New X-Terra Pro fails first time out

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I took my new X-Terra Pro to a beach today for some underwater hunting.
I waided through 6 inch to chest deep water with my new the X-Terra Pro.
I was using cordless headphones.
Once I got the control box about 6 inches submerged underwater the machine would quit working. It was still on , but would not respond to a target.
The machine would always give a audio signal just before it stopped working.
When I moved back to the knee deep water with the control box at water level or above it would work again.
If this is normal I'm getting a refund.
What's up?

 

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[KSDirtfisher77]

I took my new X-Terra Pro to a beach today for some underwater hunting.
I waided through 6 inch to chest deep water with my new the X-Terra Pro.
I was using cordless headphones.
Once I got the control box about 6 inches submerged underwater the machine would quit working. It was still on , but would not respond to a target.
The machine would always give a audio signal just before it stopped working.
When I moved back to the knee deep water with the control box at water level or above it would work again.
If this is normal I'm getting a refund.
What's up?

I don't think the wireless headphones will work once the control box is submerged under water. It looses it's wireless signal to the headphones.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Pretty sure you need wired headphones.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Wired headphones. Also, you have the WRONG machine for a saltwater beach. No matter what anyone says, you need a simultaneous multi-frequency machine if you are going into the saltwater chest deep.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Wired headphones. Also, you have the WRONG machine for a saltwater beach. No matter what anyone says, you need a simultaneous multi-frequency machine if you are going into the saltwater chest deep.

It was fresh water on a lake.
If I use wired headphones the machine looses its waterproof capabilities.
The headphone jack on the control box has a rubber plug that's removed for a wired headphone.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Pretty sure you need wired headphones.

If I use wired headphones the headphone recptical on the control box would need the rubber plug removed.
This would allow water into the machine which would ruin it.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I don't think the wireless headphones will work once the control box is submerged under water. It looses it's wireless signal to the headphones.

Wow. That explains this.
This is definitely not the machine to use for water hunting.
After 30 years of water hunting I've found most of my gold in the 4 to 5 feet water.
This machine goes blank in that zone.
It might be great for hunting the land, but definitely not the water.

 

[Terry Soloman]

It was fresh water on a lake.
If I use wired headphones the machine looses its waterproof capabilities.
The headphone jack on the control box has a rubber plug that's removed for a wired headphone.

My Bad! That is why they included vibration CHF, so you could use it in chest deep water.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Bluetooth does not work underwater.

If I use wired headphones the headphone recptical on the control box would need the rubber plug removed.
This would allow water into the machine which would ruin it.

Just like the Equonox you use waterproof headphones that have an O-ring, that keeps water out of the detector.