Just put the new Safari together

[psyvad]

The brown truck dropped off my second hand Safari a couple of hours ago and I put it together and ran a bunch of different items under the coil. I had an E-Trac that I used for about 6 hours and decided to trade for the Safari and its simpler interface. My other detector is an F-75 and it's great, but doesn't handle wet beach So Cal sand very well. With the F-75, you can tell a clad dime from a silver dime from a quarter by the target ID. When air testing targets on the Safari in coin/jewelry mode, there were some unexpected results like: A morgan silver dollar has a lower tone and target id than a clad quarter. Clad dimes and silver dimes can both come in at 37. I notched out 34 & 35 to avoid digging zinc pennies, but then had to 35 back on because some small silver jewelry reads 35. One nice thing about the E-Trac was that it displayed the sensitivity when in Auto. I suppose there's no way to see the value on the Safari? Anyway, I'm looking forward to using it and have enjoyed reading all of your great posts!

 

[nick hunter]

Hello.

If I may give you good advice, don't notch anything out while searching on the wet sand. The targets there are likely to come in other proportions than on the dry (less coins, more jewelry), so that notching out 36 isn't advisable.

Search the wet in all metal with the maximum possible sens, then dig according to display and sound (some iron alloys (scissors, steel, sunglasses, etc) will give another tone in the iron range).

HH

Nick

 

[ngrelic]

HEY PSYVAD,

Pay more attention to the tones than the display.You'll soon start to hear the differences, kinda hard to explain though.

 

[Captain Hook]

When I first started using my Safari here on the Florida beaches, I was having a lot of misc sounds coming from my Safari. Most of the sounds were coming at the end of my swings. The sounds went away when I changed from "auto" sensitivity to 13 sensitivity. Now the Safari only sounds off when targets are located. This is my first detector that I run in all metal with only 40 notched out. The Safari will locate very deep targets for you at the beach.

 

[zeekeys]

Good luck on your new Safari. Some times iron comes in at #40. On the beaches that I detect here in Wi.I can run in auto almost all the time. I noticed in wet sand some times a good signal breaks up and is kind of scratchy. The Safari is a machine that you will have to get to know and it seems that every part of the country it is handling just a little differently.
Thanks for reading....Z