Deus vs Equinox 800

[laidback4sho]

Well, I'm sitting here beside a brook in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with my trusty Deus and my equally trusty Equinox 800. Decided to take a break and post something of interest that I just discovered. Surprised I have a signal at all up here, tbh.

It seems that the Deus with the elliptical coil, running 81kHz on v4.1, is finding tiny little flakes that the Equinox can't even touch in Gold 1. Haven't tried Gold 2 yet. Furthermore, my buddy has his Gold Bug 2 and I'm finding smaller flakes than he is.

Here are my Deus settings:

Ground Balance: Tracking
Sens: 95
Freq: 80.8
React: 0
Disc IAR: 5
Threshold: 0
Audio Resp: 4

The smallest nugget my buddy found with the GB2 is maybe 1/20th of a gram. I just found a flake not even half that size and it was coming in loud and clear. Not saying the Deus can outdo the GB2, but so far today it is. And also, not saying it can outdo the Equinox, but so far it seems to be. Can't wait for the 6" coil for the Equinox.

 

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[arizau]

Ok, how much is a gold bug 2?

Also, here's the biggest gold from my creek? Think the GB would find it? It's TINY. That is a 2" x 3" zippie bag.

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Those look big enough to be pickers. Far from tiny. I'm pretty sure my LST would see those depending on how deep they were buried.

 

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[smokeythecat]

Those "pickers", which is probably more correct, was the net result from about 5 days of hard labor running a sluice. The vein is under my HOUSE and when we dug out the clay over the bedrock, we dug up some gold. I bought a cement mixer last summer as a test and put dirt in it, washed out the mud and panned the rest and by golly found a tiny bit of gold in my back lawn. The creek has more, but it's a lot of hard work.

 

[Terry Soloman]

 

[laidback4sho]

Yeah, Terry. I do believe that 6" coil is gonna be excellent for nugget shooting. Hope they hurry up and release it. Thanks for the video. Well worth the watch.