Seawater mode question

[nagov]

Just curious about what the Seawater mode does exactly. I spent 8 hours yesterday in the water up to neck deep trying to learn this machine and get experience. It was almost flat in the Gulf yesterday for my area so I was actually able to turn off the Seawater mode and run fine without it. Only problems I had was IF I didn't keep my sweep level or if I raised my coil off of the bottom, or I got close to shore and had waves breaking over the coil, it would then false. Quite similar with using the Excal hot in discriminate mode...
My thoughts at this point are IF you can run without Seawater mode, do it.... Is that thought correct or should I stay in Seawater mode?

On another note, I did find that when first entering the water you do have to let the machine adapt to the water (temperature).... Until it adapts to the water/temperature, it is a little chatty with falses but will still sound off if a target is underneath the coil.

Did manage to get my first jewelry yesterday....within 20 feet of turning off the seawater mode, I hit tone I dug immediately and found a sterling silver ring in the bottom of my scoop....

Cliff

 

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

IMHO you should keep your seawater setting on, from what I understand the mode drops the KHZ on the machine to make it more stable in the salt! As far as the CTX being chattery the first couple minutes in the water has been a known issue with a lot of other users! Anyhow hope this helps

 

[nagov]

IMHO you should keep your seawater setting on, from what I understand the mode drops the KHZ on the machine to make it more stable in the salt! As far as the CTX being chattery the first couple minutes in the water has been a known issue with a lot of other users! Anyhow hope this helps

Thanks Bav for the reply. Odds are I'll keep using the seawater mode but may do some additional experimenting.

Cliff

 

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

sounds like a plan be sure and post your results on any expierimenting you do so we can all see them