Instruction manual
24Understanding your X-TERRA - Ground Balance
Beach Ground Balance
For salt water beach hunting, the X-TERRA 70 and X-TERRA 705 incorporate
functionality referred to as Ground Balance Beach. Manual, Auto, Tracking &
Tracking oset Ground Balance options are all available in Ground Balance
Beach. Ground Balance Beach is capable of minimizing the aects of both
magnetic and conductive mineralization in the sand. When combined with
a Double-D coil, the negative eects of highly mineralized black sand can be
greatly reduced. To activate Ground Balance Beach, press and hold the GB
pad for three seconds. When the functionality is implemented, a small beach
umbrella icon will appear at the top right corner of your display.
Typically, as you near the water’s edge, mineralization levels will increase,
causing a “drop” in your ground phase reading (check your ground phase
reading by momentarily pressing the GB pad). As you near the water’s edge,
set your Sensitivity as high as you can tolerate, without causing undue falsing.
You will likely be able to increase that level of Sensitivity as you enter areas of
dry sand. But on the other hand, hitting pockets of “hot rocks” or black sand
will likely result in more false signals, due to the increased mineralization.
You can reduce these false signals and eectively hunt those areas by
lowering your Sensitivity level or by slowing down your sweep speed.
Just as I refer to “normal Tracking” as being “ Ground
Balance on the y”, you can expect Ground Balance
Beach Tracking to quickly compensate for those
mineralization changes you encounter when moving
around the beach. And at an even faster “update”
than by using “normal” Tracking. However, I primarily
recommend that Ground Balance Beach Tracking be
used in areas where you don’t have multiple targets
under the coil at one time.
Operating in Beach Tracking can also sometimes
“over-compensate” for the mineralization levels,
resulting in some ferrous and low conductive targets
being ignored (balanced out). To help overcome this,
slow down your sweep speed, implement Pinpoint
for isolating targets, and don’t over-drive your
Sensitivity settings.