The Minelab Etrac and Canadian coins

A quick video to show how differently the Etrac detects modern American coins as opposed to modern Canadian coins. I love my Etrac but for Canadian clad I don't think it's a good choice. Damn steel coins! :)

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• etrac
• metal
• detecting
• minelab
• canadian
• american
• coins
• clad

[RadioworldTim]

SO it's not that the etrac cant detect them, its that you discriminated them out in the first part of the video.

It's the modern clad that is made up of mostly nickel (you said steel) that displays all over the place.

Once you know how it detects Canadian coins, there is no problem with the etrac.

You are correct in saying that junk reads the same as the modern clad.

[stewart73]

@RadioworldTim

Modern Canadian clad is NOT made mostly of nickel...it is made primarily of steel.  You can find this information anywhere online (try Wikipedia).

Secondly, the point of the video is to show firstly that Minelab's built in coin mode discriminates all Canadian coins out, and secondly that, even with a wide open screen, they still barely register and sound like garbage.

[JRCrowley]

holy moly! glad I found this video before I sold my MXT. you're the man. thanks!

[markbeermonster]

If I hadn't have watched this video I'd have never known.. I wouldn't have dug any of the Canadian signals.. Bugger

[ottawadigs]

is there a software update or patch for Canadian coins?

[LRCan1]

I'm Canadian too and with my ETRAC, I have exactly the same experience...

[RadioworldTim]

I left this out of the previous post(ran out of characters)

From the Royal Canadian Mint website (Wikipedia is not an official site for anything):

1968 to 1999

Composition: 99.9% nickel

Also from the same website:

2000 to date

Composition: 94% steel, 3.8% copper, 2.2% nickel plating

which backs up what you said (I have no problem detecting these).

Cheers

[RadioworldTim]

When I said modern I meant 1968-1999, which is what most of the coins I find are.

Minelabs coin discrimination pattern is designed for US coins, the user should be aware that coins are different throughout the world and not expect it to be universal.

Also, there are two parts to detecting with an etrac - not just the discrimination pattern, but also the mode. The mode settings make a huge difference. I've done a lot of experimenting lately and can find Canuck coins quite easily.

[onondagabob]

i live down here in new york on the other side of lake erie, we find a lot of your pennys, not to many nickels and dimes, most of the pennys are 80s,70s,60s,50s, dimes i just got one today its a 1995 with the sail boat on one side, i save them, i have a 94,and a 98 to,some pennys have the little flates all the way around, i run a really tight pattern and these coins come threw

[rocketboy001]

Brilliant info. Thank you so much. That was the first really helpful info vid that i have seen regarding canadian coins and the ETrac. I was going to order the ETrac tonight, but I guess i will stick with my Garrett Euro Ace for a while yet