1280x info for

[Keppy]

Well someone from another forum told me this about the 1280x for the ones wanting info on it like coilfisher.....................It's fresh & saltwater. It's 2.4 VF frequency which cancels salt well............... Fisher started to emphasis it was a freshwater detector after the CZ-20 came out and they could find a good niche for it..........................Did not want to kill the sales on the CZ-20 ...........And the 1280x he uses every were especially inland in bad ground................... And as you know the 1280x is a Dave Johnsons design so it has to be good...... A lot of info on that detector out there.....

[Sandman]

Keppy, I've used the 1280 on saltwater beaches before the CZ-20 came out. It was stable at that time in the wet sand where I hunted by using about half sens. setting. Then later I ended up with two more 1280's which I wanted for diving. These last two where not the same animals and would false in the water or on the wet sand even at low sensitivity settings, but you could still tell a good signal from the falsing so they must have changed them a bit. Both the ones I wanted for diving, one had a smaller coil and other larger one. Once under water they were quiet.

BTW, you have to fasten the ping pong paddle to you or it floats to the surface as you use it to fan the sand or dig with it.

[CoilFisher]

I will tell you what. I dont have the experience you guys do,
but I just had my 1280-X on a lake park beach that was all wet sand from the rain falling as I detected and was heavily soaked as well from the rain the previous evening.
I experienced no jumpy or false signals (DISC=3 Sens.=7 Volume=5).

Or is it salt sand that is the trouble?

[Sandman]

It's the saltwater sand from the ocean beaches because that is a mineral.

[Keppy]

Sandman & coilfisher..... I have been told by users of the 1280x that they have had them for 15 years 20 years............. and they never had to send them in for a repair............. And they are still useing them................. Said they are good for bad ground............ & salt water.............They said what makes it good in bad ground is the 2.4 frequency............... Now the ones they are makeing now i don't know if they would go that long with out repairs..........They also said that the Detector Pro Head Hunter Wader not the PI is like the 1280x but a lot lighter............... They say that the 1280x and the HH will pick up small gold that the Excalibur or CZ 20/21 will not.............

[CoilFisher]

I dont know about that.
I have been told by a couple of regulars here who have been using them for years that the 1280-X wont pick up on small gold chains, but the CZ-21 will.
I don't have enough time in the water to verify.
My manual states 2.4KHz.

I dont understand all this frequency stuff. You broadcast a signal, and all mfr.s and makes have difft frequencies or combos of, but no company ever mentions what the receiver is.

-CF

[Keppy]

Coilfisher .....I am starting to think you are putting us on here ... With all the things you worry about ...............And ask about....... Hell when i got my first detector i got the catalog read about all the detectors............ Picked out a Garrett freedom 2 Coin Commander....... sent in my order got that freedom 2 and used it for about 10 years................Now are all these questions you are asking for real or are you just trying to harass us ??

[CoilFisher]

LOL! I joined a forum to talk about metal detector brands.
Let's talk it up!
One of the worst feelings is saving up for something and buying it to only find you don't care for it because it did not meet your expectations.
Metal detectors are not cheap. And, you can always learn something talking to the people that use them.

Besides Christmas is coming and I want to know.

you are funny Keppy!