It’s always fun to buy an advanced metal detector. Provided it’s not your first one, you’ll know you’re about to hit the big leagues and possess a detector that you’ll be glad to show off to other enthusiasts. If you’re making this step, don’t let the prices-which are sometimes high-discourage you. There are features on these beach metal detectors that make them well worth the money and which make them something to look forward to for many who have become experienced and adept at finding treasure beneath the surface of the ground.
A beach metal detector with advanced features will generally have different detection modes. If you’ve been at it for some time, you should know already what modes you use where. Generally speaking, VLF metal detectors do an outstanding job of picking out treasure in ground that is highly mineralized. If you intend to work more in the water, then you should get a PI detector. These offer much better results for scanning beneath the waves. They detect to the greater depth and that can be useful in underwater areas, where almost anything metallic is interesting.
You may want to move up to a metal detector with more sophisticated ways of making readings. Many of them can be huge time-savers in that they avoid your having to investigate every promising signal you get. Some of these advanced metal detectors are even able to give you an estimate of the metal’s size and how deeply is it buried. This can be the difference between digging up a box of treasure and digging up an old coffee can full of rusty nails, so give such features serious consideration when you make the decision to upgrade.
If you’re likely to be taking your metal detector to the beach, you’ll want to make sure that it’s waterproof, not water resistant. Water resistant may be good enough for cheaper models, but if you have large sums of money in your hands you need to make sure it’s not at risk. At the very least, the coil box should be waterproof on models used at the beach. You would have to wipe off and clean the metal detector when you use it in a place where there is an abundance of salt water. The salt can cause corrosion to the device, and expensive metal detectors need to be maintained, cleaned and cared for properly in every other way to provide great results.
