Ground Balance.

[kyledfx]

my maine wet sand beaches are terrible on both conductive and ferrus mineralization , autotrac goes nuts, i was just wondering if theres a way to lock a constant gb setting for a predictable target response in extremely bad conditions.

 

[Rob (IL)]

I may be missing what you want. All you do is have the detector in the salt compensate mode and salt soil. Do a manual ground balance and lock the tracking.

 

[kyledfx]

in my old salt beach problems post i elaborated more on this but every target hits on 22.5 and correlate is the only way a surface quarter doesn't wrap to iron. forgive me if im beating a dead horse but a fixed gb number really helps at my nasty beaches. with my old md i could balance in the same spot and get differnt numbers every time. a locked number was the only way to go.

 

[BHNugget]

Okay, first off... NO steel toes. I did not make myself clear enough as BHNugget was the closest to understanding me. I've read in several posts that you should GB until the machine remains "neutral", for lack of better words, and it may take as many as 20 pumps of the coil. What I am saying is that as I start to GB, the machine goes from a positive (louder towards the ground, silent pulling away) to a negative (silent towards the ground, louder pulling away). It takes like 8 pumps then on say the 9th it switches to a negative response... there is little to no "neutral" (silent towards or away from the ground) which would indicate it is balanced to the ground. So, how do I get a "proper" GB??? I've tried "Loc-trac" but there is no difference. I've also tried double GB like the DFX but it doesn't help either.

What your trying to convey is simple enough to understand.The guy in the video is ground balancing with the 6X10 coil,which in most cases is easy to ground balance.The D2 is a little tougher to get a threshold with no variance when ground balancing.Im willing to bet your running the D2.Most times where I am,I gave up on a perfect ground balance with the D2 and took what I could get by turning the RX down just enough while ground balancing to get a steady threshold and then increased it to what I could actually run at.Yes,I know your supposed to ground balance after changing sensitivity,but trying to ground balance a D2 at higher RX settings is something that isnt going to happen in many places.

 

[Schultzie]

Pump until the tone doesn't change this can take more pumps then some people think.

My terms... really??? Neutral = silent

My machine NEVER goes silent when GBing. Therefore, I question is it really GB properly?! It makes a tone towards the ground then switches and makes a tone coming away from the ground.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Not getting a "perfect" GB is not all that bad. Just get the best GB you can in your ground and go hunting.