Hi Kirt,
Deepstar Results.
The Deepstar is a high powered PI detector designed primary to be used for beach hunting. The unit can be used in very shallow water, but the control box is weather proof, Not Water Proof. I mounted the control box as a chest mount. One can hip mount but you would far more comfortable in the chest mount mode.
The beach I decided to go to has been pretty much been picked over since the end of summer. I went to it because I wanted to test the detector, and see how it would do locating those "deep ones" on a cleaned out beach. I concentrated my searching to the beach area, and not the shallow water. I brought my long handle shovel, and my Miller P handle water scoop. I ended up using the scoop because it was easier to dig with. One hand holding the coil S rod, the other holding the scoop. Just push the scoop in the sand with your foot, and lift it out, dump. I set the Deepstar controls, full power, Sensitivity to half, Frequency to middle, Reject to minimum, and I set the Threshold so I could just hear the sound in the phones.
First hit was a penny at 12". A minute or so later, loud hit, pull tab, fresh drop 4"/5". I played with the Reject control to see where the tab dropped out. Back searching, boosted Sensitivity to full, still stable. In the course of the couple of hours doing the beach I found 5 pull tabs, 3 round aluminum foil bottle cap seals(boy these sound like silver dollars), 3 corroded pennies, 1 nasty looking clad quarter, and my last target a small silver charm. With the exception of the pull tab on the surface all targets were at least 12" in depth, the best I could measure. The silver charm took 4 full scoops to retrieve it. I almost threw it away because it was all black and I thought it was a piece of a hot rock. The best I could tell it was at 15".
Back to shallow water hunting, and this unit. You would need to run this unit in the lower power setting if you were going to use it in the shallow water. All those targets I dug gave a strong signal response, and at those ranges they were no whisper sounding targets. Anything in excess of those depths could create a problem digging in the water. After 2
