Title: Sunday morning Post by: Resurgam on February 23, 2015, 11:58:44 PM Took the new Safari for a jaunt on the sand Sunday morning but couldn't manage any treasure. The best I could do was a 1919 penny, a 1p decimal, a pound coin, a load of WWII scrap, and a child's sterling silver ring. Oh; and one lead fishing weight! ;D
Slowly getting used to the Safari, but I can't help wondering if it is going to punch as deep as the CS4PI. :-\ Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Val Beechey on February 24, 2015, 08:59:31 AM Hi Chris, Well done on your finds on Sunday. Not bad at all.
As far as 'punching as deep as the CS4PI' then no, no, and no. It's a full band frequency machine which is excellent at differentiating metals but will not be anywhere as deep as the PI. Obviously I don't speak from personal experience but I know from the depth I dig compared to what I read. I think Chef Geoff will agree. But I do remember you saying you were fed up digging deep holes for rubbish. Val Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Resurgam on February 24, 2015, 09:27:15 AM Good morning Val :)
thanks for your swift reply. My regular beach is so full of WWII leftovers, years of discarded metal scraps, and modern tourist's rubbish, that the CS4PI becomes a nightmare without the discrimination that other machines have and ( as you know ) the Euroace has fits if you show it wet sand. I am well impressed with the Safari on the beach but will be keeping the Euroace as a backup machine. I had been thinking of selling on the CS4PI, but then began to wonder if it's worth keeping just for clean beach areas? Using the Safari on Sunday, I dug very little iron whilst using coin mode with 40 blocked out. There was, of course, the odd piece of rusty iron pretending to be a good target! ::) Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Val Beechey on February 24, 2015, 09:46:38 AM Nice thing about the Safari, Chris, is that you can increase the Sensitivity and squeeze a bit more depth and keep ground balance. Plus you can at least recognise brass when you get it ::) at least it's worth something.
I still have to discover if I can achieve the same with the Deus. At the moment I see it as a step backwards. I seem to have got the beach sorted but not sure if I've lost depth with the change of settings. Fields, at the present, are a pain. It's like running the Safari in all metal and being told that every chunk of old iron is a gold hoard as it registers as conductive with a high tone. Still I s'pose I'll eventually get used to it. I remember hating the Safari for months. Main attraction of the Deus is the weight. I can't fault that. If I had your choice I'd sell the Euroace. You never know where you might want to take a PI machine and be glad of it. Val Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Resurgam on February 24, 2015, 01:13:12 PM Interesting that you should say that about the Deus Val; I was feeling pretty much the same about the Safari. Being honest; I had similar problems when I first started using the Euroace but soon learned to love it. I suppose that it is all about learning curves and practice. I can get away with the safari on maximum sensitivity whilst detecting the beach but the darned thing takes a dickyfit if I try the same settings on pasture. I can't move a foot without it warbling and wurbling; so run it about 16 sensitivity and try to slow down my swing and advance. As with the Euroace; I will get there eventually.
Me thinks that I will be keeping both the CS4PI and the Euroace for the time being. I would hate to be without a detector if the Safari is out of action, and I think the CS4PI will come into it's own on the low tide line and on cleaner beaches. I plan on doing some beach testing of the Safari v the CS4PI and seeing which actually detects deepest. Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Chef Geoff on February 24, 2015, 01:36:36 PM A Pi will always find small items deeper as they aren't camouflaged by mineralisation like they are to a VLF machine however as you start getting up around the size of a pre decimal penny then things start evening out ;)
Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: marknewbury1 on February 24, 2015, 01:59:50 PM I val keep using the xp on the pasturefields iron 4+5+6 +789+13 down is loud sound a coin the same 4 to 10 is a high quit signal
Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Richie sixpence on February 28, 2015, 12:24:18 PM Nice finds Chris, nice to see you are still getting to the beach :)
Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Resurgam on February 28, 2015, 06:25:47 PM Hi Richie,
it tends to be hit and miss if I'm going to get down to the beach. A lot depends on the weather, the tides, and the wife's mood at the time of contemplating a day's beach detecting! It presently looks as though I will be down there tomorrow. I will walk through to presthaven via the path and work my way back to the lighthouse detecting the high tide line as I go. You are more than welcome to join me. I will be starting early though! ;) Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Jonnietaz on March 01, 2015, 07:44:53 AM From my experience, the safari is deeper then the 4pi, but again that's my experience, my beaches.
. Title: Re: Sunday morning Post by: Resurgam on March 01, 2015, 05:29:38 PM Well, me, I don't know! What I can say is this.......I took R2D2 down to the beach again this morning and ran it over some areas that I have worked with both my EuroAce and my C-Scope CS4PI. I got loads of copper projectiles and pieces of copper shrapnel. I also got £3.54p in decimal coins, a tatty cheap ring, a doggy tag, and what looks like a heart shaped gold pendant.
I am presently cleaning the Pendant / locket in an ultrasound bath but am beginning to doubt that it is made of gold; it has some small areas that look a bit like copper verdigris and it is caked in gritty sand. |