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Valuable info on sensitvity.
- Thread starter Ray-Mo.
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Wondering if I could meet up with you and see how my Etrac measures up with yours. Not looking to leach your sites, a basic park would do. You know, just to compare signals and settings. Obviously, you are kicking butt with your machine which gives me much hope
, thank you. I am just kicking my machine. Chris out in Wisconsin said he had to go through two other machines before he got a good one, that maybe true or not I don't know, but it is feasible. Charles out in New York went through, I believe, two SE's and now loves the one he's got. I never had a problem with either of my SE's, straight out of the box, they were just awesome, and one was used. PM me if you can meet up next week and we can figure out when and where. I am really curious to see a comparison, that would definitely be a great help to me and I'd be very thankful.
, thank you. I am just kicking my machine. Chris out in Wisconsin said he had to go through two other machines before he got a good one, that maybe true or not I don't know, but it is feasible. Charles out in New York went through, I believe, two SE's and now loves the one he's got. I never had a problem with either of my SE's, straight out of the box, they were just awesome, and one was used. PM me if you can meet up next week and we can figure out when and where. I am really curious to see a comparison, that would definitely be a great help to me and I'd be very thankful.Hard Nosed Dave
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and the following statement from the link supplied, might apply sometimes to other types and/or brands of detectors but is NOT always the rule of thumb and certainly not with the E-trac.
"Sensitivity is the most misunderstood, most hyped, and most abused control on your detector. There is this myth that the farther you crank it the deeper the signal goes into the ground. WRONG!!! Turning it up does not drive the signal deeper into the ground. Turning it up renders the the coil more sensitive to the target you hope to find but it also renders it more sensitive to every piece of junk that was ever lost and every streak of mineralization in the soil - masking and leaving behind many a good target. It's like driving in dense fog at night and flipping your hi-beams on. All they do is bounce back in your face and blind you. Sensitivity works the same way. Sensitivity has nothing to do with depth unless one is hunting in soil totally devoid of any speck of trash or mineralization, and that kind of soil just doesn't exist unless one manufactures it in a lab".
and saying that "It's like driving in dense fog at night and flipping your hi-beams on" used to appeal to me and may have applied to the Explorer and other detectors BUT it's not entirely true with the E-trac IN SOME SITUATIONS......eg: some areas of usually naturally present dry sand salt beach sand, where I and I am sure many others have managed to get a lot more depth and retrieve targets that would have left buried if the sensitivity was cranked up. So sometimes it's to discretion of the user as to what given ground conditions with the the coil of choice to use with the E-trac and it's appropriate suitable settings, that determines the outcome .
In semi auto, the E-trac does have that very useful indication/option of "Suggested Sensitivity" that one can rely on as a pretty good guide, but in manual and on some sites with some settings on the E-trac CRANKED UP sensitivity CAN be useful and is not WRONG!! as suggested.
Leave the in-capabilities and limitations to those who feel it applies to, as in some cases, the E-trac is too different to apply the same rules of those limitations to.[/b]
Hard Nosed Dave
"Sensitivity is the most misunderstood, most hyped, and most abused control on your detector. There is this myth that the farther you crank it the deeper the signal goes into the ground. WRONG!!! Turning it up does not drive the signal deeper into the ground. Turning it up renders the the coil more sensitive to the target you hope to find but it also renders it more sensitive to every piece of junk that was ever lost and every streak of mineralization in the soil - masking and leaving behind many a good target. It's like driving in dense fog at night and flipping your hi-beams on. All they do is bounce back in your face and blind you. Sensitivity works the same way. Sensitivity has nothing to do with depth unless one is hunting in soil totally devoid of any speck of trash or mineralization, and that kind of soil just doesn't exist unless one manufactures it in a lab".
and saying that "It's like driving in dense fog at night and flipping your hi-beams on" used to appeal to me and may have applied to the Explorer and other detectors BUT it's not entirely true with the E-trac IN SOME SITUATIONS......eg: some areas of usually naturally present dry sand salt beach sand, where I and I am sure many others have managed to get a lot more depth and retrieve targets that would have left buried if the sensitivity was cranked up. So sometimes it's to discretion of the user as to what given ground conditions with the the coil of choice to use with the E-trac and it's appropriate suitable settings, that determines the outcome .
In semi auto, the E-trac does have that very useful indication/option of "Suggested Sensitivity" that one can rely on as a pretty good guide, but in manual and on some sites with some settings on the E-trac CRANKED UP sensitivity CAN be useful and is not WRONG!! as suggested.
Leave the in-capabilities and limitations to those who feel it applies to, as in some cases, the E-trac is too different to apply the same rules of those limitations to.[/b]
Hard Nosed Dave