To lock ot not to lock....

[Anonymous]

Hey all,
I was wondering on what the rules were to locking the ground balance on my MXT. I almost always lock it at the begining of the hunt and I will rebalance and lock it again if it getts to chatty. Am I missing targets by doing it this way?
Thanks and HH
John

 

[Anonymous]

It all depends on where you are hunting. Does the ground you hunt change in mineralization much? If not, then continue to balance and lock.

 

[Anonymous]

John,
I never lock unless in heavy iron, trash, or mineralization that might trick my machine in thinking that "that stuff" is the ground.
No need to. You can even turn this unit on and go without even ground balancing and will probably never notice any difference if you do ground balance.
HH
Johnny B

 

[Anonymous]

As long as I can run at preset gain or higher without a lot of falsing I run in ground mode, If I get alot of falsing I run in lock mode, I will also run lock mode if the ground reading in prospecting
reads 35 or less, it seems to cut the falsing and chatter.

 

[Anonymous]

I dont think you will have max performance is you lock it. The owners manual says to lock it only if you are in a area where you have alot of man made iron as it will try to trac all the iron. The reason to run tracking on is ground conditon changes and if it is not tracking it you could lose depth.
I also found out that if you go over a weak target too many time to try to ID it that it too will trac out that target, so here is where you would want to do a ground balance and lock it so it wont trac out the weak signal.After you have retreive that target that flip the switch to trac again.
Rick

 

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[Anonymous]

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