ColonelDan
Bronze Member
I need some advice on beach settings for the MineLab Safari.
A friend and I spent 2 days hunting Cocoa Beach Florida this past weekend; he with his Excalibur II and me with my Safari. While he was finding nice rings, ear rings, car keys, assorted other jewelry and two hands full of change, I came away with about 58 cents!
I noticed my Safari would give me a single low tone signal but when I went back and swept the same area trying to locate the position…nothing…no signal. We tried throwing the 14K ring my friend found on the ground and burying it in the wet sand to see of my Safari would detect it…it did and at a variety of sensitivity settings!
After the first day, I called Steve Carr at Kellyco who sold me the Safari back in February. He advised me to get out of the auto mode and lower the sensitivity setting. I tried several settings from low to high and noise cancelled routinely. I went from dry sand to wet sand, noise cancelling each time with different sensitivity settings…nothing.
One other thing I did differently this time was to use ear buds with a plug adapter rather than the headphones that I was given by Kellyco when I bought the unit.
I decided I needed helpful advice with the Safari. Can anyone please give me some ideas as to how best set this machine up for beach hunting?
I’m posting this on several places in hopes I can rectify this frustrating issue.
Thanks
A friend and I spent 2 days hunting Cocoa Beach Florida this past weekend; he with his Excalibur II and me with my Safari. While he was finding nice rings, ear rings, car keys, assorted other jewelry and two hands full of change, I came away with about 58 cents!
I noticed my Safari would give me a single low tone signal but when I went back and swept the same area trying to locate the position…nothing…no signal. We tried throwing the 14K ring my friend found on the ground and burying it in the wet sand to see of my Safari would detect it…it did and at a variety of sensitivity settings!
After the first day, I called Steve Carr at Kellyco who sold me the Safari back in February. He advised me to get out of the auto mode and lower the sensitivity setting. I tried several settings from low to high and noise cancelled routinely. I went from dry sand to wet sand, noise cancelling each time with different sensitivity settings…nothing.
One other thing I did differently this time was to use ear buds with a plug adapter rather than the headphones that I was given by Kellyco when I bought the unit.
I decided I needed helpful advice with the Safari. Can anyone please give me some ideas as to how best set this machine up for beach hunting?
I’m posting this on several places in hopes I can rectify this frustrating issue.
Thanks
