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The Ace *does* work in salt water and wet sand

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I've read quite a bit of bashing about the Ace on this subject (on the Minelab forum). While it is true that you can get quite a bit of *pinball machine* noise in mineralized sand, I've now spent enough time in wet sand to realize that you have to ignore single, jangly "dings" and concentrate on the nickel-pulltab stronger, consistent signals. I'm finding targets, you just have to have a discriminating ear.
 
Yeah Minelab bashes anything that works. :) If a user knows what he is doing the 250 will work as well as anything else. It's like hunting in nests of trash, you have to ignore and recognize the bad signals and concentrate on the good one. Good post.

Bill
 
I've only used my Ace in salt water once before, with the results you mentioned. it will be interesting when I get to have a shot at it in a week or so again. This time I'll bury a test coin in this sort of area and see how it goes. One plus I'll give for the X-Terra's though. I've hunted on the beach before with it, while having waves crashing over the coil, and it never murmured (mine is a 30, which means that it has a fixed ground balance). One the minus side of the ledger; I've had to send it back to Minelab 3 times for the same problems! In the end I insisted that they replace the control box in it's entirety! In my view, Minelab seem to have a lack of concern for the machines that they have already sold, as there are quite a number of them getting around that shut down on their own. It seems that a badly designed battery pack is the cause of the problem. I've had my X-Terra for nearly 2 years now, and it's only been the last week that I've really been happy with it. I adapted the Aces shallow pinpointing technique to it, and now find that it can pinpoint a lot better. Trying to pinpoint with it using the VCO is a frustrating proposition. I could go on for a while and really bash the X-Terra's for there poor reliability, but I'll leave it there. I did end up buying a Pocket UniProbe from the States in the end to over come some of it's short falls.
Mick Evans.
 
Three years ago I had never seen a metal detector up close, other than a WW II mine detector. My wife and I went to Myrtle Beach where I purchased an ACE 250, turned it on, did not even bother to read the instruction book, and within 20 minutes was finding coins.
I now own an ace 250 and a GTP1350 and have found enough relics and coins to pay for both detectors if I so wish. In my humble opinion you just can't beat a GARRETT. I am living proof that a Garrett is a TURN ON and SEARCH detector.
Thank you for taking the time to read my humble opinion.
As Always Your Friend,
John D.
 
I've never got around to trying mine in saltwater yet, but I can see what
you are talking about. Thats basically the same way I run a 250 if I want
"max depth" in the ground. With the sensistivity set high, it chatters a lot,
but after a while you can tell what is chatter, and what is a real target.
It's good to hear it actually is still detecting metal ok under those
conditions. I keep threatening to take mine to the beach, but I never
get around to going to the beach... And it's only about 60 miles away.. :/
I'll do it one of these days..
MK
 
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