Nox 600 Saltwater Beach Setup Routine?

[John Navarre]

What is the most common setup and routine people use when setting up for the beach? Beach 1? Auto Balance or Manual? Noise Cancel? Mainly looking for something simple that will work for most Florida saltwater beaches. Thanks

 

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[ColonelDan]

The first thing I do is a noise cancel in Beach 1. I then bury the 10K ring and ferrous bolt at approximately 7-8 inches and adjust the recovery, sensitivity and F2 to a point which gives me the strongest signal on the ring with the least interference as well as the best separation between the bolt and gold ring.

It's my assumption...and experience...that the strongest signal on the mid conductive gold will also be optimal for high conductors. Ergo, I don't see the need to test silver as well as the gold for that beach. I've also found that the optimal setting on one beach won't necessarily be optimal for another beach even if the second beach is close to the first one. Beach conditions can change within a few hundred yards....i.e. mineralization and composition just as an example.

Testing only takes a few moments but it pays off...at least for me in that I go forward with more confidence that my EQX will be better prepared to sniff out the goodies.

Now, if you want real simple, select Beach 1, do a noise cancel, adjust sensitivity and start detecting!

Again, and as I always say, that's just the view from my foxhole...

 

[cudamark]

As the Colonel mentioned, each beach is going to be a little different. That's why they made these machines adjustable. As a starting point, I use Park 1 in the dry. I just seem to get better depth and stability in that mode. Usually with a 3-5 recovery rate if it's not too junky or riddled with iron, 50 tone, all metal, Iron bias on F2 @5 or higher for better bottle cap rejection, and Sensitivity as high as possible without making it unstable. 0 ground balance, and noise cancel if needed. In the wet, I almost always use Beach 2 with a faster recovery speed......5 or higher to keep the falsing down. All the other settings I keep the same starting out. Sometimes the sensitivity gets dropped down a couple of points. With your sugar sand, mineralization free Florida beaches, you may be able to turn some settings more extreme. YMMV.