Just got back from Costa Rica. Let me say what a great place! It's my fourth time there but first with a metal detector. Now I know at the Florida and Texas beach my AT PRO ground balances like around 10 or so. But this was volcanic black sand and on the wet sand at the beach. Wow double whammy.
It actually ground balanced at 88 to 93 on the wet sand. It was very chatty and I hate to turn down my sens so I stayed mostly in the dry sand. It did ok even though it was black sand . I found coins at a depth of about five inches. When I went to the wet sand, I finally went through all the settings I could think of. I liked the Pro Zero mode with nothing notched out and no iron disc in the very lowest sensitivity. It actually was quiet but could only get a depth of about three inches. At low tide there was about an eighty foot wide strip of wet sand. I really wanted a better beach detector... But it's coming. Any one else took their AT PRO down there?
It actually ground balanced at 88 to 93 on the wet sand. It was very chatty and I hate to turn down my sens so I stayed mostly in the dry sand. It did ok even though it was black sand . I found coins at a depth of about five inches. When I went to the wet sand, I finally went through all the settings I could think of. I liked the Pro Zero mode with nothing notched out and no iron disc in the very lowest sensitivity. It actually was quiet but could only get a depth of about three inches. At low tide there was about an eighty foot wide strip of wet sand. I really wanted a better beach detector... But it's coming. Any one else took their AT PRO down there?
