If your happy with your E-trac give it a thumbs up in the subject line!! I am extremely happy with mine..:thumbup: Let the potential buyers know your

[M.L. Hinds]

n/t

 

[mblemmy]

two thumbs up..... see my post in 1500 waste.

 

[Lubelaczek]

 

[MT]

 

[LATiger]

 

[McNickle]

My patience has paid off after 6 weeks with it. I am now findind deeper,and older coins ,,,,,,,,,,,,,and ALLOT more of them ! Too bad some people feel the need to dis this great machine when they see that Most everyone else is having great fortune with it ! I have had poor luck with some machines,but given time,I could always wrap my mind around what the machine was telling me.

 

[jimpugh]

n/t

 

[burnitup]

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

You all said you like it, but I'd like to know the why bit, if that's all right. I checked one out in a shop just after release and it didn't grab me (or put a gun to my head either!) but I'm still interested to see what you like about it. I'm currently using an XS Explorer which is near the end of it's useful life, so when it packs it in, the Explorer, Safari and E-trac are all on the table as a replacement.
Thanks.
Mick Evans.

 

[JCJEXPLORER]

Mick, I sold my XS to get the Etrac. XS is a great machine and it found tons of relics and coins. I just wanted the latest and the greatest from Minelab so I bought the Etrac. Still to little time on the Etrac but have have to say that the Etrac has found good finds at sites that I have hammered with my XS. These finds were not deep just surrounded by trash. XS was getting nuled out by trash. The depth on the Etrac is coming along as I dug a few deep buttons this weekend. At around 8"

 

[EZrider]

but... Here is an honest opinion. If you are like me and will use the full potential of the ET in all different kind of environments. I think the ET would be great. If you only park hunt or tot lots then it maybe too much. The same can be said for beach hunting as well as relic hunting. There is no point if your not going to use all the features. I think once some of the long time seasoned pros with an open mind and who are not biased start using it here in the sates we will find out it has to be setup and run differently than what others are used to with simmiler machines. The USB and software is a novel idea. It would be nice to edit the patterns on the PC, would also be nice to beable to use the USB to flash upgrade the software in the future. Who knows maybe someone will come up with a better program. Its a great machine but i don't know if it worth $1500. I too traded in on a new ET. I think it could use some refineing as well as some more time in the hands of someone willing to learn its diffrences. I'll keep you all posted.

 

[txbluesman]

Just like the Explorer it will take some time to fully realize the potential of this machine. Once I get this machine tweaked to my local conditions, I have no doubt that it will rival or surpase the performance of my Explorere SE.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

It's surprising the amount of time that it takes to learn a new detector. When folks say that it takes 100 hours to know a detector well enough to decide whether to keep it or not, I thought that it was too long, but experience finds me agreeing with that. The last 2 detectors that I've gotten to know, have both taken over 60 hours to get comfortable with them. 70 hours on the XS so far, and I'm only just scratching the surface on getting to know it. this forum is going to get better over the next few months, with lots of tips and tricks to share as you all gain experience on the E-Trac.
Good luck and happy hunting.
Mick Evans.

 

[SNOWY]

Hi Mick, and the rest of you guys...
Been a while since my last post.

I'm interested in the E trac too Mick.

Digitrichs experience was sure negative though !!! ~A bit off putting eh !
I hope he can re-visit his E Trac, and try again with different settings, I don't like seeing anybody having such a bad time with what he thought was going to be the latest, and greatest... It's a pretty big commitment to pay so much dough out, and not get the result you thought you would achieve eh !


My SE is going great with its new 11" pro coil, I just came back from a little country town, and scored a 1845 silver English Florin at a measured 10" deep.
A good clean repeatable signal, I also got two 1899 English Shilling sat around 8" deep, and a 1956 Aussie threepence...
My wife and I detectected for a whole day at a sports ground, and we got $120.00 worth of Aussie "goldies" between us, so there's nothing at all wrong with my SE fitted with a new 11" Pro coil.
I wonder just how much better the E Trac would be than my SE "Pro" setup !!!

I'd sell my SE outfit to get me an E Trac though, I just like having the latest technology I guess...

