Eric Foster-I need some help

[Gonnagetlucky]

Eric, I currently have a Minelab Excalibur 2 and I am interested in doing some dry sand cache hunting on the Treasure Coast. My question is, will a Pulse Star 2 with a 40"x40" coil go deeper in the dry sand than my Excal 2 if the cache was the size of a baseball? If so, approximately how deep? It seems to me that my Excal goes approximately 1.5' deep in dry sand. I have Pulse Star lined up for $600 used and as you probably know they retail for $2,500. I was told you were the guy to ask. I am basically trying to determine if the Pulse Star will have a better shot at a deep cache. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Eric Foster]

I would say that the Pulse Star will go much deeper than the Excal, provided you are looking for reasonably large targets, such as caches. The PS should go at least twice as deep on the size target you mentioned.

Eric.

 

[UK Brian]

The deepest on a beer can (approx. 6"x3") was around four feet with the 40" coil for the old model Pulse Star II. The Pro version looks identical except for the little "Pro" badge but it might have had the depth boosted. I was a little disappointed in view of the claims that a handgun or small poke of coins or gold could be detected at up to 10 feet with the original model. I think that was dropped from later advertising.
They also said that "Pulse signal is virtually unlimited (in depth) depending on target size". I don't know if you would agree with that Eric (thanks for the swift reply to my e-mail by the way).

Brian