Arturo de Zorro
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I have used conduct mode 90% of the time on my first XS then I got a Explorer II and also used the conduct mode. So using the E-trac in conduct was like a walk in the park. I got the E-trac Friday evening, then Sat. morning I went out for about three hours, I went first to a creek park that I and my partner have hunted with ours Explorer for the past 6 years and the last 6 or 7 times there, no more coins have come up. I set up the E-trac in factory coin pattern in semi-auto---deep off---fast off---trash density low---volume 30---gain 24---response normal---threshold pitch 30---tone multi. I noticed no improvement in the screen glare, I did also notice that the E-trac resets itself between targets much quicker than my Explorer II. The E-trac was sounding off like a popcorn machine and I was still able to hear the difference in tones it had great separation between targets. My Explorer II seems to melts the tones together between close targets. I had very few faults highs if any. Every tone I heard I was able to make it repeat again and never had a tone signal that just disappeared. It did null some but it came out of the null without having to stop my swing and when it seem like I had more than three tones under the coil I flipped to QuickMask and I was able to separate each target and ID them without any bleed over from the other signals. So prior to the hunt I decided to dig only signals with a low ferrous number and a conduct of 36 and higher. After an hour I ended up with 15 aluminum screw caps and one wheat penny, never dug that many caps with the Explorer's ferrous # being 6 and 7. This is an area about 100
They read 9 inches deep and ended up being 4-4.5 inches on the nails, 2-8 inches deep on the cans. The ID and depth on mine just plain sucks. The idea of having to do this and having to do that to get proper ID is kind of funny to me as this is the most expensive coin shooter detector in the world, is it not???? Now you have to switch into quik mask from smart screen to double check your poor ID and people are talking about this, like it's some kind of benefit
People need to pull their heads out of ML's butt and realize in a great many ways, we got screwed on this detector and it's ill-thought out screen, poor ID, lousy depth, crappier tones, and ML's complete removal of an easy way to hunt in all metal; the actual deepest, most accurate ID'ing mode on ALL metal detectors, especially every detector ML has ever made. Fact is all Explorer's would blend and change ID's in different soils and with co-located targets, so where do people get the idea that some how ML woke up one morning and learned how to do away with that?? They didn't, it's the same sloppy ID, actually MUCH MORE sloppy ID. My SE's, if you turn a coin on edge or lay it flat it reports the exact same ferr/con #'s. On this ET, it reads all over the place once you turn the coin 5 degrees or more, and those coordinates are shared with falsing iron and trash AND that exact same scenario worsens with depth. And I am not talking 8-10 inches here, I am talking at less than 4-6 inches deep. I apologize for the rant. There seems to be a pattern developing for me here and you can kind of see it in my posts. I come on here, read a couple posts on the ET doing well for some and then I gain hope, so I go hunt. Well, while hunting, all the short comings of this machine come back to me like a bad case of herpes and I realize, quite simply, my machine sucks, sucks and sucks some more.
Let me phrase it this way: I noticed several hints to the above in many of Andy's first ETrac posts on the Explorer forum, going back two weeks ago.
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