ghound
Elite Member
Yes and no, if your worried about target ID yes, if you want to dig the deep one's in bad soil you can forget about ID and go manual sensitivity.
More depth defo in my soil running manual.
More depth defo in my soil running manual.
With FBS in mineralized soil, it also depends if you are using auto or manual sensitivity. Some people ONLY use manual sensitivity. In tough soil that can be a mistake. On the Etrac (maybe CTX, not sure), manual and auto sensitivity are handled differently. FBS scans the return signal on 3 separate channels, high, medium and low. In auto sens., the 3 channels are individually set to different levels in order to overcome high mineralization, hot rocks, etc, In manual sens., all 3 channels are set to the same level and aren't able to cut through tough soil as well as auto sens. Manual may go deeper in clean soil, but will suffer in bad soil.
So keep this in mind when reading of some Etrac users struggling in tough soil more than other Etrac users do.