Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 1 ® Spectra V ® Complete Owner’s Guide includes Expert Menu and PreSet Details White’s Electronics, Inc.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® ® Congratulations and thank you for choosing White’s Spectra®V 3 . Spectra is the result of years of research and development, time proven manufacturing and testing techniques, and most of all ... listening to our customers. The Spectra represents many firsts for metal detector technology. More capabilities than any metal detector ever. Spectra has Preset Programs developed by our experts, already set up and ready to find what others have left behind.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 3 Table of CONTENTS Explore Your Spectra ........................................................................................................................7 Turn On & Go ......................................................................................................................................7 In-depth Turn-on and Go ................................................................................................................7 ON/OFF ....................
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Audio ................................................................................................................................................18 Target Volume...............................................................................................................................18 Threshold......................................................................................................................................18 Tone/Pitch - Target ...........
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 5 Expert Menu.....................................................................................................................................29 Programs ......................................................................................................................................29 Select.......................................................................................................................................29 Save ................................
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Span Limit...........................................................................................................................38 Wrap Limit ..........................................................................................................................38 2.5 kHz Normalize ...................................................................................................................39 7.5 kHz Normalize ...............................................
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 7 Explore Your Spectra Explore your Spectra metal detector with complete confidence. You cannot harm or destroy the original factory presets or software. Original programs are easily restored under Programs, Restore. Option selections remain through ON/OFF and battery changes. To return to original selections, manually return to underlined or check marked levels, or Restore. More on Memory after Program section.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® At anytime during searching, this “ground balance sequence” may be repeated to ground balance the Spectra to ignore ground minerals. The Spectra will automatically track to normal ground mineral changes. Quick (abrupt) and dramatic (usually visible) ground changes may require a manual sequence such as dirt to gravel, dry sand to wet salt sand, wood chips to dirt, sand to dirt, sand/dirt to rock, or other obvious ground changes.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 9 The current target VDI number appears much larger above the rectangle upper left side of display. Listen for a solid repeatable (over multiple search coil passes) audio “beep” then look for a consistent Icon and/or VDI number indicating a good quality metal target. • While sweeping the search coil metal targets will produce blocks above the -95-0-+95 metal range for each frequency currently in use.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • Optional Step (Analyze) Push the toggle forward (away from the grip) sweep over the target several times, and look at the analysis. The Analyze Screen provides a visual of the actual target signal. The Screen provides an indication of the size of the target (distance between the two black lines), and the differences at each frequency. Each of the three frequencies are color coded (22.5 kHz, 7.5 kHz, 2.5 kHz).
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 11 Live Controls UP/DOWN moves the Cursor vertical to select from a list. SIDE/SIDE moves the highlighted selection horizontally. MENU/TAB brings up menu or moves the Cursor to the next item or selection on the screen. Selection is highighted. MENU/TAB x2 brings up information screen. Includes backlight and advanced menu (see page 11). ENTER selects the option. ZOOM/VIEW increases text size or provides more detailed Menu.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • “Quick Save” During adjustment of any Live Control, or within any Menu one change can be quickly added individually as that programs new Saved Defaults “quick save”. • Immediately after making a single Live Control adjustment, if you want to then Save it as a default for that Program, press and hold ENTER, and press MENU (new box appears). • Use ARROW Up and Down to select “Save As Default” and press ENTER.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 13 MENU - When a Live Control is selected and highlighted with ARROW LEFT & RIGHT, pressing and releasing ZOOM accesses more options for that specific option, next level menu. At any point in a regular or zoomed menu, pushing the toggle forword accesses “Help Balloon” to describe that particular option. Help Balloons do not appear on unzoomed Live Controls. Squeeze and release the toggle to return to a search mode.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Programs - Check mark ✓ in front of program name indicates it is the original factory or manual saved default program (no changes from default settings). Triangle in front of Program name indicates it has been modified from the original or manually saved defaults (changed from default). • Coin – Provides for typical COIN and general use, rejects some older styles of aluminum pull-tabs.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 15 • Common – Collect your common personal preference settings to later substitute by category within Programs being saved from Expert, Programs, Setup, and Exclude feature. Note: COMMON, from the factory, contains a showroom demonstration program designed to work in high interference indoor areas (Reduced Sensitivity) intended only for Dealer Showrooms or demonstrating and experimenting with basic Spectra functions indoors.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • Press ENTER to either RESTORE that PROGRAM or CANCEL. • Squeeze and release toggle “once” to exit to six block MENU, squeeze and release toggle “twice” to exit to the search mode. Memory Capabilities - The Spectra offers the most intuitive and advanced memory system ever offered with a metal detector. • A MENU listing of an unchanged, original, or manually saved Program has a “Check” mark ✓ . A MENU listing of a modified Program has a “Triangle” .
