VISTA X INSTRUCTION MANUAL BY DEEPTECH
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How to Ground Balance
The following steps will explain how to Ground Balance the Vista X. This is a very simple
process that allows you to balance the Vista X to all types of soil. This is very important in
order to obtain maximum sensitivity to small targets and depth.
First off
you need to find a clean patch of soil, free from metallic objects in the field or area
you’re going to detect. To help do this set your dials to the following points:
Gain to the red dot.
Threshold to 45.
Ground balance dial all the way to the left.
Either of the toggle switches pulled towards you (All Metal Mode).
At this point you’re now in all metal mode and then very carefully and slowly sweep the coil
across the soil around an inch off the ground.
You’re listening out for and trying to find a patch of soil that gives no positive signs of a
signal, in this process you may hear tiny signatures of ground mineralization due to the Vista
X is not correctly ground balanced at this point or neither set up correctly yet for general
detecting.
Providing you’ve found a patch of soil that has no positive signals we can now continue to
ground balance your Vista X over that clean patch of ground.
Ground Balancing procedure:
1)
Make sure you adjust your headphones to the point where you can have the detectors
volume completely up without causing harm to your ears!
2)
Now turn your detectors volume all the way up to maximum or to the point you can
hear the chatter of the threshold when introduced.
3)
Now turn your threshold dial up to the point you can just hear the threshold chatter
slightly.
4)
Keep your Vista X all metal mode (toggle switch under the control box towards you)
