I took my new-to-me MXS to the beach yesterday to give her a go on a salt-water beach. The detector has the first update, not the second. First of all, this is my first Whites detector and second, I have only used this detector acouple hours since I bought it. Point is, I have a long way to go to understand this detector's language.
I used the detector in all metal mode, salt tracking on, vco off iron grunt on, threshhold 2-3 depending on background noise (waves, mostly), sensitivity varied from 5-10 depending on falsing. Tracking varied as well, depending on falsing. The detector ran very well and I found at least as much stuff as I typicly find with my Sand Shark. The beach is very sanded in so targets are few and far between. I searched shallow water (6") to dry sand and everything in between. My deepest find was a quarter at 8-9" in damp sand. Found a dime in wet sand at 5" and a bunch of zlincolns in wet sand at 1-6". Lots of hits on very small pieces of rusted iron at the surf line. All the coins were properly identified by the detector. The iron bounced between "hotrock" and all the way up to silver dollar, depending on the size of the iron. The iron were very small pieces that were shallow, 2" or less but sounded very deep and pinpointed as being deep. My Nokta FC did the exact same thing with these iron pieces when I had it at the beach. Bottom line, I was happy with the way the detector performed under the difficult conditions presented on a salt water beach.
Some things I have learned about this detector in my short time with it:
The higher the sensitivity, the more falsing, the longer the tones, the tougher to use. I had the sensitivity at 5 on the quarter mentioned above, which was just about perfect for those conditions. If you use just enough sensitivity to get the job done you will be far less frustrated. This detector has good depth at midrange sensitivity.
I have to sweep the coil much slower for separation in trashy areas. Hopefully this will be improved by the second update. I may be spoiled by my Nokta FC in this regard.
I think there is a lot of potential here. Lot's of bashing of this detector on all the boards. I will wait and see what the second update changes and spend some time learning the language and capabilities of this detector before I post any criticism. Seems like the only fair thing to do.
HH!
Brian
I used the detector in all metal mode, salt tracking on, vco off iron grunt on, threshhold 2-3 depending on background noise (waves, mostly), sensitivity varied from 5-10 depending on falsing. Tracking varied as well, depending on falsing. The detector ran very well and I found at least as much stuff as I typicly find with my Sand Shark. The beach is very sanded in so targets are few and far between. I searched shallow water (6") to dry sand and everything in between. My deepest find was a quarter at 8-9" in damp sand. Found a dime in wet sand at 5" and a bunch of zlincolns in wet sand at 1-6". Lots of hits on very small pieces of rusted iron at the surf line. All the coins were properly identified by the detector. The iron bounced between "hotrock" and all the way up to silver dollar, depending on the size of the iron. The iron were very small pieces that were shallow, 2" or less but sounded very deep and pinpointed as being deep. My Nokta FC did the exact same thing with these iron pieces when I had it at the beach. Bottom line, I was happy with the way the detector performed under the difficult conditions presented on a salt water beach.
Some things I have learned about this detector in my short time with it:
The higher the sensitivity, the more falsing, the longer the tones, the tougher to use. I had the sensitivity at 5 on the quarter mentioned above, which was just about perfect for those conditions. If you use just enough sensitivity to get the job done you will be far less frustrated. This detector has good depth at midrange sensitivity.
I have to sweep the coil much slower for separation in trashy areas. Hopefully this will be improved by the second update. I may be spoiled by my Nokta FC in this regard.
I think there is a lot of potential here. Lot's of bashing of this detector on all the boards. I will wait and see what the second update changes and spend some time learning the language and capabilities of this detector before I post any criticism. Seems like the only fair thing to do.
HH!
Brian