You never know unless you ask! Greatest example ever.

[ronfin]

I'll keep this short. If you see a place that looks like it would have a lot of potential to detect, never hesitate to seek-out the owner and ask permission. The worst that can happen is they tell you know. Today while working I asked the owner of a former pre-civil-war era Fort, that has never been detected to his knowledge, if I could come in and detect the oldest part around the buildings that were built in the early 1800's. The nicest gentleman ever, he said sure, but I have to sign a Liabilty Release in-case I get hurt. No problem! I'm excited at the potential here. There are underground pipes he said that may interfere with my MD, so should I drop my sensitivity down? Any ideas from the experienced ETRAC users?

 

[hershey1]

I would not change anything. Once you start hunting if you have a problem with pipes or anything else make what ever adjustments you need at that time. Sounds like a great place. Take your time and you may hit the Mother-Lode. Good luck and HH

 

[ronfin]

Question though. I usually run my Sens at Auto +3, so should I drop the added +3 and run it in Auto to start? I can always drop it down from there, but I don't think I'll need the extra 3 in sensitivity here.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

Auto +3 works very well at most sites.Only reason I would lower sensitivity is if your E-Trac gets unstable/chattery.

 

[Delta Digger]

Leave your settings like they are bud. Your one lucky son of a gun . Take your time go slow and scrub that coil and post your finds. H.H.

 

[grouser]

leave your gun loaed liek you always do,,,, just keep in mind that the target MAY be a pipe,,,, those are easy to figure out cuz you get a signal FOR-EVER in two directions !!!! show is the goods when you get back !!!

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

I would hunt the site as you normally do and adjust as necessary. Since the site is dated back to the early 1800's, I would expect to see some fairly deep targets. Therefore, I would run the sens as high as possible without making it unstable or chatty. If you hit a target that extends out in a straight line in both directions for several feet, you can assume that it's a pipe. Good luck and let us know what turns up.

 

[ronfin]

Thanks all. I suppose I'll know as soon as I turn it on and do a noise cancel how bad it starts to null out on me. Wish I had a smaller coil, but I'll just work it like a really trashy area and take my time. There wasn't a deadline or end-date talked about, so as long as I can get in there on the weekends and pick decent spots I'll go as slow as possible.

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

If it's really trashy and you do not have a small coil, think about running in all metal mode with Fast on and us TTF. If you use to much disc, all you will be doing is nulling all the time and will miss good targets.

 

[ronfin]

If it's really trashy and you do not have a small coil, think about running in all metal mode with Fast on and us TTF. If you use to much disc, all you will be doing is nulling all the time and will miss good targets.

Never thought of that. I'm still on the fence about using TTF, but I'll try it out on your suggestion and see how I do at the lot I'm working. That place is REALLY trashy, so it should be a good place to practice.