Picked Up My Safari Tonight...................

[morelic55]

Man, what a machine!!!!! It's not as heavy as I thought it would be and I like the way the coil wire goes thru the shaft!! The menu is simple and easy to understand. Everyone's right on the preset sens, I took it out of preset and cranked it as high as I could in the house, boy, can't wait to get it in the dirt!! I will have to get use to the new sounds and for relics, the TID is almost the same as the Xterras. Hope to get out this weekend

Thanks EVERYONE for the imput and advise on the Safari....

 

[Ray in WA]

Just remember that you don't need to crank up the sensitivity to go deep. I keep mine at around 11 and I get plenty of depth. If the ground you detect in affords your being able to crank it up, then by all means do so. But keep in mind you always want a smooth threshold hum. Too much sens in highly mineralized soil will produce lots of false signals and senseless noise on your machine. Good luck!

Ray

 

[psyvad]

Ray,

What kind of depth are you able to get with 11? I thought it would need a lot more sensitivity for good depth.

Thanks,
Bart

 

[bigolhorns]

I can't run my Safari much higher than 11 or 12. I have read some posts where some are running higher sensitivity.
In the ground here my Safari will false (even with the 6" coil) non stop if I go 15 or higher.
I've dug wheats at 8" with the sensitivity on 12.

 

[edjcox]

Try factory preset's first. Plenty of senistivity just make sure your batteries are reading above 1/4 and you'll love the machine.

Learn to read the sounds and use the indicators below the LCD. They are often overlooked when your new..

Enjoy

 

[asanaman]

edjcox... Am I missing a missing an indicator... I've had mine for 3 weeks now, and liking it, but what are the indicators you refer too...

K

 

[morelic55]

I think he must be refering to the Edit/Except blocks under the big numbers...................MO

edjcox... Am I missing a missing an indicator... I've had mine for 3 weeks now, and liking it, but what are the indicators you refer too...

K

 

[asanaman]

Yep, guess your right.. That's the only thing beow the num's and Icon's.......

Asanaman

 

[edjcox]

I'm efereing to the graphic printed on the unit below the LCD. It allows you to se what the detector thinks it has by the location of the vertical bar, often people overlook what the bar correlats to on that graph..

 

[The Fog]

When I got mine I ran sens at 12, I slowly turned it higher as I got used to the machine. I know run it at 17-18, I do get falsing and lots of chatter, but you learn to read through it. I don't know how much depth difference it makes but I've dug targets in the woods at 12 -14 inches quite often. The VID#'s on deep targets will be a bit squirrely at times.

 

[Ray in WA]

Hi Bart,

Well, the last decent find at depth was a token at 10.5 inches. This was in a grassy school field and at the time not much moisture in the ground. So to me that's doing pretty good. I have found iron pieces and aluminum at 12" or a bit deeper. But not many coins beyond 9", and on average between 7-8". I attribute this to the areas I had been working, as not many deeper coins are found there.

However, now that I'm back in CA I may attempt experimenting again with higher sensitivity settings. Let's see how high I can crank up the Safari without it going bonkers.

Ray

Ray,

What kind of depth are you able to get with 11? I thought it would need a lot more sensitivity for good depth.

Thanks,
Bart