question about setting up machine for the beach

[pedrod]

I was detecting in the Ocean this weekend and had troubles stabilizing the machine. The coil situation I understand as it was detecting the salt in the water but the unit attached to my belt was sounding off terribly when hit by waves. I had to come in and switch to my land headphones to decrease the volume which I cannot do with the blue diving ones.

Is there any one else who has any advice?

 

[Crumble]

When waves go over the coil is the only time my machine falses, it's just a lot of moving saltwater, makes the threshold ramp up. I have gotten used to it, it sounds nothing like a target, its a real long signal, but then again we have big waves here in southern california, maybe it sounds different with smaller waves. Rest assured, it will still hit a target when a wave is passing over.

About the waterproof headphones, yeah those things are painfully loud, go to Home Depot and get some 1/8" foam or rubber and cut it out and insert it into the ear cups, it will lower the volume a good amount.

 

[Black Davy]

Pedrod,

First thing I noticed you mention the control housing was belt mounted? I had falsing when the housing was mounted on my waist in front of me, I called Garrett, they recommended that I mount the housing on the back side of my body. Another issue was the amount of wire I had loose when it was belt mounted, if too much slack wire is waiving around you can pick up the wire movement and get false tones. I also get tones in the 0" to 12" zone as the waves come and go. Also John E has also shown that once the housing is in the water or below this can eliminate some false tones, search his posts.