Lobo Supertraq ground Balance

[Delano1981]

Hello everyone,

I just bought a new Lobo Supertraq and have a question about ground balancing. I know that it has auto tracking in the all metal mode only, and a preset GB in Discriminate mode. However, I was reading a couple of reviews on the tesoro website of the LST and both reviewers used statements like these:


"Using the 10 inch elliptical widescan coil that came with the detector, I ground balanced in the Normal Mode, set the discrimination to '3', the sensitivity to '10' and began to hunt".

"I put on a concentric coil for better discrimination and ground balanced in the Normal Mode. The sensitivity could be set in the MAXBoost range and the discrimination dial was turned to zero".

"I changed to the 10 inch widescan elliptical coil and ground balanced in the Alkali Mode. It worked! I set the discrimination to '1' and the sensitivity to '7'".

"I ground balanced in the Normal Mode and started with the sensitivity set to '7' and the discrimination knob turned to '7'".

"I usually hunt this site with my discrimination set at 3 and pump the sensitivity all the way up into the MaxBoost area. I

 

[Monte]

My question is what do they mean when they say that they ground balanced and then set the discrimination? If I understand correctly, once the LST is set to discriminate mode, it is a preset GB and the auto tracking is deactivated. Or are you supposed to let the auto GB set itself in all metal first when you arrive at a site, and then when you switch to discriminate mode it carries over? I am confused by these statements in these reviews. Can anyone clarify this for me?

Thank you

[size=medium]The first thing I can tell you is that, often, Lobo ST users just don't realize the Disc. mode has a factory preset GB.

Another way to look at this is that some were stating the ability to use a higher sensitivity setting with a particular coil.

Then you have to figure some were just stating the Discriminate level they needed (wanted) for hunting a particular site.

Keep in mind that the pinpointing would be in the All metal based mode and, therefore, they would want to have a good, functional GB established for that mode before searching in the motion Discriminate mode.

 

[Delano1981]

Thankyou Monte for the clarification. I live in Southern Utah right on the Arizona border of Mohave County, which apparently is the second most productive gold producing county in Az. I plan to go down to the Kingman area and do some nugget hunting.

Thanks,

Delano1981

 

[Monte]

[size=medium]Lobo SuperTRAQ. The LST worked well. I had the stock 10" elliptical DD, the small elliptical in concentric design, and the 8" open-center concentric coil. I enjoyed using the small elliptical coil the most as I worked in more brushier, rocky areas.

No gold, but I was limited to just a day to search. Did get a rather small hunk of meteorite, but no gold.

My home page is KSL so I can keep up on what is happening "back home" and I noted a good wintry storm for down in the 'Dixie' area. Did you get any of that? I hope you've got great detecting weather when you do make that trip, and best of luck to you!

Monte[/size]

 

[willy]

Hey there Monte. I wonder if there's a readily accessible GB pot in the LST case that can be adjusted for a better GB? A person could possibly even have an external GB. Might be a bear to GB it though, and I don't know what other effects it might have on the detector. ..Willy.

 

[Delano1981]

Monte,

Yes, we got a big storm down here in Dixie with alot of snow. We really needed it as it has been extremely dry for that past several years. Where I actually live is about 20 miles North of St. George in a small town called Veyo, and we have about 12" on the ground right now with more coming down today. Well, hopefully I can make regular trips down to Arizona and find some gold! We'll see.

Thanks