I got into the water with my CTX this morning for an hour or so. It was at a crappy fresh water beach. Mostly an inch or two of gravelly rock on top of tough Texas clay.
I don't have my wireless receiver yet so what I did was button up the phones jack and listened to the speaker. I only went out to about waist deep water.
First thing, I noticed was the coil didn't want to stay down. I had to keep my thumb on the button panel to hold it down. After about 15 minutes I guess the shaft finally filled with water and I didn't have to do that any longer. I'm not sure where the air comes out of the shaft but it seemed to take some time to fill up with water. Maybe opening the cable connection area for a moment would have sped that process up.
I did notice the rainbow effect on the screen when I put on my sunglasses. I have anti glare screen protector on the screen but that didn't block any of the rainbow. I could make out the middle of the screen but the rainbow engulfed most of the display. Tilting my head at about 45 degrees to the screen when I heard a signal seemed to help a little.
Another thing I noticed was that once the speaker gets wet it becomes almost inaudible until you get it completely dry again. I checked to make sure I couldn't turn up the volume any higher but it was maxed out already.
But the depth in the water was very good. I was seeing targets at 4 to 8 inches. I couldn't dig any of them because my cheap home made scoop wouldn't dig into the clay. I'm not sure a quality angled scoop would have gotten to most of those targets either here.
I'm disappointed that foil and various pieces of aluminum will show up at around 12 FE and almost anywhere on the CO scale up to about 43 or so. Pull tabs are all over the lower CO numbers depending upon their type and current shape and aluminum cans and tops come in at the high 30's to low 40's on CO. I guess the solution is to find some older sites that don't contain all the modern day aluminum scrap, tabs and cans.
I don't have my wireless receiver yet so what I did was button up the phones jack and listened to the speaker. I only went out to about waist deep water.
First thing, I noticed was the coil didn't want to stay down. I had to keep my thumb on the button panel to hold it down. After about 15 minutes I guess the shaft finally filled with water and I didn't have to do that any longer. I'm not sure where the air comes out of the shaft but it seemed to take some time to fill up with water. Maybe opening the cable connection area for a moment would have sped that process up.
I did notice the rainbow effect on the screen when I put on my sunglasses. I have anti glare screen protector on the screen but that didn't block any of the rainbow. I could make out the middle of the screen but the rainbow engulfed most of the display. Tilting my head at about 45 degrees to the screen when I heard a signal seemed to help a little.
Another thing I noticed was that once the speaker gets wet it becomes almost inaudible until you get it completely dry again. I checked to make sure I couldn't turn up the volume any higher but it was maxed out already.
But the depth in the water was very good. I was seeing targets at 4 to 8 inches. I couldn't dig any of them because my cheap home made scoop wouldn't dig into the clay. I'm not sure a quality angled scoop would have gotten to most of those targets either here.
I'm disappointed that foil and various pieces of aluminum will show up at around 12 FE and almost anywhere on the CO scale up to about 43 or so. Pull tabs are all over the lower CO numbers depending upon their type and current shape and aluminum cans and tops come in at the high 30's to low 40's on CO. I guess the solution is to find some older sites that don't contain all the modern day aluminum scrap, tabs and cans.