A Question for DigitRich...

[Erik in NJ]

You wrote:

Mine Lab (sic) has specifically stated, just as every other manufacture of metal detectors across the globe has as well: "all metal detecting is the deepest search method available and the less discrimination used, the better, that using discrimination may make you miss good targets" and then they put out a machine that utterly requires some form of discrimination to hunt???

My question is does the E-Trac manual state the same - that all-metal is the deepest search method? It seems to me that by hunting in Conductive tones with a discrimination pattern in the shape of a triangle in the lower-right corner or by adding some IronMask to disc out the bottom of the screen some. According to Andy's post below - the see-through technology kicks in when discrimination is added.

It seemed that we were using All Metal prior to the E-Trac to compensate for the shortcomings of the machines (slower processor, poor disc circuitry, etc) - if this machine can finally use disc patterns without losing the depth that was lost previously - why would one want to hear all the metal in the ground.

I don't know that this is the case with the E-Trac, but I hope I'm getting closer to the reason why the targets were remapped on the E-Trac and Ferrous sounds in all metal seems to be a vestigial feature.

I'm hoping Andy will also jump in here and provide some info.

Comments anyone?

 

[digitrich]

"if this machine can finally use disc patterns without losing the depth that was lost previously" IT CAN"T, better yet, mine can't, so I doubt anyone else's can. This is the same machine that you have to manually tell it that you are in dense trash, low trash, neutral ground or difficult ground. If you believe ML has made a machine that in every situation you are ready to hunt with disc and letting the machine decide for you what you are going to dig or not, then it's for you. I have not and repeat, have not dug any coin size target deeper than about five inches with this machine. It's rained now all day to the point I couldn't go hunt today, my depth better change tomorrow now that the ground is wet.