E-Trac vs Explorer-Safari-Sov

marco · Oct 10, 2011

Hello. I am an ATPro owner....and I have been considering a minelab. A few of you have answered some of my other, recent posts..(different subject forums) and suggested Sovereigns for stability, versatility and depth. Looking on ebay...I see a steady stream of used Sov's and Explorers. Reasonable prices...$500-$700. I saw one E-Trac..it actualy sold for $1,400 used...so thats quite the resale value. (does that resale value alone prove that E-Trac is worth all that initial $$?) Havent seen any Safari's yet. Since you are Lab guys....Whats the big upgrade with E-Trac vs Expl and Safari? If you yourself upgraded from either of these ( Or Sov) did you actualy see your finds of value increase enough to justify the upgrade? Did you make finds that your other ML..(or other detector)...just plain missed? Or is it just a bit more info to help you decide whether or not to dig? One thing with the AT is its Iron Audio...I double check every good signal with it before digging...if it grunts...I move on. Im sure it has saved me hours of digging. From what I read, E-trac has similar capabilities....do the others?

stasys · Oct 11, 2011

Etrac is different from AtPro its basically explorer but you can use it with discrimination and have reasonably good recovery speed,compare with explorer you have to hunt with very little or no discrimination. used etrac in this forum you can get for 1000-1200$ and its will keep value longer than explorers. have all explorers and etrac and looked inside all of them. about Safary can say that its the same explorer -because it use the same explorer boards- but without good things what explorer have- with explorers more space to grow. best value now is used explorers.

Bart@Big Boys Hobbies · Oct 11, 2011

Marco,
The E-Trac has several feature that make it easier to use out of the box. The Auto, +1 +2 +3 features are very cool and help allot. Keeps the falsing down. Not to mention it is a faster machine and you can run with some discrimination and machine is fast enough to recover.

Feel free to contact me if you have more questions. I have several different options I can do on them. Thanks, Bart