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May 20, 2026 - 04:15 PM
The Garrett Axiom offers Fine, Normal, Large, and Salt pulse timings. Fine timing keeps the receiver gate open earlier to hear small, low-conductivity gold, so we run Fine mode for sub-gram pickers. Normal timing reaches deeper nuggets without giving up too much on small gold and is our default for mixed-size prospecting. Large timing waits longer and reaches further into the ground for bigger, deeper targets. Salt timing gates out the conductive saltwater signal entirely, which lets you hunt wet sand and the swash zone without the salt masking targets. These four timings let you match the machine to the gold you are chasing without changing detectors, a flexibility older single-timing PI machines do not offer.
