Now let me state, that I love my V3i (most of the time). But it seems most people use their V3i for relic hunting and only a few for beach hunting.
Most times at the beach I have NO problems. I get out on the beach, ground balance and off I go. BUT sometimes, like the past few days. My V3i just goes crazy. It will not ground balance(and if it does I have to GB every 5 feet) and is very unstable. I mean a constant beeping and chirping to the point where I just have to leave. I try to adjust everything I can to get it to stop with no luck. I have even had my RX as low as 2 and still it acts crazy.
It seems to do this when the wind is high or their is a thick feeling to the air, like it might rain
I feel that the many relic hunting users of the V3i have the settings figured out. BUT as far as beach hunting. I have yet to hear of anything other than "factory salt beach is fine". Is it because none of the beach users want to share what they have learned or because there are just not that many V3i owners hunting beaches.
Since 95% of my hunting is done at the beach. I sometimes feel that I may have purchased the wrong machine.
Just two weeks ago I met a few people at the beach who were using Minelabs. One was a Safari, the other a Sovereign. We dug a hole about 10" deep and tossed a coin in and left the coin unburied. Both of the other detectors could detect the coin. While my V3i could not. I had to crank up my RX and turn on the TX boost just to get a slight blip. I didn't understand why, because I once dug a penny in the dry sand at 24" deep.
I really, really wish that there was a few experienced beach hunters with the V3i to help us other guys out.
I feel that with the limitless setting adjustments the V3i can be a great beach hunter. But their are so many adjustments I just don't know sometimes what to try.
We need someone like Magic, Rob, or Larry who knows the machine to help figure out alternate beach settings that will work with stability.
Sometimes I feel like I have a good grip on how to set my V3i. Then there are those times like the past few days where I feel like I don't have a clue...
I should also mention that our beach has just went through a stripping and recovering process. Last week the tides had stripped the beaches a lot leaving many huge rocks showing, some had to be atleast 50 lbs. While this week the tides pushed all new sand up covering everything again. I know this because today I was digging a signal. I dug down about two feet and hit a huge piece of concrete that I remember seing on top last week. Could all this new sand be effecting my machine as well. If so what do I do.
Can anyone enlighten me please.
Ferd
Most times at the beach I have NO problems. I get out on the beach, ground balance and off I go. BUT sometimes, like the past few days. My V3i just goes crazy. It will not ground balance(and if it does I have to GB every 5 feet) and is very unstable. I mean a constant beeping and chirping to the point where I just have to leave. I try to adjust everything I can to get it to stop with no luck. I have even had my RX as low as 2 and still it acts crazy.
It seems to do this when the wind is high or their is a thick feeling to the air, like it might rain
I feel that the many relic hunting users of the V3i have the settings figured out. BUT as far as beach hunting. I have yet to hear of anything other than "factory salt beach is fine". Is it because none of the beach users want to share what they have learned or because there are just not that many V3i owners hunting beaches.
Since 95% of my hunting is done at the beach. I sometimes feel that I may have purchased the wrong machine.
Just two weeks ago I met a few people at the beach who were using Minelabs. One was a Safari, the other a Sovereign. We dug a hole about 10" deep and tossed a coin in and left the coin unburied. Both of the other detectors could detect the coin. While my V3i could not. I had to crank up my RX and turn on the TX boost just to get a slight blip. I didn't understand why, because I once dug a penny in the dry sand at 24" deep.
I really, really wish that there was a few experienced beach hunters with the V3i to help us other guys out.
I feel that with the limitless setting adjustments the V3i can be a great beach hunter. But their are so many adjustments I just don't know sometimes what to try.
We need someone like Magic, Rob, or Larry who knows the machine to help figure out alternate beach settings that will work with stability.
Sometimes I feel like I have a good grip on how to set my V3i. Then there are those times like the past few days where I feel like I don't have a clue...
I should also mention that our beach has just went through a stripping and recovering process. Last week the tides had stripped the beaches a lot leaving many huge rocks showing, some had to be atleast 50 lbs. While this week the tides pushed all new sand up covering everything again. I know this because today I was digging a signal. I dug down about two feet and hit a huge piece of concrete that I remember seing on top last week. Could all this new sand be effecting my machine as well. If so what do I do.
Can anyone enlighten me please.
Ferd