ivan salis
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well congrats you own a tracker IV metal detector now how do you use it? --not good at reading or understanding the book / info they sent with it? then try this --quick and easy intro -- from me instead,
ok once you put it together and add batteries and turn it on and it comes on -- your in bussiness.
now look at the 3 way switch labelled disc ---all metal --tone
this is the mode switch --there are 3 modes you can hunt in discrimation (which can cull out some junk metals) --- all metal (which will give best overall depth)---and tone ---which can give you a general ideal of what "class" or group of metal you've found
* first things first the meter on the machine is basically useless window dressing
the tracker 4 is a tone ID machine* it identifies things by sound --- it has 3 differant "tones" or sounds --- you need to understand which is which --- there a iron / trash tone --kinda a phart sound --- then theres a gold/aluminum /pulltab --growling sound --like a dog growl --- then theres a 3rd sound -- thats copper -coin and silver
in all metal mode (relic hunting mode --iron objects CW bullets and such) it gets its best depth -- but is one tone -- ie you not sorting by type it finds any and ALL metals
in tone mode -- you will get the three differant sounds---- iron & trash --- gold/aluminum/tabs ---copper /coins/silver
in disc (discrimate mode) you can set the point at which the detector will find stuff --- now the disc scale runs like this ( bottom) --iron stuff --- foil---aluminum /pulltabs/gold --- bronze cents (indain head /zinc cents) --copper cents --- clad(modern) coins ---silver and old silver coins (top)
in disc mode to set your disc level properly --to lose as all iron and much of aluminum foil and pull tabs but keep gold / copper / coins /silver items --- you take a tab and a gold ring /item -- put the on clear metal free ground outside a about 3 feet apart --- with the disc knob at min slowly wave the coil over it while upping it till the tab no longer picks up ---now check to see if the ring still hits if so your properly set .
now for wet beach areas and other high mineral areas / high iron areas --- due to the minerals and metals dissolved in salt water -- bounty hunters being very sensitive "see" the wet sand as metal and thus freak out --all that is need is to reduce the power / sen level to just on --in many cases that all thats needed --in worse cases --slightly up the disc level till she clams down -(while not a perfect fix since you lose abit of depth) the machine will then be usiable in many cases ---however in some places --NO preset ground balance machine will work due to very high mineral areas or other issues --for those places a manually adjustible ground balance machine like the good cheap ole tracker II (or some of the newer high dollar type machines) is a must . --- good luck ---Ivan
ok once you put it together and add batteries and turn it on and it comes on -- your in bussiness.
now look at the 3 way switch labelled disc ---all metal --tone
this is the mode switch --there are 3 modes you can hunt in discrimation (which can cull out some junk metals) --- all metal (which will give best overall depth)---and tone ---which can give you a general ideal of what "class" or group of metal you've found
* first things first the meter on the machine is basically useless window dressing
the tracker 4 is a tone ID machine* it identifies things by sound --- it has 3 differant "tones" or sounds --- you need to understand which is which --- there a iron / trash tone --kinda a phart sound --- then theres a gold/aluminum /pulltab --growling sound --like a dog growl --- then theres a 3rd sound -- thats copper -coin and silver
in all metal mode (relic hunting mode --iron objects CW bullets and such) it gets its best depth -- but is one tone -- ie you not sorting by type it finds any and ALL metals
in tone mode -- you will get the three differant sounds---- iron & trash --- gold/aluminum/tabs ---copper /coins/silver
in disc (discrimate mode) you can set the point at which the detector will find stuff --- now the disc scale runs like this ( bottom) --iron stuff --- foil---aluminum /pulltabs/gold --- bronze cents (indain head /zinc cents) --copper cents --- clad(modern) coins ---silver and old silver coins (top)
in disc mode to set your disc level properly --to lose as all iron and much of aluminum foil and pull tabs but keep gold / copper / coins /silver items --- you take a tab and a gold ring /item -- put the on clear metal free ground outside a about 3 feet apart --- with the disc knob at min slowly wave the coil over it while upping it till the tab no longer picks up ---now check to see if the ring still hits if so your properly set .
now for wet beach areas and other high mineral areas / high iron areas --- due to the minerals and metals dissolved in salt water -- bounty hunters being very sensitive "see" the wet sand as metal and thus freak out --all that is need is to reduce the power / sen level to just on --in many cases that all thats needed --in worse cases --slightly up the disc level till she clams down -(while not a perfect fix since you lose abit of depth) the machine will then be usiable in many cases ---however in some places --NO preset ground balance machine will work due to very high mineral areas or other issues --for those places a manually adjustible ground balance machine like the good cheap ole tracker II (or some of the newer high dollar type machines) is a must . --- good luck ---Ivan
