Which mode do you use the most

[DirtAngler]

TTF, conductive multi tone, conductive 2 or4 tone, 4 tone ferrous. See a lot use TTF and a lot use multi tone conductive, just figured I'd do a post to see what you use.

 

[moonshine]

conductive multi tone, exclusively

 

[Djay-Mo]

Conductive multi tone 90%. TTF---10%.

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Same as Djay-Mo stated. Mostly I coin and jewlery hunt in parks and yards so not a real large ammount of iron just mainly nails.
If it was the other way around with lots of iron then the percentages would probably be reversed.

 

[Agseeker]

I'm using conductive multitone 100% at this time, but plan on trying TTF at some point. Like Etrac-Tom I mostly hunt yards, parks, and vacant lots.

 

[Goes4ever]

Conductive multi tone 90%. TTF---10%.

Ditto for me

 

[earthmansurfer]

I'm new with the E-Trac and have been using multi-tone conductive almost always. I hit a spot today and used TTF a bit as there was no trash and just lots of iron. But, I'm afraid of losing depth on those bounces that would give a low tone or on deeper coins that might spend a lot of time down in the beginning of the iron range. If I was hunting and wasn't worried about depth in an iron ridden, low trash site, then I would use TTF without hesitation.

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

I'm going to say this and I don't mean to bash anyone but I think people are worring about deep way too much the ETRAC is a DIFFERENT animal than other detectors and it gives fantastic depth and recognizes coin sized objects at great depth and a coin doesn't change from being a coin because it's in the ground iron is iron and coin is coin. If this detector only made one sound and had no co or fe numbers then what are you going to do to decide to dig or not??

The bouncing is pretty irrelivant just because a coin happens to be deep the Etrac even with discrimination on recognizes it's a target and gives a good CO reading on it the CO no. is the one to pay attention to first and mostly forget about most ferrous readings look at the screen in quick mask if the cursor is in the bottom right corner it's iron/junk. Andy's book it clearly states and like Goes4ever stated no good target ever falls lower than 27 ferrous and since you are running in CONDUCTIVE sound mode your paying attention to the good sounds and conductive number to get a target idea. I totally couldn't care what the ferrous reading is at all that is why you go to wide open quick mask to double check on deep iffy targets your not sure of as shallow is easy and reads way more correctly and if it's deep and iffy and the cursor is way down near the bottom of the screen under the 27 ferrous linemore like 30-35 and it reads as such then you can think about the ferrous number as it's junk but at that point it's moot to do so as the cursor don't lie either as it's junk.

THE machine doesn't loose depth just because you use conductive or TTF it will still give what it gives for depth sensitivity is what does mostly. In TTF you get a high tone investigate if low dig a few and you will soon learn that it's junk and you won't even listen to those low grunts much longer you will tune them out from your hearing. When the quick mask is opened up the ferrous number doesn't play around as much and is most consistent in it's numbers but in conductive with discrimination on like in the coins pattern I can still see the cursor fall down into the blacked out area yet if it's a target the co number and sounds will be most acurate. When you pinpoint you can see where that cursor ends up and it can still be in the black it depends on how deep into the black the cursor falls if it's way down near the bottom then it's most likely iron or junk. If the cursor is down a little ways into the black like 1/4 to 1/3 then you still have a good target potential as that is still above that arbitrary 27 ferrous line in the sand they found when they testes this machine around the country before releasing it acording to Andy's book.

Much easier to flip to a wide open quick mask to double check from conductive discrimination mode like coins it's simple to do so and more accurate on the ferr no. In TTF your already in an open quick mask so you don't have to.

 

[Frank in NH]

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