coinnut
Elite Member
E Trac, a different animal
I bought the E Trac soon after it came out. I originally had some issues with it, but one trip to the NV location and it was repaired. I have been a White's man since around 1974 when the Coinmaster V Supreme came out. (Before AARP starts to E mail me, I was 13
.) I really bought the E Trac for two reasons. 1: I wanted a killer machine to see through the iron in very littered colonial cellar holes. And 2: To have a machine that would go deep in dry (non beach) sand conditions, mainly around those same cellar holes. My White's depth decreases by a couple of inches when the soil is bone dry. So that's why I bought it. I had some preconceived notions that I should not have had. It set me back many months. The E trac has not helped me much around the iron cellar holes. I can locate some small missed buttons and scrap, but so far have not found any coins I have missed with the DFX. Even when it hits on targets in the null. I have also not found it to go very deep in bone dry conditions. It does have a respectable depth, but not overly deep. Where it has excelled for me is in a non iron littered park, where it really does pick through the signals and does lock on to silver very nicely! It also has great depth in fields, and is unusually good in trap rock and torn up side walk areas. Mineralisation does not seem to affect it much, nor does EMI. Now remember no-one is an expert on this new machine, so what I have found is from my limited knowledge and experience with it. Now as far as the depth in moisture goes. I had it at a colonial cellar hole (posted the other day) and it hit on a Large Cent (what's left of it) at a solid 12" on the old road. It was a very solid tone and read 12-46 repeatedly. This was very impressive. I almost gave up on it, but at the last second it was out of the hole. So those are my impressions with it. Overall it is a great machine that needs lots of time to figure out how to get the best out of it. But don't try too hard to make it do what you want it to do. Just use it and learn what it is telling you. At first I thought that 6" was the limit I would get out of it. But changing to manual sensitivity (around 26) has increased the depth a lot. And of course, there has to be something deep for it to find. HH
I bought the E Trac soon after it came out. I originally had some issues with it, but one trip to the NV location and it was repaired. I have been a White's man since around 1974 when the Coinmaster V Supreme came out. (Before AARP starts to E mail me, I was 13
.) I really bought the E Trac for two reasons. 1: I wanted a killer machine to see through the iron in very littered colonial cellar holes. And 2: To have a machine that would go deep in dry (non beach) sand conditions, mainly around those same cellar holes. My White's depth decreases by a couple of inches when the soil is bone dry. So that's why I bought it. I had some preconceived notions that I should not have had. It set me back many months. The E trac has not helped me much around the iron cellar holes. I can locate some small missed buttons and scrap, but so far have not found any coins I have missed with the DFX. Even when it hits on targets in the null. I have also not found it to go very deep in bone dry conditions. It does have a respectable depth, but not overly deep. Where it has excelled for me is in a non iron littered park, where it really does pick through the signals and does lock on to silver very nicely! It also has great depth in fields, and is unusually good in trap rock and torn up side walk areas. Mineralisation does not seem to affect it much, nor does EMI. Now remember no-one is an expert on this new machine, so what I have found is from my limited knowledge and experience with it. Now as far as the depth in moisture goes. I had it at a colonial cellar hole (posted the other day) and it hit on a Large Cent (what's left of it) at a solid 12" on the old road. It was a very solid tone and read 12-46 repeatedly. This was very impressive. I almost gave up on it, but at the last second it was out of the hole. So those are my impressions with it. Overall it is a great machine that needs lots of time to figure out how to get the best out of it. But don't try too hard to make it do what you want it to do. Just use it and learn what it is telling you. At first I thought that 6" was the limit I would get out of it. But changing to manual sensitivity (around 26) has increased the depth a lot. And of course, there has to be something deep for it to find. HH
So with this in mind, it's easy to see that the machine can be fooled when it classifies each target, even if it's just a bit. I find that pull tab ends (beaver ends) read 12-12 or 12-13, just like nickels do. So I think in a lab setting there is lots of room between numbers, but when you get it out in the real world, those gaps blend together. This is not good news for park and school hunters, but for me, it makes no difference, since I hunt mostly in the woods and dig all good responses. But you should see how many different readings you can get on shotgun shells
