X-Terra 50 Ground Balancing Tips

[THunter101]

Hi does anyone have any tips on balancing the machine
since the tones that i hear are so close together and hard
too distinguish between them

THunter101

 

[khouse]

Try turning the volume all the way up and see if that helps?

 

[BarnacleBill]

1. It is much better to use headphones to GB.
2. If you have more than one pair of headphones, then try all the ones you have.
3. Turn the volume up all the way on the X-50, remember that speaker & headphone volume is independent. Set sensitivity to about half till you get the hang of GB'ing.
4.There are two tones, high & low. Then at the GB point the two tones can mix where you hear both tones, depending on the mineralization of the soil.
5. There is also an audio level response(loudness) involved in the process. Ideally(almost never for me) you would not hear anything at the perfect GB point.
6. Start by manually adjusting the GB to either extreme of the settings(+ or neg). Listen to the tone, it should be loud & pure.
7. Now start adjusting, as you get closer to the GB point the audio level should go down.
8. At the GB point the audio loudness should be very soft and you may have mixed high/low tones.
9. If you adjust past the GB point, the tone will change, and as you go further the loudness of the tone will increase.

Remember the ideal is to hear nothing when perfectly GB'd(rare).

If all else fails, you can power GB, but that involves a different set of steps which could be more confusing depending on your background and experience.

HH
BarnacleBill

 

[John(Tx)]

n/t

 

[BarnacleBill]

On the X-Terras one can use the All Metal mode in Coin & Treasure, but on many machines you use the Disc mode with the minimum Disc setting.

1. Find a spot clear of targets, like usual.
2. Set Sensitivity at about 50% to start.
3. Pump or bob the coil from 1 to 8 inches like you normally would for GB'ing.
4. Slowly increase the Sensitivity till the detector just starts to spit audio, or the display starts to react with random ID's.
5. Stop increasing Sensitivity, and start adjusting the GB while continuing to pump the coil. The goal is to have the detector go quiet again as the GB becomes "more correct".
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 till the GB setting cannot quiet the detector. Then back the Sensitivity off(turn down) one digit on the X-Terra and adjust the GB to the setting that made the detector quiet at that Sensitivity setting.

You've now arrived at a stable point by using the GB setting to "Disc out" the ground while running Sensitivity pretty high. But some caveats, a new user of a particular machine would be well advised to back the Sensitivity down a couple digits while learning the machine, and(very important), the ground is going to vary as you move around over the surface leading to instability. Why make yourself crazy with instability by trying to gain a half an inch in more depth(rhetorical)?

HH
BarnacleBill

 

[John(Tx)]

I will do this next time I go out. Merry Christmas. John