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Skull diver

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  1. Too early to say if something is changed for better...I'm in Europe and this week thunderstorms have affected the shore, more than the wind...In the end I expect for the next week murky water and more trash than usual around... Right when I want to try my mods on the TdiBh😭
  2. After a busy week, doing an effort between heavy rain interruptions, I finally finished this work! Thanks for all people involved in this project for their knowledge shared... Underwater test next week(I hope)
  3. A little update of coil swap and some battery mods... I managed to finish the wiring work this morning and honestly I'm a bit pissed.... I mean, the Beachhunter is maybe cheaper than other machines and effective too, so this can balance the expectations on it..But...If you open the control box, even as a rookie like me, You'll be surprised of work quality on the PCB!Fragile and way cheap to say the least. Jeez...I was afraid to destroy something even moving the board a little, then I decided to don't disconnect anything and proceed to wire as I was, with a really tiny space. Thanks to Tony and Joe OBN suggestions I've been able to finish without ruin the machine but what a fuck...g work. Not to mention the gasket, seriously a nightmare to close again and in fact I'm waiting to re/open the box to do other things on the upper side and better check the enclosure. I only turned on for a couple minutes to check the 16V battery pack and to move some objects on the new coil.. Nothing special to say before real underwater session. A bit of misappont regard the Detech Mono, as I feel it scarce in build quality! If You shake it in up and down motion, you can feel the windings and epoxy to hit the housing!🤐. I definitely don't like the coil's feeling on land yet and just hope it will last a dozen of hunts submerged,to assure the payback time at least.🙄 Pictures soon ( I'm sorry)...Right now the storm is approaching on my garden work table😭
  4. Honestly?Due to the multiple livestreams and some pictures of beaches I'd say more sand is been brought on the shore...🤐 Maybe in the next weeks something will be better but as for now I think is better to wait some days...
  5. It happen... Anytime I check the wind radar hours before to go wet and I see something similar, the dreaming child in me wake up and high hopes follows the wind arrows. In some days even in Europe we will see the effect of this hurricane even if highly reduced in the force. Sunday afternoon I've seen an underrated profile by the TV and YouTube live for the weather. Right now, knowing well what that colours means I think someone near Orlando is living really a nightmare. (With great respect for all those on the Florida East coast and I hope all of You are safe and closed at home far from shore.)
  6. I don't know... Luckily I don't have a problem, not yet...But still waiting for an email reply since last February...(Big factory USA based)🤐
  7. Congratulations Joe!Two old beauties 🤩... Nothing to say for me today...Just turned off the morning alarm before 4am and continued to sleep🤣🤣🤣
  8. That's exactly the kind of beaches I have around me. Those "space invaders" are already active after dawn sometime and for this reason I always hunt underwater or at least on the surface, to disappear down when someone is next to "my space". I'm developing lung strength to stay as long as I can searching down too.Worst level reached days ago, is to don't use the diver under signal! Luckily in the summer, boating is not allowed nearshore even if some idiots can always try to land on the beach with engines on. Two hours, no more..This is the time window I'm forced to stay as for now. Tomorrow, or I should say four hours from now, I'll be there, like a ghost, as usual.
  9. A million dollar's question here🤓... In my modest experience on the saltwater field I feel comfortable with an old Ctx when there's no more than 25 cm of sand to cover the "ground zero"...No matter the coil size, this is the max depth where I can trust what the screen try to say and my ears can tell if a thin interference can begin a signal if I dig a bit more...Increase the coil size and You gain coverage+noise/lose signals quality/lose stability...Reduce the coil size and you gain sensitivity/keep acceptable depth/lose coverage... From 30cm of sand above the "ground zero" and my eyes are blind without evidence of prime ground, then the PI can do for me...(maybe).. Considering that more sand usually means more light stuff including aluminum of all sort and sometimes deep...A PI still can drive you crazy...Definitely I pray for erosion, I wait and I follow storms or the most similar phenomenon to be called like that... Vlf still win 2 to 1 against a PI....If you have to keep high the grams/time ratio... For this reason high expectations for an efficient/discriminating/ deep/ PI are so true but....Who knows when.....
