Beachcomber
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Ok I don't even believe this myself but I have not hunted 3 different beaches this weekend with the E-Track and found a gold ring at each one. I can't even remember the last time I found 3 gold rings in one weekend let alone 3 gold rings with diamonds. Tonight's beach didn't have nearly as many targets as the other two and it is a very big beach when the tide is out as you can see from the Sunset photo. There were more junk targets and this beach is more mineralized than the last two. For stable operation on this beach I needed to change the ground setting back to Difficult and I turned "FAST" to OFF. I left Deep on to see if it would work and it did so I left it on. The E-Trac even with Fast turned off was able to detect some tiny pieces of metal and jewelry like that little butterfly that gave a reading of 12-1. The Zipper parts tend to read in the 12-4 to 12-8 range. The pulltabs were reading in the 12-18 to 12-24. Unfortunately the beavertail from a pulltab reads 12-12 
Luckily there aren't too many of those around. Now for the interesting one. The Gold ring took me totally by surprise. I had a nice clean deep Nickel 12-13 reading on the E-Trac. Depth meter was near the bottom. So I was expecting a deep nickel. But instead pulled up the ring from a foot down. Go figure! The pix of the ring in the ringbox is after I cleaned it in an Ultrasonic cleaner. That really cleaned all the black goo out from around the stones! One thing that can be a little annoying about using Auto Sensitivity. If you stop detecting for a minute or two and leave the coil flat on the ground......(I stood it against my scoop while I was taking pix.) the sensitivity will get raised very high. On the beach it went all the way up to 27. At that level on this particular beach the detector would false until you hunted for a little bit an then it would lower itself back down to where it needed to be. I found it was quicker to jsut shut it off while I was taking pix and then turn it back on since it comes on at 16 it was ready to hunt and then would work it's way higher on it's own and I could hunt without any falsing while ti was doing that. I have to check but I think there is a place in the Menu where you can set the level where the Auto Sensitivity starts at when turning on the detector.
HH
Beachcomber
Luckily there aren't too many of those around. Now for the interesting one. The Gold ring took me totally by surprise. I had a nice clean deep Nickel 12-13 reading on the E-Trac. Depth meter was near the bottom. So I was expecting a deep nickel. But instead pulled up the ring from a foot down. Go figure! The pix of the ring in the ringbox is after I cleaned it in an Ultrasonic cleaner. That really cleaned all the black goo out from around the stones! One thing that can be a little annoying about using Auto Sensitivity. If you stop detecting for a minute or two and leave the coil flat on the ground......(I stood it against my scoop while I was taking pix.) the sensitivity will get raised very high. On the beach it went all the way up to 27. At that level on this particular beach the detector would false until you hunted for a little bit an then it would lower itself back down to where it needed to be. I found it was quicker to jsut shut it off while I was taking pix and then turn it back on since it comes on at 16 it was ready to hunt and then would work it's way higher on it's own and I could hunt without any falsing while ti was doing that. I have to check but I think there is a place in the Menu where you can set the level where the Auto Sensitivity starts at when turning on the detector.HH
Beachcomber