Question on Etrac jewelry depth

[John(Tx)]

I see all these impressive depths on silver finds with the Etrac in videos that some of you guys make and it is very impressive and I enjoy watching these videos. I haven't seen anyone find any gold jewelry in these videos. Does the machine detect these items as deep as it does the silver coins or are these items just been ignored by going by sound? Thanks, John

 

[ashdigger]

John; there are three or four of us guys that have been discussing this in detail and we have been doing several different checks on gold rings and things, even though the E-Trac is killer on silver and bullets it really lacks a lot on gold rings. I have taken several rings I found with my "Black" machine and started doing air test with them and the tones are so low and in the area of aluminum that you would have to dig every aluminum sound. There are several rings that would not even show up or break the threshold....nothing... So far there has not been a real good amount of settings that have been discovered that really makes a ring stand out. There have been several rings on the ground that are distinctly different tone that would have been a good dig signal, however after planting them in the ground three of four inches the sound goes to low tone and even broke up sounding like a bad signal. I hate to think what we all been missing with a high end detector. Someone will surly find a set of adjustments that brings this around, I hope!! If we get enough discussion on this maybe it will come forward. take care

 

[Lubelaczek]

I totally agree with you. Unfortunately just found that out last night. My daughter's gold earring 1/2 inch in diameter is invisible to E-Trac in bench test. Totally! Not even dropping it through the coil. No signal at all. That is really disturbing to me. I don't even remember how many times went to beach and came back empty handed while the gold was popping out left and right. I hate to discover it now that this great machine is not good for gold. Maybe Mainab has something to say maybe we all missing something they know. Mainlab please drop us a line what is the deal in this subject.

 

[Frank in NH]

I have found it depends on what pattern you are running and what coil you are using. I have found a 14k gold charm at 5" or 6" using my 8X6" SEF coil and one of Andy's patterns. If you want to dig the gold you have to also dig some foil and tabs. It all depends on wear you are detecting what you want to dig. Only my opinion.

 

[Neil]

I see all these impressive depths on silver finds with the Etrac in videos that some of you guys make and it is very impressive and I enjoy watching these videos. I haven't seen anyone find any gold jewelry in these videos. Does the machine detect these items as deep as it does the silver coins or are these items just been ignored by going by sound? Thanks, John

John it seems to do at least as well or better than the Explorer on gold. The Explorer and Sov series are good on the medium to larger gold but the smaller stuff they all struggle with unless its pretty close to the coil.

Neil

 

[terrywl]

I have suspicions about my E-T and gold too. I hunt with my Ex-cal II a lot and it is a ring finding machine! So far just one 10K GF mans ring and it was on the surface. Other machines find gold W/O any problem, so is there something to this or is it just luck (bad). Air tests on past finds seem OK if a bit lacking in depth. HH Terry

 

[hunter 18]

I have found one 10k gold ring whit my ET. with the sef 8X6 but i have found more silver then gold
and yes if you want to fing gold you have to dig all the junk signals To?
Thats is the way i found this ring ! in many cases i dig all signal any way i just somtimes go lazy
and cherry pic. i know may many times i have miss the gold !

 

[Lubelaczek]

I understand, but this is not a matter of not digging out all targets. In this example target is known: small gold earing. It sits on surface, no metallic elements around, no masking, no nulling, and no signal at all! Less than 1 inch from coil!

 

[John(Tx)]

Gotta hold on to one of my other machines just for jewelry hunting, guess every machine has it's place. Many thanks, John

 

[Chaparral]

I just ran a quick test with my ET. I tossed four gold rings on my lawn. Two are 14k small ladies rings; one of these is white gold, and two are men's rings (14k and 18k yellow gold) All four rings came in loud and clear. The depth indicated on three of the rings was about 8". The depth indicated for the white gold ring was 4" - 5". The depth indicated was produced by simply raising the coil above the target until it ceased to register. I didn't take the time to bury them; however, in my test garden I have a 7.2g 18K gold chunk buried at 6", and it comes in weaker but still identifiable.

 

[Southwind]

This has been a concern of mine for some time. I am getting ready to buy a new detector, but the lack of gold sensitivity has me worried. I live in southwest Kansas, and gold jewelry makes up for a lack of really old coins.

I owned an Explorer SE, a Sovereign GT and a X-Terra 70, and all had problems with gold. Rings are not such a problem, but other gold jewelry is often invisible. I did a video on Youtube with the GT and a rather large 3" 14k gold earing that was completely invisible to the GT. Even in all-metal mode it made no sounds what so ever.

 

[Jack Flynn]

Just dropped 2 large and 2 small gold rings on the ground and detected them. Dropped a small 1/4 inch little gold earring like a little flower in there also and nulled it. Running at 22 auto sensitivity +3. Rings are all wedding bands. All are 18 kt gold.

 

[John(Tx)]

would do good on small gold, my XT50 with 6"HF coil does really great on small gold as does my F70, guess the higher frequency is the key to this. None the less, the Etrac is one great machine for silver, deep silver. I still plan on getting one in the very near future. Thanks for the reply. HH John

 

[Boggles]

Well this explains why my girlfriends neckless didn't show up on my new etrac - so it probably was gold after all then, whooops