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Performance in the Great Outdoors
I was lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to trial E-Trac for an extended spell and during that
time there was no time wasted as I wanted to put it through its paces at some of my sites. As it was early
spring and, due to crops being in, access to some of my sites was o -limits – hence I researched and found
a few new ones.
As I stated earlier when rst using E-Trac it took a while to nd the best and most comfortable detecting
position for me. This involved moving the sliding arm rest back and forth, raising the coil to loosen and
/ or tighten the coil bolt, adjusting the shaft and once done it was plain sailing after that. In fact, I don't
believe I have ever swung such a comfortable metal detector. After many hours on the rst day out at 4pm
walking back to the car when done for the day it dawned on me that I had no obvious fatigue and had
actually been metal detecting for several hours.
Another feature of E-Trac that I found absolutely amazing was, and I have three words to describe it,
stability, stability, stability! It was uncanny. Again, detecting in the proximity of an airport, at my most iron
contaminated site it never emitted as much as a gurgle of a false signal. In fact, it was at this site that I
really came to realize just what E-Trac is all about.
hear the unmistakable guttural low tone of something that was not iron and to the right of the target,
more iron! In metal detecting circles this is what we call 'see through.'
This with an 11" coil...absolutely phenomenal. The superb stability continued at a few salt water beaches
– again it was an o -season time of year but the multitude of older coins, a few rings and dozens of other
miscellaneous targets that surfaced during the beach tests was astounding. Sensitivity to tiny things
was fantastic and not witnessed repeatedly on beaches before and it took me quite a while to recover
two memorable targets, crude triangular shaped "bits" smaller than half the size my little nger nail on
two separate days taking around 15 minutes each to locate! They had been I'm estimating at about the
ve inch level in wet sand but the audio signal returns were loud and uty sounding and went unmissed.
Speaking of unmissed, I had a few targets that were so deep I couldn't recover them.
That was reminiscent of my testing the deep-seeking GPX-4500. I had no doubts that the E-Trac was a true
'all-rounder' and was so easy to get along with. The new larger meter display is fantastic and the FE and CO
digital ID's for targets is accurate and very easy to read as the numbers are displayed as huge black gures
perfectly visible in any light – if things do get dull E-Trac has a handy backlight function as well.
Sometimes, when testing new models it doesn't immediately become
obvious what really went into the meticulous crafting of a new software
system. Soon after powering it up I witnessed the genius of E-Trac.
Coupled with the new and amazingly lightweight Pro coil (which took 2
years to develop) this detector wheedled in and out of countless pieces
of ferrous materials and for the rst time working that site (over 20 years)
allowed me to hear and recover several low conductive metallic targets
that had been completely blanked during all those previous years. I could
'hover the coil' and hear iron to my left but an inch or two away I could
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