Beach Settings

[ashleyodwyer]

Hi, just bought a GMaxx 2 and am wondering if anyone has good working settings for the beach, wet sand and dry?

Also anyone bought a sniper type coil for this machine? any success with using it?

cheers Ash

[dttone]

Just spotted your post, howdy fellow gmaxx2 user, theres only a few of us around now!
I've a wealth of data gleaned from the inter-web and using it myself.
I bought a mars sniper coil and can't sing its praise enough, wow what depth and seperation.
Its on it permanently since.
Here's what is said about using it on the beach-Happy hunting.

The Beach
Dry Sand
Silencer 2
Ground Accept/Reject 3 oclock
Iron Volume 12 oclock
Sensitivity 10 oclock
Iron Threshold Just Off Auto

Wet Sand
Option 1
Silencer 0 (this is important I'll explain why at end)
Ground Accept/Reject 10 o'clock
Iron Volume 12 o'clock
Sensitivity just past the POWER ON position
Iron Threshold set to Auto

In this setting the detector will make a low buzzing sound as you swing, so left to right you will get a continuous buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz for the duration of the swing, this is why you need Silencer to 0 so you get that important recovery speed.

As on land you will get broken signals this is your crap stuff like iron nails, the sweet high sounds will come through loud and clear, again as on land.

The buzz sound as you sweep is low enough not to annoy and you tend to forget it, also it helps the sweet tones as they are more identifiable as when they sound the buzz disappears.

Option 2

Silencer at user discretion (see note at end)
Ground Accept/Reject 2 oclock
Iron Volume 11 oclock
Sensitivity 11 oclock
Iron Threshold Auto

With the silencer you will have to adjust depending on how much irons around, remember 0 has the fastest recovery speed while 1 & 2 give better tonal separation for target ID, unfortunately there is always going to be a trade off between fast recovery and target ID.

[Widescan]

Just spotted your post, howdy fellow gmaxx2 user, theres only a few of us around now!
I've a wealth of data gleaned from the inter-web and using it myself.
I bought a mars sniper coil and can't sing its praise enough, wow what depth and seperation.
Its on it permanently since.

I'm another Gmaxx2 user as well, we are slowly coming out of the woodwork. Unfortunately I have no experience with it on the beach only on ploughed fields. I was interested on your comment about the mars sniper coil and was wondering if you could give me some feedback on it. I do have the 11" 9" and 9x5 elliptical, which for its size is a great coil. All three coils are widescan dd and I was considering the 10x8 concentric coil but its a bit expensive. So any information on the sniper - as I do like smaller elliptical coils - would be appreciated when compared to the xp coils, not sure if I should dip my toes in and buy one or just stick with what I have. Thank you.