West Coast beaches...

[Crumble]

I'm really interested in this machine, but I live in Southern California, and we have some extremely hot sand on our beaches. I'm wondering if anyone on the west coast has tried a ctx on some super hot black sand beaches? I've heard guys in florida say that the ctxx falses on wet sand, and that sand is nothing compared to california sand. Did they just have it set wrong? Any ideas?

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[mtwolf2270]

Good question, I cannot say about West coast but I have hunted 3 days in South Carolina and even running the machine hotter and in auto I have had zero falsing and when I had some minor chatter like an SE will give; I manual ground balanced and bumped up to 24 and stayed stable in wet sand in and out of the water. So I am puzzled on the falsing, You can only run any detector so hot before instability occurs the big claim on this machine is to be able to handle mineralized soils. I would like Randy or another tester that has really had time on this machine at the beach to address the falsing and black sand issues if possible. Nothing against anyone else but without real time on this machine any number of settings could have caused these issues.

 

[unearth]

I'm really interested in this machine, but I live in Southern California, and we have some extremely hot sand on our beaches. I'm wondering if anyone on the west coast has tried a ctx on some super hot black sand beaches? I've heard guys in florida say that the ctxx falses on wet sand, and that sand is nothing compared to california sand. Did they just have it set wrong? Any ideas?

An

I live in So. Cal and have hunted the west coast beaches from Malibu to La Jolla. I've had my etrac for 3 years and have never encountered a bad falsing problem. Every once in a while there will be some chatter but not much. The only time that I've encountered a bit of chatter on an "almost every time situation" is when I'm going into the water or when the wave hits the coil, but, once in the water the machine settles down. Most of the time when I get the chatter, on the dry sand, is when I'm using the WOT coil. So, when using the WOT coil I bring the sensitivity down a notch or two.
Don't know about the ctx, but have been reading that it acts like an etrac in many ways and in some ways better. I'm hoping it works as well or better on the west coast beaches seeing that I've got one on order.
Hope this helps. HH