Ground Balancing

[dlh]

Over the last couple weeks or so I thought I was having trouble ground balancing my AT Pro. By the way, I always use the auto method. So one day last week I dragged out the manual and also spoke with someone at Garrett. When reading the manual, the line that says doing a manual balance and bumping it up one or two numbers increases sensitivity to smaller targets stuck with me. Then when talking to Garrett they mentioned the same thing and that is how he uses his ATP. So I told myself ....ok....I will give it a try. So yesterday I manually gb at like 79 and bumped it up to 81. (I also realized before I was swinging to fast for my liking and have learned to slow it down quit a bit.) So gb @81 and swinging at close to a snails pace I found the targets in the photo. i dont know, Maybe it was just my coil got over them yesterday,..BUT......the question here is .....do you loose any depth or other benefits by running the gb higher?.......i also use the 5 x 8 coil.

Thanks in advance
Denis

 

[Marc-Montana]

The way I have always understood it is you GB lower to go deeper on silver targets, and GB high to go deeper on gold (lower conductivity) targets. I usually just auto GB mine. The time I GB low or high is if I have a deep target that doesn't read a TID, sometimes GB'ing lower or higher will give a better response from the target. Good luck, HH.

 

[John LA]

Well I've not heard it this way but I believe that's the way it is for the ATPro.