oltimer1940
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Went to a beach in Southern NJ on Monday. Never got closer to the surf than about 50 Yds. Suddenly the machine started chattering and no adjustment would lessen the annoyance. Finally gave up. Yesterday I took the same machine to a local (for me) beach in Central Jersey and used it in the surf (never more than calf high). Only had one find in nearly 1/2 mile of search. Got out of the surf and the machine started chattering again. Returned the machine to the car and got my backup machine out, retraced my steps in the dry sand and found several more coins. Today I visited a Minelab dealer and we tried a replacement coil (Nel Hunter) - still a bit of chatter but it did find metal. The one thing I didn't check was for tones. Got home and tried the machine with the original coil again only to find that no matter what I tried, it was all the same tone (Quarter, Nickel, Dime, Penny, Gold - made no difference). Any thoughts/similar experience?