Ground balancing and Sensitivity with the Musketeer

[Canewrap]

With regards to gb'ing the Minelab Musky Advantage I've seen it mentioned that the way a certain person ground balances his Musky Advantage is by incorporating his sensitivity into the process, so as to get maximum balance between it and ground balance. Is this critical to depth with this machine? The reason I ask is because I have only performed the ground balance procedure by the instruction book, but I strongly suspect I'm only getting about 6-7" of real depth in ground. Can overdriving the sensitivity affect depth that bad?

 

[Jackpine Savage]

I run the sens up until it chatters then back it off. Can't remember what the books says but balancing in disc mode works for me and several others I have talked to. Start with the GB knob turned fully clockwise and adjust while bobbing. Done this way you should be able to hear the ground response easily even in disc mode. Some quit when the response goes neutral and others continue turning the knob anti-clockwise until they get a response then back off just a hair. In mild ground the neutral response can cover quite a broad range of adjustment. Thats why some like to keep going past neutral until its positive then back off a tiny bit.

Tom

 

[UK Brian]

Its a very different machine from all the others.

Ground balance should be set fully clockwise as J.S. says. Drop the coil down to your normal detecting height and adjust with a slight counter clockwise turn until the machine is silent then reverse from this position. I like it to be where you get a very slight noise on each sweep.

You run sensitivity at full and if a little noisy/unstable use the G.B. control (fractionally) to calm things down.

 

[GunnarMN]

You have to ground balance two diffrent ways for best depth , if you want best depth in disq you will first put it in all metal then turn the sensitivity which in all metal is your threshould so turn the threshould just untill it starts buzing then back it very little untill it stops now ground balance for disq by bobing it untill its just making a wisper when you rais the coil now switch into disq you will get clearer sounds and better depth now for all metal balance it just a hair positive so when you put the coil down you hear a wisper now go kick ask