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Thump Sound On Etrac

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Coilfisher

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Does anyone know here what that "thumping/plunk" sound is indicative of when using the ETrac?
It kind of makes that ball bounce sound like you heard on the old, old video games.

I was out with it a few days ago, and sometimes when I hit a coin it whistled a high flute tone and that "thump" sound
signalled back just as many times. I also noticed it today when I was experimenting out in my back yard as I was
playing with some old farm iron targets. It seemed to bounce and that is when I heard the noise.

I cant find any info. on it in the manual.
 
It's a coin on edge usually. Always dig those "thunk" sounds with a high tone. I've found a lot of silver coins where the signal barely hit but that distinctive "THINK THINK" sound was there.
 
Always dig the "thunk"! It could be trash, but it could be iron next to a coin, or it could be a coin near the edge of detection depth.
 
Often time if you switch to high manual sensitivity it will clean up the signal if it is deep silver or on edge...
 
I think the key here is the "thunk" at the end of a high tone. Obviously the high tone says dig. Every signal I ever recovered that was ONLY a thunk was junk. Thunk is junk without the right tone.
 
Southwind said:
I think the key here is the "thunk" at the end of a high tone. Obviously the high tone says dig. Every signal I ever recovered that was ONLY a thunk was junk. Thunk is junk without the right tone.
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I have had thunks that were only thunks.....BUT the screen indicated a number that was "close" to a desirable target.....also the thunk was repeatable when you swung the coil over it.
So repeatble thunks with a decent number get dug by me, EVERYTIME
 
Had large repeatable double thunk I let go last summer in park I hunt did not dig it, no tone, was bored low target day so dug it couple weeks ago large silver KKK ring at 9 inches.I put it in booth at antique mall for 75 dollars sold first day.I have been digging thunks most have been iron junk but got nice 1854 half dime on 45 degree angle that would thunk couple times then good tone at 7 inches.Once I cut plug was clean target new it was a good.
 
No I did not, should have, I use to take photos of KKK tokens I had found, I have church were they use to meet found a lot of tokens they sell real good at antique mall but I have been chewed out by more than one person for displaying them.I had one of the old KKK members stop by when I was hunting the church we went to his barn and was telling me that they were the laziest KKK club in america.Once I saw what he had in his barn I would understand.It was the cross it was at least 12 foot high made with tin just covered with vintage light bulbs on both sides which I bought all the bulbs the kind antique lamp people are always looking for. Once they got power to the church they saw no reason to build burn fires anymore besides that it really lighted the place up at night.After the meeting they would store it at the closest members house.I was kicked out of hunting the old church because the items that I was finding were resurfacing and embarrassing some of local families that is main reason sold my collection of KKK Items plus the money.Even displaying what you found can get you in trouble.
 
Prep1957 said:
No I did not, should have, I use to take photos of KKK tokens I had found, I have church were they use to meet found a lot of tokens they sell real good at antique mall but I have been chewed out by more than one person for displaying them.I had one of the old KKK members stop by when I was hunting the church we went to his barn and was telling me that they were the laziest KKK club in america.Once I saw what he had in his barn I would understand.It was the cross it was at least 12 foot high made with tin just covered with vintage light bulbs on both sides which I bought all the bulbs the kind antique lamp people are always looking for. Once they got power to the church they saw no reason to build burn fires anymore besides that it really lighted the place up at night.After the meeting they would store it at the closest members house.I was kicked out of hunting the old church because the items that I was finding were resurfacing and embarrassing some of local families that is main reason sold my collection of KKK Items plus the money.Even displaying what you found can get you in trouble.
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DISTURBING STORY

I assume you were digging it and not becoming a KKK follower

Some people are so ignorant!

Seriously, do you live in a very small town and in what State?
 
Is the sound indicative of shallow coin spills as well?

It seemed I got the same noise on a dime and nickel (clad) that were just below surface the other day????
 
The KKK is part of history, and people who act like that are just being ignorant. No different that digging something from the nazi's...its all history no matter good or bad, it is what it is!
 
the thunking sound returned me a 1938 merc the other day! Wahoo!
 
I will have to start digging those now! I didn't know what exactly the thunking sound was but it makes sense now. Thanks for the awesome information!
 
the high pitch with thump sound is always a rusty nail for me. I have yet to find a coin when I hear the thump. I have been told by many E-trac users that that means coin...I get a 12-46 thump...it's a rusty nail, nothing else in the hole.
can't tell you how many of those I dug in the past few months just because I was afraid to leave a coin behind without knowing...ALWAYS a rusty piece of something. I found my seated quarter in a hole with three rusty nails...no thump just a high pitch chirp then the null. so I am really curious about the thump, how many have dug coins, and how many nothing?
BTW on an average day..say 3 hours my E-trac thumps about 100 times at least, does that mean 100 coins?
 
I have dug silver with the "coin-thump" signal. It was a silver washington quarter with a nail. I also dug a SLQ that had a minor thump with it. No iron in that hole, but the coin had rust stuck to it.
 
gunwolf said:
the high pitch with thump sound is always a rusty nail for me. I have yet to find a coin when I hear the thump. I have been told by many E-trac users that that means coin...I get a 12-46 thump...it's a rusty nail, nothing else in the hole.
can't tell you how many of those I dug in the past few months just because I was afraid to leave a coin behind without knowing...ALWAYS a rusty piece of something. I found my seated quarter in a hole with three rusty nails...no thump just a high pitch chirp then the null. so I am really curious about the thump, how many have dug coins, and how many nothing?
BTW on an average day..say 3 hours my E-trac thumps about 100 times at least, does that mean 100 coins?
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Through testing, it appears the "thunk" is when a target is at the edge of the depth limits for the E-Trac. It might be a coin, might be iron, etc. Now, a high pitched thunk, I'd dig that just in case.

You can test the thunk quite easily. Either in the field just keep dropping the sensitivity until it thunks or you can do it in air as well.
 
I agree. What's in the past is ALL history. We dig it all. You could look at recovering Civil War relics that way too?
 
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