jimmymac

I love the ones that ask me if my detector is water proof when im in the water,,, People are mostly friendly but after awhile answering the same questions over and over gets to much, i then take my mask and snorkel and stick my ed under watr to get away from it all.

Thank you !   you have cleared this up for me    I have never gotten a smooth threshold on this atx   but have never run with sens lower than 13,  by drift i meant that end of swing i would get a high low noise as i returned the sweep to other side but was still hittting targets , they came loud and clear.

So if im reading your post right buying this detector for sanded in beaches of florida was not a smart move on my part. As the beaches here have low mineralization. Atx would be for bad ground?       Reason i didnt want to run with ground balance esp in the salt water is the water and gold are both low conductors.

Thanks so much for your response you made it very clear to me what im trying to get the atx to do in the salt water is not going to happen. guess will use for relic hunting and stay with ctx in the drink      thanks so much jimmymac

Hi Lipca    thanks for response   i can run in 13 sens if i ground balance     losing depth   wondering if there is a way to run in factory preset cant figure out why the atx wont run in prefacory mode in the water  on the sand no problem.

Doing research on my atx  I'm so glad I found this site. Atx is driving me bonkers in the salt water on the gulf coast florida    panama city beach to be exact and my trips to south beach. Problem I'm having is trying to run with factory settings with sens 13 ,   what happens is a lot of drift which is fine I can hear targets thru drift but then atx screams like it is locked on to a target  and stays that way with the yellow dots fixed on the far right screen which doesn't allow me to hit targets  even my scoop.  I then retune  and after a few swings same thing again. If I ground balance sens 13 I can run fairly smooth with some drift however only targets I'm digging are shallow.

I watched a video on ground balancing on detectors comparisons on u tube  with the infinium and atx side by side on wet sand   both were hitting targets deep  , then atx was ground balanced and lost a dime at 10 inches which it picked up easily in factory mode with sens at 13. So it looks like if ground balancing is used depth is really reduced ?  Another test they did was run sens at 10 in factory sens  and still couldn't pick up dime at 10 inches.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong really would appreciate any tips as losing faith in atx. By the way my duelfield runs smooth in the drink  , thinging its much less sensitive than the atx ?  My detector is ctx which runs smooth. I bought the atx to use in sanded in conditions  but not working for me so far.   

thanks jimmymac