White’s Surf PI Dual Field Reviews, Price and Specifications
Water/Land Pulse Induction (PI) Metal Detector
Retail Price: $899.95
Number of Reviews: 2
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Specifications:
• Adjustable Pulse Delay reduces black sand "noise." Quiet beaches - more targets• 12 x 6" Dual coil design that offers superb sensitivity on all targets
• Exceptional depth on coins and jewelry, especially in saltwater and mineralized ground
• Enhanced sensitivity to gold jewelry at maximum depths
• Gain control adjusts for any particular beach conditions
• Quick Target Recovery so you hear good targets even mixed in with junk
• Tuner Control adjusts the threshold tone and checks battery strength
• Automatic Ground Rejection
• Completely waterproof to 100 feet
• Near-neutral loop buoyancy
• Power Supply: 8 AA batteries for up to 25 hours of hunting
• Headphones are hardwired into the unit, not removable
Simply The Best
Rey in Caribbean -
This baby goes ridiculously deep, rusted hair pins @ 12"+! I had to give up a few times wading in chest deep water because I ended up neck deep DIGGING!
Got a gold ring @ about 12" mark very loud, I dread faint signals. You remove the first scoop full, then it starts getting louder the deeper you go!
If you don't want to miss a target and is prepared to dig it all, this is your Machine.
P.S. My settings are: sensitivity to full, no pulse, & threshold just below the factory setting.
Happy Hunting :-)
Aug 14, 2010
3 people found Rey's review helpful.
A mixed blessing!
Marion in Swansea , Wales -
As my husband loves pulse machines that tend to be on the heavy side for me and I hate chestmounts, this Whites seemed the ideal choice.
Many reports suggested exceptional depth but the real attraction for me was its ability to be swept swiftly as I wanted to cover ground at speed on the wet sand. But when I needed a slow sweep in water, I had my first disappointment: to get the best depth, I needed to sweep fairly fast.
Performancewise claims of 20 to 24 inches have been made with "consistant finds at 18 inches". Not with mine. I was on the point of sending it to Whites for a check up but was lucky to meet up with some other D.F. users finding the same thing. Meanwhile my husband with a 15 year old P.I. was running rings round me.
The main problem is that it doesn't ignore black sand or mineralised ground. You can adjust the controls to make things better, but this causes lack of depth. It has a SAT control (self adjusting threshold) but this is not adjustable. An adjustable one would make dealing with difficult ground possible without the penalty the D.F. suffers. You can also sharpen up the pinpointing to the point that a buried item can be traced out. This makes it much easier to I.D. rubbish without digging.
This detector is rather noisy with a none to stable threshold. Drop the audio down to improve things, and performance drops.
I used it on land or beach to find thin items such as hammered silver coins, but detecting depth is poor and limited to the small inner coil at about 3 inches down. This does not help if you are trying to search a large area! Not exactly what is wanted in Europe. A 14" gold chain (not a fine one) that my husband found didn't give any response. I folded and refolded it. No better. I rolled it into a ball and still got nothing.
Silver coins lack in depth compared to cupronickle of the same size.
To sum up, I was disappointed because I had used better P.I.'s and could not match claimed performance figures; though Whites themselves called them optimistic.
Battery life is good and the batteries are easy to fit. And there is not the worry of the older Whites that had a thin black rubber seal that could fall out and remain unseen on a carpet. The dual coil is lighter than I thought, and I would rather have it that way than have a fully weighted diving coil. You can always add a sock full of sand to it when detecting in the water.
Built quality is good, and there's a two year warranty rather the one that some companies apply to their water models. Paint seems a little soft. There's a slight mark where the coil cable wraps up the stem.
Will I keep it? The 24 thousand dollar question. There's not much else that is waterproof in this price range. If I sell it, I would get nothing like what I paid out back, although it's mint except for the mark on the shaft. This week, a 15-hour-use one was sold on E-Bay for £400, and another one on Free Ads under six months old was sold for £350 which is about half of the U.K. dealers price of £699. Its a lot of money to drop in a very short period.
Aug 02, 2010
8 people found Marion's review helpful.
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