beach question on the gtp1350

[bootybay]

I am having a hard time with the salt water and mineralization on the beach with the 1350.. anyone can tell me or suggest the settings for this other than the beach switch...

would really appreciate it..

rae

 

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[Michigander2005]

In the menu Salt Elimination have you pressed + to activate salt elimination ? , that's all I can suggest never used mine in water let alone ocean beach.

 

[bootybay]

yeppers used salt elimination with the plus ..so we]'ll see other then lowering the sensitivity...

 

[Sandman]

In your area you may have the proper setting for the saltwater, but the accumulation of black sand can vary with in yards. If turning down the sens. doesn't help, your just going to have to put up with beeps and nothing is there to dig. This is why the Minelab Sov. GT and Excal are so good at a beach or underwater.

 

[bootybay]

well today sucked.. totally sucked... on the beach.. 13 cents... then hit a stupid tot lot and came home with a total of 20 pennies 2 nickels and one dime.. I am so glad I didnt have to pay for parking.. and I am very disquisted.

 

[gallileo60]

Beach hunting is an art...It is more demanding on a detector than anything else I can think of....Now I know some folks have really good luck on the beach with a dry land machine, but I was never one of them.....Lower the sen's, and good luck to you....

 

[bootybay]

i did lower it ... just dont know what to do next. not one hit.

 

[EasyMoney]

Garrett has been making an aftermarket chip for tough and/or high salt/high iron ground for the last 2-3 years for the 1250, 1350, 1500, and 2500 series. The standard models don't work worth a hoot in soil like mine (as a matter of fact, they suck) and in the rest of the iron belt of N America too, plus other soils, so Garrett not only installed the chips on some of the newer models, they also made the aftermarket chip for some of the older ones. I have seen only 2 or 3 Garrett users in my area for many, many years and it's because other detectors usually handle the soil a lot better.

I beleive that if you contact Garrett and send it to them that they can install an aftermarket chip for you. If not, perhaps Keith Wills at: East Texas metal Detectors can do it for you, or perhaps modify it himself. Keith is often backed up with his work because of so much of a demand for his fine detector modifications and repairs, but he is very knowledgeable.

Or, you could so as Sandman suggested, trade it off for a Minelab because they are the smoothest running detector anywhere for beach hunting.

 

[gallileo60]

Easymoney has a good idea, check it out.....My freind just got a 1350, and it was hell on the beach....Works awesome everywhere else we have tried it...It will go deeper than my Ace 250, But I can still out hunt him..(shame less plug) lol.......

 

[Michigander2005]

Off Topic , have you had to change the battery's yet in that machine ?

 

[bootybay]

I have changed the batteries twice on this machine.. i will also call garrett...I will also consider a trade... but your talking over 1,000 for another machine... I just want to hunt the beaches and at least find something... its kinda like false advertising if ya ask me, dont say its for the beach or can handle the beach if it cant... ok its late and I am gonna stop as I am beat..

niters