Ace 250 and the beach question

[Briar Bear]

I am new to this forum and new to mding. I have the Garrett Ace 250 and I really like it. I live in upstate South Carolina but my sister lives in Charleston. I went there with the fam and spent 3 hours on a beach, I found nothing. I can live with that (sort of) but my question is about my pin-pointer mode. It seems it would just constantly go off when ever I pushed it. I lessened the sensitivity so it wasn't as bad but I feel I am missing something here. BTW, I kept using it walking back to the car and in the dry sand I got a good signal, the pin-pointer mode worked fine. It was just that I picked up a nail in the boardwalk (it was covered in sand so I didn't realize it until I tried to dig it). Any advice is welcomed.

 

[widebody]

[size=large]from all that i've read the Ace does well at the beach. maybe someone else beat ya to it.

HH[/size]

 

[karl.hahn]

Mine does well too!

 

[weluvjake]

My 350 sounds off like your 250 does when in pinpoint mode. Dont get it either.
Aces are better on the beach i say.

Kiwishane

 

[slingshot]

Yeah-just look up "crackbadger" on you tube.

 

[Briar Bear]

Thanks for the advice and video. It was good and helpful.

 

[dabbie1]

To use your ACE250 in wet sand at the beach,run it on 4 bars sens and notch out everything left of the nickel run in coin or jewlery mode.No pinpoint problems and no false signals due to wet sand Hope this helps and HH Wayne at Delaware beaches

 

[Fabio]

I did more testing with my Ace 250. I tried 20 different coins (reeded edge) passing them sideways and all their readings were foil.
I also went out into the low tide sandbar on Sunday, and had no false readings whatsoever while the sensitivity was at max. There were alot of nails, pull-tabs and a few heavily warn coins. The beach was trashed and there was a 4 inch level of freshly graded gravel on top. That's one beach I won't go back to. My "regular" beach site still has alot to offer, so I guess that's where I'll be going for the next weekends upcoming. There's also an old Roman beach that I'm gonna MD, just as soon as I get permission from the owner of the property. The "beach" is now about 2 km from the present sea shore and about 4 metres above sea level.

 

[Briar Bear]

To use your ACE250 in wet sand at the beach,run it on 4 bars sens and notch out everything left of the nickel run in coin or jewlery mode.No pinpoint problems and no false signals due to wet sand Hope this helps and HH Wayne at Delaware beaches

Thanks. I will try that the next time I'm down there.

 

[NM5K]

The pinpoint mode is auto tuned so to speak. And you can detune it, or
make it more sensitive when you press, and also the position of the
coil vs the object when you press the button. If you try to pinpoint an object
and it cuts out, it detuned too much. Just move it over a tad, press and then
return to the object. Repeat if needed to get the sensitivity that you want.
Also.. The sensitivity control has no effect at all on the pinpoint mode.
The pinpoint mode is always maximum sensitivity unless you detune it using
the method I described. So there is no point in adjusted the sensitivity for
only the pinpoint mode's sake. It has no effect at all on the pinpoint mode,
which is basically the non motion mode.
The sensitivity control only effects the normal motion ID mode.
And that should be adjusted to suit the ground you are over. I run mine
as high as I can get away with. If it starts chattering too much, turn it down.
If not, leave it up. It will detect deeper with it set higher vs low or mid range.

 

[Briar Bear]

The pinpoint mode is auto tuned so to speak. And you can detune it, or
make it more sensitive when you press, and also the position of the
coil vs the object when you press the button. If you try to pinpoint an object
and it cuts out, it detuned too much. Just move it over a tad, press and then
return to the object. Repeat if needed to get the sensitivity that you want.
Also.. The sensitivity control has no effect at all on the pinpoint mode.
The pinpoint mode is always maximum sensitivity unless you detune it using
the method I described. So there is no point in adjusted the sensitivity for
only the pinpoint mode's sake. It has no effect at all on the pinpoint mode,
which is basically the non motion mode.
The sensitivity control only effects the normal motion ID mode.
And that should be adjusted to suit the ground you are over. I run mine
as high as I can get away with. If it starts chattering too much, turn it down.
If not, leave it up. It will detect deeper with it set higher vs low or mid range.

Cool. That was another thing I wondered about. Great place all, thanks for the info