E-trac or Explorer SE Pro?

[Reggie]

Christopher, I air tested a copper "Wheatie" cent to 14.5-15" with the factory 11" DD Butterfly coil. After 15" the audio was too faint to count as a target signal, though I could hear it up to 17". I would dig the 15" signal. Reggie

 

[Ray-Mo.]

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[Neil]

I know what you are saying-loud and clear I have had 3 different E-Tracs and compared their individual performance mainly in the coin program. Two of them hit about 12+ inches on a penny with the sensitivity of 30 manual in the Minelab coin program...the other 19.5 inches!...but,,,the "hotter" one seemed to false more on in the iron substantially more than the other two in the same program with the same sensitivity. So what to make of it???...that is the question. I just don't understand how there could be such a difference between machines made in the same place with the same components/computer boards/coils...etc... so your test may depend on the individual machine and what your settings were for the machines. It would be interesting to post the settings of each to see if some of the much more experience users on here can determine if it may be related to your settings. I would also be interested to see what your air testing max distance is on a penny at 30 manual too? Thanks for the post and any follow-up info...

Chris I tested mine a little while ago. I can get a repeatable signal out to 14". A while back I had bought 3 Explorers to compare them, an XS/EXII and SE. They all were different in air tests but only by two inches at the most. The EXII was the worse, the other two were about an inch different. I used to hunt with just Sovs for years and tried them all and actually went through a bunch of the XS models to find the deepest ones which I kept and hunted. There are definetly variances but I cant remember ever seeing the difference youve quoted. I would surely hold onto that one!

Neil

 

[christopher-ohio]

there are others on this forum that checked their machines and got 19 + inches too. This was posted quite a few months ago by several different forum members on here

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?63,837125,837125#msg-837125