Black sand

[CarsonChris]

I’m having difficulty in black sand. I constantly get low - numbers up to low single digit numbers. I can place a coin on the black sand and the equinox can’t see it. Also getting the overload symbol. Is there anything I can do to counteract the black sand? This is a fresh water lake.

 

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[WaterWalker]

Did you manually ground balance over the black sand? Turn the sensitivity down? All Metal is OFF? and, of course have you done the Noise Cancel?

IF all fails, use a PI detector.

-----I concur with vferrari, don't use the Beach Modes in Fresh water. They are set up for the salt environment.

 

[CarsonChris]

Did you manually ground balance over the black sand? Turn the sensitivity down? All Metal is OFF? and, of course have you done the Noise Cancel?

IF all fails, use a PI detector.

Ground balance is auto tracking in beach modes. Noise cancelled, sensitivity down to 10.

 

[midalake]

Ground balance is auto tracking in beach modes. Noise cancelled, sensitivity down to 10.

WOW, if you have the sensitivity down to 10, I am not sure anyone is going to be able to help.

I did testing in salt water, mild black sand with a "ring on a string". In my opinion anything below sensitivity 17 is very poor performance. I am grabbing another detector.

Dave

 

[Toecutter]

The black sand is magnetic around here, havent tried to detect around it but would have to think it would be like a bed of iron...

 

[vferrari]

Don’t use beach modes in fresh water, period, especially if you are dealing with black sand. To balance for salt there are a lot of trade offs in the beach modes including transmit power reductions in mineralization overload that unnecessarily penalize you in fresh water. Experiment with any of the other modes, including gold mode to see if you can get better performance.

See this thread http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/e...finally-delivers-fresh-water.html#post6218416, op was using Park 2.