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which is the better machine
- Thread starter birddog
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have used the Tiger since the summer of 1991,it has been a great detector in the fresh water, it's a ring and coin finder delux..The sandshark is whole different game as it a PI machine and will pick up bits of rusted trash on the freashwater beach, However in the ocean salt water the sandshark will be in it's own prime evironment.............Hombre
Hombre, do you dive, or just wade...I am wondering if a Sand Shark with the hip mount, a beefed up battery pack, and a clean sweep coil would make a good relic machine..Field hunting, you get a signal, you DIG.I assume the CS coil will go deeper being a pulse detector..I have to go back, but I also think the Sand Shark has some discrimination cordially Nad
For the salt water beach the Fisher CZ20 is a great machine. Can dive down to 250 feet with it. I have one with the 10 inch coil, found gold rings 8 inches deep in the wet sand. Dual frequency, 5 and 15 khz simultaniously. Whites Beach Hunter ID, 5 and 15 khz does a good job too. Both are heavy (for diving), must be hip mounted.
Howdy Nad
I don't think the cleansweep coil is an option on the Sand Shark, but it will work on the Tiger Shark with an adaptor from Tesoro, it's just not a waterproof connection. In my last post I said that I have had the Tiger Shark since the summer of 1991, that was a brain flatulance, I meant to say since the summer of 2001. And yes, I do wade in shallow fresh water lakes with the Tiger during the summer............Hombre
I don't think the cleansweep coil is an option on the Sand Shark, but it will work on the Tiger Shark with an adaptor from Tesoro, it's just not a waterproof connection. In my last post I said that I have had the Tiger Shark since the summer of 1991, that was a brain flatulance, I meant to say since the summer of 2001. And yes, I do wade in shallow fresh water lakes with the Tiger during the summer............Hombre
Part number COIL-3x18P-LW-2 is the 3 x 18 cleansweep pulse coil for the Sand Shark.
On some of the dealer web sites where usage information is posted, all the cleansweeps are listed as average depth. For the Sand Shark the 10.5 inch round printed spiral is listed as excellent depth.
In my limited use of the Sand Shark I don't sense that the Sand Shark with the 10.5 printed spiral is deeper than my CZ20 with the 8 inch spider, nor do I think it is shallower. I think they are pretty close depth wise.
I have only had the Sand Shark on beaches that are not highly mineralized ... no black sand with the Sand Shark yet.
There is no discrimination on the Sand Shark and I have not been able to notice differences yet in how it hits on small iron and how it hits on good targets. There is a pulse width adjustment that may make a slight difference, but I need more time to experiment and need to re-read some of the information posted on the PI forum to get more of the theory about sampling of the pulse response into my head.
The Sand Shark with the box mounted behind the bar on the upper part of the bar balances very well and is easy to swing. I use a chest mount for the CZ20 because it is heavy and still find the Sand Shark set up the one I can swing for a longer time.
tvr
On some of the dealer web sites where usage information is posted, all the cleansweeps are listed as average depth. For the Sand Shark the 10.5 inch round printed spiral is listed as excellent depth.
In my limited use of the Sand Shark I don't sense that the Sand Shark with the 10.5 printed spiral is deeper than my CZ20 with the 8 inch spider, nor do I think it is shallower. I think they are pretty close depth wise.
I have only had the Sand Shark on beaches that are not highly mineralized ... no black sand with the Sand Shark yet.
There is no discrimination on the Sand Shark and I have not been able to notice differences yet in how it hits on small iron and how it hits on good targets. There is a pulse width adjustment that may make a slight difference, but I need more time to experiment and need to re-read some of the information posted on the PI forum to get more of the theory about sampling of the pulse response into my head.
The Sand Shark with the box mounted behind the bar on the upper part of the bar balances very well and is easy to swing. I use a chest mount for the CZ20 because it is heavy and still find the Sand Shark set up the one I can swing for a longer time.
tvr
Thanks to Google, I just may be using the "V" where I had planned to use a wide scan.Used the look down system to go over a field where a baseball field was drawn in on a map.A diamond shape shows..Faint ,but good enough to see it..Because of the field size, I thought a Clean sweep coil,,However, also the site of an area that has given up copper relics, and they will be deeper...just thought of another one,..Copper ornaments lost while building mounds...My map is getting more spots to remember..Thanks for getting me going.You get old you forget things..The Google thing, also found a canal bed by the shadow of the high bank..I went there, too much growth... Early Spring,,,cordially NAD
I have an old Deep Scan Pulse detector from the 80's..only used it one time ,.In water, and made something like ten bucks a minute for an hour in sold gold rings and bells..Really a nice day..would love to go back in time and shed 25 years. Darn, keep on getting the years mixed up...Cordially Nad