Sierra Gold Trac Owner’s Guide
3
Full Quick Start Instructions
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1.
Turn the
Gain
control knob clockwise until the power click
ON
and then rotate the
Gain
control
clockwise to the
“preset triangle”
position between
7 & 8
.
2.
Turn the
Threshold
control knob fully counter-clockwise, then turn it back clockwise until you hear a
soft threshold
“HUM”
.
3.
Lower the search coil
to about
2” to 4” above the ground
and
“pump” the coil up
and down 3 or 4 times
and the
“Fast Auto Trac”
will automatically balance out the ground
minerals.
4.
You may now search the ground by
swinging the search coil slowly
in wide sweeps that over-
lap each other, as
near to the ground as possible without scraping ground
. You should
hear the
faint threshold hum
as you sweep the coil over the ground.
5.
This constant hum may fl uctuate or oscillate a bit as the trac system balances the ground minerals.
You will hear a zip zip sound when passing over a target
. If this signal is repeatable
when the coil is passed over it l
eft to right / right to left
. Then the signal is from a metal target and
you should investigate it by digging it.
REMEMBER , the Sierra Gold Trac, is an ALL MET-
AL detector.
So the target can be
gold, silver, copper, lead, aluminum, brass, copper,
iron etc.
HINT: If the target gives a double beep (beep beep) then it is likely an
iron nail.
NOTE: However, be careful NOT to swing over the target back and forth, quickly and
repeatedly while trying to determine whether to dig or not. It is VERY IMPORTANT to
PAUSE briefly between swings in order to PREVENT the Fast Tracking System from
actually tracking INTO the target itself and obscuring the target signal.
6.
If the signal is
NOT
repeatable and seems to move around, in other words, you hear
“spurious”
noises, such as falsing or chatter, it is probably the detector reacting to the ground and it is a sign to
REDUCE the GAIN a BIT at a TIME
until your sweeps return to the normal smoother threshold
hum over the ground.
7.
Once
you have decided that your signal
IS
from a
metal target
and you wish to retrieve it, the
next step is to
PINPOINT
your target.
It will be discussed later in this Owner’s Guide.
Pinpointing is probably the hardest part of detecting to master. It will take some
practice… so be patient.
As the Roman’s said “Experientia Docet” “Experience Teaches”
