E-TRAC/SE Questions?

[Jackalope]

While reading Andy's book, I ran across a statement that keeps bouncing around in my head. Seems that when using an Explorer, not much IRON disc is recommended. Reason was, that keeping the screen open allows you to hear the initial hit on a target that's deep or FE compromised. Sort of makes sense that you might only get one shot at a deep or trash co-located target. If you miss that first hit you might move the coil away and never know the target was there. Overlapping sweeps might give a second chance.

So.....my understanding is that the E-trac has some see-through ability. Can you use more Disc. on the E-trac, i.e. FE 17 rather than 32 and still hear that first hit? Can you hear that first hit in multi/conduct or is the only way FE 2 tone? Find myself switching back and forth between multi/conduct and FE 2 tone continuously while hunting, depending on how many iron hits I get. Is this first hit thing common to both the E-trac and the SE? If you're only going to get one shot at a deep or FE compromised good target then All Metal is the only way to go.

Ron

 

[Jason in Enid]

I have NEVER seen a target that you only get "one shot at". If it won't repeat, it's not a good target.

 

[Jackalope]

Jason:

True, if you're passing the coil back and forth over the target but how about those good deep/FE compromised targets that are somewhat intermittent, will repeat occasionally and do not give a signal within the accepted area on the FIRST pass? I believe what the guy in Andy's book was saying was;... if you have too much IRON disc you might get a null and not get a hit on such a target when you initially swing the coil over it. If you don't routinely double check nulled signals, you could miss out on something good.

If you have Andy's book, take a look at Mike Moutray's info on Page 116, middle of the bottom paragraph. "The reason for accepting such a broad range of targets is to allow the detector to produce a steady sound on a deep target where the ID and tone may vary from the high coin range to the lower "junk" ranges. This is critical to allow the detector to pick up that first "initial hit" on the first sweep of the coil, regardless of whether it actually landed in the coin ID range or not".

Ron