 

[Hungry]

Hi Snowy,and everyone else. I have had my E-Trac for 6 weeks now,and haven't been able to decide if i liked it or not. I have always run a 15" WOT coil on it and the SE, I never use anything else. Lately i have been doing the Tot Lots, and yesterday I decided to give the SE a run with E-Trac 11" coil on it. Well, I did one Lot, and couldn't get the E-Trac back in service quick enough, even with the bigger coil. It is so much faster, and hence, picks the targets out of the rubbish that the SE misses.
I still find i like the sounds of the SE better,they seem fuller and not as squeaky, but that could be because of the faster re-action to the targets and it doesn't have time to give a full bodied sound. I have tried putting the Threshold Pitch on 19 like some others have suggested, to make it sound like an Explorer, but it's still not right for me. The angle of the handle is certainly much nicer to hang on to, and the weight is not a problem as i use my own Hipstick. So after hanging onto my SE, to see if I liked the E-Trac, I will now put my SE up for sale. So , YES, I like my E-Trac. I don't think that it goes any deeper than the SE, but it is much nicer and faster to use. HH. Bob

 

[SNOWY]

Interesting what you are saying about the E Trac's tones Bob,
I have an X-Terra 70 also, and I don't like the pitch sounds it produces...
I don't fire the X-Terra up much at all these days, mainly because of the way it sounds.
My SE sounds sweet, as you indicated; and I LOVE using it.
I have a Tesoro Corte's, a Tesoro Tejon as well, but I ALWAYS grab for my SE...

I reckon I won't be happy until I get an E trac though...

 

[Hard Nosed Dave]

The closest comparison to the E-trac is the Explorer. Even though we know it's not one, the Etrac, for me is a "formidable" detector.

I found the ETrac has an edge over the Explorer or any other detector I currently own.

It may not be the BEST for someone else, but seeing as I am talking about me here............that's all that matters for now.

If you stay within the "safe" limits of operation with the E-trac , then it's so smooth and stable.

If you decide to take it beyond the recommend settings and/or Sensitivity, then one needs to be prepared for the spill over of instability and needs to rethink the way they interpret the signals.

Watching that video at the MLO:

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?63,845917,845917#msg-845917

on the way Niel Jones sets up his E-trac, sort of reminds me how I search a field over here.
I just don't use headphones, mainly so as it won't drive me bananas listening to all those spurious sounds.

Until I get a set of headphones with volume control, it'll be the way I search especially for the old stuff.
When he starts searching the field, there were a few times I thought he was going to stop and dig what I thought and heard what seemed a "viable" detected target. He just kept searching and digging what were low tone's.

Makes me wonder if one can remain sane hearing all those false signals coming through all the time during a hunt.
Maybe this is what's happened with some of the guys who have found the Etrac a "waste or time". They haven't bothered trying a different approach and have expected the E-trac to behave like another detector they may have used with more success.

I, for one, really , really , really like the E-trac.

and I prefer to say:

It's the "BEST USE of $1500 bucks I have ever done"


I'm going to keep using it as my primary detector, at least until Minelab brings out something that I feel, can better it.

HH

David Di
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[Mick in Dubbo]

Hi Snowy
It's good to hear from you again.
Although Digitrich's post was negative, I've found that I also adjust badly to a new detector and can get grumpy with it. It seems to be a fairly common experience for a lot of users, so it helps to filter out the sting of the comments as learning frustrations. That could easily be me making comments of frustration like that. If I buy an E-Trac, I'll have to bite my tongue pretty good for the first 100 hours of use. and remember that it's just new knowledge.
it sounds like you are doing pretty good with the SE. a $120 bucks on one sports field! Wow! I'm lucky if I find $3 or $4 on any of the fields here in Dubbo. I did score a gold ring a couple of months ago though and returned it to it's owner. They must be as poor as church mice up here.
I may be able to get the XS back to reasonable condition, it just comes down to costs. As the shaft is permanently glued into the housing, I'd need to send it in to Minelab and have the housing fully replaced (bought it like that, and knew that it was glued.) The screen is often showing both the Smart find and digital at the same time, so depending on cost, it may be repairable, If not, I'll use it till it becomes unusable.
I had a technician come into work a few weeks back, to service the equipment that I use. We got talking about detecting and he's keen to take it up. He only lives 10 mins away from the Miners Den in Melbourne. I suggested the X-Terra to him, so who knows, you might cross paths with him.
Catch you later.
Mick Evans.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

I hope that I don't sound like a broken record here, but I'm interested how the E-trac goes with the screw caps and gold coins. I hunt on lawn mostly, so the ID won't get skewed as much as it would if I were to beach hunt on corroded coins. Are you able to distinguish these targets from each other at all, or they completely indistinguishable from each other? I know that it's not going to be perfect, but a guy can have hope. The Explorers seem to give clues in the smart find and screw caps can tend to have a less even tone than a coin.
I imagine that it'd be real sweet at finding pre-decimals though.
Thanks.
Mick Evans.

 

[EZrider]

Dave, he had a Mic inside of his headphones. Gordon said it was louder in the vid so people here it. I dont think it that loud to the user. Alot of the coins and stuff they dig there is in the low mid tone.