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MAIDEN VOYAGE INTO SURF WITH EXCAL 1000 BUT...

Oh, I also understand YOU. I just don't understand HOW that's possible. But I don't doubt you. Stranger things have happened. Maybe somebody smarter than me can explain it to us because Auto is supposed to make it run nice and stable and for the brave souls, we TURN IT UP! Anyway, 11 works great for me and that's all I need to know and if it works for you too, that's the important thing. You are getting the best balance of depth and stability at that setting and shouldn't need to move it more than 1 position up or down. If you can run 10 quietly and stable, give it a whirl...you may get another inch. If it gets a little flaky on you, drop it to 12 noon. You might lose a half inch.

I personally find it's not always how many inches you have but also how you swing your stick. :lol:
 
When you are not in the Auto mode, you have told the microprocessor to do exactly as told by the position of the knob. It will not do anything but sit there with a locked-in gain position. Any position off Auto is extremely stable. You are right in that I can also run around 10am in dry sand, 10am-11am in wet sand and 11am-1pm in the splash or in the water.

Now, when you go to Auto, you have given total control to the microprocessor that "sees" the minerals, the salt, the black sand and also "sees" the waves moving around and splahing on the coil. In theory, it should be stable as it adjusts itself, but in reality with the front end of the processor getting bombarded with everything all at once, it can't handle it and goes nuts. It is trying to compensate for black sand, minerals, wave action on the coil and it goes nuts chirping, growling trying to balance itself out. With the machine off Auto, it is in a fixed gain, no Auo adjust mode and will be very stable.

My 2 cents and Happy Hunting!
Va Beach Ron
 
See there? I knew if somebody smarter than me explained it, we'd all be a lot smarter.

I guess I tend to think of "Auto" as a low sensitivity "feel good" mode where you sacrifice power for stability. It works that way with some machines but apparently not with the Excal. Your explanation makes sense.
 
Every time a wave came over the Excal head unit, the threshold would change. It tuned out that the connection to the battery wasn't that good. I found I could reproduce it by wiggling the cord at the battery connector.

I cleaned the connectors and made sure it was tight. I havent had the problem since.

I don't know if this is your problem but maybe it will help.
 
See, I told him to check that earlier. Because her SAID that when the head unit was out of the water, it stopped. Which would lead me to believe that being in Auto was NOT the problem. But he supposedly checked that, so...
 
it would bloom and blastr your eyes. It would flare up and down as light changed. Put it in manual and adjust it and it would run perfectly.

Happy Hunting!

Va Beach Ron
 
Well I have to admit never having tried it in Auto. Except for the test I always do with any new machine, where I take it outside, lay a blanket out, lay out every conceivable target, and see what they act like with that machine. I always do THAT in Auto. Or at whatever the default sensitivity is. Other than that, I've never been one for factory settings on ANYTHING. I have an overclocked computer, and overclocked Mustang, and I like to overclock my metal detectors too. :)
 
I rode my bike today like 6 different times. Went all over the back roads around Pungo and the greater Kempsville area. Took the wife out for a long ride and then my daughter. It was beautiful today and the bike was running like a swiss watch. I was really digging my new Corbin seat too. I'm sorry to say that it beat the hell out of metal detecting, for a change. Yesterday I drove to Lightfoot in my Explorer and swung my coil around a new housing construction site for 3 hours and got two 3-ringer minnieballs, so the land hunting didn't have anything on the beach hunting, at least yesterday.

Here's a couple more pics of the bike, now that everything is done. First one is what it looked like when I got it from the yard sale. Then the new tank, then the new tank, side cover, and seat.
 
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