Original price was: £499.00.£479.99Current price is: £479.99.
With Free Deluxe Headphones when purchased from this web site.
The CS4PI is an extremely powerful metal detector designed for use where most other detectors struggle, on the beach.
The ‘switch-on-and-go’ principle makes the CS4Pi a joy to use for anyone, even if they’ve never used a detector before. Just compare that with some of our competitors whose machines require all sorts of complicated adjustments to work on wet salt beaches.
The CS4Pi has a distinctive cleverly designed control box which can quickly be detached from the stem and belt mounted around the body. The CS4Pi is a high performance treasure finding tool which can perform its specialised functions better than some competitors machines at five times the price.
If you want to be the one to recover a share of the tons of valuables lost on beaches each year, the CS4PI has got to form part of your detecting kit.
The CS4PI is an ever ready back-up to whatever detector you are regularly using now. The thing is, we think you’ll end up preferring the back-up detector !
Wet salt sand is the hardest ground in British detecting. Salt water conducts, so a conventional VLF detector reads the beach itself as a target and chatters continuously. People respond by winding the sensitivity down until the machine is quiet and useless, then conclude the beach is empty.
The CS4Pi is a pulse induction machine, and pulse induction ignores salt almost entirely. That is the whole reason it exists. C.Scope’s own claim is that it performs its specialised job better than some competitors’ machines at five times the price, and on wet sand that is a defensible thing to say.
It is also switch on and go. No complicated adjustments to make it work on a salt beach, which is exactly where other machines demand them. The control box detaches from the stem and belt mounts around the body, which matters when you are wading.
£479.99, reduced from £499, with free deluxe headphones when you buy from this website. Headphones are not an optional extra on a beach, where wind and surf drown a speaker.
A pulse machine fires a pulse into the ground and reads the decay, rather than continuously comparing against the soil. Salt stops interfering, so the machine runs quietly on wet sand where a VLF detector chatters constantly.
Target identification. A PI machine will not reliably tell iron from silver, so you dig more rubbish. On a beach that matters less than elsewhere, because beach finds are shallow and quick to recover.
Yes, and that is the point of it. Competitors’ machines often need a sequence of adjustments to work on wet salt. This does not, which is why it suits someone who has never used a detector as well as someone who has.
So you can belt mount it around your body rather than have it on the stem. If you are working the waterline or wading, keeping the box out of the water and off the end of your arm is a practical difference across a session.
Probably not. It is a specialist: superb on wet salt sand, less suited to a field full of iron where you want target identification. C.Scope themselves pitch it as a back up to whatever you use now, while suspecting you will prefer it.
A machine from the C.Scope MXi range or our most popular models for inland work, and a long handled scoop for wet sand. Digging wet sand by hand is miserable, and no detector fixes that.
The wet sand between low and high water, where heavy items settle, the cut after a storm where sand has been scoured away, and the towel line where people sit and undress. Our beach detecting page goes through this properly.
You need to know who owns the foreshore. Much of it is Crown Estate, which permits recreational detecting, but councils, the National Trust and private owners set their own rules. Always check locally first.
Salt is corrosive and will eventually attack connectors and shafts on any machine. Rinse the coil and lower shaft in fresh water after every session and dry it properly. That single habit roughly doubles the life of beach equipment.
Pulse induction reaches deeper than VLF on anything substantial, and on a beach the sand moves constantly so depth varies week to week. Ground that was barren last month can be productive after a storm.
Beaches are where gold jewellery is lost more than anywhere else, and a PI machine working wet sand quietly is the right tool for finding it. You will dig a lot of ring pulls on the way, which is the honest trade.
George B –
Great metal detector, I had one years ago but wow what a difference these detectors are now, it goes very deep and will pick up tiny little coins. I found a nice William III coin and can’t stop going out now.