digs colorado
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Quick interduction new to forum but have been lingering in the shadow's for some time. Not new to the hobby bought my first MD in 77 a BFO high tech for the day. Moved up to VLF in the early 90's to a Whites Eagle Spectrum.
Awesome machine still use it to this day, 20 plus years on one machine and you understand what it is telling you. Upgraded this year to a Etrac hoping that new tech would reach the coin's that the old timers missed meaning me in paticular.
Out of the box did not think it was performing near as well as my White's. It was not pulling deeper coins in fact was only popping them out at about 4 inches. Needless to say with the extra coils I had got for it was not impressed. Spent countless hours trying to find the answer many of them on the forum.
I had tried every nugget of info gleaned off of the forums to understand what I was doing wrong, and how could I make this machine work as so many stood by.
Dug a plug today and place a penny in it, 5" down and it would not respond to it. Changed every channel, changed every setting nothing. Did a master reset! With that change I found two mercury dime's and a couple of wheat pennies in less the 20 minutes, place I had just went over minute's before.
A butt kicking experience I am still shaking, wanted to share my experience after a couple months of lack luster performance. This is going to be the deal changer, no more good coin's left in my home town that are not in my jar.
Hope this will help someone in the future, your forums are the only real place to find info from real people with real experience using the equipment in the field.
HH
Awesome machine still use it to this day, 20 plus years on one machine and you understand what it is telling you. Upgraded this year to a Etrac hoping that new tech would reach the coin's that the old timers missed meaning me in paticular.
Out of the box did not think it was performing near as well as my White's. It was not pulling deeper coins in fact was only popping them out at about 4 inches. Needless to say with the extra coils I had got for it was not impressed. Spent countless hours trying to find the answer many of them on the forum.
I had tried every nugget of info gleaned off of the forums to understand what I was doing wrong, and how could I make this machine work as so many stood by.
Dug a plug today and place a penny in it, 5" down and it would not respond to it. Changed every channel, changed every setting nothing. Did a master reset! With that change I found two mercury dime's and a couple of wheat pennies in less the 20 minutes, place I had just went over minute's before.
A butt kicking experience I am still shaking, wanted to share my experience after a couple months of lack luster performance. This is going to be the deal changer, no more good coin's left in my home town that are not in my jar.
Hope this will help someone in the future, your forums are the only real place to find info from real people with real experience using the equipment in the field.
HH
