just got my e-trac in, first question is....

[texastreasures]

I'm playing around in a test garden with some dimes, pennies, quarters, trash, etc. How can I get the display to refresh the fe-co reading more quickly as I pass from one target to the next? There seems to be a really bad lag, and I often have to sweep over the next target quite a few times before the new fe-co reading appears. Is there a setting to fix this, or am I doing something wrong?

 

[rbholt80]

Mine does that when im hunting a very trashy site or when im in a bunch of iron. I know that it seems to help by having deep turned off and anything else that isnt needed. But out in the field if this starts happening it means slow down and listen to the tones. Once you have used it a few hours [50 or so] you will not really need that screen. Trust me that smart find screen will just be an added visual to what you hear. Minelab should have used a faster prosesor for the screen and maybe even a dif screen but the e-trac will get it done. Its the deepest VLF detector iv used that will still ID rite with sound. May not ID rite on the smart find but it will be close. Most of the time the FE #'s will be off if its a real deep coin. At 12 inches down it found a nickel for me and still hit the id rite with sound and screen.
Just slow down and listen is really all i can say. there are other post about that same problem but never seen a real solution to the problem other than just ignoring the screen and going by sound.

 

[Steve from Ohio]

Do you have your screen set to numbers big or the graph big?

I have noticed that if you put the numbers big, the E-trac seems to respond quicker than if the graph is large.

I now run the numbers all the time and I find it reacts quicker.

 

[rbholt80]

Now thats something I didnt try. Thank Im going to try it.

 

[gregliss]

What i've found is the ID numbers only update when the threshold tone returns....so no change while the tone is blanked by a target. But as rbholt said, the tones will never let you down and are 'real time' and on the money. Try slowing your swing right down and you will see (and hear) the difference. The more I use mine the more I rely on tones and the ID just a bit of extra info on whether to dig or not. Cheers

 

[bcoop]

I think slowing down is very good advice. I read somewhere in Andy's book about slowing down your swing will make a difference. I think that a lot of people start out way too fast. I have seen guys take off and before you know it they are 200 ft away swinging like it is a race. I have seen guys that look like their machine is a sling blade and they are cutting grass, and at the end of each swing their coil is 8 inches off the ground. When you find someone that is doing that go right behind them slow and you get everything they missed.

 

[JohnTN]

The higher you run the sensitivity and the more filters you run ie. deep on, fast on, high trash, difficult ground the slower the screen responds.