E-Trac with 18" S.E.F Detech Coil - Quick Field Test

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41 Video Views·Nov 10, 2026
Very quick field test of my E-trac metal detector detecting fitted with a 18" SEF Detech coil. This is a specialist coil suitable for uncontaminated pasture land and offers great coverage and depth.
It is not suitable for areas with trash or lots of detectable targets because it has such a large detecting zone and would cause good targets to be missed due to nulling from rejected junk targets littering the ground.
In the right type of fields it really speeds up the searching process and the pinpoint from the centre of the coil is excellent.
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Well here I am in the field just out the back of my house.
I've got an 18 inch SEF Detec coil on
there. I normally just use the 11 inch stock coil
but in this particular field and also the
surrounding fields there's very little iron,
very little rubbish so I can get away with using a nice
big coil.
We'll give it
a quick blast
and see what
we can find.
I've got quite
a nice
signal here,
It's not reading in the side where silver reads but still it's
It's bouncing around the 12 line on the left-hand side,
so maybe something interesting.
And it's making the right noises,
so we'll have a dig and see what's underneath the ground.
It's showing it to be about 9 inches or so, so we'll soon see.
And it's two lumps of coke. Total crap.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Got another target here. It was hovering around
the 13-14 line off towards the right-hand side of the screen.
So read about 6-8 inches or so, so giving it a dig.
Fairly near it now.
And that one is...
I think it says 1911. It's very corroded, but it's a half penny.
May clean up, may not.
Here's another signal.
This time it's bouncing around on the right-hand side of the screen.
It's hovering around the top of the screen,
so that's usually a good sign.
So we'll give this one a dig as well. Firstly pinpointed.
That's
a
bit
better.
Here
we've
got
a
1919
sixpence.
George V. Very good condition.
Silver. Pleased with that, but...
There's no doubt plenty more where that one came
from so we'll have a few more digs.
Well I only had about 20 minutes or so in the field
because I've got to go out to a kids party now
and my battery is just about to die but I had five digs.
Two were .22 bullets.
I've only got myself to blame
because I'm the only one within about a mile of here with a gun.
Um...
You've got to dig them though you know they give a good signal.
And there was two coins in 20 minutes,
which is not bad considering I've been over this
ground quite a lot lately in the last week.
There was the 19 something or other, half penny.
It looks like either 12 or 13, 19, 12, 13 or something.
It's in pretty poor condition.
And the 19, 19 silver sixpence, both of which give a good signal.
So I'm pretty pleased with that.
The pinpoint on that big coil is actually very, very accurate as well.
Both of these coins were pretty much in the middle of the hole,
so you can't really ask for much more than that.
