Don in South Jersey
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1. Battery pack. Rechargeable Lithium, LIPO, or Alkaline/NiHm? You will not be disappointed with the battery pack.... but it's not LIPO, or NiHm
2. The hint about looking at the meter on the screen shot machine, with the orange line; that looks similar to the Polar Plot feature of a Whites V3i on signal analysis.....would the CTX-3030 feature be similar to that....or something totally new? Better than anything I've seen before. This is one of the best features, but I can't go into more detail
3. The eTrac has a huge following in the United States for silver coin hunting. It is dubbed the "silver king" because of its ability to sniff out silver coins. It loves round things. But the problem with it for me....I am a relic hunter most of the time, and although the eTrac *could* find relics...it wasn't the best machine out there for such purposes. Many of the items we look for in relic hunting are a mix bag of low-mid conductive items, and of different sizes and odd ball shapes....stuff the eTrac just wasn't sensitive on. I've had it to give solid iron readings on 1 oz musket balls that were 6 to 8 inches in the ground. Versus the GPX machine that can hit the same size musket ball, at over 18 inches with a very strong signal. Just an observational question for those that have handled it.....is the CTX gonna be more suited for all types of hunting more so than the eTrac, which excelled primarily at coin hunting? One of the problems I had with the E-Trac was that for Relic hunting I needed to run the detector in conductivity sounds. This is great for the majority of target as they fall into the lower conductivity-scale. The problem occurs at the high end of the scale, where high conductive artifacts and copper coins have exactly the same high pitch as iron. So it becomes tempting to switch to ferrous sounds, but then all the lower conductive goodies (the majority of what I'm looking for) moves closer to the ferrous area.
One of the features in the CTX 3030 addresses this, mixing things up
2. The hint about looking at the meter on the screen shot machine, with the orange line; that looks similar to the Polar Plot feature of a Whites V3i on signal analysis.....would the CTX-3030 feature be similar to that....or something totally new? Better than anything I've seen before. This is one of the best features, but I can't go into more detail
3. The eTrac has a huge following in the United States for silver coin hunting. It is dubbed the "silver king" because of its ability to sniff out silver coins. It loves round things. But the problem with it for me....I am a relic hunter most of the time, and although the eTrac *could* find relics...it wasn't the best machine out there for such purposes. Many of the items we look for in relic hunting are a mix bag of low-mid conductive items, and of different sizes and odd ball shapes....stuff the eTrac just wasn't sensitive on. I've had it to give solid iron readings on 1 oz musket balls that were 6 to 8 inches in the ground. Versus the GPX machine that can hit the same size musket ball, at over 18 inches with a very strong signal. Just an observational question for those that have handled it.....is the CTX gonna be more suited for all types of hunting more so than the eTrac, which excelled primarily at coin hunting? One of the problems I had with the E-Trac was that for Relic hunting I needed to run the detector in conductivity sounds. This is great for the majority of target as they fall into the lower conductivity-scale. The problem occurs at the high end of the scale, where high conductive artifacts and copper coins have exactly the same high pitch as iron. So it becomes tempting to switch to ferrous sounds, but then all the lower conductive goodies (the majority of what I'm looking for) moves closer to the ferrous area.
One of the features in the CTX 3030 addresses this, mixing things up