Sensitivity bar at bottom of screen

[Digger]

HH Randy

 

[Larry (IL)]

Yeah, that is what I meant to say, yeah, that's it........ what Randy said......................

Thanks Randy, I do remember you going over that early in the game.

 

[Smack]

Great information Randy. Where did you get this information. It is info like this that would really speed up the process of learning about the CTX3030.

Smack

 

[qkslvr]

Thanks for clearing this up, Randy!

 

[Digger]

Much of the CTX 3030 Sensitivity functionality is like that of the E-TRAC. So some of the info came from the E-TRAC manual. The rest is from using the detectors and learning their functionality. HH Randy

 

[mtwolf2270]

Thanks Randy that cleared that up alot I think we all have come from Se and etrac and are had to run them hot to get extra performance. I think with the CTX we need to just learn to trust the machine cause I am finding trying to run it too hot actually works against the machine IMHO.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Great description Randy. Glad Larry linked to this. Great to know this as it helps me when I am choosing a setting to know what might be best.

Should be required reading.

Thanks,
Albert

 

[jerseyjim]

Hi Randy, thank you, that perfectly explains how the sensitivity works.

 

[INSAYN]

In my neck of the woods, I see mg green suggested number be anywhere from 6 in crappy soil, all the way up to 21. Normally its between 12-16 somewhere. One park can change dramatically with
in 30 feet.

 

[Digger]

 

[Historical Prospector]

Good topic!! When would a person want to use a -3 setting?

 

[McClod]

Thanks Randy for the great explanation!

One thing I had no idea about is what firefighter254 pointed out in his post...

" It depends on the area your hunting "ground condition's" after you noise cancel try pumping the coil up and down this will get your sensitivity higher faster instead of waiting for the machine to do it"

I know you pumt the detector to ground balance it if GB is enabled, but I had no idea that you could actually raise the sensitivity in auto mode by simply pumping the detectors coil up and down as if ground balancing!? And if this does raise the sensitivity wouldn't the machine just read the ground once you start scanning and readjust the sensitivity back down very quickly?

Am I missing something or is the machine actually in Gb mode?

As far as the green "suggested sensitivity setting being always on 14", I see my "recommended" sensitivity settings change quite a bit in our highly mineralized soil here in the Pacific NW! And unfortunately Ive seen it go as low as 8! In auto mode and manual, its changed in both modes I'm pretty sure. Especially when hunting on pine needle covered ground around our Douglas fir trees. For some reason high pine needle concentrations really lower the sensitivity setting recommended!

HH

Don

 

[jerseyjim]

Thank you Randy, I was a little confused also.

 

[jerseyjim]

Hi Jason, Mine is the same as yours 19-14.