Question about fresh water detecting

[SurgTech57]

I know about the beach settings on the equinox, but are those implied for salt water or for fresh water also when used in lakes,rivers or streams? If not how would you adjust the setting to detect in water?

 

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[vferrari]

They are for salt water, they enable balancing to salt conditions which screw up the "normal" modes which balance to ferrous ground conditions. If you are fresh water hunting you are better off using Park or Field 1 modes (if focused on silver) and the Park 2/Field 2 modes is focused on mid-conductors like gold or small, non-coin targets The beach modes will work in freshwater, but the beach modes are set up to reduce transmit power if they encounter black sand mineralization, which you could encounter in some freshwater environs, so go with Park 1 or Park 2 (or the field modes) if you can get them to run stable.

 

[fuceye]

I use fresh water mode for fresh water hunting. I just add a little dark rum or maybe even some vodka...I add just enough till I can hear the surf.

its always happy hunting in freshwater.....

 

[DigDeepNow]

They are for salt water, they enable balancing to salt conditions which screw up the "normal" modes which balance to ferrous ground conditions. If you are fresh water hunting you are better off using Park or Field 1 modes (if focused on silver) and the Park 2/Field 2 modes is focused on mid-conductors like gold or small, non-coin targets The beach modes will work in freshwater, but the beach modes are set up to reduce transmit power if they encounter black sand mineralization, which you could encounter in some freshwater environs, so go with Park 1 or Park 2 (or the field modes) if you can get them to run stable.

Thanks. This is very helpful.

 

[SurgTech57]

Thanks for the input vferrari. Lake Michigan is one of the many lakes I detect and it does have high amounts of ferrous material due to the steel mills in Indiana and the lake tends to disperse it everywhere as the magnet in my scoop gets covered regardless of how far away I detect from the mills. So would I be correct to go into beach2 in those conditions?

 

[WaterWalker]

Beach 1 is stable in the fresh water. Still learning the basics and at 100 hours or so it may be time to fiddle with the fine controls.
Biggest annoyance are the small bits from aluminum twist off caps and other small bit of metallic trash.
Beach 2 for salt water, yellow & white gold, silver all give good repeatable signals. Waiting for Platinum to chime in.
Gold 1&2 are unusable, Park and Field are too "sensitive" or maybe "noisy" for my liking. Maybe some tweaking ... but until the Beach 1 for fresh water for me.

 

[SurgTech57]

TY WaterWalker

 

[TomNWMI]

I hunt the inland lakes in the Northern Lower and Park 2 is my primary hunt mode. When I'm in an area with multitudes of tiny single digit reading targets that waste hunt time I switch to Park 1 with it's slightly lower sensitivity to the bits. It's not a cure all but helps in most cases. Park 1 still retains good sensitivity to low/mid conductors. You can waste a lot of time in park 2 chasing those bits that fall through the scoop.
Also, there can be conditions where TID 1 gives almost constant signals (possibly charcoal bits from beach fires?) in that case, raise T1 in accept reject to 1 to give them the iron tone.

Stainless wire mesh welded in scoop for the small stuff.