Teknetic vs. Etrac vs. Omega vs. Safari

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

I concur with SOUTHWIND stick with the PRO coil as the SEF 10x12 is heavier and will be fatiguing after a few hours. The pro coil balances nicely on the Etrac and you can swing it all day and was designed to do just that. I like the SEF6x8 and have one. I also have the 10x12 SEF but use the pro coil mostly myself.

 

[UtahRich]

If I was Santa Claus, I would select an e-trac for you based on my experience.

Merry Christmas,


Rich (Utah)

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

I also found that you can swing it at a good clip and it hits good. Like Ray-Mo said when swinging it gives a blip so I stop to investigate the signal more especially that nickel range lower sound just above iron my ears are really tuned to that sound now and I find lots of them. You can't really miss those high tones where the silver sounds out no matter what sweep speed. It stops you dead in your tracks mid stride!!.

On really deep targets I've found the Etrac gives a thunk, thunk thunk, thunk sound swinging over them instead of a specific tone but you still get a reading of the FE and CO numbers. Andy recommends DEEP on as it will help with the readout numbers so I have turned it on. I found a really deep I'd say 11" deep Indian head penny according to the depth gauge just about maxed out in a local park among tree roots. Man that was a tuff one to dig out. LOL

 

[Idprospector]

Of the detectors you mention I have only owned the etrac. I have used a whites MXT for a month straight and ended it ip selling it. It was the machine that was going to replace my 5900 and my 6000 from whites. i couldnt get the accuracy or the stability I needed out of the MXT. It never could seem to settle down on what it thought the target was. the 5900 and 6000 were instantly showing me what was in the ground. I still prefer the etrac even though I am still learning it. It seems to have been an easy learning curve but I see the learning to continue for a long time. Idaho has some real bad ground as far as iron and minerals go and everyone else seems to favor them as well. Idigid

 

[Marksman7]

I only use the Etrac and seriously have found so many silver coins in the last 8 months since purchasing it. I cant fault my Etrac and will never part with it.

 

[dioramix]

Here is a video I did comparing the E-Trac, V3i and Omega 8000 on a 7" coin in the city park. I felt the E-Trac had a good, without a doubt, sound with the V3i close behind. The 8000 couldn't get a signal that would tell me to recover. It sounded like any other piece of trash in this park. Most every detector I've tested in this park can see those deeper coins, to some degree, but only 2 made knowing it was a deep coin more obvious. That was the V3i and the E-Trac.

[video]http://youtu.be/vpTHCWn2nhM[/video]

You had a bad set omega(incorrectly set) 4 ton, no comparison.
Omega is very deep.

 

[Southwind]

You had a bad set omega(incorrectly set) 4 ton, no comparison.
Omega is very deep.

That could be but then I've been told I had the all "incorrectly set" according to people who used each detector LOL.

When I got each of these detectors I spent many many hours testing and asking people on the forums how best to adjust each machine. Each detector went through the same process. When I would get a signal I felt was a good deep coin I would spend a lot of time testing that target with various settings looking for what worked best in my conditions. Each of these detectors were set according to this process. Sorry if you don't like the results. My only goal was to, as fairly as possible, compare each detector of deep coins in my hunting conditions. I had no reason to misrepresent any one of them. I would have been thrilled to depth to have the $300 detector perform as well as the $1,100 or $1,250 one, but that just didn't happen.

What you see is what I got when comparing these models at the majority of places I hunted. Yes, your results may differ, mine didn't.

As a side note: I still honor my challenge that anyone is welcome to come to Dodge City and prove me wrong in the park. If you do prove me wrong, I will gladly pay for your trip. My one and only goal is to find the best detector for my city park. Be it a $300 detector or a $1,700 detector.

 

[jmaryt]

may i ask where do you usually hunt,and what program(s)
are you using?..thanks!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[Southwind]

I hunt mostly tot lots schools and parks. The city park I refer to is unique in that it has lots of old coins extremely deep, guaranteed. How can I make this claim you ask? Because our 128 year old city park was host to some major public events starting back in 1884(one of only 2 documented authentic Mexican Bullfights in North America) and still in use today. It also sits along side the Arkansas river which has flooded on average every 30-40 years. Each flood left from 3-6" of silt/mud covering any lost coins up to a depth of at least 24" that I can measure. Of course none of my current detectors will come close to 24" but lucky for me the main area in the park slopes so that the very south end got minimal mud deposits while the north end got up to 24". The depth of targets gradually increases from the south to the north. So simply put, you take any detector and start working your way north as deep as it will detect. You're guaranteed the coins are there if your detector can go deep enough.

I've had a few people come try their luck and only the E-Tracs have gone home with the goods so far.

 

[TerraDigger]

Why extoll the virtues of a detector (E-Trac) that costs twice as much as the Omega? Does the E-Trac go twice as deep? No!! I viewed Southwind's Trac-V3i-Omega comparison video. I live in Idaho, pretty severe mineralization. Much worse than the Dodge City area and my Omega with the 11" DD can easily & solidly pick up a dime at 7" without the difficulties I saw in the video. Either the Omega in your video was not set up correctly or it was picking up interference from the E-Trac / White's V3i. FBS units are notorious for interfering with other machines. Did you do a noise cancel on the other machines with the Omega powered up, to prevent interference on the Omega? Or turn them off when testing the Omega. Probably not.
And feel free to mention the numerous long time E-Trac users that have reported shoulder/tendon/ligament health issues due to the poor ergonomic design & weight of the Trac. All the guys I hunt with use E-Tracs and they are proficent to say the least. Its a very good machine for sure. But to hear some Trac user's describe the machine it like the ground spits silver coins out to them because they waved a Trac over it and other detectors are incapable of finding silver. Is the Omega better than the E-Trac. Of course not. But on a cost/performance ratio....it eats the Trac's lunch. Not to be harsh but if one is going to put out a comparison video, then all the machines need to be set up properly and/or not have their true performance compromised by external factors like EMI from other machines.

 

[dioramix]

test on a few coins omega
25cent 13 "
on a standard coil will 2 "less
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLeg7nfq-CE