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My first hunt with the Deus... results and thoughts.

Stix

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I did not have time to get out to the mansion so went to the old school instead. The field I wanted to hunt had a soccer practice going on so I went to a very trashy area that I have always had a hard time finding anything. First off I will say that I find the machine to be way more powerful than anything I have used. I need a bigger/better digger as I had to give up on some faint signals. I am not used to digging as deep as thing thing detects. Mind you I have never bought a detector of this type so keep that in mind. I love the way this detector talks. After 1 hour I could call out a penny every time as I dug alot of them!!! Quarters were easy aswell. The bugger is the foil and aluminum.

A few things I noticed with this machine. NAILS are easy to identify if they are straight. They are good one direction and fade to a crap signal when ya turn 90 degrees. Bent nails also are easily identifiable with a switch of frequency. They bounce around like a bottle cap and vid goes crazy. I did dig alot of junk but that is to be expected so I can learn what the detector is telling me. I am still learning and am not trying to give an expert opinion just my own. I really like this machine. It is not that hard to learn what it's telling you. You can pick it up pretty easily for some things. I have no clue what the faint deep signals are because I could not dig them. I am used to 4-6" this has me digging down 8-9" and I give up with my digging tool. I did dig one out at 12" and it was a big copper ring of some sort.

I am excited about this machine and I like the way it talks. I need alot more time with it but so far it seems like one heck of a detector. I can't wait to get out and learn more. BTW todays 2 hour hunt results were all clad :(

3 - quarters
22 - pennies
3 - dimes
1 - Nickel

30 pieces of trash!!

One question I have is the headphones and coil seems the battery falls very fast but stays at 1/4 charge forever. I was only out 2 hours. Is this a glitch in the programming?
 
On the subject of the batteries, of the three components, the coil will drain fastest. But you should not see the coil drop to 1/4 in two hours. If you topped off your batteries right before you hunted, it would take a few hours to drop to 1/2...keep an eye on this and contact XP if you suspect a problem. Likewise with the headphones; the headphone's battery (as well as the remote) should last a long time without the LED showing a battery level drop. Check out the manual for what is normal for battery drain for all three components. Others may do it different, but I follow the advice of some of the British Deus users: top off all your batteries when you return from a hunt...apparently the batteries like this and last longer.

Congrats on a good first hunt. I think you chose a great spot for your first hunt. You were able to find coins among the trash, which lets you get used to what the Deus is telling you. There's a ton of good info in the Deus section of this forum to help speed up your learning curve...from the looks of things, you seem to be well on your way! I look forward to hearing about your future hunts.
 
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