Whites-electronics Spectra V3 User Manual

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 1®White’s Electronics, Inc. The World’s Finest Metal Detectors -manufactured in Sweet Home, Oregon USA Spect

10 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Optional Step (Analyze) Push the toggle forward (away from the grip) sweep over the target several times,

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 11® Live Controls - • The LIVE CONTROLS (Like Backlight) across the bottom of the display offer quick and e

12 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • “Quick Save” During adjustment of any Live Control, or within any Menu one change can be quickly added ind

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 13® MENU - When a Live Control is selected and highlighted with ARROW LEFT & RIGHT, pressing and releasi

14 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® Programs - Check mark in front of program name indicates it is the original factory or manual saved

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 15® • Common – Collect your common personal preference settings to later substitute by category within Progra

16 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Press ENTER to either RESTORE that PROGRAM or CANCEL. • Squeeze and release toggle “once” to exit to

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 17®Sensitivity - • Press MENU, ARROW to Sensitivity, press ENTER. • Rx Gain – (Formally called Pre-Amp Gain

18 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® Audio - • Target Volume – How loudly a metal target “beeps”. Use the ARROW Left & Right to adjust the

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 19®Wireless Headphones – Select Wireless Headphones and press ENTER. • Press ENTER to Enable “X” in box” (

2 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra®Spectra is the result of years of research and development, time proven manufacturing and testing techniques, an

20 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Arrow down to Channel, Select (arrow left & right) to find a Channel free of interference.

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 21®Discrimination - • Discrimination Accept / Reject – Allows custom setting accept or reject for the entire

22 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • This “quick save” method can be used for one specific setting change ONLY (the last one made)

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 23® Ground Filter - • Filtering out ground minerals allows deeper penetration (detection depth) in minerali

24 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® Frequency (Primary) - • Allows selection among a variety of primary frequency options. • Three Frequencie

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 25® Ground Tracking -Autotrac - Selects among options controlling the automatic ground rejection feature. •

26 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® Locktrac has a Offset option of it’s own, so that manual balancing can be offset + or – perfect to enhance ei

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 27® • Owner’s Name – Use the ARROWs Down / Up, and Left / Right to spell out your name. Or press EN

28 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra®Do Expert Choices Change Anything In The Live Controls and Regular Six Block Menu? Many personal preference ch

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 29®How Can I Quickly and Easily SAVE One Option Change? “Quick Save”, described under Live Controls, also work

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 3® Table of CONTENTS -Explore Your Spectra ...

30 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Use MENU/TAB to tab between Restore or Cancel (to cancel restore), ENTER to activate choice. •

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 31® • Note: The other Spectra has to be set to RECEIVE, on the same channel as you are sending. •

32 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra®Discrimination Detailed • Visual Reject - When selected (“X”in box), rejected VDI numbers do not appear on

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 33® • Icons – Allows selection of the desired Icon set for the current program. • ARROW to Icons and pres

34 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® Tip #1. – If Signal loss is significant (50% +), the ground is highly mineralized (contains a lot of

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 35® during use of the VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillation) option. Threshold level is critical in

36 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® with a progressively higher pitch “beep”. If accepted by the discrimination settings, iron type

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 37® up directly over the target (for discrimination) or sweep normally (discrimination) then

38 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Higher number settings allow greater differences between a target at the different frequencie

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 39® • 2.5 kHz – Normalize – Different operating frequencies react to the same targets with different VDI numb

4 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra®Audio ...

40 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® ground/target combinations, an advanced operator can extrapolate information valuable in choosing

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 41® • Analysis – Selects options for the Analysis mode, toggle pressed forward away from grip. • Match

42 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Decimal – ON/OFF depth indication with decimal point (upper right side of display) during

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 43® • Color – Select color choices for the Icon and Accept/Reject ranges. • Icon Ranges – ON/OFF. When

44 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Signal – ON/OFF. When On averages graph signal over multiple search coil passes.

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 45® • Resolution – Adjust how many VDI numbers contribute to a specific Spectragraph bar. • A highe

46 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Size – Select the text size of the Menus, Sm, Med, Lg, X-Lg. • Expert Only – Select Expert Only to e

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 47®When selecting a channel other than Channel 4, an ENABLE/CONNECT sequence is required -Select Wireless Headp

48 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra®PROGRAM CHART - 1 -

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 49®PROGRAM CHART - 2 -

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 5®Expert Menu ...

50 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra®CONFIGURE CHART - 1 -

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 51®CONFIGURE CHART - 1 -

52 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra®SPECTRASOUND SYSTEM -NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B

6 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® Span Limit ...

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 7®Explore Your Spectra -Explore your Spectra metal detector with complete confidence. You cannot harm or des

8 Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® At anytime during searching, this “ground balance sequence” may be repeated to ground balance the Spectra to

Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra 9®The current target VDI number appears much larger above the rectangle upper left side of display. Listen for