I decided to try TTF in a small park that's given me a lot of silver, but which I've scoured pretty thoroughly by now. In two brief hunts I got three old wheat pennies, a cub scouts bob cat pin and a 1906 V-nickel. All of these targets were right next to iron targets, which would be why they were still there after all the times I've been over then in conductive. It's a much more annoying way to hunt than in conductive, but it does hit those targets that you won't hit otherwise. It wouldn't be usable at sites where there was a lot of trash other than iron.
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TTF: How To Set It Up and Use it Properly
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surfchunker
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I gave it a couple of tries today and see it's benefits right away, first place didn't have a lot of iron but it was a good place to start out with it and I got about 40 cents and a small heart cross, went back out for a bit this evening in a yard that is loaded with iron and dug two pennies and a generic bread token ... I've never been able to pull anything out of there due to all the iron ... used the stock relic mode
surfchunker
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yup ... even a small bit of foil
issombeituni
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what is the variability set to and volume gain?
Found 60 Merc dimes at a park that had early homes on its edge. All homes burned down in the 50s. Hunted the spot for yrs used the etrac got a mixed signal and BOOM BABY. Couldn't resist!!!! There was a tusty decomposing can with a cloth like a chamois and in the center partially wrapped in the cloth. 60!!!! Merc dimes 1916 thru 1943. HH c t
I love TTF... I have had a Minnie buried at 12" for about five years in the back yard, some pennies and dimes at about 8" and a quarter at about 10". They are getting settled in. I did not sanitize the soil and have a bit of iron in the ground. I have three detectors out of nine that will give me a good ID on the Minnie at 12". An original (not updated) V3 gives an ID. A Sovereign GT will ID it in disc and hit it hard in AM. The E-TRAC (especially in TTF) will hit it pretty hard but it and the V3 will give a "diggable: ID on the numbers.
What I find with the E-TRAC is that yes, it may jump around BUT it WILL hit the correct number every fifth or sixth swing, the second number, I don't remember if it is Fe or Co. The first number may never hit exactly but the second number will flirt with 33/34 but may hit in the 40s but will consistently pop the correct number every once in a while and from the right direction of swing. One way I may just get a good tone, then I begin to circle and I'll hit that 33/34, it will come and go but it tells me, along with the tone to DIG. You can find some real good diggings by trusting in "iffy" signals on an E-TRAC... digging "iffy" signals with an E-TRAC is as important as anything else about it because "iffy" usually equals GOOD... if you know your numbers. If the first number is between like 8 and 18 and the second number occasionally hits a number you know to be good... it usually is good. In my experience anyway... TTF Great setting, but is there a BAD setting on an E-TRAC? LOL
Julien
What I find with the E-TRAC is that yes, it may jump around BUT it WILL hit the correct number every fifth or sixth swing, the second number, I don't remember if it is Fe or Co. The first number may never hit exactly but the second number will flirt with 33/34 but may hit in the 40s but will consistently pop the correct number every once in a while and from the right direction of swing. One way I may just get a good tone, then I begin to circle and I'll hit that 33/34, it will come and go but it tells me, along with the tone to DIG. You can find some real good diggings by trusting in "iffy" signals on an E-TRAC... digging "iffy" signals with an E-TRAC is as important as anything else about it because "iffy" usually equals GOOD... if you know your numbers. If the first number is between like 8 and 18 and the second number occasionally hits a number you know to be good... it usually is good. In my experience anyway... TTF Great setting, but is there a BAD setting on an E-TRAC? LOL
Julien
peace falcon
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i,m new on e trac ,what about e -trac relic mode ,can it increase the depth ?
also is it good for deep keepers ...tx[/size]
i,m new on e trac ,what about e -trac relic mode ,can it increase the depth ?
also is it good for deep keepers ...tx[/size]
Elevatorguy
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This sounds very interesting. I bought an E-Trac when they first came out but only used it 4 or 5 times and then it has been in the closet ever since. I expected it was going to work like my Explorers of the past, on which I ran what I was taught by Charles (Upstate NY) which was ferrous tones and an open screen, but as you all here know, it does not work like an Explorer at all. What is everyone using for their other settings besides the relic patter, TTF, and ferrous sounds? I would like to give this machine another try if I can get someone here to let me know their full settings so that I have a chance to learn it properly. Thank you in advance for any and all help.
