ve watched yet regarding metal detectors. Where can I get more “techie” type info on the science of metal detecting? I’m interested in the electronics of the detector. I’ve got a D2

The dreaded bottle cap :( When I get that funky 22/23 on my Nox, I will pinpoint and listen to how loud it comes in for the depth showing. If its louder, I won't dig. I may miss a few keepers but my frustration level is significantly reduced :) My Manticore, when it arrives, will definitely make the decision much easier. Thanks for the tutorial!

Thanks for pointing out the FE and FE2 settings. Someone posted a video showing his "setup" of the 800. He was thinking you could adjust both. I called him out in the comments and he called me an idiot and I don't know what I'm talking about. 🤣 This guy is an idiot! I wish I could remember who it was, but that was over a year ago.

I've noticed that the square nail falsing (US farm fields) happens only when the nail is at 45 degrees off parallel with the coil. I get iron grunts in every position and depth and high tones if I pass the nail over the coil at 45 degrees. In the fields here in Pennsylvania it can be brutal working through the high tone falsing.

PMW tones give more info than square in full tones and I can tell modern alloys or junk most of the time with the D2 although the wine caps are harder to tell, good info👍 I wonder a coin on edge at depth would give an oblong the same as the cap on the manticore?

Thanks

Questions? Do any of setting you make in control box on 800 nox or any machine.Are they transmitted through coil or just power setting and frequency,?Also on receiving end coil signal is it operating in all metal and none of your setting are not used till after signals enter back of control box? Thanks for answer.

Thank you for this video, been wondering how well the 2 D screen works in real world 😀

The xy screen of the D2 helps me to see, if it is iron. It works quite well. The full tones, i hear the iron mostlikely, to assure it I look up the xy.

You must have dug a lot trash to get to all you have in your display cabinet. The 2d screen might get less accurate with high mineral and loads of trash like the places I search, the more the trash the better it is !🤔

i notice on the d2 on the iron you dont have the iron sound on for the descrimination its reading 0 and 8 etc and bouncing high and back low but its like all your tones on the deus2 at 0to 99 are set to sound like its banging the target now if you had descrim at 10 and set the sound to 100khz you might start hearing the iron grunt the standard programs are not the best to test with

The Deus II apparently has a rather significant update coming by the end of the month. I'll be curious to hear your thoughts on it once received and tried out. Bill

Great video ,have you tried pull tabs/ gold ring difference?

Same signal on the screen with an intact aluminum bottle cap? I mean a flat sigal and not round like a coin?

Undisputedly, the Manticore with the 2D screen has 'much more' information to provide; ergo, as the operators are getting the detector in their hands much more will begin to be revealed/understood? Which one of the detectors has the best discrimination/separation? It may well be the Manticore? To entertain going out and playing in the dirt to only dig rusty nails, bottle caps, and can slaw is certainly not my way of entertainment in spending an excessive amount of money for 'treasure'. I may add the Manticore to my collection later. I have the White's Spectra V3i, and the Equinox 800. The V3i, and the Manticore may be in a class together with adequate information on the screen to determine if it is 'trash' or not? Is any of those detectors capable of 'unmasking'? To unmask one would assume Superman vision and be able to penetrate through one target, and see another? lol Could the term 'false positive' simply be a shallow terminology for a ghost (phantom) 'target' that is there, and then after you break the ground 'breaking' the halo effect and there is 'nothing' there? ? ? Thus, a 'false positive'. You have put together a good video. Thanks for the video.

Hola compañero una pregunta cuál detector de metales me aconseja mejor Manticore o equinox 900 gracias saludos

put a round coin on edge

Please give these detectors a shower.

About how long your manticore battery lasts on a charge?