can anyone tell me how to set up my e-trac for finding deep silver? finding all the surface stuff 2-4 inches deep but would like to start zeroing in on the older,deeper coins. had this unit for about two months and have not found much silver. any advice would help. Can you stick with the preset mode and still find deep coins..........im not sure. thanks jbblue4u
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deep silver settings 101
- Thread starter jbblue4u
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Open up the top right corner of your screen so you can find silver dollars. Take your time the machine will find the deep targets if your coil goes over them. I use auto +3 on the sensitivity. And you may want to give two-tone ferrous a try if you get into an area with a lot of trash and iron. You are finding targets so just be patient and you will be sucessfull with the E-Trac. Don't forget your Quick-Mask screen to help you identify iffy targets. If your cursor is up toward the right hand corner dig it. If deep silver is there you and that E-Trac will find it. Good luck. HH 
For what it is worth I personally hunt with Andy Sabisch's pattern. I have pulled pennies and dimes at the 10" inch range that rang in loud and clear. This was running in Auto +3 and most of the time my suggested sensitivity is around 20-22....sometimes higher sometimes lower. My personal opinion is you need to open up your pattern to get the deeper coins mixed with trash.
I have had my sens. in the 13 to 15 range and still able to pull out 7" coins with stock coil.
On a different note if your are wanting to differentiate depth targets you have to do it by adjusting your GAIN. When I want to listen for the deeper hits I lower my gain to around 15 and this works real well. HOWEVER...there is a trade off. You need to make sure what your hearing is indeed a deeper coin and not a shallower clad off the edge of your coil an inch or two. So you really need to play with the signal and sweep a circle around it to indentify exactly where your target is.
NebTrac
I have had my sens. in the 13 to 15 range and still able to pull out 7" coins with stock coil.
On a different note if your are wanting to differentiate depth targets you have to do it by adjusting your GAIN. When I want to listen for the deeper hits I lower my gain to around 15 and this works real well. HOWEVER...there is a trade off. You need to make sure what your hearing is indeed a deeper coin and not a shallower clad off the edge of your coil an inch or two. So you really need to play with the signal and sweep a circle around it to indentify exactly where your target is.
NebTrac
ryanchappell
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The first thing anyone trying to help you should ask is where do you live? You don't have to be exactly specific, just maybe what area of what state. I live in central Alabama. I have the same problem. Most coins I find are 0-4 inches deep. I have to find virgin spots that the old guys in the MD club here didn't cherry pick 25 years ago, that have coins near the surface.
I know that there are coins in the old areas that have been pounded, but they have sunken too deep for our mineralized soil to be seen even with an E-Trac.
Do what the other poster suggested and open up the right corner of your pattern. I would just open Quick Mask and hit the up arrow to eliminate FE 25 and higher, then hit the Detect button, and select yes to load the quick mask into the pattern.
The real innovation that the E-Trac offers isn't so much its depth, but its See Through, finding silver in junk.
Another thing, if learning the machine, maybe you should get some more practice finding clad in a clean park, learn what the coins sound like, clad are not that much different sounding and reading in VDI than silver. Read the manual, and Andy's book.
I know that there are coins in the old areas that have been pounded, but they have sunken too deep for our mineralized soil to be seen even with an E-Trac.
Do what the other poster suggested and open up the right corner of your pattern. I would just open Quick Mask and hit the up arrow to eliminate FE 25 and higher, then hit the Detect button, and select yes to load the quick mask into the pattern.
The real innovation that the E-Trac offers isn't so much its depth, but its See Through, finding silver in junk.
Another thing, if learning the machine, maybe you should get some more practice finding clad in a clean park, learn what the coins sound like, clad are not that much different sounding and reading in VDI than silver. Read the manual, and Andy's book.