crashbandicoot
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You,re still misunderstanding the concept of ground balance I think.When you do the pump the machine sets itself in the circuitry,it displays a number I believe which is GB in that place. You don,t have to manually do any thing,it,s done.I don,t know what you,re talking about with Sound. Terry is well versed in modern detectors,he knows what he,s talking about.Sorry but no.
In my original post I explained how I started metal detecting over 15 years ago and had detectors such as sovereign gt, cibola , vaquero, ace 250, xterra 505, silver umax, and for the beach on of my favorites excalliber II. As you see i tend to favor minelabe and Tesoro but have tried several different ones.
I got out of the hobby for several reasons at the time but now looking to get back into it and noticed things have changed a bit with detectors some companies no longer around and technology has changed a bit as well. So looking at detectors in my current price range to start over since i had sold all mine almost 15 years ago.
I was always a little confused about ground balancing although I understand the concept.
I had auto, fixed and manual gb detectors. Auto and fixed you turn on and go but never sure how they actually did in my soil which leads to my questions.
Manual gb you have the ability to adjust it and basically they all adjust the same way pump coil up and down listen for tone if it increases on up or down determines if ypu are too positive or negative.
Well any manual gb detector i ever had i never got one sound, anything no matter where it was set to tell me how my detector was balanced and which way to adjust it.
Now i always thought it was a valid question to ask why my detectors behave like this, i cant get them to manually gb following the manufacture instructions.
I was told that means i have āneutralā soil or no mineralization.
Ok, well if that is the case where do i still set the gb knob? Positive? Negative? Because you cant shit it off or there is no zero setting.
So does it really matter and affecting the performance? Because i was always told if you have your gb set wrong it could affect your performance.
A fixed gb detector is factory set and you canāt change it and told usually doesnāt matter in low to no mineralization soil wont affect performance much ok then what about a manual gb detector where YOu have to set the knob its not set by the manufacture. Where do you set it if you cant get a tone because of no mineralization? Does it matter?
I canāt explain it more than this and donāt see how the brand of detector matters because no matter the brand all manual gb detectorās are set the same.
So no i am not trolling just trying to get an answer for those questions I donāt think are out of line unless you donāt care about the performance of your machine you just turn on and go no matter where the controls are set.
In that case they should just make a detector with just a power button.