  10. For the record, the new of this evening was that foundies are closing for summer stop and they don't buy gold in the next weeks ... Seems frankly like an excuse to prevent mass of people to sell in minutes. Then I sold a scarce third of what I own right now ... I'll keep it for better times ...
  11. I think not...Real sharks have recently been seen a bit far offshore here...People always scream and fastly call coastguard for lot less than that.
  12. Well, I can't be happier than now🤣 For the first time I have some modest weight and price is up...This time however I want to keep myself away from the shiver to sell it fastly...Just now going to cash in some 18k fresh fish @39.35Usd/g
  13. Me too! Location and location timing....That's what can make the difference in the same place and leave yourself amazed...It happened last week to me....
  14. Last week, I had two days to hunt in the morning and no more than 4 total hours in the water, before people came to swim around me. Summer is the time when I hate the most questions and how much time is lost when people crowd the shore. In my area it seems an insane habit to ask beyond the limit of decency ... Not that I am full of words and patience in this case. However, without high expectations, I was in the usual super drained place by I don't know how many other hunters and with some method, I slowly hunted a relatively small area. I have done this because the almost total absence of sand makes it difficult to say where to start and where to end, without a clear idea of particular clues, stuff can be everywhere trapped down. Of the few signals left, in the first day I dug a heavy piece, which was so old, was now almost red. A thick bracelet after years without to see one of them! The heaviest single good target I have found since I started in 2005. In the same place, the second day, meters closer to that magical signal, another bracelet, this time thin, but still as heavy as two wedding rings ... In addition, a small earring with a stone that seems fake to me, closed the short time left. In total 30 grams of beloved 18k in 4 hours, a bit more, maybe... What a week...What a dream...
  15. It is just a matter of time.User is not the problem and also the machine it isn't. I'd try another spot just for comparison...
  16. I'm realizing a simple 4s1p battery pack for my Tdi BH... I'm wondering if there's a way to use it until the minimum voltage available is approaching. I bought 20Ah rated Bms modules to safely handle the 10Ah peak of Samsung 35E cells. After I saw the specs, for me the ideal cut off was at 10.5/11V...it seems that those modules are cutting off power way before this voltage it is reached. Now, I think with 3450mAh this should not be a relevant problem.. But I want to make something with a steady voltage during all Hunting time...
  17. Just don't think about it. I managed to find amazing stuff in a devastated area...Probably the heaviest finds in last 15 years.I don't even posted it here yet... Go there!Kill it!
  18. I know Steve...This will be the best thing we can expect by factories...Unluckily I found few options unless to make one by myself...Not only with WHite's...Now I can even resuscitate two drowned ctx lithium batteries...
  19. So You're using 9V battieries...Can I ask You what kind package configuration You use?
  20. This week I've been two days in the water with my old ctx. I think even with the Tdi the two bracelets and the ear ring I found were easy finds.I had conditions to determine the difference...
  21. There is a lot you can do to improve the performance of the Tdi Beachhunter. Just in these days I hope to complete the final battery pack with 18650 cells. Much depends on how salty the waters are where you hunt anyway. I had difficulty with the original coil, without raising the delay up to 20uS. So not only a higher voltage can give you greater depth, but also noise, (consider it) ... For this reason I am also downsizing the coil with an 8 "mono. In the end I hope to be able to lower the delay by at least 5uS and to stay in the range of thinner targets. Keep in mind that this machine is In my opinion, something between an old tdi for nuggets prospecting and the attempt to adapt it for beach and water environment...Leaving however the lower delay available if a day you decide to go for nuggets... Believe me, forget to use it in the water with minumum delay, unless you don't cut down the gain (very wrong move). On the beach you might find a completely different conduct, but I think no one want to dig so much in trashy places...
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