Ground Balance Numbers

[KDX]

What do the ground balance numbers indicate? IE, when I manually ground balance and it's around 25 what is it telling me?

[UKD2User]

The number 25 is just a number.  It represents a factor by which target signals will be 'corrected' to take account of the fact that the ground has some magnetic/conductive properties due to mineralization.

Loren Lemke gives a really good explanation of this from around the 20th minute of his YT video:

 

[Steve Herschbach]

 

[Chase Goldman]

Another similar explanation, but focused primarily the difference between a Mineralization Meter and a Ground Balance indication.

 

[KDX]

Thanks for the replys. I ran across this video today.

 

[Medina]

Midwest soils here, so.honestly I've been doing much better leaving it on zero, regardless what it suggests. NEVER on auto balance, and I'm always using multi