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I preordered the HF2 coil for the Deus 2 some time ago, the day it was available for preorder. Today the long wait came to an end when the coil showed up at my door. I had already updated my Deus 2 to version 3 of the operating system earlier today. So all I had to do was put it together and plug and play.
Putting it together was fairly simple, though the pictorial instructions weren't immediately obvious (click to enlarge).
It came with the coil cover already installed, but the lower shaft had to be attached, and it requires some special handling. Unlike the previous coils, this one has an external battery, and the battery is actually in the top end of the lower shaft. So after you attach the lower shaft to the coil, you have to pull the battery out, snake the battery cable up through the shaft, attach the cable to the battery and reinstall it into the shaft. It's a snug fit, and the wire is just long enough, with a little stretchiness. But it works, and once assembled, the wire basically disappears. Then it's just a matter of swapping lower shafts and pairing the coil.
Here's how it looks compared to my (dirty) 11" coil (click to enlarge). It looks rather tiny, but it's really almost the same size in the long dimension so it covers a decent amount of ground, just cutting a narrower slice.
I have not explored the different frequency settings or any of that yet. I just put it in and turned it on. I ran the "general" program and took it out to a part of the yard that I've hunted several times, just to see if it made any difference. I only hunted for about an hour because it started to rain. I wish I could tell you I found some rare coin or something, but that kind of drama is unlikely in the iron patch. But I did find some things I hadn't found before, including a piece of a decorative hinge, a couple of harrow spikes, half of a brass .32 caliber shell, and a couple of ridiculously small pieces of copper wire. The pieces of wire were so small I almost couldn't find them at all, even with the pinpointer. They were both about six inches deep. I don't think depth is going to be an issue with this coil if it can see a piece of wire half the size of a pin at that depth.
But the biggest surprise was how quiet it is. When I first turned it on, I didn't think it was working. There was no chatter. No EMI noise. There's a buried AC power line that runs through part of the property, and my 11" coil is very noisy when I get close to it. This coil not only isn't noisy, It is silent. I can walk back and forth over the power line and it doesn't make a peep unless the coil is over metal. That was a nice unexpected bonus!
And speaking of bonuses, Serious Detecting even included a free hat.
Putting it together was fairly simple, though the pictorial instructions weren't immediately obvious (click to enlarge).
It came with the coil cover already installed, but the lower shaft had to be attached, and it requires some special handling. Unlike the previous coils, this one has an external battery, and the battery is actually in the top end of the lower shaft. So after you attach the lower shaft to the coil, you have to pull the battery out, snake the battery cable up through the shaft, attach the cable to the battery and reinstall it into the shaft. It's a snug fit, and the wire is just long enough, with a little stretchiness. But it works, and once assembled, the wire basically disappears. Then it's just a matter of swapping lower shafts and pairing the coil.
Here's how it looks compared to my (dirty) 11" coil (click to enlarge). It looks rather tiny, but it's really almost the same size in the long dimension so it covers a decent amount of ground, just cutting a narrower slice.
I have not explored the different frequency settings or any of that yet. I just put it in and turned it on. I ran the "general" program and took it out to a part of the yard that I've hunted several times, just to see if it made any difference. I only hunted for about an hour because it started to rain. I wish I could tell you I found some rare coin or something, but that kind of drama is unlikely in the iron patch. But I did find some things I hadn't found before, including a piece of a decorative hinge, a couple of harrow spikes, half of a brass .32 caliber shell, and a couple of ridiculously small pieces of copper wire. The pieces of wire were so small I almost couldn't find them at all, even with the pinpointer. They were both about six inches deep. I don't think depth is going to be an issue with this coil if it can see a piece of wire half the size of a pin at that depth.
But the biggest surprise was how quiet it is. When I first turned it on, I didn't think it was working. There was no chatter. No EMI noise. There's a buried AC power line that runs through part of the property, and my 11" coil is very noisy when I get close to it. This coil not only isn't noisy, It is silent. I can walk back and forth over the power line and it doesn't make a peep unless the coil is over metal. That was a nice unexpected bonus!
And speaking of bonuses, Serious Detecting even included a free hat.
