Yesterday finally had the time (and the weather) to go to the beach with the Deus and try the beach settings. On the dry beach settings, I had results but all from a depth up to 3 to 4 inches. Lots of pulltabs, bottlecaps, I get consistent scores for them but I still dig everything to get to know the machine.
Then we went on the wet sand. Settings: Wet Beach with Beach groundbalance. Little chatter, but very managable. But noticable depthchange. Wet beach gives me a depthrange of 2 inches at most. On a large coin, a small coin gets lost in the chatter.
I was on the beach with the 38 cm coil. Tried out the wet sand, as well as the surf.
Im going to try again with other settings. This beach is really clean at the wet part, because of a project that pipes sand from the oceanfloor to the beach. Also it is a very quiet beach. The cleaner conditions gave me a good testingground.
Tried the waterkit. After installing it, losing signal in a pool of water of 12 inches cm deep, signal lost after only 2.5 inches.
Checked the setup of the waterkit. Tried again, no signal. Cable is ok, new set. Whatever I try no signal. Quit the watersetup for now, will read up on this and will try normal water instead of seawater first.
Back on the dry sand, first tried out the ultimate program. What an enormous difference in depth, no chatter, crisp sounds from pulltabs as deep as 15 inches. Unbelievable. Even with beachsettings as GB. Clear target ID's right everytime for even different kinds of pulltabs on different tabs.
The only find of the day, a small rusted recent two eurocent coin, which I found by eye, not even the machine. I tested this coin several times in all conditions, mostly different target ID's in all modes (i think because of rust), even on the surface. Only after swinging several times the machine seems to recover itself and gives of a steady 94 TID.
Beachtest level: Noob, will go and learn this machine further on the normal ground where I do get good steady results. Considering leaving the beach alltogether, only to return with a machine intended for surf searching. The loss in depth is very noticable and I dont think there are settings to overcome this. Tried all.
Good finds and until the next update!