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Review of the E-Trac from a lifelong White's user.

I tried something similar, i bought a CTX 3030 and went over all my old spots and found a couple of clad pennies that i didn't with my other detectors. I ended up selling the CTX and got most of my money back which was nice. Maybe i should have gotten an Etrac instead. Nice finds and keep posting the finds and stories, i am intrigued to see how more of your sites do with the etrac, very impressive so far!
 
Thanks!

I went back again today with high hopes of bringing home another pocket full of big silver but it didn't happen.. I almost got skunked, but right as I was about to call it a day I got a weird broken swirley signal (thats the only way I know how to describe it).. My only silver of the day, a 1907 O Barber dime with some crud on it. Better than nothing!
 

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Make sure to watch the khouse video in the" how to use tour MD" section. He did a great video using the etrac in iron.
 
A fantastic read thank you, especially from the point of it being totally unbiased.
Good luck on the Etrac journey :)
 
Hdnsouth said:
I'm in the same boat as you just sitting a little farther back and haven't made the switch yet I also use a V3I as my main detector and have been wanting to try an Etrac for quite a while now and your post may have been what it took to knock me off the fence. If you don't mind can you say who you bought it from.
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I currently own both the V3i and E-trac. Honestly they both excel in their own right. The E-trac is good for deep silver, and easier to adjust. The V3i is better for coppers, gold, and relics, it also has a faster recovery speed. I haven't noticed any significant differences in depth. The E-trac seems to lock on TID better at depth, but that could be due to the slightly larger coil. I take my V3i to sites I hit with my E-trac and find stuff I missed, but I also take my E-trac to sites I hit with he V3i and find stuff. I like them both a lot so I keep them both around. For sites with high trash I've had more luck with the F75 than either of the above. If you want to use the V3i for hunting silver I just run single 2.5 Freq, bump up the RX gain, turn on TX boost, increase disc sens, and run a 5 band ground filter, it seems to do as well as my E-trac, though more side by side time in the field is needed.
 
Thanks guys.

For those who wanted to see more updates, here's the results of 4 more days of hunting at the Honey Hole with the Etrac.

Got the half on Friday, the 1904 Barber Quarter on Saturday, skunked on Sunday, didn't hunt Monday, and got the 1897 Barber Quarter today.

I was running a modified version of Bill's Park program (FE accepted down to 30). I dug A LOT more iron junk this way, but I don't think I would've heard these coins had I not modified and opened up the pattern. They were all deep (9"+) with FE number bouncing all over the place. Just like the others, these had iron in the hole with them. I've been digging anything that gives me a high tone, but I think I'm actually starting figure out how to tell deep rusty iron vs deep rusty iron with a coin next to it. Still loving the Etrac as it continues to produce more big silver from this site!

I'll keep posting updates here as long as the silver keeps coming! :yes:
 

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CoiltoSoil said:
I currently own both the V3i and E-trac. Honestly they both excel in their own right. The E-trac is good for deep silver, and easier to adjust. The V3i is better for coppers, gold, and relics, it also has a faster recovery speed. I haven't noticed any significant differences in depth. The E-trac seems to lock on TID better at depth, but that could be due to the slightly larger coil. I take my V3i to sites I hit with my E-trac and find stuff I missed, but I also take my E-trac to sites I hit with he V3i and find stuff. I like them both a lot so I keep them both around. For sites with high trash I've had more luck with the F75 than either of the above. If you want to use the V3i for hunting silver I just run single 2.5 Freq, bump up the RX gain, turn on TX boost, increase disc sens, and run a 5 band ground filter, it seems to do as well as my E-trac, though more side by side time in the field is needed.
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You run those settings with my V3i and you will dig tons of nails that hit just like a coin. ..on top of being super chatty.....

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BlackRain said:
You run those settings with my V3i and you will dig tons of nails that hit just like a coin. ..on top of being super chatty.....

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Depends on the location, I can usually get away with running higher than normal RX gain and Disc sens at most of my sites. I'm use to digging rusty nails that sound like coins since I currently use an F75 and E-trac and come from a CZ background. :D Switching the Frequency sometimes helps, if you run 3 frequency, hold the coil in the air and pinpoint, the lowest reading frequency is usually the most stable to run at that location. I'll sometimes run 7.5 for relics, or all around detecting. Do you use band pass filters or high pass? Filters can make a big difference in stability. Band pass works better for EMI.
 
Rattlehead said:
Thanks guys.

For those who wanted to see more updates, here's the results of 4 more days of hunting at the Honey Hole with the Etrac.

Got the half on Friday, the 1904 Barber Quarter on Saturday, skunked on Sunday, didn't hunt Monday, and got the 1897 Barber Quarter today.

I was running a modified version of Bill's Park program (FE accepted down to 30). I dug A LOT more iron junk this way, but I don't think I would've heard these coins had I not modified and opened up the pattern. They were all deep (9"+) with FE number bouncing all over the place. Just like the others, these had iron in the hole with them. I've been digging anything that gives me a high tone, but I think I'm actually starting figure out how to tell deep rusty iron vs deep rusty iron with a coin next to it. Still loving the Etrac as it continues to produce more big silver from this site!

