Ace 250 on salty beaches/soils?

Hi again !

I do have a Quattro.

This is one of the best machines for the beach. But you must know that it performs at its best in areas that are poor in iron trash.

Use it in "trash density" high all the time, push the sens to the maximum possible, something between 18 and 20, and carefuly dig every cracky signal  that would do the ID jump and showing max depth : those are non-ferrous targets around 12/14 inches (coin sized).

Be aware that the unit is heavy, that you will go deeper (beyond your dreams) with larger coils, and that it is not a good choice outside the beach.

The kind of unit that pays for itself in just one summer month at the price you can get it.

HH

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Well, The Quattro is a slow recoverer. If you disc iron out, like for instance in the coins mode, the unit will "null" on iron and probably miss any goodies near it.

might even NOT recover your threshold back.

Wet sand beaches are generally not loaded with iron trash, inland sites are.

A partial solution, as I wrote previously, is the use of the High trash mode, and to lower the sens somewhere between 6 to 8 (still getting good depth in those junky areas.).

The unit needs also slow sweeping. Meaning slooooow.

But it's definitely a great beach, and especially wet sand, unit.

HH

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I have to agree with Tabog and his statement

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	Few VLF machines do real well on wet salt beaches. Especially those without manual ground balance or ground tracking. also People may find some shallow targets on salt beaches and think they are doin OK. And they are. But they do not how little depth they are getting? They dont and because they find a few trinkets think they have a great machine. But I guarantee that if they were to test their machine against a PI and try to detect or even get a signal that the PI wa getting thier jawls would drop and realise they are only fooling themselves. However why the hell should i concern myself in this game its horse for courses I back and use winners not losers. Give me a PI anyday VLFs with never come close to the performance of a good PI and with the 2nd hand market you could possibly pick up a good working PI for what youd pay for a wannabee el cheepo beach machine. But hey? its your money do with it as you like, do I care? no sir, i couldnt give a hoot because Im a winner not a loser and I know whats best.  Linkback: You are not allowed to view links. Please Register or Login http://www.thunting.com/smf/index.php/topic,4268.msg68892.html#msg68892

Good show GoldDigger------ How  do you like a know-it all(that just has to tell it like it is) most don't know what it is ,where it is, or why it is.

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So which inexpensive MD machine is best for the beach?

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