Question about Seawater setting?

[jtalley007]

Would like your fellow CTX beach hunters to give me your feedback on the Seawater setting. At the outer banks I tried the seawater setting and manual sensitivity and the detector runs nice and smooth up to about 26.

What I am noticing is it appears the signals are not as crisp as with seawater unchecked and on auto +3

I will do some more testing but appears that was happening from what I can recall?

What I'm trying to describe is rather than a solid bam! when you get a hit the signal is a little warbly.

Have any of you pros like buried crap in NJ and Jason in TN in noticed this effect?

I hate it because I love this machine but am over 2 hours from the beach and rarely get to hunt, that is VA beach.

I am almost 4 hours to Corolla on the OBX and only get down 1 or 2 times per year and the conditions have been lousy every time I come down for 5 years.

I would really love to hit a good few days of conditions where targets are plentiful so I can really play with settings.

I am not that great with technology but can usually get the best out of my detectors and have been using sovereigns, excals and explorers since they came out.

Showed a guy the CTX yesterday and let him hold it and he said WOW! He was swinging and explorer SE with a sunray 12" coil and I have a feeling when he gets home he will be ordering a new one ASAP.

Thanks for the great forum and feedback.

 

[jtalley007]

Please give me your thoughts, thanks

 

[dadzjunk]

Hi jtalley007,
I am certainly not considered a pro like Jason, Digger and some of these other guys, but I have been detecting on some of the Gulf beaches and have not noticed the problem that you mentioned, and I have been using the seawater setting and it is very stable and clear as a bell, running Auto +3 , even in the shallow water that I have tried it in.Maybe someone with more beach experience can tell you more than I, but I am really impressed with this machine on the beach and on land back in Kentucky also. Best of luck to you.

 

[Ronin]

not had a chance to use it yet but will be hitting the beaches on the gulf in another 10 days and will give you feedback after that
have had great luck in tn so far have only been out a couple of days because of the weather but the Id numbers have been dead on
especially for nickles 12-15 in an area that I have hit many times with an Explorer xs even found a 37 buffalo

 

[qkslvr]

I used mine for a week in N myrtle Beach last month. Seawater setting worked great in manual at sensitivity of 24-26. Over 26 and you got some chatter. The only issue I had was on some extemely deep targets (10-12 inches). I'd get a signal, scoop out several scoops of wet sand, then the signal would seem to disappear. Pushing pinpoint would bring it back - There was always a target in the hole. Once I realized this, the pinpoint mode was used on all deep tagets. I think it is because the Minelabs don't always airtest well, so a 12 inch airgap between the coil and the target was hard for the detector to see in open screen mode.

I dug some green coins that were well over 12 inches down in wet sand, I'm very impressed with the depth.