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 17 Sensitivity • Press MENU, ARROW to Sensitivity, press ENTER. • Rx Gain – (Formally called Pre-Amp Gain or Receive Gain) Use ARROW left and right to adjust. Adjusts the search coil receive signal prior to entering the electronic circuitry for signal processing (pre-amp). Constant OVERLOAD signals (not over a target) indicated by a low pitch audio beep and display OVERLOAD indication require a decreased Rx Gain setting.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Audio • Target Volume – How loudly a metal target “beeps”. Use the ARROW Left & Right to adjust the target volume. During adjustment, a sample level is indicated continuously when the trigger is pushed forward. • Audio Threshold – How loud the Threshold (continuous slight hum) is heard during searching. Use the ARROW Left & Right to adjust. During threshold adjustment, a sample of the current Threshold level is heard when trigger is pushed forward.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 19 Wireless Headphones – Select Wireless Headphones and press ENTER. SpectraSound System comes factory pre-connected (Channel 4) allowing the “Quick Connect Sequence”. Wireless Headphone - Quick Connect • Select Audio or Zoom Audio • Audio to • Press Wireless Headphone. Press to enable x • Press headphone power button. • Headphone is connected within five seconds when you hear... . Audio Zoomed • Trigger to search. Tips ...
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • Arrow down to Channel, Select (arrow left & right) to find a Channel free of interference. Color Bar indicates level of external interference for each channel choice. Green representing clear channel, Red representing external interference. Ideally, select the channel with the largest portion of green within the bar. • A Power Level is provided to drive the headphone transmitter with enough power for a reasonable distance or wireless signal resistance.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 21 Discrimination • Discrimination Accept / Reject – Allows custom setting accept or reject for the entire VDI (Visual Discrimination Indication) range -95(-0-)+95. This is the same range that appears on the display. Discrimination settings are built into each Program. Discrimination Accept allows customizing these original Discrimination settings.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • This “quick save” method can be used for one specific setting change ONLY (the last one made). To Save As Default” multiple option changes from the Live Controls, after all changes are made, select Program, then hold ENTER and press MENU, select Save As Default, and press ENTER. • Bottle Cap Reject – Adjusts how aggressively the Discrimination rejects bottle caps and other unusual alloyed iron that contains both ferrous (iron) and nonferrous (non-iron) mixes.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 23 Ground Filter • Filtering out ground minerals allows deeper penetration (detection depth) in mineralized grounds and also determines the ideal search coil or loop sweep for optimum performance. Less ground filtering in low ground mineral areas increases depth, however, doesn’t penetrate high mineral ground well. By adjusting ground filtering the Spectra can be optimized for the regional ground conditions and search coil sweep speed.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Frequency (Primary) • Allows selection among a variety of primary frequency options. • Three Frequencies – Allows three primary frequencies to be transmitted and received. Three Frequencies is normally the best choice for general searching. • Salt Compensate – Selects an optimum frequency configuration to subtract wet conductive salt water for use on the saltwater beach, (hunting ocean beaches) or alkali desert regions when wet or damp. • 2.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 25 Ground Tracking - Autotrac - Selects among options controlling the automatic ground rejection feature. • Report - When ON (“X” in box) ground adjustments (tracking) is indicated by “TRACKING” appearing on the center lower portion of the display (temporarily replacing the Program name). Tracking with arrows pointing right indicate ground balance is tracking with an increase in ground rejection levels.
