Short version:
Couldn't get the XL Pro to act well if I GB'd over the wet sand, but if I GB'd over dry, locked it and then went to the wet area, it performed well.
Longer version:
I took the XL Pro to the beach to try it over the wet salt areas as well as some dry sand work. I started out over the dry sand and every thing performed well. Went out over the wet sand, ground balanced over the wet sand, locked the GB, started swinging and things were very noisy. Ground balanced a couple of times. No better. Got way towards the bad ground area of the Sig Bal and not a lot of improvement.
Next day, thought about it some and remembered reading some of Monte's notes on the Tesoro forum about how the fixed ground balance detectors get noisy when too negative. With the Tejon, I need to go very negative over the wet salt compared to the dry sand just inches away, and it is noisy too. Thought, lets try ground balancing in the dry sand and keep it there. So, with Sig Bal just a hair above the preset, ground balanced over the dry sand, locked it and walked over the wet. Discrimination just below foil. Now it's pretty quite, and I was able to pull some coins and tabs that appeared to be pretty respectable depths, considering the dig holes fall in and depth is a little hard to figure.
I was in North Myrtle Beach and the sand there does not seem to be real bad. Not much black sand, but there are some hot rocks.
Any thoughts on approaches to help GB for wet salt?
Cheers,
tvr
PS I tried GB'ing the Tejon over the dry sand and did not re-balance over the wet and it too seemed to perform better over the wet than when balanced over the wet.
Couldn't get the XL Pro to act well if I GB'd over the wet sand, but if I GB'd over dry, locked it and then went to the wet area, it performed well.
Longer version:
I took the XL Pro to the beach to try it over the wet salt areas as well as some dry sand work. I started out over the dry sand and every thing performed well. Went out over the wet sand, ground balanced over the wet sand, locked the GB, started swinging and things were very noisy. Ground balanced a couple of times. No better. Got way towards the bad ground area of the Sig Bal and not a lot of improvement.
Next day, thought about it some and remembered reading some of Monte's notes on the Tesoro forum about how the fixed ground balance detectors get noisy when too negative. With the Tejon, I need to go very negative over the wet salt compared to the dry sand just inches away, and it is noisy too. Thought, lets try ground balancing in the dry sand and keep it there. So, with Sig Bal just a hair above the preset, ground balanced over the dry sand, locked it and walked over the wet. Discrimination just below foil. Now it's pretty quite, and I was able to pull some coins and tabs that appeared to be pretty respectable depths, considering the dig holes fall in and depth is a little hard to figure.
I was in North Myrtle Beach and the sand there does not seem to be real bad. Not much black sand, but there are some hot rocks.
Any thoughts on approaches to help GB for wet salt?
Cheers,
tvr
PS I tried GB'ing the Tejon over the dry sand and did not re-balance over the wet and it too seemed to perform better over the wet than when balanced over the wet.