EtracTom-AdirondacksNY
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I left it in the stock coins discrimination pattern to LEARN the machine. After so many hours you can open that up if you like or make your own but I find I mostly use that and then push the button on the faceplate to go to an open screen to double check and if the cursor goes low down way lower on the screen and or into the bottom right corner it's iron or junk.
I set it to Ground Difficult so it can hit large silver it's some kind of quirk in the machine. I set it to Trash High so it will hit on a good target close to a bad target. I set threshold to volume to 14 for a barely audible hum in headset so when it stops I know it's nulling out but will still hit on good targets. Threshold sounds I set to 15 the middle of the range to make the targets sound good for my ears. Lowering drags the sounds all lower going higher in this number pushes the sounds higher and makes it a screech to me.
I run Fast on if really trashy spot if not then run it off. Leave Deep off it just is supposed to help better the ID of a target but I don't think it does and it adds more filters so you don't want that to slow down the processor.
Instead set the volume GAIN to 28-29 it makes deep targets sound out better like they are shallower, I don't care to hear how deep, I just don't want to miss them by not hearing them.
Set Volume to 30 and something else to 30 they can be adjusted with your headset for comfort.
Do a noise cancel to start a detecting session when you get there to see what it likes in that area. Mine chooses 6,9,11 most of the times.
I just set to AUTO+3 and run it there and let the machine sort it all out and it still gets the job done. If you hear a thunk sound it's a really deep target at the extreme fringe of detection so dig that target. Mine was an indian head penny at 10-12" the depth gauge on the detector was buried but I got that thunk thunk sound so I knew I was hitting something and I think I got good target too on it so it was a dig me signal.
I set it to Ground Difficult so it can hit large silver it's some kind of quirk in the machine. I set it to Trash High so it will hit on a good target close to a bad target. I set threshold to volume to 14 for a barely audible hum in headset so when it stops I know it's nulling out but will still hit on good targets. Threshold sounds I set to 15 the middle of the range to make the targets sound good for my ears. Lowering drags the sounds all lower going higher in this number pushes the sounds higher and makes it a screech to me.
I run Fast on if really trashy spot if not then run it off. Leave Deep off it just is supposed to help better the ID of a target but I don't think it does and it adds more filters so you don't want that to slow down the processor.
Instead set the volume GAIN to 28-29 it makes deep targets sound out better like they are shallower, I don't care to hear how deep, I just don't want to miss them by not hearing them.
Set Volume to 30 and something else to 30 they can be adjusted with your headset for comfort.
Do a noise cancel to start a detecting session when you get there to see what it likes in that area. Mine chooses 6,9,11 most of the times.
I just set to AUTO+3 and run it there and let the machine sort it all out and it still gets the job done. If you hear a thunk sound it's a really deep target at the extreme fringe of detection so dig that target. Mine was an indian head penny at 10-12" the depth gauge on the detector was buried but I got that thunk thunk sound so I knew I was hitting something and I think I got good target too on it so it was a dig me signal.
EtracTom-AdirondacksNY
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Oh I run conductive sounds and 50 tones too. OR this two tone ferrous setup from here.
zerokelvin
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Absolutely hated it for about a half an hour. Too much noise. And then it clicked. Now I don't run anything else. Auto sensitivity is important in severe trash. I use the relic screen myself and try hard to circle and isolate targets as best I can. I've never found so many nickels!
MINELABBOB
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SOME NICE FINES THERE