Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

MXT

D

djbutch

Member
I have a question when I search the beach I have a problem when I go from dry sand to wet. My MXT ground balances ok and then it goes haywire making all kinds of noise. I use the relic mode and have good luck until I hit the wet sand has anyone else had a similar problem like this. Oh by the way I have rebalanced it many times in wet sand also still have same problem.
 
Hi Butch I have the same problem ,even tried to reground, every time I swing the machine goes crazy a little . Cant seem to get it right ,Maybe nancy knows why?
 
Are you guys in salt or fresh water beaches? I would have to assume salt and if so are you using the salt mode on the Trac toggle. Also are you using coil covers?
 
At the beach correct salt water.I myself am using the salt Mode ,relic mode ground balanced first for wet sand and NO covers. gain at 9 (tried to lower it),disc. at 3, with a very slight threshold.
and a whites DD coil.
Every time I swing the sound goes up and down ,not a steady tracking.Any ideas? Butch and I have the same exact trouble Thanks john........
 
Boy oh boy, I don't know what else to say. I would definitely put the gain a LOT lower. I used 6-7 when I hunt the beaches....lower if you can. The sensitivity is is just that.....sensitive on the beach. Use the toggle switch for salt after it's ground balanced. Good luck and if I think of anything else, I'll let you know. HH, Nancy
 
It sounds like you are doing everything right John. I don't know where you are hunting. but some kinds of sand, (like black) or highly mineralized, really plays heck with a single frequency detector and in extreme cases, even the dual frequency units. Your BHID should do better with it's dual frequencies.
 
Thanks Nancy and Larry,I have not tried to lower the sens that low at 6 or 7 But I will try that out next time.Does it make that much difference?

And Larry do you think the BH-ID would be as sens as the MXT??? When we had the last cut I was using the MXT and pulled 14 Gold and sterlings rings.

The signals were somewhat low on some of them but I still heard them. Thanks for the advice....John
 
I can't answer that one John, I suspect the answer to be yes, but I did like the BHID which is a stripped down DFX dual frequency detector. It served me well on the Mexican beaches years ago, easily getting 12 inches or more in the powered white sand. Even if the depth is the same, it should be more stable in the salt.
 
Worked my MXT at the beach over the summer. Didnt know much then and still dont know much now but...... When next to the wet sand and/or at the surf line in Florida, my MXT was VERY sensitive AT TIMES and would also go haywire (even Overload due to strong ground mineralization on the FL Beach) similar to what Butch described above. Here's what I did :

1) I backed off of the GAIN and that helped or
2) I went to SALT on TRAC and that helped or
3) I moved sligthly back inland away from the wet/mineralized (SALT) sand and was OK.

JMHO. This is what worked for me understanding that everyones beach differs from each other. CCH

"Did anyone yell Snake ?"
 
Wow all the answers are so interesting and all the differ ant settings. We search here at Salisbury beach in Mass. and Hampton beach in New Hampshire the soil is not materialized that I know of but it may be, I will try lowering the sensitivity and see what that does. I thought that lowering it would make the machine less sensitive to objects in the ground I may have misunderstood what I have read. Thanks for all the info guy's. I always get the help I need here that's for sure. Happy hunting folks will soon be putting machines away for the winter here ground gets too hard lol except for the beaches.
 
Maybe swing the coil parallel with the shoreline, helps the tracking. I hunt with my mxt gain at10 to +1 at Jacksonville Beach salt tracking, c/j mode. The threshold just faint. The mxt is either good in all wet or all salt, but not at terminator line.
 
Hi easyswing Thats exactly what we do parallel to the shore but not at the waters edge.WoW 10 to +1,if I did that my machine
would be going even crazier.My MXT is only 1 year old so I dont think its the machines fault.Of course we are in the relic mode
not c/j mode.I guess we will try ,trial & error tracking. Thanks for the input....John................
 
I never went to the beach with my mxt, but I would like to. I would try the CJ mode first
 
Hi TOPO, when you do go to the beach you really will like the relic mode better believe me.
In the relic mode you get a totally different hi sound on your good hits the rest is junk so you dont have to dig it up.

I would never use the C&J mode at the beach again.You can run a slight threshold and distinguish right away
if it is good gold and coins or junk just by the sound.Try it out sometime in the field. John........
 
ufobbs said:
Hi TOPO, when you do go to the beach you really will like the relic mode better believe me.
In the relic mode you get a totally different hi sound on your good hits the rest is junk so you dont have to dig it up.

I would never use the C&J mode at the beach again.You can run a slight threshold and distinguish right away
if it is good gold and coins or junk just by the sound.Try it out sometime in the field. John........
Click to expand...


Hi ufobbs! at the beach, do you use the alternate Relic mode or the normal one? I find myself doing better in alt relic mode when I have difficult (ploughed) grounds and little or no time

I always had that bug of hunting gold rings with my mxt at the beach
 
i hunt Ma beaches and to tell you the truth the mxt is lousy in wet sand around here, i have better luck with an idx pro,I don't think there are that many brands that do well on these beaches, unless they are dedicated water machines.JMHOP JIM.
 
the mxt and even other brands don't do well on wet sand on MA. beaches,unless you get into relly high end models and dedicated water machines, i have had very limitted sucsess with the idx pro and the mxt.The idx pro handles better and is more stable. JMHOP JIM
 
I have used my MXT at the beach many times here in North Carolina. I use the Excelerator 10" DD, and I run the threshold very low and the gain wide open (+3). It's a little chatty at the waters edge, but works great and very deep. John
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top