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Ground grab feature
- Thread starter jlw
- Start date
Its useful because.....
Without it: To ground balance you flip the TRAC switch to GROUND, pump the coil, then flip the TRAC switch back to LOCK. Its a couple extra steps that require both hands, hopefully your not holding anything or dragging a full size shovel around with your off hand.
With it: To ground balance you touch GROUND GRAB with your thumb.
The MXT PRO constantly tracks the GROUND in the background but only updates when you touch GROUND GRAB.
This feature is used only when the TRAC switch is in the LOCK position. When it is in the GROUND position, it updates the GB all the time even when concentrating on faint signals that LOOK like mineralization. Try investigating a faint signal with it in GROUND position and the target will dissapear.
Thats why it should be Locked and updated only when you find a clear area to hit the GROUND GRAB button.
Without it: To ground balance you flip the TRAC switch to GROUND, pump the coil, then flip the TRAC switch back to LOCK. Its a couple extra steps that require both hands, hopefully your not holding anything or dragging a full size shovel around with your off hand.
With it: To ground balance you touch GROUND GRAB with your thumb.
The MXT PRO constantly tracks the GROUND in the background but only updates when you touch GROUND GRAB.
This feature is used only when the TRAC switch is in the LOCK position. When it is in the GROUND position, it updates the GB all the time even when concentrating on faint signals that LOOK like mineralization. Try investigating a faint signal with it in GROUND position and the target will dissapear.
Thats why it should be Locked and updated only when you find a clear area to hit the GROUND GRAB button.BarberBill
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I generally detect with the ground locked, re-balancing from time to time. If I had the Pro, it would simplify this little chore as described above. Not a major thing, but handy just the same.
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Its nothing that makes MXT users upset about. Its not the worst bonus for the PRO, that probably goes to the "backlight". The best bonus would be the extra tones. So its a mid-range bonus feature for the PRO. I'm glad I have the PRO but even some hardcore detectorist swing the MXT when they could easily aquire a PRO if it was a must have. I can audibly ID targets easier with the PRO without glancing at the screen because of its tone range but if your digging all solid targets then even that is a neat but not required feature. I have heard people say 'both can find all the same targets', which is true but the PRO can audibly "tell" you what your finding more accurately. Its kind of like a mute person and a non-mute person can see the same but one can tell you what their seeing better(7 tone) than the one using sign language(must stare at screen). I'm really surprised with Whites using 2-tone in such a great detector. The old early 80's blue box whites had a WIDE range of tones that after you got used to it was like a whole language that you knew what it was telling you, NOTHING like a simple 2-tone that they used 20 years later. I believe they had all the tricks of the PRO in the works when they released the MXT and planned a bigger, better, newer version of the same thing to be released later hoping that current MXT owners would HAVE to have the best and they ending up buying both. Did it really take a few extra months to figure out how to get more than 2 tones? Oh wait, they had that figured out 20 years ago. lol