I know there are those that will come to it's defense but this is MY experience with this machine ,the other day after a long time since I water hunted with my cz I decided to give it a spin on the dry sand I don't water hunt on the fact that finding your target with a heavy t-rex scoop makes detecting no fun in the water ,well to my surprise it doesn't want to work , the speakers are fine but the coil is not picking up a reliable signal it's intermittent .no water has ever gotten into the housing ,no visible cracks on any of the cables changed batteries nothing! can't figure out why a machine that sits in a closet doesn't want to work no coil cracks or anything .this machine like i've said before is nothing more than a water proofed bounty hunter with its stupid 3tones ,big over done pinpointing button, that weighs a ton ,has a wobbly shaft and all that for 1200 dollars what a waste of money. should of learned from all the utube videos and gone with minelab ..rant over sorry but I needed to vent this experience