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 either small targets in high mineral ground, or avoid mineral anomalies (hot rocks). Information / Configure - • How to Access – To access Information / Configure press MENU twice in succession. To Exit squeeze and release trigger on hand grip twice • Backlight – Use ARROW Left & Right to select a backlight level.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 27 • Owner’s Name – Use the ARROWs Down / Up, and Left / Right to spell out your name. Or press ENTER to bring up a key-board and then use ARROWs and ENTER to spell out your name. • Select and ENTER blanks to add spaces. If you make an error, to correct that digit, squeeze and release trigger, ARROW back to that digit, and press ENTER to bring the Keyboard back, then retype that digit. • Contact - Press MENU / TAB to exit Name and select Contact.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Do Expert Choices Change Anything In The Live Controls and Regular Six Block Menu? Many personal preference choices within the EXPERT MENU will automatically revise the Live Controls and Six Block Menu to accommodate those preferences. For example different methods of adjusting the Discrimination in the EXPERT MENU will automatically bring that specific method to the Live Controls and Six Block Menu.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 29 How Can I Quickly and Easily SAVE One Option Change? “Quick Save”, described under Live Controls, also works for individual changes within any Menu. Specific change in the Expert Menu can be added as the current Program’s default. Hold ENTER and press MENU, new window appears, select Save As Default, and press ENTER. That change has now been added as a Default for that program.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Use MENU/TAB to tab between Restore or Cancel (to cancel restore), ENTER to activate choice. • Squeeze and release toggle on grip twice to exit. • New – Create a new program and name using settings from an existing program. • Use MENU/TAB to tab between selections, ARROWs Up & Down to select vertically, and ARROW Left & Right to further select horizontally. ENTER to activate.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 31 • • • • Note: The other Spectra has to be set to RECEIVE, on the same channel as you are sending. Saved Programs; Select a program from your Menu or Live Control listing. Library, select All Programs or just an individual Program to send from your Library. Channel; select a channel free of interference (majority green in bar) and select same channel within other Spectra (Receive Unit).
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Discrimination Detailed • Visual Reject - When selected (“X”in box), rejected VDI numbers do not appear on the display. This reduces the number of VDI numbers that appear allowing better concentration on those accepted. When not selected (empty box), all VDI numbers appear on the display (rejected and accept) whenever a target is compatible with that VDI number. • Select DISCRIMINATION and press ENTER. • ARROW to Visual Reject.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 33 • Icons – Allows selection of the desired Icon set for the current program. • ARROW to Icons and press ENTER. ARROW to desired Icon set and Press ENTER. Filled circle indicates selection. • Park – Typical Coin, Jewelry, and common trash. • Relic – Typical Civil War icons, buttons, bullets, buckles. • Prospecting – Typical prospecting icons. Nugges, small nails, large iron and hot rocks.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® Tip #1. – If Signal loss is significant (50% +), the ground is highly mineralized (contains a lot of natural ground mineral/metal oxides). Conservative sensitivity settings, multi-frequency operation, and perhaps a smaller accessory search coil, is highly recommended for such areas. Tip #2. – If noise is significant (50% +), electrical interference is a major issue for the area.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 35 during use of the VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillation) option. Threshold level is critical in determining the dynamic range (change in sound from minimum to maximum) when the VCO option is used. • Target Tone – Adjust the tone, pitch, or audio frequency of a target “beep”. There is sometimes an advantage to setting the target tone to a different level than the threshold tone, making deep targetsmore eaily recognized.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® with a progressively higher pitch “beep”. If accepted by the discrimination settings, iron type targets will produce the lowest pitch “beep”; large silver will produce the highest pitched “beep”. Nickels in the mid range indicate with the most medium pitched beep. Discrimination rejected target signals are still suppressed. With some practice, the pitch of the ‘beep” immediately indicates the approximate VDI range of the target without noting the display.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 37 up directly over the target (for discrimination) or sweep normally (discrimination) then slowly over specific targets (all metal). • Tone ID – Adds the Tone ID feature specifically to the discriminate portion of the Mixed Mode. Some experts rely heavily on Tone ID to pick out good targets in heavy trash. However, it does take a greater degree of concentration, and tolerance for audio pitch variations.