Royal Sabre at the beach

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I took my Royal Sabre to the beach. Altough I was told he was not good in the wet salt sand I gave it a try and I was happily suprised! The Sabre was on sens 9 and disc 2 I did not use the notch. The machine was very quiet and sometimes I had to run my spade over the coil to be sure she was still working. When there was something in the sand she shouted in my earphone.
The Sabre gave me several coins a few of them even at almost 10" depth. One of them being very small made of nickel.
My question is was this normal for the Royal Sabre or am I just lucky that my machine runs smooth at a salt beach?
Greetz,
Peter

 

[Anonymous]

The Royal Sabre was of pre-ED-120 discriminate circuit design, therefore it had a lot of discrimination on the lower end.
There is a gross misunderstanding about beach hunting and manual ground balance. The Royal Sabre's have a factory preset GB. While I personally prefer a manual GB model, as long as there is a good, <EM>functional</EM> GB, then the issue of cancelling the negative iron ground minerals is solved.
So far as handling the positive, low-conductive wet salts, you reject the low <EM>conductive</EM> targets using the discriminate control. Since the Royal Sabre's have an ample low-end rejection setting, they generally hande the low-conductive salts without a problem. Matter of fact, I often was able to ignore the 'wet zones' with a minimum discriminate setting with the Royal Sabre as well as the 'original' Eldorado that I preferred.
Make sure you needed the #2 discriminate setting. If not, hunt the beaches closer to the minimum level! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">
<EM><STRONG>Monte

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Monte,
Next time I will check how low I can set the disc. Before the machine stops running smoothly.
Greetz,
Peter