[size=medium]Hello to all,
Just recently sold a XLT and a Explorer XS to finance my E-trac. We live here near the Florida Panhandle beaches where the water is clear and the beach sand is white. Having moved from the Gulfport Mississppi area, my XS amazed me how well it handled the wet salt sand over there (not to mention, the thing was a silver magnet on homesites). Didn't have any problems with stability. So I bought a used Etrac. It handles the dry sand well even with the sensitivity jacked up. When I get down to about a couple of feet down from the high tide line, I start getting the falsing. The suggested sensitivity level says I should be at 17. I can drop the sensitivty down to 10-11 and eliminate almost all the falsing all the way to the water, but of course I feel like I'll be losing ALOT of depth with it that low. Here is a list of my current settings:
1.Preset- Minelab Beach Setting
2.Sensitivity- Manual
3.Threshold Level-22
4.Volume Limit-30
5.Volume Gain-26
6.Response-Normal
7.Tone ID-multi/conduct/Varibility-25/Limits-30
8.Threshold Pitch-15
9.Recovery Deep-On
10.Recovery Fast-Off
11.Trash Density-Low
12.Ground-Neutral
13.Noise Cancel-10
Tried switching the ground to difficult and i think it made the stability worse. Also tried with automatic ground balance, didn't work. Any suggestions would be a Life Saver. Should I try a new coil? Should I send it to Minelab for a check up? I did buy it used! The guy I bought it from had expoxied the coil cover on the coil. Said it was to prvent falsing from sand getting between the coil and the cover. Just guess I never had that problem with the old XS.[/size]
Just recently sold a XLT and a Explorer XS to finance my E-trac. We live here near the Florida Panhandle beaches where the water is clear and the beach sand is white. Having moved from the Gulfport Mississppi area, my XS amazed me how well it handled the wet salt sand over there (not to mention, the thing was a silver magnet on homesites). Didn't have any problems with stability. So I bought a used Etrac. It handles the dry sand well even with the sensitivity jacked up. When I get down to about a couple of feet down from the high tide line, I start getting the falsing. The suggested sensitivity level says I should be at 17. I can drop the sensitivty down to 10-11 and eliminate almost all the falsing all the way to the water, but of course I feel like I'll be losing ALOT of depth with it that low. Here is a list of my current settings:
1.Preset- Minelab Beach Setting
2.Sensitivity- Manual
3.Threshold Level-22
4.Volume Limit-30
5.Volume Gain-26
6.Response-Normal
7.Tone ID-multi/conduct/Varibility-25/Limits-30
8.Threshold Pitch-15
9.Recovery Deep-On
10.Recovery Fast-Off
11.Trash Density-Low
12.Ground-Neutral
13.Noise Cancel-10
Tried switching the ground to difficult and i think it made the stability worse. Also tried with automatic ground balance, didn't work. Any suggestions would be a Life Saver. Should I try a new coil? Should I send it to Minelab for a check up? I did buy it used! The guy I bought it from had expoxied the coil cover on the coil. Said it was to prvent falsing from sand getting between the coil and the cover. Just guess I never had that problem with the old XS.[/size]