ETrac and beach hunting???

[monkeys uncle]

Anyone use an Etrac on the beach (dry sand)? If so, did you have any success and what pgm(s) or settings did you use?

TIA and HH to all.

 

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[Jackalope]

The dynamics of the E-Trac is about the same as the CTX-3030, which means it can handle the same soils. The CTX can handle dry, wet, salt plus mineral soils around the beach - which the E-Trac can too. Since the E-Trac is not waterproof or even water resistant, water is the E-Trac's nemesis.

 

[ecoast]

3030 is fbs2

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[cudamark]

The E-trac and CTX don't use the same coils. The E-trac and Explorer will however. The E-trac is a very good dry sand (and wet sand) detector. I find it doesn't go quite as deep as the Excalibur but it'll still go down 16" on a quarter in favorable conditions. I recommend a wide open screen with maybe just the 01 and 02 ferrous lines blocked and the 01-38 and 46-50 conductive blocked to eliminate iron and mineral falsing. A small coil and TTF around the fire rings works very well too, if you go real slow and have the patience!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very interesting information!

 

[kickit]

I'm sure this is a dumb question to all you experienced Etrac users but does the "Beach" mode do anything other than change the discrimination?

 

[Fletch88]

Yes, it changes threshold to "pitch hold" just like Excal and Sovereign. Targets too deep to give a target response but enough to change the threshold will cause the tone of the TH to change.