treasurenut
Full Member
I am in Hawaii today for a weeks vacations an off course the island is beautifull but here are some things I did not know about metal detecting in hawaii. I use the Minelab excalibur 1000.
I am on Waikiki beach and people come up to you and ask all the time if I can find this or that so there should be plenty of stuff there. The problem is the minerals of the beach, volcanic rock and what not makes the metal detector go crazzy.
I am using the machine with out hearing the treashold as the tone is erratic all the time because off the mineral. I have tried everything and finally called the Minelab/white dealer here on the island. Very nice guy. He told me that here in hawaii things are done a little different. Use the treashold below audio and then set the sensetivity at 80% (about 10-11 o'clock). This will give me a tone when something good is found and else stay quite. Walking up and down waikiki beach I found 3 penies and 1 dime. This is on a 2 hour hunt. Now you think to your self, with this setting how much am I missing. I have been in the water also and found 2 pennies on a 2 hour hunt.
So maybe Waikiki is not the metal detector paradise that I thought it was or I am using the wrong machine.
The Minelab/ white dealer I talked to this morning told me that the PI units have the same problem as the minerals in the beach and the salt water will give it a falsh signal all the time.
Anybody with any info on metal detecting in Hawaii, including other machines that will 100% (proven) work better I am open for suggestions. I am here for another 6 days so I have time to break in a new machine if that is the problem.
Please help if you have been here metal detecting.
I am on Waikiki beach and people come up to you and ask all the time if I can find this or that so there should be plenty of stuff there. The problem is the minerals of the beach, volcanic rock and what not makes the metal detector go crazzy.
I am using the machine with out hearing the treashold as the tone is erratic all the time because off the mineral. I have tried everything and finally called the Minelab/white dealer here on the island. Very nice guy. He told me that here in hawaii things are done a little different. Use the treashold below audio and then set the sensetivity at 80% (about 10-11 o'clock). This will give me a tone when something good is found and else stay quite. Walking up and down waikiki beach I found 3 penies and 1 dime. This is on a 2 hour hunt. Now you think to your self, with this setting how much am I missing. I have been in the water also and found 2 pennies on a 2 hour hunt.
So maybe Waikiki is not the metal detector paradise that I thought it was or I am using the wrong machine.
The Minelab/ white dealer I talked to this morning told me that the PI units have the same problem as the minerals in the beach and the salt water will give it a falsh signal all the time.
Anybody with any info on metal detecting in Hawaii, including other machines that will 100% (proven) work better I am open for suggestions. I am here for another 6 days so I have time to break in a new machine if that is the problem.
Please help if you have been here metal detecting.
