Invisible Numbers Questions.

[herbajones]

What causes getting hi tones and sometimes no numbers on the screen, until i hit the detect button a couple times?? Mostly in the Andy coin mode. And what causes it to remain on the same readings for several seconds while the different tones continue like it's stuck. Also I found a silver mercury dime today with a 27-45 (9" deep) ...figure that. I am going to have to start digging more 24 to 27 FE's.

 

[moonshine]

i have only had mine for about 5 weeks but it seems that sounds are instant but numbers take a second to process. as soon as the numbers need to update, it takes a second to complete the processs.....so if you keep giving the detector new information the numbers wont display until the process is complete. if you give it new info it processes it before it shows the numbers. the process wont complete (and show a number) until you stop feeding the detector new information. i have read several times people asking this question. (while searching through old posts) i had this question myself. seems like the numbers arent as reliable as the sounds the machine makes are. especially in high trash areas you just have to listen rather than look. its overwhelming at first but i am beginning to understand the machine and mentally filtering through all of the info, i look at the numbers too but the sounds seem more important. repeatability and consistency of the tones. of course in high trash areas it can be tough. but with my old detector i NEVER pulled a nail out of a hole and then a coin in the same hole. so i have faith in the etrac. some say its a simple machine, turn on and go..... i disagree. but it seems so worth the effort. you can just see and sense the promise of what mastering the etrac could do.

 

[CHICKATETTA]

I have mine with the switch set to on for the numbers to only stay on screen for around 5 seconds. I am not liking to much where the numbers stay on screen until next target is found. I often find that certains items I have discriminated against still give the odd high tone screech but show no numbers on screen, so asumed it was some other trash target close to the one I discriminated agaist, hence it gives me no numbers on screen.