What's the average ground balance numbers in wet salt water sand for a G2

[Whimpster]

Well it was a nice day here in Nova Scotia...+7 degrees sun was out so off to the beach I went for the first time with my new G2 11"DD coil.
First thing I did was to ground balance the G2... it came in at 75 to 79 and set the sensitivity on 70 disc on 30 and off I went.
I noticed I was getting a lot of false high tones as I moved the coil over the sand....and if I touched the sand with the coil it would produce a high tone?
Didn't have much luck so I moved up off the beach and started getting good hard hits in the 60 & 70's...and dug a pile off pull tabs bottle caps at 6 to 9 inches.
Wasn't impressed with the results I got on the beach...what would be a standard ground balance setting for beach's?

thanks

 

[amcjavelin]

well i've tried mine on a beach in maine and my GBal would only go to 14 to 20 then there alot 43VDI signals that were falsing alot, just ignored them and kept digging, this on my beach area has ben one the best vlf's for me on salt water beach

 

[Dave J.]

Whimpster, on a saltwater beach there is no "average", it can run all the way from 0 with wet salt and no iron mineralization, to in the 90's with iron mineralization and no salt. And the numbers can change big time in a distance as little as a meter (about 3 feet). It's important to sweep the searchcoil parallel to the waterline in order to minimize variations in wetness and in sand mineral composition.

In the case of the GB/G2, we designed it so you can ground balance only in all metals mode where you can hear what happens when you're ground balancing. If the ground balance is not adjusted properly, you can hear it, nothing is being "discriminated out".

When we designed the GB/G2 platform, we had in mind first gold, then relics, then coins, and last salt. After it was on the market we heard reports of how good it was on a salt water beach and had to rethink our understanding of what it was we'd created.

--Dave J.

 

[Whimpster]

Amcjavelin,thanks for the reply,I'll have to go back and spend more time and try to figure out what the g2 is telling me...just thought my GBal numbers were high compaired to what others have mentioned.

Thanks again

well i've tried mine on a beach in maine and my GBal would only go to 14 to 20 then there alot 43VDI signals that were falsing alot, just ignored them and kept digging, this on my beach area has ben one the best vlf's for me on salt water beach

 

[Whimpster]

Dave J,

Thanks for the info,I wasn't sure if I had a problem with the G2 or not....it was the first time I had it on a beach and was expecting to see lower GrBal numbers from other post I've been reading.
I also have a Omega 8000,it's a great machine...just doesn't work well on beach's...hence why I bought the G2.
I'm enjoying my new hobby and learning as I go...one of the reasons I bought the Teknetics line is it's nice to get a direct response from the product engineer on a forum if you have a question.
Say's something about the product and the person.

Thank you,Bob

Whimpster, on a saltwater beach there is no "average", it can run all the way from 0 with wet salt and no iron mineralization, to in the 90's with iron mineralization and no salt. And the numbers can change big time in a distance as little as a meter (about 3 feet). It's important to sweep the searchcoil parallel to the waterline in order to minimize variations in wetness and in sand mineral composition.

In the case of the GB/G2, we designed it so you can ground balance only in all metals mode where you can hear what happens when you're ground balancing. If the ground balance is not adjusted properly, you can hear it, nothing is being "discriminated out".

When we designed the GB/G2 platform, we had in mind first gold, then relics, then coins, and last salt. After it was on the market we heard reports of how good it was on a salt water beach and had to rethink our understanding of what it was we'd created.

--Dave J.