Hardrock65 asked: "Does the Impact have a beach mode?"

[Monte]

Dilek provided the direct answer, but I thought I would add a couple of additional comments ... if readers don't mind.

First, most often when people ask about a "Beach Mode" we presume they are referring to a detector being used on a Salt Water beach. The circuitry design of the Impact's COG or Beach mode is to provide added control of the very low-conductive issues with wetted salts. Most better designed detectors, like ALL of the Makro Racer and Racer 2 units and the Nokta FORS CoRe, FORS Relic and new Impact, have that function.

Note that the Beach or COG mode is not needed when hunting a Fresh-Water beach such as a river, stream, lake or other impounded salt-free water body. Those searches can be accomplished using any of the All Metal modes or any of the Discriminate modes other than COG. Also note that the COG mode can sometimes be useful when away from salt water beaches, but when dealing with well wetted alkaline soils as the salt content can be 'brought to life' when it gets reasonably wet saturated. This just adds to the flexibility of having the COG mode on a versatile, all-purpose detector.

Monte

 

[Ozleif]

We could ask if the Impact could handle the somewhat dry salt lakes in Western Australia, but the only way we would get to know is by going there ourselves, which is what we have had to do in the past if we wanted to test a NOKTA/MAKRO detector in this gold bearing environment.

 

[Monte]

any detector to make sure it has the ability to handle any of our site challenges. If those "salt lakes" in Western Australia are in fact dry, there should be very little annoyance from the salty environment, unless it rains and they become damp to wet, to even saturated instead of dry. I will be headed on a detecting jaunt in a month or so that will take me to Utah here in the USA where I plan to hunt a few spots at the Great Salt Lake.

Very salty, guaranteed, but I've hunted there into the lake surf, but mainly on some 'dry' areas or some that had been wetted down from a summer thunderstorm that passed through. Not yet with the Impact, as that I will do on my next trip down there, but I have searched them with my Makro Racer 2 and Nokta FORS CoRe and FORS Relic and they all handled the conditions pretty well. The metal detecting life is full of challenges that sometimes we, alone, have to determine how functional a detector and coil are at handling a site's elements to satisfy our wants and needs..

Monte