Anfibio questions.... Hopefully not rehashing an old topic...

[Mark ( ohio )]

can anyone give me a honest opinion on the anfibio multi and the operation on a salt water beach ?? I mainly hunt east coast beaches.. I'm looking for feedback on how chatty a machine it may be overall operation ease of set-up etc....

Anyone care to weigh in..

Mark ( ohio )

 

[nugget71]

For extra performance ground balance in beach mode then switch to your favorite program. Mine is deep mode on the beach or 4 tone. Sometimes 2 tone.
Always ground balance again if you switch frequency.
On the beach I'm after gold so 14khz or higher is good.
If u hit the water submerge the coil. When water hits the coil it will false. Once under it runs smooth.low and steady and happy days!
Hope this helps.
Cheers!

 

[RichW]

Nugget71, what kind of depth are you getting in the salt water with your 14khz set up? Any salt water machine you would compare it to depth wise?

 

[nugget71]

Obviously depending on size of target and how bad your beach is with mineralization I've dug targets deeper then the length of my pro 35 pinpointer.
I've dug down 10 inches on a couple of our Aussie dollar coins which are roughly the size of a Washington quarter I think.
Gotta have your gain as high as you can manage and deep mode blasting the ground. Slower swing speed.
Don't forget I have the Anfibio coil on my Kruzer. I'm loving it!

 

[RichW]

Many Thanks !

 

[Andy Sabisch]

It depends on the type of conditions you are facing . .. we used it on the beaches between Charleston and Myrtle Beach last December and to be honest, it struggled to get more than a few inches in the wet sand. The combination of salt and severe black sand killed it performance wise.

We had several detectors with us and compared signals . . . the Anfibio could not detect much more than a few recent drops and falsed in doing so. The BEACH mode did not help nor did the EUD function. Even ground balancing to the wet sand did not solve things

We did contact Nokta and were told that some beaches will cause these issues and from what we saw, the East coast in the US from north Florida up to Maine will fall into the group . . . . they said that the multi-frequency unit should address the issue (as it does on the multi-frequency units from other companies) but that they were not planning on doing any programming changes or updates to the Anfibio to address it . . .

It works great on fresh water sites but in the salt beaches we used it at, it did not impress in terms of stability or depth.

Just one opinion based on the testing we did

Andy

 

[RichW]

Thanks for posting that information Andy. I hope we don't have to wait too long for their multi-frequency unit.

 

[cjc]

That's the simple fact with these detectors--it can take years to find the optimal way to run them. This is especially true where you have a lot of optional coils--such as with the Anfibio. It took me several years and some instruction from a mentor to learn how to use the WOT coil on my Sovereign once I learned I was getting dimes at 20". Before that I was ready to sell it...
When I asked this question of one of my mentors (Jimmy Pugh--manufacturer of the legendary Anchor Electronics Barracuda Pulse) he replied "when I started--all we had was 15 kHz. We learned to run that under any conditions by trial and error and eventually got good results"
cjc