This to clear up a recent discussion regarding the Infinium not working at certain beaches:
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The Infinium "WILL" Detect On All Beaches......
- Thread starter John-Edmonton
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Gulf Hunter
Active member
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My hunting buddy 'Besco' uses the Infinium and after taking some good advice from an Infinium forum on another site he switched out the 14" coil for the 8" coil. His Infinium has no stability problems at all now and it detects as deep as anyone would ever want to dig for a target. This and a few other tweeks to his technique and he has a really powerful underwater detector.
If I didn't find the sound of the scratchy tones so annoying I'd buy one myself, almost did.
Cheers,
BDA
If I didn't find the sound of the scratchy tones so annoying I'd buy one myself, almost did.
Cheers,
BDA
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steve herschbach
New member
Hi,
Most saltwater PI units are set so as to not react to saltwater. Saltwater gives the same signal as tiny gold items, like earrings or thin chains. So most PI units miss these items.
The Infinium is designed with smaller gold in mind, and so can detect these items in a non-salt environment. By setting the disc to ignore the salt signal you miss exactly the same items other PI units (or VLF for that matter) miss when ignoring the salt signal.
The scary part is how much buffer do other units have to eliminate the salt signal? With the Infinium you can adjust right up to the edge of the salt signal. Makes for a noisy unit but quite sensitive to gold other units might miss.
Ground balancing and salt signal elimination are just types of discrimination. You are setting the machine to ignore a ground signal or a salt signal. Any item that reads the same as the ground or the salt will also be lost.
I'm not making the case that the Infinium is a super unit. Just pointing out that setting a unit to ignore a salt signal is common on all surf units and nothing to be afraid of. Try using a unit that picks up the salt, like any good VLF gold machine, and you'll see why it is a good idea!
Steve Herschbach
Infinium in Hawaii
Most saltwater PI units are set so as to not react to saltwater. Saltwater gives the same signal as tiny gold items, like earrings or thin chains. So most PI units miss these items.
The Infinium is designed with smaller gold in mind, and so can detect these items in a non-salt environment. By setting the disc to ignore the salt signal you miss exactly the same items other PI units (or VLF for that matter) miss when ignoring the salt signal.
The scary part is how much buffer do other units have to eliminate the salt signal? With the Infinium you can adjust right up to the edge of the salt signal. Makes for a noisy unit but quite sensitive to gold other units might miss.
Ground balancing and salt signal elimination are just types of discrimination. You are setting the machine to ignore a ground signal or a salt signal. Any item that reads the same as the ground or the salt will also be lost.
I'm not making the case that the Infinium is a super unit. Just pointing out that setting a unit to ignore a salt signal is common on all surf units and nothing to be afraid of. Try using a unit that picks up the salt, like any good VLF gold machine, and you'll see why it is a good idea!
Steve Herschbach
Infinium in Hawaii
Gulf Hunter
Active member
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