Ground Balancing Feature

Hi Everyone!, I may be getting ahead of things here a bit, but it seems a lot of metal detector users are having some difficulty with what is called Ground Balancing a metal detector. Not all detectors come with this user adjustable feature. These machines are said to be set by the factory in a fixed Ground Balance mode. The problem encountered when exposing the ground to a magnetic field from your search coil is that some soils have what is called mineralization and these minerals get energized by the field to the point they will cause a response from your detector. We call this falsing which of course is undesireable. We only want to hear and see a response from the desired objects we are seeking. Some machines come with a manually adjustable GB. What we want to do is adjust our machine to not be responsive to these minerals and to only hear or see a response from the good targets in the ground. We want to eliminate the ground noise as completely as possible. This will make your detecting experience much more enjoyable and you won't waste a lot of time digging nothing. Some of the new metal detectors are equipped with an Auto Ground Balance feature which is really nice. Ok I felt I needed to mention this subject and I will post again on what the procedure is to eliminate the ground responses on your metal detector. Thanks for reading this and good hunting everyone! Be safe and wear gloves when digging also.

John Tomlinson,CET
John's Detectors