Beach question

[Jason in TN]

Has anyone used the Deus for salt water beach hunting I am I terested in one but would be doing a good bit of beach hunting. Let me know what you think.

Jason

 

[cqcmj]

I only been on the beach twice, but stilling learning it. The beach mode dry sand works real good, Still trying to figure the wet sand program. Our beaches here in Hawaii are not that bad when it comes to iron but there is a lot of trash so the deus works well, To be honest with you I think once I get this detector down. I believe this will be my first choice for beach hunting. I use my excal, Etrac, DF and SS and I really like the deus the best from all of them. I will be setting mine up for water hunting soon. I hope to make some good finds. For dry sand hunting it will out perform most detectors, In the water I just don't know yet. Wet sand set the ground balance and it well be fine. The excal performs well in and out of salt water, Etrac also performs well but both detectors will wear you out after a few hours of hunting, the DF and SS will wear you out because you will be digging every target hit. So it all depends on you. The deus is light and after about 100 hrs of use you will be able to understand what the detector is telling you. So you can't really go wrong picking up the deus.

 

[JBM]

Please read the earlier threads as you may need to make up a simple. aerial.

But they do work just fine. Jerry.

 

[ananda]

i spoted this thread a while back on another forum i also have seen a few french guys using them alot on the west coast and they also mention that if the deus is behaving fine it is possible to up the sens and lower the reactivity for even more depth

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So once again I thought of Tomo's post about ground balancing on wet sand and then decided to phone both Mick from Leisure Promotions in Berkshire Leisure Promotions - Metal Detecting experts, the founders of the Newbury Rally and The Sunday Club and then I phoned Nigel from Regton in Birmingham Metal Detectors Regton, UK Largest Hobby Security Metal Detector and both made similar suggestions about detecting on the wet sand with the XP Deus so I took both of their suggestions and some ideas from the Deus user manual and wrote them down on a piece of paper to take with me and decided to ground balance the machine manually and the XP Deus worked a treat now there was no more squeeks and squeels that drove you crazy like what was happening before and now there was no more digging just for junk either although I did still dig some pulltabs tell me a machine that you don't dig pulltabs and I'll gladly sit up and take notice

so my setting were like this.............

select Option and then click "Programs"......"wet beach" choose................"Yes"

then go to Ground balance (G.B.) and choose manual and using the + and - keys bring it down to "27" and then use the back arrow to come out of there

then as the manual says "To improve stability on wet beach........

.............Reduce Audio response (0-1)
.............Increase Reactivity (4)
.............TX Power: Level 1 maximum
.............Sensitivity (70 - 85) I set it at "75"

and then I set the Threshold by doing as the manual says....

raise the coil one meter in the air and then press the pin-point button and slowely bring it down to the ground

Well now it was almost silent for the first time ever on a wet beach and was like music to my ears only in silent mode and within a minute I had found my first pound coin and I followed the tide as it was going out all the way along and then twenty minutes later I would follow it back again but this time it would have gone out further by about another 15 feet and the amount of coins that I was finding was unbelievable despiute the fact that this is a small town beach I found that

 

[Jim Robertson]

I was at the beach three weeks ago and only used the Deus in dry sand but when I go back next week I will us it in wet sand. I will also be trying the Blisstool. That is a hard machine to use in the wet sand you also need to keep the coil one inch off the wet sand so it will work. That is some great information. I love the machine a it is great on small gold. A very hot machine.

 

[Jason in TN]

Great info thanks I am thinking of getting me soon.

Jason

 

[fishingdevil]

First of all, please allow me to apologise for bringing up such an old thread... I had been doing some mod on my Deus and I realised that to bring my current "Thick" RG6 coaxial cable into the stem is tough... then I saw this post with the pics that showed a much thinner cable...
Does anyone know if the thin cable works? and what specs is this cable?

Thank you.

i spoted this thread a while back on another forum i also have seen a few french guys using them alot on the west coast and they also mention that if the deus is behaving fine it is possible to up the sens and lower the reactivity for even more depth

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So once again I thought of Tomo's post about ground balancing on wet sand and then decided to phone both Mick from Leisure Promotions in Berkshire Leisure Promotions - Metal Detecting experts, the founders of the Newbury Rally and The Sunday Club and then I phoned Nigel from Regton in Birmingham Metal Detectors Regton, UK Largest Hobby Security Metal Detector and both made similar suggestions about detecting on the wet sand with the XP Deus so I took both of their suggestions and some ideas from the Deus user manual and wrote them down on a piece of paper to take with me and decided to ground balance the machine manually and the XP Deus worked a treat now there was no more squeeks and squeels that drove you crazy like what was happening before and now there was no more digging just for junk either although I did still dig some pulltabs tell me a machine that you don't dig pulltabs and I'll gladly sit up and take notice

so my setting were like this.............

select Option and then click "Programs"......"wet beach" choose................"Yes"

then go to Ground balance (G.B.) and choose manual and using the + and - keys bring it down to "27" and then use the back arrow to come out of there

then as the manual says "To improve stability on wet beach........

.............Reduce Audio response (0-1)
.............Increase Reactivity (4)
.............TX Power: Level 1 maximum
.............Sensitivity (70 - 85) I set it at "75"

and then I set the Threshold by doing as the manual says....

raise the coil one meter in the air and then press the pin-point button and slowely bring it down to the ground

Well now it was almost silent for the first time ever on a wet beach and was like music to my ears only in silent mode and within a minute I had found my first pound coin and I followed the tide as it was going out all the way along and then twenty minutes later I would follow it back again but this time it would have gone out further by about another 15 feet and the amount of coins that I was finding was unbelievable despiute the fact that this is a small town beach I found that

 

[n3umw]

Any type of flexible coax, I would recommend something thin and flexible like RG-178 or RG-316 ($5 on Ebay)

 

[mtsheron]

Not yet but will in January! Hope it does well.