Etrac settings

[darktower007]

Don't want to open a can of worms here but here goes.

I know there are thousands of posts on settings and patterns, but which do you use for silver in iron infestations?

I was using Andy s pattern but I need help with a mode for iron falsing.

Today I had 3 solid signals 12/45-15/47 and all 3 were iron.
I was using D tech 13 inch coil.


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[CoilToTheSoil]

How thick is the iron? 13 may be too large of a coil size depending on the trash density. Also are you running in FER or COND? In heavy iron I like to run FER, helps a lot with the falsing.

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[cudamark]

Small coil, 2 tone ferrous, fast on, work it real slow. If the silver is shallow, turn down the sensitivity. I'd run an open screen and just listen for high tones to squeak through.

 

[darktower007]

Thanks guys! I'm running multi conduct thresh 26 I think. Fast on deep off.

I dug a merc today and next hole got a jumpy dig me silver tone, ferrus 25 conduct 46( which I have found can mean silver or a quarter next to a nail) but it was a massive nail.

Dang Etrac is a silver snifter just wish I didn't need a phD to operate it! Lol


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[cudamark]

25 is pretty high on the ferrous scale. I wouldn't expect silver with that reading. Once you get enough hours in (minimum 100, more likely 200), you'll get used to matching sound and reading, with a particular target.

 

[Roger Mn.]

Thanks guys! I'm running multi conduct thresh 26 I think. Fast on deep off.

I dug a merc today and next hole got a jumpy dig me silver tone, ferrus 25 conduct 46( which I have found can mean silver or a quarter next to a nail) but it was a massive nail.

Dang Etrac is a silver snifter just wish I didn't need a phD to operate it! Lol


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Try this. Go to minlab coins mode and push the up arrow untill you see +3 on the left side of the screen.
Now lay one of those nails down and go over it. Now lay a dime under the nail and try that.
Let me know what happens.

 

[darktower007]

Try this. Go to minlab coins mode and push the up arrow untill you see +3 on the left side of the screen.
Now lay one of those nails down and go over it. Now lay a dime under the nail and try that.
Let me know what happens.

Okay I'll do it this evening... thanks!


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[Murray8144]

This may make little sense b/c im a good way though a 12 pack of buds, but for me there are two nice features of the etrac that work for varying amounts of iron.

In a park setting (sporadic iron that's fooling you) where you get what you think is a nice signal that would turn out to be deep iron, quickmask can help. On a deep large nail for example the etrac might deliver a decent 'signal' over one portion of the nail's field. Most of the nail is getting discrimmed out in andy's pattern...only that one little area of the magnetic field is reading 12/46 or whatever.

Hitting quickmask opens up the screen entirely (no discrimination). The whole target is getting through. And if your readings immediately go from 12/46 to 30/46 to 35/46 it's likely that the target is iron...at least in my limited experience.

In a field setting where you have a literal carpet of iron, your best bet is, as was suggested above, 2-tone ferrous. Go slow and the etrac can do very well in those situations, especially with a smaller coil. Nowhere near as fast as the fastest machines, but fast enough.