second day w/E-Trac

[jspeedy]

I tried another park today for 3 hours that I had hunted with the Safari last summer. The E-trac picked through the trash better than the Safari at lightning speeds. I would have had to swing the Safari much slower to pull out the coins I found today if I found them at all. The one thing I don't like about the E-Trac compaired to the Safari is that it it's depth meter is not as accurate. The E=Trac finds today were $1.36 in clad two 1919, 1917, 1916 and 1950 wheaties and a 1926 merc.
Also, how the heck do you reduce the headphone volume, my ears are ringing.

 

[moseng]

Welcome to the club! "Volume limit" under Audio settings I think? But you might wan't to get another set of headphones with volume settings on them. I heard (or read) that turning the detectors volume down might reduce some deep signal sounds? Others might chime in on this?

 

[gregliss]

I found the depth guage is only accurate on your quarter sized coins, but is not too bad overall.

In Australia we have 3 pence and 6 pence that are small silver, etrac reports them deeper than they are because they look like a deep quarter to the depth guage cct. Visa versa for large pennies, report shallower due to thier size.

I also took this from the FAQ on the minelab site FYI:

"Notes on Depth
Exact determination of depth is always a challenge in metal detectors. Larger or smaller targets (the larger tend to be indicated shallower), and more or less conductive targets will always produce some slight inaccuracy in the measurement. While that is so, E-TRAC has been calibrated so as to produce the same indications for the same targets, whether it is in motion mode or Pinpoint mode."

Cheers,
Greg

 

[pop_tab]

I also moved over from the Safari and agree the depth gauge on the ET is not as accurate .

 

[Flapjack]

I find that the E-trac shows the depth of the target is deeper than it really is.

 

[jspeedy]

I agree 100%. When I get a 6" reading the item is only about 3-4"