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ground balance
The X-Terra 705 is capable of operating in 
two dierent types of grounds, magnetic (e.g. 
inland parks and goldelds) and conductive 
(wet areas of salt water beaches). Ground 
mineralisation may cause false target signals 
in all environments. Ground Balancing the 
detector reduces these ground signals and 
enables good targets to be displayed and/or 
heard correctly.
Ground Balance (Normal)
Ground Balance (Normal) is suitable for most 
neutral soils and dry sand use and is operating 
when the beach icon is o.
An unbalanced detector in Coin & Treasure 
Mode will blank continuously (if a pattern 
rejecting –8 is used) or detect –8 continuously 
(if a pattern accepting –8 is used).
An unbalanced detector in Prospecting Mode 
will produce a continuous ‘warbling’ sound  
that diers from the sharper sound of a real 
target signal.
Ground Balancing in highly 
mineralised soils is far easier when 
using a Double D coil.
When detecting on the beach, 
adjusting Ground Balance may not give 
signicant improvements. Try adjusting 
Sensitivity and altering Patterns for  
best results.
  Activating Ground Balance (Beach)
  Press Ground Balance  .
  Press and hold Ground Balance for three 
seconds. The beach umbrella icon will appear 
to indicate that Ground Balance (Beach) is 
activated.
  To de-activate Ground Balance (Beach), press 
and hold Ground Balance for three seconds. 
The beach umbrella icon will disappear 
indicating that Ground Balance (Beach) is de-
activated.
  Press Pinpoint/Detect 
 or Ground 
Balance to return to detection.
Press and hold 
Ground Balance 
for three seconds 
to activate Ground 
Balance (Beach)
Ground Balance settings aect  
both normal detection and Pinpoint 
operation.
  Adjusting Ground Balance
  The Ground Balance setting can be adjusted 
in three ways; automatically, manually or 
with Tracking.
  Auto Ground Balance will generally give a 
good Ground Balance setting. This may be 
further adjusted manually, using the + and – 
buttons.
 
Press Ground Balance 
.
  Adjust Ground Balance with Auto, Manual or 
Track (p. 42).
  Press Pinpoint/Detect 
 or Ground 
Balance to return to detection.
Adjust Ground Balance with 
Auto, Manual or Track (p. 42)
Ground Balance (Beach)
Adjusting Ground Balance
Ground Balance (Beach) 
Ground Balance (Beach) is suitable for salt 
water beach use and is operating when the 
beach icon is on.
In Ground Balance (Beach) the X-Terra 705 can 
Ground Balance any combination of magnetic 
and conductive soil (e.g. a mixture of sand, soil 
and salt water). However, ferrous and some low 
conductivity targets can be balanced out. For 
this reason in Ground Balance (Beach), Tracking 
should be used only when targets are far apart.