sand shark

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i just got and sand shark, anything i should know about it both good and bad

 

[Fletch88]

Get a good scoop like Stealth 720i. Sweep around a target from several directions, usually iron will give s wavy, drawn out sound or a double beep. Set pulse width about 2:30 and threshold barely audible. Normal mode is deeper, but I like the VCO sound better and it is deep enough! Good luck and enjoy new toy!

 

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Thanks fletch

 

[tvr]

Not as sensitive to very small targets as some detectors. Will get the goods. The 10.5 inch coil tends to flop around with water movement, the 8 inch has not given me that issue. Quiet in salt water, even at the water edge with water splashing over the coil. I really like the balance with the detector mounted behind the arm on the upper part of the shaft. I really like the comfortable headphones that cut down a lot of outside noise.

Settings like above post, but I run Volume full unless the threshold is unsteady, then I take the volume down a little and offset that with the threshold setting and that seems to bring stability back to the threshold. Wavering threshold seems to be related to higher EMI areas. If you hit an area of heavy sand mineralization, you may need to slow the coil sweep speed down a lot to prevent sounding off on the sand. Slow down and it will punch through to detect targets if they are there. This is not a fast sweep detector even when the sand is good. You can move at fairly good rates, but better depth of detection is gotten with slower or relaxed sweeps.

Normal vs VCO is a personal preference. I think Normal draws out the length of the sounding on a target a little where VCO changes in threshold sound are more attention grabbing.

Good solid simple to use detector.
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