I'll keep posting updates here as long as the silver keeps coming! :yes:
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Great finds! Congrats! So what are you seeing to distinguish iron from iron and coin together?
 
Jason in Enid said:
Great finds! Congrats! So what are you seeing to distinguish iron from iron and coin together?
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Thanks Jason! Funny you should ask that question.. The night before my last hunt I was reading some tips on the subject from a fellow FMDF member.

You may even know the guy ;)
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showpost.php?p=2525930&postcount=18

This is what he said:

First, watch the ground and the spot you hear the tone. A good target, that spot will be exact every time. Iron falses come as you are pulling away from the target, so you will see that spot where it sounds off to be shifting around by a couple inches.

Second, watch the spot where target sounds, then look for where it pinpoints at. Iron nails will often pinpoint several inches away from where you hear the high tone. So coming in from the side, you will have nothing in pinpoint where you heard the tone, but then you get a pinpoint off to the side. When you check that pinpoint spot you get an iron tone or iron null, depending on
your settings.

Lastly, coins and nails together.... if you are getting a repeating high tone in one spot and a null or grunt next to it, put it in pinpoint and come from a clean side. You will get a pinpoint over the coin but IT MAY keep growing as you get closer to the iron. So it seem like it's just iron, but any amount of pinpoint over a repeating high tone needs to be dug.
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I noticed all of those things seem to be 100% spot on. When a coin is in the ground with iron, the high tone will be repeatable in the same location every time, even if you only get it from one direction. When its just iron in the hole, the pinpoint seems to jump around, away from where I originally heard the high tone. When its a coin, the pinpoint stays true to the location of the high tone. That's what seems to help me the most.

Thank you for the tips!
 
Rattlehead said:
Thanks Jason! Funny you should ask that question.. The night before my last hunt I was reading some tips on the subject from a fellow FMDF member.

You may even know the guy ;)
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showpost.php?p=2525930&postcount=18

This is what he said:



I noticed all of those things seem to be 100% spot on. When a coin is in the ground with iron, the high tone will be repeatable in the same location every time, even if you only get it from one direction. When its just iron in the hole, the pinpoint seems to jump around, away from where I originally heard the high tone. When its a coin, the pinpoint stays true to the location of the high tone. That's what seems to help me the most.

Thank you for the tips!
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:lol: Glad they are working for you! I was wondering if you have noticed something else I hadn't yet. I'm always looking for tips to improve my understanding of the detector! :beers:

GL&HH!
 
CoiltoSoil said:
Depends on the location, I can usually get away with running higher than normal RX gain and Disc sens at most of my sites. I'm use to digging rusty nails that sound like coins since I currently use an F75 and E-trac and come from a CZ background. :D Switching the Frequency sometimes helps, if you run 3 frequency, hold the coil in the air and pinpoint, the lowest reading frequency is usually the most stable to run at that location. I'll sometimes run 7.5 for relics, or all around detecting. Do you use band pass filters or high pass? Filters can make a big difference in stability. Band pass works better for EMI.
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Usually I run bandpass, 10 or 5 . Can't get high pass to settle down usually. .. just seems like to me if I try to run hot say disc 85 and RXG able 8 my machine gets wacky and unstable. ....most of the time I run disc 82 to 75. And RXG from 5 to 8..three frequency. . I know that this is no where near hot as some people advertise running theirs at ...do you think that I need to do a master reset?

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BlackRain said:
Usually I run bandpass, 10 or 5 . Can't get high pass to settle down usually. .. just seems like to me if I try to run hot say disc 85 and RXG able 8 my machine gets wacky and unstable. ....most of the time I run disc 82 to 75. And RXG from 5 to 8..three frequency. . I know that this is no where near hot as some people advertise running theirs at ...do you think that I need to do a master reset?

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Sounds like symptoms of a bad coil to me. The stock D2 is known to have issues. Have you performed the overload test? Have a look at this:
http://www.nhmetaldetectingforum.com/index.php?topic=12768.0
 
BlackRain said:
Usually I run bandpass, 10 or 5 . Can't get high pass to settle down usually. .. just seems like to me if I try to run hot say disc 85 and RXG able 8 my machine gets wacky and unstable. ....most of the time I run disc 82 to 75. And RXG from 5 to 8..three frequency. . I know that this is no where near hot as some people advertise running theirs at ...do you think that I need to do a master reset?

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I would try a reset. I can run mine fairly stable at higher settings inside my EMI filled house so unless your by some really high sources of EMI at your sites or have really bad ground in your area, you should be able to run it higher. What's the soil like? Have you done a ground probe?
 
Also, try running single freq. on the frequency you're getting the least noise on.
 
When using the Etrac be aware that an FE of 30 may not work in your soil. Sometimes as in my case there will be false signals every where. If this happens work up slowly because there will be a sweet spot. Mine was at 25. If I get a signal at 25-32to47 I know there is something there. I then test for Iron falsing and quick mask with an open screen is best for this.

Former V3i user here as well.
 
Great Post and Thanks for sharing. Now you will have to take the Etrac to all the places you have every hunted just to see if you missed anything.
 
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