Garrett in wet sand

[mumszie]

OK I am still upset about the CZ problem but meanwhile.... does anyone that has a Garrett have any ideas about using a Garrett in wet sand at the beach. The settings? You are "supposed" to be able to use it in the water as long as you just put the coil in and do NOT get the control box wet. I won't put it actually IN the water but wanted to just hunt the wet sand. I have a Garrett GTI 1500 and I've tried to hunt that area but my machine just goes nuts and beeps all the time anytime I get even near any wet sand. I have used the salt eliminator but it still beeps all the time. The dry sand hunting is ok and I am not knocking that but it is hard to walk in the dry sand (for me) for any length of time. Besides it would get me closer to the water! LOL

I know a couple of guys that use an ACE 250 at the beach. Come on guys - any tips? Settings? - hints?

Where are you Crackbadger? Help!

 

[Mark652]

I have several detectors but my preferred beach hunter is my Garrett GTI-2500. I have never had any problems, the reason I prefer this detector on the beach is that I don't have to make any setting changes to go from dry to wet and back again. Try lowering your sensitivity in wet sand and see if that corrects your problem. If it does not, it almost sounds like you might have a crack or something similar that is letting moisture into the coil. Does it go nuts on you before you get the coil wet? If so it is something else, but if it goes crazy after it gets wet, it might be the coil. I swing my 2500 over dry sand, go into wet and submerge the coil in the shallow water and have no difficulties whatsoever.

Good luck.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Your 2500 probably has the new mineral chip installed.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Most detectors perform poorly in wet salt sand as salt is a mineral. Lowering your sensitivity down is about the only solution. Does your tector have the new mineral chip installed?

Bill

 

[RickIowa2009]

I have used my detector on a fresh water beach, gtp 1350 garrett, had some weird stuff going on, ear ring backs? small beach.

 

[Chivas Regal]

Reduce the Sensitivity! - Lots!! It's like using your car's headlights on Full Beam in fog - you'll see further if you dip the lights. Wet salt does NOT affect your machine's performance - never has and never will. This fact is non-negotiable. However, sea water contains gold, silver, copper, iron and other metals in dilute form, and it is these that affect your machine's performance, not the salt. If you take a bag of rock salt and douse it with fresh water, then pass your detector over it, nothing happens. Do the same with sea water and you will get a response.

You can tune out the dilute minerals either by using the Discrim control as you would the Ground Balance control, or by detuning the machine with the Sensitivity control. PI machines (especially the Sea Hunter II) don't suffer from this problem and rip into seawater-soaked sand like there's no tommorrow.