For everyone in Nimbus' predicament, here's some good advice for starting with any of the explorers (ETs, XS, II, SE, etc..).
For starters, take it to a place that's prolific with clad (junky modern parks, that no one else, hunts, for instance, or at least, where no one mines the clad from the surface stratas...). Then:
1) set your disc. screen edits to black out EVERYTHING except the far upper right, so that only copper dimes, copper pennies, and quarters come in. Yup, you're going to pass zinc, screwcaps, and everything else below! Do that for an entire day, so that you dig *only* shallow copper pennies and quarters that are easy to lock on in that upper far right section of the screen. By doing this, you will be training your mind on those "gimmee" sounds.
2) Then the next day, return to that same park, and THIS time you'll drop down the TID screen to a little further left and down, so as to allow non-corroded zinc in. Again you'll have all else edited out below that. Again hunt for a few hours that way.
3) Then the next day, return and lower the disc. screen edits down some more to allow corroded zinc, and square tabs in. You'll still be passing all the round tabs, foil, nickels, etc... And yes, by having selective edits (cherry picking), yes this doesn't give you benefits of doubt on deeper waffling ones (that don't lock on as well). But for training, you can't skip these steps!! Hunt for multiple hours on this day, this way.
4) Then the next day, return again and drop it down to accept round tabs......
And so forth, and so on on, continually dropping it each day down another notch or two, till FINALLY you can hunt with smart screen (where you let your ears do the judging).
Because if you don't do it this way, and run out instead in smart screen or two-tone ferrous with the screen wide open, is only a recipe for disaster, to someone who's just pulled it out of the box. It is too un-like other machines (for those coming from Whites, for instance) to do this.
The above outlined method works great for the Excalibur and Sovereign too. People have been driven bonkers with them. So to solve that, you tell them to crank the disc to it's highest spot (to where it only finds the highest conductive coins). Send them out to a junky sandbox or turf or whatever. Then the next day, they return and go one notch lower. And keep repeating till they've eventually lowered to the lowest setting. In that way, each tone category is indelibly entrenched in your mind, as a distinguishable differentiable TID tone. Rather than a flock of sick geese.
For starters, take it to a place that's prolific with clad (junky modern parks, that no one else, hunts, for instance, or at least, where no one mines the clad from the surface stratas...). Then:
1) set your disc. screen edits to black out EVERYTHING except the far upper right, so that only copper dimes, copper pennies, and quarters come in. Yup, you're going to pass zinc, screwcaps, and everything else below! Do that for an entire day, so that you dig *only* shallow copper pennies and quarters that are easy to lock on in that upper far right section of the screen. By doing this, you will be training your mind on those "gimmee" sounds.
2) Then the next day, return to that same park, and THIS time you'll drop down the TID screen to a little further left and down, so as to allow non-corroded zinc in. Again you'll have all else edited out below that. Again hunt for a few hours that way.
3) Then the next day, return and lower the disc. screen edits down some more to allow corroded zinc, and square tabs in. You'll still be passing all the round tabs, foil, nickels, etc... And yes, by having selective edits (cherry picking), yes this doesn't give you benefits of doubt on deeper waffling ones (that don't lock on as well). But for training, you can't skip these steps!! Hunt for multiple hours on this day, this way.
4) Then the next day, return again and drop it down to accept round tabs......
And so forth, and so on on, continually dropping it each day down another notch or two, till FINALLY you can hunt with smart screen (where you let your ears do the judging).
Because if you don't do it this way, and run out instead in smart screen or two-tone ferrous with the screen wide open, is only a recipe for disaster, to someone who's just pulled it out of the box. It is too un-like other machines (for those coming from Whites, for instance) to do this.
The above outlined method works great for the Excalibur and Sovereign too. People have been driven bonkers with them. So to solve that, you tell them to crank the disc to it's highest spot (to where it only finds the highest conductive coins). Send them out to a junky sandbox or turf or whatever. Then the next day, they return and go one notch lower. And keep repeating till they've eventually lowered to the lowest setting. In that way, each tone category is indelibly entrenched in your mind, as a distinguishable differentiable TID tone. Rather than a flock of sick geese.