earthmansurfer
Active member
Short Edited Video - sorry about the wind at the beginning but I edited this down to be short and to the point - under 2 minutes.
Pay attention to the screen in discriminate - the iron bounces down to the Fe 17 discriminate border. Then watch it bounce a lot higher when in an open Quick Mask screen. I think for those of you learning the machine, seeing this iron bounce can be quite helpful, though it isn't as pronounced with more discrimination.
Regarding the consistent, yet bouncy signal in discriminate - I think this is partly the "Trash Density - high" setting at work - This setting works with your discrimination to "pull" or "lock onto" targets not discriminated out from those discriminated out. I have to say, seeing a repeatable signal with iron discriminated out at the factory program level and then opening up into quick mask and seeing a coin target bounce down with the Fe number into the mid to lower iron range is quite amazing. I really trust the E-Trac with discrimination and the Trash Density setting on high. This is not a recovery setting, it really seems like a good bit of programming to remove discriminated out targets from the response. I don't know that other detectors do it quite as well, relying more on pure recovery speed I think but correct me if I'm wrong.
Interesting that there was a dime sized piece of foil around 3" deep.
I wonder how you all have experienced iron bouncing? To me, this is an INCREDIBLE aid to identifying deeper or deep coins with the E-Trac. My soil is loaded with iron and though the mineralization is low, it is 1% iron mineralized. I do think this affects my max depth some. I mean 7" is not that deep at all and yet the bounce is quite pronounced. Why perhaps???
Enjoy,
EMS
PS - Thanks to the sheep for cutting down the grass. You guys wouldn't believe it, all in one day for this area. The grass in an area hundreds of feet square (and then on for acres) has been cut down from 3" - 6" to 1" or 2"!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afq5hc4yOM4[/video]
Pay attention to the screen in discriminate - the iron bounces down to the Fe 17 discriminate border. Then watch it bounce a lot higher when in an open Quick Mask screen. I think for those of you learning the machine, seeing this iron bounce can be quite helpful, though it isn't as pronounced with more discrimination.
Regarding the consistent, yet bouncy signal in discriminate - I think this is partly the "Trash Density - high" setting at work - This setting works with your discrimination to "pull" or "lock onto" targets not discriminated out from those discriminated out. I have to say, seeing a repeatable signal with iron discriminated out at the factory program level and then opening up into quick mask and seeing a coin target bounce down with the Fe number into the mid to lower iron range is quite amazing. I really trust the E-Trac with discrimination and the Trash Density setting on high. This is not a recovery setting, it really seems like a good bit of programming to remove discriminated out targets from the response. I don't know that other detectors do it quite as well, relying more on pure recovery speed I think but correct me if I'm wrong.
Interesting that there was a dime sized piece of foil around 3" deep.
I wonder how you all have experienced iron bouncing? To me, this is an INCREDIBLE aid to identifying deeper or deep coins with the E-Trac. My soil is loaded with iron and though the mineralization is low, it is 1% iron mineralized. I do think this affects my max depth some. I mean 7" is not that deep at all and yet the bounce is quite pronounced. Why perhaps???
Enjoy,
EMS
PS - Thanks to the sheep for cutting down the grass. You guys wouldn't believe it, all in one day for this area. The grass in an area hundreds of feet square (and then on for acres) has been cut down from 3" - 6" to 1" or 2"!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afq5hc4yOM4[/video]