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E-Trac vs Spectra V3

I have to tell you I have been out now 2 times with my new E-Trac. I went to the beach and used it in wet sand or dry and Salt water about a 12". The E-Trac ran smooth and flawlessly.
I did not have any falseing what so ever. Even when I hit the sand with the coil it did not false unlike the V3 witch will false in wet sand even with the V950 coil. The V950 dose help and lowing your gain
will help. But the more you lower the gain to help with the falseing the less depth you will get. What I dont get apples to apples is that the two coils E-Trac & V3 have DD coils. The E-Trac is 11" & the V3 is 10". The V3 will false & the E-Trac will not so far. I also notest the V3 would false in the woods if I hit a stump or shrubs. There was nothing rong with the coil I sent in to White's and they told it was fine go figure. Also at the beach there is a peir there with lots of EMI's. I could not tuch that with the DFX the V3 was no problem but it took about 15 min. to get it just right. The E-Trac had no problems with out changeing a thing. There was one spot that that had some EMI's all I did was hit the botton and in 30 sec. it was gone. Also on the V3 you have a TX boost to make it go deeper
well let me tell you it is useless. When I tested it on land in med. soil, I had a silver 1/2 kennedy at 11" Was just picking it up a wisper my RX gain was at 12. When I turned on the TX boost it went unstable I had the lower the RX gain down to 5. There was no gain of depth at all it stayed at 11" wisper. On the beach you can leave it at 12 and kick on the TX boost and it runs fine but can more false. So far I am loveing the E-Trac. That all for now I will have more later.

Eagle 1
 
If you don't have confidence in both your machine and your skill with it, you won't do well no matter what brand/model you prefer.
 
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