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra® • Higher number settings allow greater differences between a target at the different frequencies and still be considered a good or valued target signal. • Lower number settings dictate less difference between the target at the different frequencies is require to be considered a good or valued target as opposed to a trash metal. • Ideal span limit varies with the ground and target corrosion conditions.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 39 • 2.5 kHz – Normalize – Different operating frequencies react to the same targets with different VDI numbers. Multi frequency software normalize target VDI scale. • Individual frequencies offer the choice of a natural VDI scale dictated by that frequency (Normalize OFF) or Normalize (shifting to the common scale). • Normalize avoids confusion providing the common VDI scale. • There are, however, advantages to using the naturally occurring VDI scales. At 2.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® ground/target combinations, an advanced operator can extrapolate information valuable in choosing options. • Options and accessory search coils, may change the signal strength, and have a small effect regarding the phase and the VDI measurement. Filter & Speed detailed • Search – Choose options for the standard search mode. • Ground Filter - Filtering ground minerals allows deeper penetration (detection depth) in mineralized grounds.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 41 • Analysis – Selects options for the Analysis mode, toggle pressed forward away from grip. • Match Search “X” – Applies the exact same settings to Analysis mode as is selected for the regular search mode, toggle on grip in center position. • Unselected Match Search (Empty Square) – Allows different Ground Filter, Recovery Delay, and SAT settings for the Analysis mode (toggle forward).
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • • • • • • • • • Decimal – ON/OFF depth indication with decimal point (upper right side of display) during searching (toggle center position) EXAMPLE: 26.5. • Fraction – ON/OFF fractional depth indication (upper right side of display) during searching (toggle center position) EXAMPLE 26 . • Size - Selects the size of the depth indication during searching (toggle center position).
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 43 • Color – Select color choices for the Icon and Accept/Reject ranges. • Icon Ranges – ON/OFF. When ON, VDI number range of each Icon dictate their color. • Accept/Reject – ON/OFF. When ON, Spectragraph block colors indicate if that VDI number is currently being rejected or accepted by the current discrimination settings or program. Red = Reject. Green = Accept. • Sizing – Selects the size and location of each feature. • Depth – ON/OFF.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • • • • • • Signal – ON/OFF. When On averages graph signal over multiple search coil passes. • Scroll Rate – Adjust calibration and resolution of scrolling graph. • Rule – ON/OFF. When On displays reference scale on bottom of scan graph. • Title – ON/OFF. When ON, labels each frequency in use on graph. Pinpoint Meter – Select type of presentation to show on display for a target signal. • Depth – ON/OFF.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 45 • Resolution – Adjust how many VDI numbers contribute to a specific Spectragraph bar. • A higher number (larger range of VDI numbers for each bar) will produce fewer and wider Spectragraph bars. • Lower numbers produce more and thinner bars. • Compress – ON/OFF. When ON the iron Spectragraph range (-95 to -1) is minimized, allowing greater size dedicated to the + range when no iron range targets are of interest. • Rule – ON/OFF.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® • Size – Select the text size of the Menus, Sm, Med, Lg, X-Lg. • Expert Only – Select Expert Only to eliminate the secondary Six Block menu. Pressing Menu once brings up expert menu Color Pallet CUSTOM, allows custom color mixing options throughout the menu system. • Wrap – When ON, at the end of the Menu (last option) the menu automatically returns to the beginning (first option). When OFF, at the end of the Menu (last option) a warning sounds.
Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® 47 More on SpectraSound™ When selecting a channel other than Channel 4, an ENABLE/CONNECT sequence is required Select Wireless Headphones and press ENTER. 1. Press ENTER to Enable “X” in box” (turn on) Wireless Headphone transmitter. 2. Press Wireless Headphone Power Button to turn ON Wireless Headphone. 3. If there is significant wireless channel interference, the built in speaker will occasionally sound. A different Wireless channel should be considered.
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Complete Owner’s Guide - Spectra ® SPECTRASOUND SYSTEM - NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCRules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
