Ground Balance

[opa81]

I have a question about the Souvereign GT.

If a search the beach and go on the dry and the wet sand, where do I have to groundbalance the detector on the dry or the wet. ??

Thanks,

Andre

 

[Rick(ND)]

If you are going to run all metal and going from wet to dry I would run it in track so it can work as it is supose to. If you run in disc you dont have to do any ground balance as it dont use it in disc as it compares the ground to the target, this is why it works so well on the beach or land hunting.

 

[Critterhunter]

This has popped up more than a few times. Some people seem confused about the ground balance on a Sovereign. It's ONLY used in the all metal mode. Use tracking to set the ground balance and then switch to fixed as tracking may track out deep targets after a few sweeps. Fixed will give you maximum depth but you'll need to go back to track mode with changing ground conditions such as wet versus dry sand. Once you hunt a few minutes in track you can then go to fixed. Or you can set it by using track and pumping the coil up and down. When there is no change in threshold switch to fixed. Do this in a clean spot. A slight threshold increase as you approach the ground would give you slightly better depth as it's balancing the machine a bit hot. That's an old trick used by many metal detector users over the years. But in discriminate mode BBS technology means there is no need for a ground balance as these machines compensate for the ground signal in a very different way than conventional metal detectors. That's why you get crazy depth and good target ID even at depth with a Sovereign compared to regular (VLF) metal detectors.

Another thing that people seem to get confused about is Iron Mask ON or OFF. Remember than Iron Mask ON will try to unmask coins in trash better than with it turned OFF. Off will give you less iron fasling but I never use OFF as I want to try to unmask coins to the best of the machine's ability.