I did some comparisons to readings on my Etrac to my Explorer. A typical coin reading was Ferrous 12 conductivity 37 on the Etrac. If the coin was deeper the number went to 14 ferrous conductivity 37. But if the coin was still shallow and standing on edge or even slanting the number changed to 14 ferrous conductivity 43. this is the same coin. On the Explorer the number stayed at Ferrous 7 conductivity 26 regardless of the situation at the same depth or even on edge it stayed the same. What this means for Etrac users is they are going to have to do a lot more digging of high sounding rubbish targets just to match the findings of the Explorer. seeya Neilo
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Coins on edge
- Thread starter Neilo
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I was detecting a park looking for lost shallow coins, my wife was using my Explorer 2. She has trouble pin pointing her targets, so when she found a coin I would have to pin point it for her with my Etrac. She was only looking for specific $1 and $2 coins so she was concentrating only a couple of numbers on the Explorer.This when I noticed such a big variance in numbers because of coin orientation and depth on the Etrac.Yet the numbers were consistent regardless on the Explorer.This variance on the Etrac numbers means about a third of the coins I want to detect would be in areas I thought was rubbish on the screen. Neilo
The Beep Goes On
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The data I gathered for making the coins/gold/silver TID spreadsheets and emulator files showed the same thing. I tested coins flat and on edge and the E-Trac was the only machine whose numbers changed when the coins were on edge. The SE and DFX did not. Larger coins appeared to be most susceptible to this. I'm wondering if the increased resolution of the E-Trac has something to do with it.
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Dave, thats what i was thinking. When i detect here, due to my soil and area 12-40,45 is always pennies. 12-46,47,48 is silver always. Yet in some areas of the country people are getting silver in the 12-40 range. The range has alot to do with how people are able to pull targets in the trash/iron.
utahshovelhead
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Neilo, thanks for that bit of info. Question...did the sound... weather on edge or not sound the same to you as say that size coin always has a high pitch that solid even if it were on edge? In other words with the E trac you would think its rubbish because of the number only or would the sound perk up your attention enough to dig?. Thanks for any reply and good luck to you.
I just dig anything that sounds good I gave up trying to memorize all the places coins come in at on the SF screen. Soil, moisture, minerals, orientation of targets under coil, daylight or dark, park or yard and who's walking by at the time seem to all change the #'s. So what ever sounds good gets to see daylight by me. 
