Ground balance issues on 800

[Kapok]

I was running Park 2 yesterday on my 800 and switched over to Field 2. When I tried to ground balance, the numbers kept climbing all the way into the 70s. I made sure I was on a clean spot, lowered my sensitivity, even switched to 15KHz. This has happened to me several times when switching between these two modes. Field 2 ground balancing just seems to go significantly higher. Any ideas?

 

[laplander]

Just make sure you are doing a true heads up comparison same settings, exact same spot ETC...
If you have covered all the other bases then the only difference would be the way they modes are set up.
Another question you mention clean spot are you in all metal listening for iron or just non ferrous targets?
I have seen 70 and higher ground balance numbers in my soils and consider that function {ground balancing} counter productive and unnecessary. JMO
HH Jeff

 

[Kapok]

I literally stay in one spot and re-ground balance. I most always switch to all metal and lower my sens to make sure the spot is clean of signals before doing the GB. I'm using Park 2 and Field 2 with no real modifications other than 5 tones instead of 50 and reducing volume on Zones 1 and 2. In Park 2, my GB is usually around 10-16 at this site. Jeff, if you see 70 or higher, why is GB unnecessary? Maybe I don't need to use it either, but I figured if the default is 0, I should do it.

If I keep having issues, I'll restore the initial version and try again. If that seems to work, I'll update to the latest version and try again.

Thanks for the input. Appreciated.

 

[laplander]

Sounds like you are covering your bases. I don't know if you lose any depth with high GB numbers but the machine is way to chatty on iron. I always say what works on my site my not be right for yours. I like your observations, must be the way the frequencies are weighted differently between modes I will be checking it out for myself.
Thanks HH Jeff

 

[BigTony]

I was running Park 2 yesterday on my 800 and switched over to Field 2. When I tried to ground balance, the numbers kept climbing all the way into the 70s. I made sure I was on a clean spot, lowered my sensitivity, even switched to 15KHz. This has happened to me several times when switching between these two modes. Field 2 ground balancing just seems to go significantly higher. Any ideas?

Could be that particular area, say several feet around where you are running the manual process.
You can switch to Auto Ground Balance. Then after a few swings or minutes go back in and see where the numbers are. You also can just put the machine on Zero and detect but that doesn’t help you understand the whys of ground balancing in that spot.

Changing settings or like frequencies or ground balance is like having anew toy to play with - don’t get frustrated it’s a hobby!
Tony

 

[Kapok]

Could be that particular area, say several feet around where you are running the manual process.
You can switch to Auto Ground Balance. Then after a few swings or minutes go back in and see where the numbers are. You also can just put the machine on Zero and detect but that doesn’t help you understand the whys of ground balancing in that spot.

Changing settings or like frequencies or ground balance is like having anew toy to play with - don’t get frustrated it’s a hobby!
Tony

Not frustrated at all. Just trying to understand. Thanks for the input.

 

[wildwilly]

Tony, you are right. It's only a hobby. The only time I remember getting frustrated was when my machine quit and then it started raining. This was about 40-45 years ago. Could not keep the water out. At least I had enough sense to shut the old White's off. Then my pick-up got stuck. I remember saying "Lord why me?" Only use 4 wheel drives now. It was a long walk back to the truck. All you can do is laugh about the situation.