Minelab X-Terra 50 Manuel d'utilisateur télécharger pdf

he weather in Janu-

ary was not ideal for

metal detecting.The

biting cold winds

and temperatures

dropping down to minus two

degrees in the morning, was

enough to ensure that most people

stayed indoors. However, the chance to

check out the new X-Terra 30 - and put it

through its paces - was far too tempting

an offer to let something as trivial as a

typical Siberian summer day get in the

way.

The X-Terra 30 is the younger brother

of the X-Terra 50, and comes with the

same high build quality that I had come

to expect from Minelab. The shaft is fin-

ished in a Dulux wineberry colour, and

complements the fittings on the rest of

the machine.

The control box keypads are laid out

in a clever way so that they can be

reached and adjusted with the thumb of

the same hand that you are holding the

machine with. Weighing in at just 2.9lb,

including the four batteries,this machine

won’t leave you feeling exhausted at the

end of a long day of detecting.

Controls

The keypad lay out is as follows:-

Power - Self explanatory, turns the

machine on and off.

Patterns - Allows you to choose

which mode you want to run the

machine in (All Metal or Discrimination).

Menu Select - From here you can

select the Volume and Sensitivity

displays.

Accept/Reject - For me this is

the clever bit.You can accept or

reject certain metals by turning

on or off the individual discrim-

ination segments. There are 12

segments ranging from -4 to 44

in steps of 4.

I found this very handy

indeed I wanted to reject the

ubiquitous shotgun caps on

one of my farms. It worked a

treat. Once I found one, I

pressed the reject pad and an

“X”appeared beside the digital

display number for the cap; also

the segment representing the

cap stayed visible reminding me

that I had discriminated against the

object. Another clever addition

comes in the form of two large dots

that will sometimes appear where the

digital numbers are. We all know how

hard it is to discriminate against ferrous

objects, so if you sweep over a target and

get a positive audio sound one way but

no ID number except the two large dots,

it will almost certainly be iron. Clever or

what?

Pinpoint - Another very clever fea-

ture of the X-Terra 30 is the Pinpoint.

When an object is located and the Pin-

point pad is selected it switches the

machine to a non-motion mode. With

the aid of an audio and visual display

consisting of an outer circle and a seg-

mented inner circle, pinpointing is

child’s play. As the target gets closer to

the centre of the coil the inner segments

start to fill in and the audio volume

increases.Once the inner segments have

come together and the volume is at its

maximum the target is now beneath the

centre of the coil.

Plus & Minus Pads - These two pads

allow you to scroll through the discrimi-

nation segments as well as adjusting the

volume and sensitivity settings on the

machine.

Included in the LCD display you also

have a battery icon, which tells you when

the batteries need to be changed.There is

also a Depth Indicator, which gives you

an idea as to how deep the target is

below the coil.

Assembly

Assembly is as easy as it gets.

Twistlocks on the two main shafts and

a six-hole spring-loaded pin allow

you to adjust the machine to suit

your height. The control box is

attached by a simple push fit into

the end of the handle; this allows

you to remove it easily and store

it safely for transportation. The

9in concentric 7.5kHz coil is

fixed using a plastic bolt and

wing nut,while the cable is held

tidy to the shaft with the aid of

two Velcro tabs.

At the opposite end the

armrest can be adjusted to suit

different arm lengths - with four

holes allowing enough move-

ment - and there is a Velcro strap

that can be fitted to suit both left

and right-handed users.

Minelab X-Terra 30

Joe Cummins

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Résumé du contenu

Page 1 - Minelab X-Terra 30

The weather in Janu-ary was not ideal formetal detecting.Thebiting cold windsand temperaturesdropping down to minus twodegrees in the morning, wasenou

Page 2 - Field Test

The machine runs on 4 x AA batter-ies,which slot into the side of the controlbox. Access to the battery compartmentis via a sliding door with the corr

Page 3 - Conclusion

Listed below are my findings. I per-formed this test in the All Metal modewith a new set of batteries and with thesensitivity set at 7.Target ID Numbe

Page 4 - Joe Cummins

enemy iron.The only iron to slip throughthe net was the large pieces,which I haveto say the majority of machines wouldindicate as a good signal.My goo