Manual ground balance - F70??

[JJames1610]

I have looked at the Manuel a few times and if it is there i don't see it. I tried to search it and it didn't find anything. Is there no way to manually adjust the ground balance on an F70? From what i read it is only like a ground grab, or auto ground balance. Would like to know if you can or cant, thanks

 

[JJames1610]

I found a post that said it doesn't have a way to do that, sorry.

 

[REVIER]

You kinda can but you have to trick it into doing it.
Different metal targets can actually bring that GB reading into other areas, mostly lower, if you swing over them and balance.
Hot rocks, iron pieces even other metals can get that auto balance to stop on other areas for a second so you just have to use the right kind and stop when you get to a number you prefer.

I know that many prefer to hunt slightly negative or positive for a few different reasons and the F75 can be adjusted in this way manually but for me I have never seen the need and don't care that I can't manually do it on the F70.
I have found amazing things extremely masked and many times deeper than most others using just the auto feature this thing has, it has never let me down in both great and horrible soil and seems to know where it wants to settle in to make me the most successful at every site I have hunted so far.
One exception might be if I someday go on vacation down south to a saltwater beach where I know getting that number to the 10 or under area might be advantageous.
It says in the manual this thing can balance all the way down to salt but I have never had the opportunity so I don't know about that.
If that happens I am pretty confident I can find something down there on the beach that can help me fool this thing and trick it down to that level when needed.

 

[MarkCZ]

By design the F70 doesn't have a setting or control for manually adjusting the ground balance.
What I do is I use the program bank two for some quick ground balance settings, like,
Lowered sensitivity,
A reduced Threshold,
and zero discrimination.
I use that program bank to ground balance and then for operation I switch to the program bank one with its saved settings, YES! the ground balance is carried over as long as you don't power the unit off. The F70 will store all other settings when powered off except the ground balance.

Hope that helps!
Mark

 

[pescadore]

You kinda can but you have to trick it into doing it.
Different metal targets can actually bring that GB reading into other areas, mostly lower, if you swing over them and balance.
Hot rocks, iron pieces even other metals can get that auto balance to stop on other areas for a second so you just have to use the right kind and stop when you get to a number you prefer.

I know that many prefer to hunt slightly negative or positive for a few different reasons and the F75 can be adjusted in this way manually but for me I have never seen the need and don't care that I can't manually do it on the F70.
I have found amazing things extremely masked and many times deeper than most others using just the auto feature this thing has, it has never let me down in both great and horrible soil and seems to know where it wants to settle in to make me the most successful at every site I have hunted so far.
One exception might be if I someday go on vacation down south to a saltwater beach where I know getting that number to the 10 or under area might be advantageous.
It says in the manual this thing can balance all the way down to salt but I have never had the opportunity so I don't know about that.
If that happens I am pretty confident I can find something down there on the beach that can help me fool this thing and trick it down to that level when needed.

I was at the beach last weekend with my F70 and couldn't get it to ground balance at all in wet sand. It would just go to the 90 default. It would gb fine in the dry sand but not in wet.

 

[REVIER]

That is not right, it should easily GB down to single digits at a salt water beach.

Go to about the 19:00 mark in this vid.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=uw4gjkuyg8g

 

[pescadore]

That is not right, it should easily GB down to single digits at a salt water beach.

Go to about the 19:00 mark in this vid.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=uw4gjkuyg8g

I tried it a few time but maybe I was doing something right.

 

[pescadore]

That is not right, it should easily GB down to single digits at a salt water beach.

Go to about the 19:00 mark in this vid.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=uw4gjkuyg8g

I was in Disc mode and he specifically said you had to GB in All Metal and that it wouldn't ground balance in Disc mode.

 

[TheHunterGT]

You must be in AT mode (all metal) to GB to zero...or anything below 40.

Its the 9:00 mark roughly...not 19:00. He made a typo accidentally.

 

[REVIER]

You must be in AT mode (all metal) to GB to zero...or anything below 40.

Its the 9:00 mark roughly...not 19:00. He made a typo accidentally.

Accidentally?
Or on purpose to confuse him?

Anything in this world worth anything is worth working for.

 

[pescadore]

You must be in AT mode (all metal) to GB to zero...or anything below 40.

Its the 9:00 mark roughly...not 19:00. He made a typo accidentally.

Got it !!! That's where I was messing up. I was trying in Disc. Thanks, it is so nice to have help like this on this forum. I am learning more about the F70 every time I take it out. I will try that GB process next time we go to the beach.

Pesc

 

[TheHunterGT]

You must be in AT mode (all metal) to GB to zero...or anything below 40.

Its the 9:00 mark roughly...not 19:00. He made a typo accidentally.

Accidentally?
Or on purpose to confuse him?

Anything in this world worth anything is worth working for.

My last fortune cookie said that.