ok well i wonder if anyone has tried to get the auto sensitivty higher sometimes i go onto the field and the auto can read 21 i know i have plus three on it but i have seen it down at 19 and i have switched to manual for all you absolute newbies just use the left or right arrows and that switches you in and out of manual sensitivity anyway if i stay on manual and let it chatter away in an inaudible manner as it does i switch back to auto and hey presto it is now at a sensible level of 25 26 and off i go hunting again and i am happy to know i am getting some depth has anybody else had this experience or anybody tried this??????????
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AUTO SENSITIVITY
- Thread starter sugar
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From what I'm understanding in what you are saying----Sounds to me like you are possibly going across some iron or mineralized ground (which will take your sensitivity #'s down in auto).---If you are getting 19, you are still getting reasonable depth.----Remember, if you are running manual sensitivity and you are getting EXCESSIVE chatter/noise, you are at risk of missing those faint, deep hits/targets.------Deep coin hunting is a "whole different ballgame" than the shallow stuff.--------Del
D&P-OR said:From what I'm understanding in what you are saying----Sounds to me like you are possibly going across some iron or mineralized ground (which will take your sensitivity #'s down in auto).---If you are getting 19, you are still getting reasonable depth.----Remember, if you are running manual sensitivity and you are getting EXCESSIVE chatter/noise, you are at risk of missing those faint, deep hits/targets.------Deep coin hunting is a "whole different ballgame" t
han the shallow stuff.--------Del
yes i am learning so i have read with interest your comment about missing finds but i am only using the manual to increase the auto sensitivity anyway thats what seems to happen i cant personally encourage the auto sensitivity to go higher but when i do this switch over to manual for a short period it does make a difference to the auto sensitivity or seems to and that is what i am querying has anyone else noticed that you can tease the auto to come up thankyou idahoPRB it is interesting to try these different things out on the etrac anyway happy hunting all of you
utahshovelhead
Active member
Hey Sug,
When something like that happens to me I will go back over the area again and see if it is site (or ground) specific or if it is just random. For me it is ussualy site specific. What that means is the ground has something in it that the machine is adjusting to or dealing with. If it is Random...check for elec lines or even an odd cell tower. I have a lot by the City / Police station building I hunt and sometimes they use some kind of radio wave that will cause me to re noise cancell.
Anyway just my thought on your question.
good luck
utahshovelhead
When something like that happens to me I will go back over the area again and see if it is site (or ground) specific or if it is just random. For me it is ussualy site specific. What that means is the ground has something in it that the machine is adjusting to or dealing with. If it is Random...check for elec lines or even an odd cell tower. I have a lot by the City / Police station building I hunt and sometimes they use some kind of radio wave that will cause me to re noise cancell.
Anyway just my thought on your question.
good luck
utahshovelhead
utahshovelhead said:Hey Sug,
When something like that happens to me I will go back over the area again and see if it is site (or ground) specific or if it is just random. For me it is ussualy site specific. What that means is the ground has something in it that the machine is adjusting to or dealing with. If it is Random...check for elec lines or even an odd cell tower. I have a lot by the City / Police station building I hunt and sometimes they use some kind of radio wave that will cause me to re noise cancell.
Anyway just my thought on your question.
good luck
utahshovelhead
thanks for your thoughts i am quite away from power lines and this increase in auto sensitivity by using this switching to manual has happened about five or six times now so doesnt seem to be random i am keeping an open mind at the moment but it would be good if other detectorists with etracs could notice when their sensitivitiy is particularly low that it can be improved by switching to manual i do not believe it is random but only time will tell and people like yourselves reporting back on this forum thankyou for your time
McDean said:Interesting topic... I've also found to noise cancel in max manual sens to give better auto sens...
I'll have to test this some more to see what happens... HH
thanks for that i will try that one it is very interesting happy hunting
kevinslack
New member
when i start hunting in auto sensitivity it starts out about 19 so i go into manual 27 then back to auto sensitivity and it will run at 25 when first starting out with the hunt. now in auto sensitivity it will go up to 25 or higher but it takes about 15 min or so, thats why i do the manual then back to auto sensitivity so i can start the hunt with a higher number.
