etrac settings

[jtermz]

can you guys help me understand these settings I have Andy S book still confused on a couple of things
volume gain
variability
deep on/off
fast on/off
I am searching a street tear up where I am finding clad and wheats so I have to believe there is some silver out there that I am missing I just am worried I don't have it set up correct
I also used the 6" treasure seeker I got with my package and only find shallow pennies I did manage 1 rosie
thanks for any advice

 

[etrachunter]

I can tell you how I run mine. It may or may not work for you.

deep on/off=off
fast on/off=on
Variability =30
Volume= how loud do you want the detector?

I put mine in manual sensitivity, and crank it up till it starts to chatter, then back it down till it just goes away...this will give you maximum depth.

I live in Washington state, and I do street tear outs. These settings have always worked great for me.

 

[Goes4ever]

This is directly from my personal website, works well for me


This is EXACTLY how I have mine set up:

sensitivity auto +3
threshold limit just barely audible
volume limit 29
volume gain 29
response normal
tone id multi
sounds conductive
variability 29
threshold pitch 28-29 makes silver scream out
deep off
fast on
trash high
ground difficult

I USED to noise cancel at every site, now I ONLY do if I get some sort of interference

 

[etrachunter]

That makes me want to check my threshold pitch. I've never even messed with it. When I get home I will check that out for sure.

 

[Goes4ever]

makes a BIG difference for me on the way silver sounds

 

[Jason in Enid]

can you guys help me understand these settings I have Andy S book still confused on a couple of things
volume gain
variability
deep on/off
fast on/off
I am searching a street tear up where I am finding clad and wheats so I have to believe there is some silver out there that I am missing I just am worried I don't have it set up correct
I also used the 6" treasure seeker I got with my package and only find shallow pennies I did manage 1 rosie
thanks for any advice

I'm not trying to be rude, have you READ the book? Doesn't he explain all the adjustments and what they do?

 

[robby4570]

I have the NEL Sharpshooter and it seems to have decent depth potential (only used it about 3 hours so far) but I think I'd be trying to use the stock Pro Coil in G4E's TTF mode first if it was me. But I only have 40 hours total on my E-Trac so far so I'm still learning it too. If that's bad advice, someone PLEASE say so.....

 

[JOHNMARKHAM]

what size and who's coil are you using for these settings??
thanks
john

 

[TrpnBils]

That makes me want to check my threshold pitch. I've never even messed with it. When I get home I will check that out for sure.

I had mine for a month and a half or two months before I changed my threshold pitch to G4E's recommended 29 and it took some getting used to. If you're used to your normal tones, it'll seem weird if your pitch is off much from 29. I was expecting just the threshold pitch to change, but every conductive/ferrous tone changes in relation to that too, so what you're used to hearing as a dime, for example, will be different and you kind of have to relearn the tones. Took me a couple of hours to get used to it, but I ended up leaving it there.

As for the other stuff you asked about, I can explain 2 of them easily:

DEEP determines whether a shallow target will sound off differently than a deeper target (Off has the deeper target sounding more quietly than a shallow one, ON has them sounding the same)
FAST determines how quickly the detector resets after picking something up, so if you have a lot of targets (even nulled stuff), make sure it's ON.

A lot of people seem to suggest not having both ON at the same time, although I don't quite understand why.

Lastly, I'm still relatively new to the Etrac, so if I misspoke here, somebody please correct me!