Coin shooting settings for Deus

[patriotdigger]

Can anyone share with me their best settings for coin shooting with the Deus. I have downloaded V4 for my Deus. As it warms up I will start to hunt more yards and open fields. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

 

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[vferrari]

Can anyone share with me their best settings for coin shooting with the Deus. I have downloaded V4 for my Deus. As it warms up I will start to hunt more yards and open fields. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

I would start with the custom programs sticky at the top of the forum. Most of the programs and settings there translate directly to V4.

If you want to just grab and go, pick Deus Fast from the built-in programs. It has good all around settings and has the silencer setting which is an expert sub menu setting under reactivity of -1 = 0ff. For max depth Silence should be set at -1 or at most 0. Anything higher, and you will lose some depth. The basic program has silencer set on 2 which is too high and you will lose depth. The only change I would make is change frequency to 8 or 12. Go with the default 3 tones and swing away. That should get you started.

Here is some general guidance on settings:

Discrimination: Just go with anything between 5 and 8 to start. That will minimize iron noise but not impact depth. As you get a little more used to the sounds, you may want to lower discrimination to the minimum. It is in the expert submenu under discrimination where you set # of tones and tone breaks. Set tones to 3, 4, or 5 to start and just go with the standard tone breaks. As you get used to what the target ID values are for specific coins, you can adjust the tone breaks using the expert menu settings unless you leave ID Normal in its default setting of on, the Target ID values will vary with frequency and will indicated higher numbers the higher frequency you go. ID Normal normalizes all Target ID's to the same numbers regardless of frequency - the will all read target ID's corresponding to IF if you were operating at 18 khz. I like the 8 to 12 khz TID values and would turn ID Normal to off and set up tone breaks according to 8 or 12 khz TID values depending on freq I use (roughly 50s to 60s for nickels; Hi 70's low 80's for pennies; Mid to high 80's for dimes (silver will ring up slightly higher than clad), low to mid 90's for quarters, and higher for halves etc.). I use the fact that TIDs change with frequency as a tool to get a bead on particular target. I will scan it with both 8 and 12 khz to see how the TID changes. If it doesn't change intuitively, like the TID value goes down if I up the frequency, then that indicates a rusted bottlecap to me. I don't get hung up on memorizing specific numbers. If you want to jump into the deep end, then just go with full tones vice multi tones and you don't have to set tone breaks.

Pick your frequency - 4, 8, 12, 18. 4 will give you max depth but limits some other settings. I usually go with 8 or 12 whichever has the least EMI noise from power lines, wifi routers, other MDers, whatever.

Start with sensitivity in the 90's. Good middle ground starting point. Raise it slightly higher if you want more depth and are not picking up too much false noise or lower if necessary if you need to reduce falsing. Don't push it much below 85 if you can help it otherwise depth will really start to fall off.

Reactivity of 2 is fine, even 1 is faster than most detectors out there. This setting, also known as recovery speed, determines your recovery speed after it pings on a target and determines the ability of the detector to separate close targets into separate signals. You need to swing faster with a higher reactivity setting because the detector pings than recovers for the next target quicker. This may result in some loss of depth (the trade off for target separation). So set Reactivity to 1 or 2 (for Deus Fast you will have to lower it from 3). If the site you are detecting is really trashy, leave the setting at 3 [or lower it slightly to the new "2.5" reactivity setting]. Whenever, you change reactivity on the fly, go into the expert submenu to make sure Silencer did not creep up on you to a value higher than 0 since it tends to default to higher values when you change reactivity settings.

I set no notches set Audio Response to around 4 (that gives you some audio difference between deep and shallow targets but not so much that deep targets are just whispering).

Set ground balance to tracking so you don't have to continuously mess with it.

Also, when you first turn on your machine, put the coil in the air and away from metal objects until you hear the "beep" and it gives you the "yes"/"no" choice to keep the remote speaker on. That ensures that your coil is not initialized in a manner such that it is biased by ground phase conductivity or nearby large metallic objects such as vehicles.

So much more to discuss but that should get you started and swinging for coins. Good luck and HH.

 

[Stretch Da Truth]

Great info vferrari! Thanks. I have read a lot of what you have posted and will apply it to my machine.
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[vferrari]

Thanks and enjoy it. The real key and excitement is finding/researching the sites and securing the the permissions to hunt them so you can put your new tool to work. GL & HH.

 

[austin_luker]

Vferrari is the man on the forum, great starting advice on how to set the Dues up to find the most amount of "good targets". One thing I have learned with the Dues, if it tells you there is a good target there it's there somewhere you might need to pull a few rusty nails out of the hole first but that non-ferrous target is down there the Dues promises.


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[Indiana Mark]

Welcome!

 

[jadocs]

Welcome buddy