Ace 250 Beach Settings

[monoman]

hi all going to the beach on saturday and was wondering what the best settings would be
jewelery
all metal = junk
thanks MM

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Set up in Jewellery mode, run your sensitivity up as high as 6 or 7 bars in the dry sand. If you want to hunt in the wet sand, the Ace will tend to false, but this can be overcome by reducing your sensitivity down to 5 bars. Stay in jewellery mode but also knock out the next lowest notch. This will allow you to still hear small gold rings but stop the falsing from occurring. You will only have half the depth in the wet sand, but this is normal for most VLF detectors. The coil doesn't like waves crashing over it, as you can get chronic falsing when that occurs.
Mick Evans.

 

[lazyaussie]

i"v hit a few Beach's in Melbourne i 'd stick to the dry sand turn the senc as high as you can run in all metal & just leave the iron tones in the sand, there's a lot of people who hunt the popular Beach's most use mine lab sovereigns, excals & explorers these detectors hit coin size targets deep in the saltwater & wet sand, wheres the ace loves smaller stuff ( big stuff = coins & big to med gold rings small stuff = small gold rings usually with stones ) & it does well in the dry sand & goes quite deep. most detector users hit the wet sand first as the dry sand has more junk if you are prepared to dig some junk you might find some missed goodies as well
my tip is in all metal if you get a bouncing target from iron to foil to 5c or just iron to foil scrape a couple of inch of sand away with your foot swing the coil over again if the target hits mainly foil to 5c dig it i"v found deep gold by doing this if it hits mainly iron leave it as that's what it is.
i really hope this helps you find some nice gold rings
lazyaussie