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excal 2 sensitivity to salt water waves

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rich9984

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is it normal for my excal 2 to false when a wave hits my coil? its fine in dry sand. and when it is totally submerged. my sensitivity setting is at 12:00 sometimes 1:00 and there is no sand in the coil cover. is there anything i can do to stop this. my old excal didnt do this. wierd right?
 
Mine does the same thing until I get out to where the waves arn't breaking over the coil..Its the water rushing around the coil that gives the false tone..
 
Try lowering the sensitivity if that does not help,
Then Both of you guys might have defective coils.
 
Sometimes if there is to much slack in the coil wire where you start wrapping it around the shaft it will move due to the waves hitting and moving the wire. I use electrical tape to secure mine. If that is not the problem shake the coil wire. If it works fine in dry sand and not in the water sounds like something is loose. Put some dielectrical lube on the battery connector threads and snug it back. DON'T use tools on any of the connections. Hope this helps. HH :minelab: Might lower your sensitivity and slow down your swing speed.
 
thanks for your responses. i will try to wrap the wire a little more tightlyand tie wrap the ends but if it still falses are there any other suggestions and or is any one else having the same problem?
 
I've hunted salt water quite a bit with my Excalibur II 1000 and I do not have that problem. But I can make it do that if I wanted.

It could be you are running too much sensitivity. I found that if I run everything full tilt, I get all kinds of noises.

I can run fairly high sensitivity if I back down on my volume and threshold and add just a tad of discrimination....maybe one or two numbers.

Seems every setting on the Excaliburs are connected. Adjust one and it affects the others to some degree.

Play with your settings and I'll bet that your wave problem will go away.
 
I treat it as being quite normal, not just with my Escal, but my PI machine as well. If you are in very shallow water, with the waves breaking over it, then your coil is trying to cope with an extra load of salt rushing past it, and, additionally, if there is sand swirling about in the water, any minerals that are in the sand are swirling around your coil. Unless the lead is actually flapping over your coil, then I wouldn't think the lead is your problem. I could be wrong, but I dont think you have aproblem with your coil either, if it is oonly happening with water breaking over the coil, or rushing past the coil. I regard it aspar for the course when you are hunting in the shallow saltwater surf. Lowering the sensitivity might help a bit, but this falsing has never bothered me enough to make me do that. That's my personal opinion, and we all have our own preferences, I know.
 
Almost everyone recommends that lowering the sensitivity a bit should do it for you. Every 'pro' I've read recommends this in their books as well. We all have a tendency to tweak the sensitivity too high, but the Excal was designed to be very powerful and deep at 1 or 2 o'clock positions, and if you're in high salinity, even lower. Drop the sensitivity, bring the volume up to 3/4, adjust threshold to very, very low, and try it and see for yourself if that doesn't cure the wave action instability without sacrificing very good depth. Listen for very subtle threshold changes to get the deep ones, which you won't hear if the sensitivity is too high and the waves are causing instability. This is just my .02, but it always worked for me.
 
Got the Problem at the Ocean with the Excal's and the Infinium but you get use to it with time and can tell the difference between the targets, scoop and falsing. In the Bay with small swells, no problems. This Video is in the PP/AM mode showing the waves affecting the threshold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJdlYjv06Kg
 
I really don't get much chatter when hunting in the "Froth"... Meaning: right where the little waves break up close to shore...

which, is one of my most productive area's..

I'm not saying that I NEVER do.... but, when I do at times.. I just turn down the Sens a notch...

if you experience it quite often.. You may have some issues going on... Sand in the coil cover, Pinhole in coil, Separation of the Epoxy on the coil next to the rim, Nick in the cable from your scoop..

I've seen it all.

Wish ya the best.. hopefully its just a fishing hook that's swinging off of it..LOL



Great Video "Oldbeechnut" You do get a bit more chatter with yours.. even after the froth goes away..

BTY.. is that a Mr.Gold "Scoop"
 
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