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Tracking With The Garrett ATX


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I have never had to use it. The ATX ground balances to almost any soil manually and as a ground balancing PI is very forgiving of variations in the ground once set properly.

The tracking is quite slow even at its quickest setting and if used I do not think there would be much worry about performance loss unless you excessively hovered over a target. Tracking can null out extremely faint targets and so wide sweeps over targets so that lots of ground is always part of the equation is important when employing tracking on any machine.

From the ATX Owners Manual page 17:

Ground Track

When switched on, Ground Track provides slow, continuous tracking to ground mineralization. The ATX has four Ground Track settings: OFF, SLOW, MEDIUM, and FAST, with OFF being the factory default setting.

To change the Ground Track setting:

• Press and release the SHIFT button to access Secondary controls.
• Repeatedly press the GND TRACK button to step through the four settings (see illustration below). OFF is indicated by LED 1, SLOW is indicated by LED 5, MEDIUM by LED 9, and FAST by LED 13.
• Press and release SHIFT button again to exit Secondary adjustments.
• The green LED will blink during operation when Ground Track is on.

Note: Ground Track may reduce detection depth due to slowly tracking to a target, especially with repeated swings over the target. Therefore, Ground Track should only be used when changing ground mineralization requires frequent re-ground balancing.

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