The Quattro any good on saltwater beaches?

[inshepherdsarms]

Just curious if anyone is using this on the beach? Saltwater. wet sand. if so how well does it do on saltwater beaches?

 

[old lobo]

Here in Southern California our beaches have heavy black sand, and my Safari ( which is just a newer version of the Quattro ) works with no problem at all. Just remember all fbs Minelab machines get the best depth when swung slow. I would also suggest you tie a long piece of twine or leather strip from you belt to your machine, so when you are scooping, if the Quattro slips out of your grip when you are in the wet mud or shallow water, it won't hit the ground and get wet resulting in a large repair bill.

 

[Goldstrike]

Ditto Old Lobo's comments. Mine works just great going from dry to wet and wet to dry so long as you ground balance every time otherwise with the swath's of black sand that can be found at the shoreline here, it will send your detector into a frenzy!!! Having said that, it will work great but be very careful if you go up to the tide line because that salt water will instantly fry the circuit board and then you will be having to purchase another detector or circuit board. Although I have heard that happening to other detectorists, that has never happened to me BUT I dropped my cell phone one time in my salt water swimming pool and although I retrieved it in less than 10 seconds, took the battery out, dried it out properly etc; it was fried/toasted/killed/ you get the idea!!! You can put a tether on like O.L. mentioned but I personally would not risk it.
I have an ATPro which I will use if I want to go into water and will not use my Safari actually in the water no matter how shallow. I have been in a situation where I have got a great signal, possibly a gold signal with my Safari in the very shallow tide water and wanted so much to dig but knew that if my detector dropped into the water, it would kill it. I don't want to spend another $1000 or so for what could have been a soda can ring pull....!!!

 

[therover]

It works great...just GO SLOW.

Also,be aware of your sensitivity level. Run it stable. It will still go deep. It will start to false and not react well to certain wet sand conditions running too high a sensitivity...and it will let you know. Just back the sensitivity down until the unit settles down and go low and slow and it will find the goodies.

 

[inshepherdsarms]

Haha yeah I was gonna purchase one but got a great deal on a cz20

 

[SC Dirt Fisher]

Was wondering if moving from wet sand to dry sand causes you to have to rebalance frequently?
Planning a 2 day beach trip this week and never have used the Safari at the beach. Have always used my DFX there.
The sand beaches here, other than the salt, have practically no mineralization.
The DFX has autotrac so basically you only have to ground balance once.
Also, I was wondering which Safari program works best at the beach.