My Etrac does the same thing sugar,but I have noticed at times it will slowly start to drop back down to the number it started at in auto.
One time I was running 27 manual and getting a little too much falsing so I switched to auto,and to my surprise it went to 29 in auto.
Has anyone ever seen their Etrac run 29 in auto??
One time I was running 27 manual and getting a little too much falsing so I switched to auto,and to my surprise it went to 29 in auto.
Has anyone ever seen their Etrac run 29 in auto??
Djay-Mo said:My Etrac does the same thing sugar,but I have noticed at times it will slowly start to drop back down to the number it started at in auto.
One time I was running 27 manual and getting a little too much falsing so I switched to auto,and to my surprise it went to 29 in auto.
Has anyone ever seen their Etrac run 29 in auto??
I've actually seen mine go up to 31 and 32 on a very rare occasion. I've got some ground that it will run a consistant 28 - 29. I know there was post, close to a year ago, someone has also seen there's run over 30 in Auto +3.
Yes, in heavy mineralization it'll start to drop. I've found this is due to a lot of iron, a place where there was a lot of cinders (cinder sidewalks or the back of buildings near the boilers where they shoveled in coal, or also places that had a fire. I've seen my Auto +3 drop into the single digits. Makes for some challenging hunting.
NebTrac
I didn't think it went over 30... ? Also I forgot to add that when I noise cancel I use an open quickmask screen... dunno if it helps or not...
I've shown in "airtesting" that manual sens is deeper than the same # in auto, so when the machine peaks out in auto +3, I switch to manual using the same # deep and stable
I've shown in "airtesting" that manual sens is deeper than the same # in auto, so when the machine peaks out in auto +3, I switch to manual using the same # deep and stable
McDean said:I didn't think it went over 30... ? Also I forgot to add that when I noise cancel I use an open quickmask screen... dunno if it helps or not...
I've shown in "airtesting" that manual sens is deeper than the same # in auto, so when the machine peaks out in auto +3, I switch to manual using the same # deep and stable
I never thought it did either, until I read this guys post. I'd had my E-Trac by then, but was stuck in the house all winter with frozen ground. So was back reading the old posts trying to glean as much info as I could and ran across this post. Funny...I can remember something like this, but have to write the grocery list down.
Here is the post, and yes I have personally seen this happen - one time- on my own machine.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?63,984659,984690#msg-984690
NebTrac
i think this will be interesting to people who had no idea that you can do something about low auto sensitivity if anyone has any more ways of increasing it please share them its all about learning what you can do with the etrac to make it even more awesome with the auto sensitivity running at a decent level finds are going to increase so any ideas are welcome happy hunting
......Neb's quite correct!!!
On a club farm where we have good ground, my Auto+3 ranged at 31 also. I did take a photo and posted it on some forums.
In theory.....it should range to 33 max.
When you start off in Auto.....it will start around 19 or so. It does take 30 - 60 seconds for it to ground grab. It'll then range higher.
There is a way to speed this process up by pumping the coil......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5O4OP9sUgo
On a club farm where we have good ground, my Auto+3 ranged at 31 also. I did take a photo and posted it on some forums.
In theory.....it should range to 33 max.
When you start off in Auto.....it will start around 19 or so. It does take 30 - 60 seconds for it to ground grab. It'll then range higher.
There is a way to speed this process up by pumping the coil......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5O4OP9sUgo
jackkell1963
New member
Just to confirm. I have also seen mine run at 31 in auto +3 on a couple of ocassions in a particular part of a park that I hunt, but not everytime. I guess it depends on several different factors.
Gaz said:......Neb's quite correct!!!
On a club farm where we have good ground, my Auto+3 ranged at 31 also. I did take a photo and posted it on some forums.
In theory.....it should range to 33 max.
When you start off in Auto.....it will start around 19 or so. It does take 30 - 60 seconds for it to ground grab. It'll then range higher.
There is a way to speed this process up by pumping the coil.....
I was just coming here to post Des Dune's video and I see you beat me to it, interesting topic none the less.