How do you ground balance your sovereign?

[gates21]

Just curious how you ground balance your sovereign gt? I read the manual it it is confusing.

Thanks
Aaron

 

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[hsjrev]

First find a piece of ground with no metal targets under the coil. Make sure the disc switch is in all metal and put the ground balance switch in track and pump the coil up and down from 1" to 6" until the tone evens out, then put the GB switch into the fix position and start hunting.

 

[gates21]

so when I raise and lower it, is it lowered all the way to the ground?

 

[sandsifter]

I don't have mine yet. I think he said one to six inch off the ground. Hope that helps

 

[Sandman]

First find a piece of ground with no metal targets under the coil. Make sure the disc switch is in all metal and put the ground balance switch in track and pump the coil up and down from 1" to 6" until the tone evens out, then put the GB switch into the fix position and start hunting.

If after doing the above you want to hunt in disc. instead of staying in All Metal, switch to Disc. If you think the minerals are changing (most likely in some areas) You'll need to switchback to all metal and back in track mode again. You could stay in track, but on finding a target the detector will track the target till it disappears and GB will be all messed up till you move away from the target again.

 

[john37115]

I've been using the Soveriegn GT for a little over a year now and was confused myself about ground balancing the unit at first. This is what works for me. Before I start searching, I usually set the machine to All metal, Track and pump the coil a few times till it levels out then I switch to discriminate as this is the mode I hunt in most of the time. When operating in Disc mode, the Sovereign GT uses digital filtering to compensate for ground effects and the Track / Fix / Pinpoint function switch is disabled. I leave the switch set to pinpoint since it's disabled, then when I do need to pinpoint I can simply move the Disc. switch to all metal.

 

[NeilinFR]

I've been using the Soveriegn GT for a little over a year now and was confused myself about ground balancing the unit at first. This is what works for me. Before I start searching, I usually set the machine to All metal, Track and pump the coil a few times till it levels out then I switch to discriminate as this is the mode I hunt in most of the time. When operating in Disc mode, the Sovereign GT uses digital filtering to compensate for ground effects and the Track / Fix / Pinpoint function switch is disabled. I leave the switch set to pinpoint since it's disabled, then when I do need to pinpoint I can simply move the Disc. switch to all metal.

That digital filtering works also in all metal if you toggle to pinpoint instead of track or fix. I contacted Minelab about this and they said the GTs pinpoint mode in all metal is the same as the all metal mode in the earlier Sovs. That mode is super for sizing a target also since its so precise and it will get super depth also, no ground balancing necessary
HH
Neil