My Etrac with the 11 inch Pro, and eight inch Sun Ray, pulled about 25 wheats and two mercs out of this 400 square foot area in three couple hour hunts. Also about 4 or 5 dollars in clad. Most of the coins were less than five inches, one wheat was six inches on edge I think. The signals were not very clear,, lots of nails and trash to contend with and I had to really concentrate to pull anything, nothing really locked on except for surface clad. Most of the time I ran in auto +3, the third day I used manual and for a little while, got away with pushing it to 27
And then it started to false to 1-30 and 1-31, constant fight with that, this is the site I posted yesterday discing out those numbers and still the machine hit them and displayed them as if I hadn't done it
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Tonight I took my SE over the very same ground because of my air tests this morning to see if the additional air depth would translate to additional "in ground" depth. I found 14 coins in under two hours. All were 5 -8 inches, most in the six to seven inch range. 1 merc, 11 wheats, 1 clad dime and 1 clad quarter. This was no easy picnic for the SE either, as only 3 or 4 of the targets were crisp, 4 way signals. And not using my SE for 60 hours of ETrac detecting has definitely effected my abilities with the SE in a negative fashion. Most signals were three way signals and a couple only two way but just sounded too good. I was able to get manual sensitivity on the SE with the SR 8 coil up to 27 stable, AND it stayed there comfortably, could have pushed it higher. I hunted in conduct tones with the SE and IM up to 27. It was easily obvious to me I was getting about 20 to 30 % more depth than I was with the ETrac and that these were coins the ETrac missed. The tones on the SE were allot more crisp and flutey compared to the ETrac tones that were flat and scratchy. I pity anyone who has to sell their SE to buy the ETrac as they are two very different machines and having one doesn't make the other unnecessary. i ended up digging three nails that falsed with the SE but I was really pushing that iffy thing further than normal. NO trash, no zincs.
If it were a contest, I would say my SE smoked my ETrac, especially since the ETrac got first shot and 12 hours more attention.
And then it started to false to 1-30 and 1-31, constant fight with that, this is the site I posted yesterday discing out those numbers and still the machine hit them and displayed them as if I hadn't done it.Tonight I took my SE over the very same ground because of my air tests this morning to see if the additional air depth would translate to additional "in ground" depth. I found 14 coins in under two hours. All were 5 -8 inches, most in the six to seven inch range. 1 merc, 11 wheats, 1 clad dime and 1 clad quarter. This was no easy picnic for the SE either, as only 3 or 4 of the targets were crisp, 4 way signals. And not using my SE for 60 hours of ETrac detecting has definitely effected my abilities with the SE in a negative fashion. Most signals were three way signals and a couple only two way but just sounded too good. I was able to get manual sensitivity on the SE with the SR 8 coil up to 27 stable, AND it stayed there comfortably, could have pushed it higher. I hunted in conduct tones with the SE and IM up to 27. It was easily obvious to me I was getting about 20 to 30 % more depth than I was with the ETrac and that these were coins the ETrac missed. The tones on the SE were allot more crisp and flutey compared to the ETrac tones that were flat and scratchy. I pity anyone who has to sell their SE to buy the ETrac as they are two very different machines and having one doesn't make the other unnecessary. i ended up digging three nails that falsed with the SE but I was really pushing that iffy thing further than normal. NO trash, no zincs.
If it were a contest, I would say my SE smoked my ETrac, especially since the ETrac got first shot and 12 hours more attention.
i have to say though, for me to be able to get as many targets, albeit shallow targets, with this thing messed up; I am way impressed with the ETrac. With a deeper, more stable version of this machine, I am sure I am going to love my ETrac.
EddieB