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Ground Balance
- Thread starter kevmar
- Start date
The problem with ground balance offset is that you MUST be in tracking mode to use it.
If I'm looking for weak deep targets, I don't want tracking mode on, unless I'm not hitting ANY targets at all (haven't seen this where I hunt). The reason is, every target (any metal) you pass over, shifts the GB. It can cause you to lose depth. I don't want that. So I don't use tracking, but check my balance from time to time. That way I don't have to worry about a weak or iffy signal dissapearing when I'm circling it to try to better identify it.
George
If I'm looking for weak deep targets, I don't want tracking mode on, unless I'm not hitting ANY targets at all (haven't seen this where I hunt). The reason is, every target (any metal) you pass over, shifts the GB. It can cause you to lose depth. I don't want that. So I don't use tracking, but check my balance from time to time. That way I don't have to worry about a weak or iffy signal dissapearing when I'm circling it to try to better identify it.
George
If you don't use Tracking, it's even easier to offset your GB. You just do it manually too.glabelle said:
Longhair, as you know, the manual ground balance is rather crude. The resolution is not quite as good as the auto. Therefore if you auto balance, then manually step it one way or the other, it is a seat-of-the-pants step because you don't know exactly how much it changed from what was actually set.
The way I balance is to push the tracking button, then the balance button, then pump the coil over vacant ground until there is no change. Then I hit search and turn off tracking. This puts GB right on.
To check balance, just push the balance button and pump the coil a little to make sure it is still "on".
While I have extensive experience metal detecting, the X-terra is new to me (one week). If you have a better method, you are the master here! ;-)
George
Aloha, Oregon
The way I balance is to push the tracking button, then the balance button, then pump the coil over vacant ground until there is no change. Then I hit search and turn off tracking. This puts GB right on.
To check balance, just push the balance button and pump the coil a little to make sure it is still "on".
While I have extensive experience metal detecting, the X-terra is new to me (one week). If you have a better method, you are the master here! ;-)
George
Aloha, Oregon
I don't call myself master, and you shouldn't either. 
However, we do know exactly how much we are changing the phase angle with our adjustments, in a technical sense. Each increment is 2 degrees of phase angle shift. IMO that's not crude.
Around here you'd have to rebalance every 20ft without Tracking. And at some sites I do use the Offset, because I feel that the change improves target response at depth in those conditions. Not every situation benefits from it, but I like the added flexibility the 705 allows the user. Given how important GB is, I'm somewhat disappointed in FBS for it's lack of user control over it.
To me, this is exactly what the 705 boils down to. It can be whatever the user wants it to be. You can run auto everything w/2-tones if you're pleased with it like that, or you can seize control of everything and find ways to improve your experience in other ways. Most find a happy medium somewhere in between, but the Xterra's strong suit is being more tailorable to preferences, conditions, and targets sought than any other single frequency machine..
As I always say, "If what you're doing isn't working...CHANGE SOMETHING!"
However, we do know exactly how much we are changing the phase angle with our adjustments, in a technical sense. Each increment is 2 degrees of phase angle shift. IMO that's not crude.
Around here you'd have to rebalance every 20ft without Tracking. And at some sites I do use the Offset, because I feel that the change improves target response at depth in those conditions. Not every situation benefits from it, but I like the added flexibility the 705 allows the user. Given how important GB is, I'm somewhat disappointed in FBS for it's lack of user control over it.
To me, this is exactly what the 705 boils down to. It can be whatever the user wants it to be. You can run auto everything w/2-tones if you're pleased with it like that, or you can seize control of everything and find ways to improve your experience in other ways. Most find a happy medium somewhere in between, but the Xterra's strong suit is being more tailorable to preferences, conditions, and targets sought than any other single frequency machine..
As I always say, "If what you're doing isn't working...CHANGE SOMETHING!"
atomicscott
Active member
I think the manual GB is pretty good actually. I've had other detectors that had a seemingly wider range of adjustment (multi-turn pots), however no matter how I adjusted the GB on my old machine, the GB on my XT is much more stable.Old Longhair said:I don't call myself master, and you shouldn't either.
However, we do know exactly how much we are changing the phase angle with our adjustments, in a technical sense. Each increment is 2 degrees of phase angle shift. IMO that's not crude.
Around here you'd have to rebalance every 20ft without Tracking. And at some sites I do use the Offset, because I feel that the change improves target response at depth in those conditions. Not every situation benefits from it, but I like the added flexibility the 705 allows the user. Given how important GB is, I'm somewhat disappointed in FBS for it's lack of user control over it.
To me, this is exactly what the 705 boils down to. It can be whatever the user wants it to be. You can run auto everything w/2-tones if you're pleased with it like that, or you can seize control of everything and find ways to improve your experience in other ways. Most find a happy medium somewhere in between, but the Xterra's strong suit is being more tailorable to preferences, conditions, and targets sought than any other single frequency machine..
As I always say, "If what you're doing isn't working...CHANGE SOMETHING!"
