A Sovereign GT Question.

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I have viewed present comments regarding the Sovereign GT.
At present I have not had use of one to try out.
I have at present a Sovereign XS which I prefer to use in "All Metal" on the local Beaches.
The Sovereign XS I have now discovered has a Manual Ground Balance. This puzzled me at first as I have built several Detectors and when in "All Metal" on a salt wet beach you NEARLY always cancelled out SOME or ALL of the Iron depending on the mineral/salt Ratio and this was NOT happening with the Sovereign XS and now I know why!
Can someone who has used the Sovereign GT tell me if the new Sovereign GT with its ADJUSTABLE Ground Balance will bias out some, or all Iron on a wet salt Beach?
If this can be done it will make an excellent Beach machine in "All Metal" without having to switch back to Motion to check out "Iffy" Signals.
I have queried this on the Minelab Site using their Help Query Option but did not get any response.
Cheers,
beachcomber.

 

[Anonymous]

I think you have a misunderstanding of the GT ground balance in all metal.
Ground balance is automatic, not manual.
You can bob the coil a few times until the threshold is stable then start hunting, or you can start hunting and let the GT establish ground balance over a period of time.
You can let it continuously track or you can lock the balance by switching to the fixed tracking mode.
There is no way to reject iron trash in the all metal mode, as it's designed to pick up everything.
HH

 

[Anonymous]

I recently hunted the wet sand in Daytona with my GT, ran it with a faint threshold & 0 disc .. not all metal. It ran extremely quiet, on a couple of the deep targets that I did check in all metal .. they were so faint that I probably would have walked right over them in all metal and never heard them. The disc mode on the GT is a tad bit deeper and very little iron even bothered to come thru the headphones. A couple of extra passes over iron with the coil and 99% of the time the GT would go silent.
It would be nice if the meter would ID in all metal but since it doesn't and iron barely comes thru in disc mode .... why bother using anything else.
I guess it's all about what works best for the individual at any given site. My GT hardly ever comes out of 0 disc mode and I'm having allot of fun with it <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> It's by far the most stable Minelab I've used, or any detector for that matter.
H.H
Mike

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Art
Be careful if using the machine in auto track if you go over a faint target it may see it as the ground and track it out after a couple of sweeps. I have been under the impression that when the machine has tracked the ground, you then flick it into the fixed mode, this setting is then locked untill you want to re-track again.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Beachcomber,
Your question was received and a reply was given.
Regards
Des D
Minelab

 

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
It looks as though running All Metal continually on the beach is a bit of a non starter as far as Iron Rejection is concerned.
Interesting also to see that some of you are experiencing greater depth in the Disk Mode than All Metal.
My Sovereign varies, sometimes All Metal is a bit deeper and other times it is Motion that is better. Apart from that it is the best Detector I have ever owned discriminating at full detection depth most of the time.
Thanks for your help,
beachcomber.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Des,
Regarding your reply from Minelab I can only say that I missed it in my "E" mail Tray.
It probably got logged as Spam and I failed to notice it and deleted it.
I am very pleased the Minlab did reply and if you could "E" Mail the reply I will be extremely grateful.
Many thanks for pointing out my error.
Cheers,
beachcomber.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't hunt in all metal anyway, so no problem. Am used to "tracking out" from my White's, so it's nothing new to me.
Thanx.
HH