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After reading the ETrac manual, I am a little bummed:cry:

digitrich

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The biggest things which I wanted to see change was very most importantly; the recovery speed (jury's still out on that one):please:Oh Mutty Putty UM, Pray with me fellas :help: The next thing was with the SE's, if you were in conduct tones, you had to disc out nails, which lead most of us to use ferrous tones and hopefully not be in an area with too many screw tops or we had to disc out them, either way, unless you found a real old site that didn't have modern trash, it was real difficult to hunt in all metal without having to disc out something, I wish they had giving us an option of an audible disc feature instead of nulling, having the machine give a scratchy tone or just a flat blah tone whenever it went over a disced out target instead of a null. That way, it wouldn't take a month to come back from a null and in ferrous tones you could tell the difference between a coin and a screw top and in conduct tones, the difference between a nail and a coin and stay in true all metal. Was that too much to hope for??? Hopefully, now with the almost double Pixels (1750 total):thumbup: was:1024, and both the digital numbers and smart find screen on one screen, we might have a easier time differentiating targets, but I really hope I can do that with the tones only, did they increase the tone variances? If they beefed up the display but it still moves slower than the tones, that will suck. Am I the only guy that hears a tone and then and only then, looks at the screen? I hear guys talking about bouncing cursors and such, and in all honestly, my screens on both my SE's never seemed to display much unless I went over something a gazillion times, over and over, and in thick trash, they didn't update at all because there wasn't a bare spot for the threshold to return, so they couldn't. I could hear the tones change, but the screen never caught up in that situation. So I just gave up and concentrated on the tones, you guys with the bouncing cursors either hunt with smaller coils, in less trash or got better machines than both of mine. Want to trade??:shrug: So I am really hoping this ETrac IS a faster recovery Explorer. If it is, I am going to be a wealthy man.:beers: Giving the fact it uses the PRO 11 coil, I would guess all the Explorer coils work with it and so would the SR Probe, HOPE, HOPE and Hope some more. Just my 2 dollars worth.....inflation ya know:huh:
 
Read the section of the ETrac manual under trash density- high page 73, and your mouth will water.:inlove:ML, can't wait to try that.
 
It has a new micro processor that is supposed to be a lot faster. I'm sure the new owners will comment more on this when they go out and play with it.
Mick Evans.
 
I'll be one on Saturday. In the manual on page 23, under the heading "pattern screen", ML states "Information is refreshed in real time".....an Explorer that refreshes the screen in real time!!!!!!!!!!!! If this thing does a tenth of what they are saying, it's going to be a monster.:clapping:
 
It sounds like it Digitrich. One thing that I like that has happened to the last couple of models, is that they have reduced the weight a bit. Hopefully, they'll eventual look at the rod set up and knock a fair bit of weight out of that as well. Even a change over to lithium polymer batteries with a voltage regulator on the battery (normal for polymer's), then that can reduce the weight by a further couple of hundred grams ( half a pound). It's already been done with their gold machines, so I'm sure that it could be done with the FBS family of detectors.
Mick Evans.
 
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I read the field test, then the manual... the high rash setting not what I expected it to be.. By the way Minelab has the manual and all the files on its site now.. And I am looking for exactly what you are... yes if you could program audio response to portions of the screen that would be great.. say set bottle caps to read low toned, while everything else on that ferrous level read higher... like using the edit screen for notch, but simply make those notched parts respond with low tones instead of a null.. you could go straight form the low tine into high without hesitation... there is more to it than that though.. enough iron will mask out stuff no matter what they do, even if your listening to it all
 
You will be very surprised when you hold one of these babies it feels totally different to an Explorer and the balance is much better.
 
http://www.mlotv.com/view/378/e-trac-timings-minelab-modes-pinpoint-modes-and-screens/

Look at this ,its much faster then the EX,and a faster swing ALSO
 
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