Hey you guys I need to ask a question. Can I metal detect on beaches with my Ace 250 although it is not a beach machine? I don't want to ruin it with the beachy elements. And if I can, what is the best way to clean the coil? Can I submerge it in water and clean it that way? Thanks for your help. Oh and another question...if I can do the beach thing can I submerge my coil a little ways in the water as long as I keep the housing box out of the water?
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Garrett Ace 250 question
- Thread starter kiva
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Mick in Dubbo
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Yeah.
It works fine at the beach. You can buy an envro cover to put over the control housing from your local dealer to help protect it from the elements.
The coil is waterproof. About the only spot you'll have trouble with is if you are trying to detect while you hunt in the water with waves crashing over the coil. You won't be able to hear targets here. You'll also lose half you depth in the wet sand. Pretty normal for most detectors.
Mick Evans.
It works fine at the beach. You can buy an envro cover to put over the control housing from your local dealer to help protect it from the elements.
The coil is waterproof. About the only spot you'll have trouble with is if you are trying to detect while you hunt in the water with waves crashing over the coil. You won't be able to hear targets here. You'll also lose half you depth in the wet sand. Pretty normal for most detectors.
Mick Evans.
Uncle Willy
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The coil is waterproof the control box ain't. Hunting the dry beach is fine but the wet salt sand presents a problem and you may have to lower your sensitivity. Try not to detect back and forth from wet sand to dry sand. Remember, salt is a mineral and your detector responds to it like any other mineral or mineralized area.
Bill
Bill
I hunt the beach all the time with my ace 250 and Bill is right, in the dry sand i use sensitivity one bar from max and in the wet sand i use 4 to3 bars. It doesn't work in the salt water. I used to use the jewelry mode, but deep coins come in different on the scale depending on how corroded they are, so i use all metal mode and dig anything that doesn't sound like steel. If you do this for a while, you won't even need to look at your scale. You will also find stuff deeper. Also when you get a reading on a coin, and dig it , and still don,t find it , and you go back over your hole and don,t get a tone, then kick around the sand that you dug out , and dig a little more out of the hole, sometimes the coin was moved on its side when you dug the first time and the detector well lose it. I always thought it was false tones so i would fell the hole back and go over it again with the detector, just to find out it was still there and i had to re-dig it. To me,every beach is different, So i never think that how the detector was reading on one beach, well read the same on the next beach. GET A RAIN - DUST COVER, it really helps keep the sand out. Hope this helps 
digginwodd
New member
Used mine in nagshead last June and never had a problem with it . in wet sand yes drop down to 3 or 4 bars and swing away. Best detector i ever bought for $200.