Balance to Salt ??

[DetectingMoney]

I've heard the term "Ground balance to salt" when advice is given on how to detect modern Canadian clad coins (which is mostly cheap steel now). Anyone know what "Ground balance to salt" actually means? My machine allows me to ground balance by pumping the coil, but also allows me to thumb in a higher or lower number as well (Technetics T2+).

No whimsical signiture yet,
Noob Johnny

 

[REVIER]

On the F70/Patriot and many other detectors pumping the coil will adjust the unit to current ground conditions.
In Kansas I saw numbers level out at 45-55 or so in that great soil, here in Alabama I am seeing numbers start at about mid 60 and go up to the 70's or low 80's in the real red mineralized difficult stuff.
That is in dirt, saltwater and saltwater drenched sand on the coasts is another story.
In that environment to be balanced correctly and optimally you need to get that number down to single digits.
My F70 will do this automatically, the F75 can do it too plus you also can manually adjust that setting and many others, (like your T2), have at least one if not both abilities to do this too...but some just can't.

When they can and do we call this balancing down to salt and once you do on a saltwater beach you have a better chance to find more targets deeper with much less falsing than those that don't have that ability.

What any of this has to do to enhance the ability of your, or any detector, to be able to find steel coins better I have no idea but I don't come across a whole lot of coins like that in my travels.

 

[DetectingMoney]

Thanks for the info. I'm 1200 miles from the nearest salt-water ocean, and hunt mostly in soil that is around 81-83 when I ground balance.
Maybe I'll manually set it to something really low like '7' and see what effect it has on reading our Canadian Steel, when my landlord is not looking.

 

[chuck ky]

The main thing is to make sure the disc. is set low enough to pick up the coins.