فلزیاب X-Terra 70

 Minelab X-Terra 70

Features
As an upgrade from the Bounty Hunter 505 I was amazed that I had so many new features and a little overwhelmed at first. The X-Terra 70 has a lot of useful features such as Auto Ground Balance, Automatic Tracking if you want it, Automatic Noise cancel, and a very nice keypad that is easily accessible. It also allows you to manually change all the settings in case your a person that likes to set the detector up themselves. The detector also has a sensitivity and threshold setting, and 2 different hunting modes, Coin and Jewelry and Prospecting. The coin and jewelry mode has 3 different patterns that you can manually edit to your own preferences. My X-Terra 70 came with the Concentric 9″ 7.5khz coil which was what I wanted because it is completely WATERPROOF and it’s a good all around coil. It has pretty good target separation, from only 15 hours of use I can almost tell what my target is going to be 90% of the time while digging minimal trash. The display is large and very easy to read because of the big numbers and I also like the fact that you can change the tones to 1 tone, 2 tones, 3 tones, or Multi-Tone. Of course the detector has an All Metal feature just like all other detectors out there. One last thing the detector has is an TID stabilizer that makes the numbers bounce around less if you are in trashy areas but I have found with this machine that if its a good target such as a quarter, the tone and ID number will stay the same. The ID number might jump from a 40-42 but usually nothing more. Also a 14k ring when laid flat will read a solid 10 or 12 and the audio tone will stay the same.

Performance
As far as performance goes, I couldn’t be happier. It has excellent depth if you set it up right which is not hard, great target separation, great speed for example if the threshold nulls out you can pick up another good target in seconds. The ability to swing as fast or as slow as you want, I would recommend a medium to slow sweep speed to make sure you don’t accidentally miss something. The stability of this detector really amazes me, you can set sensitivity almost to max and if you have set it up right, it won’t be making any weird noises at all even in pretty bad conditions. When I am out hunting and I get a number from 30 and above I can almost always guarantee its a coin.

Set Up
The detector is a lot easier to set up than I thought. I am just going to say how I set up my detector because it seems to work very well. First thing you should do when you get to a new site is turn the sensitivity down to around 12 or lower if you want. After you have done that press menu and select noise cancel and then select the auto feature and wait for about 15 seconds. After your detector has finished noise canceling you should then go into detect mode and adjust your ground balance. While in detect mode press All Metal and then go back into the menu and press ground balance and select the auto feature on your keypad once again. Hold the coil 4 inches off the ground and move the detector up and down until its done but make sure you don’t touch the ground. Once you have finished this you should be all set to go out and detect. Remember to adjust your sensitivity back up until the detector starts to make false beeps, as soon as it makes false beeps, back off the sensitivity until it becomes stable.

Here is kind of a quick start guide

1. Set Sensitivity to 12
2. Auto Noise cancel the machine
3. Auto Ground Balance the machine while in all metal mode
4. Turn up sensitivity until it becomes unstable then back off until its stable once again.

Tips

*Once you get a good target, slowly sweep the coil over the target and I mean very slowly! This will give you the best identification as to what the target is, and if its a good target it will most likely stay the same tone and ID number.

*Always run a slight threshold and use headphones to make the most of it because if you don’t use it, you could miss some small targets. If your just coin shooting for modern clad that are not going to be very deep, you don’t have to run the threshold if you don’t want.

I will add to this more as I use the detector more, I just wrote this so I could lay my own ideas out that I have learned from other people and myself just so I can get a better understanding of the machine and maybe help out a few potential buyers that are wondering about this machine. [/LIST][/LIST]