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Can anybody explain exactly what is the "EXPLORER WIGGLE"? I have seen

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previous references to it on this forum, and I am sure a lot of others out there would also appreciate the info! Thanks!
 
more or less its just keeping the target under the hot line of the coil.. not sweeping the whole coil off the target and back on.. very quick left to right seewps directly over the target with little left to right movement.. maybe a couple inches to each side of the target max.. If you do this using fast response and normal audio you will generally get a very solid tone on good targets, and a warbling tone on junk. you can also circle the target at the same time you are doing this sweep, without going off the target.. if the tone still remains steady and the same tone, then your almost certainly over something good.. this goes for all tones, low or high in conductive mode.. the lowest tones you can leave in ferrous mode.. also on the very faint iffy targets the quicker the left to right motion during the wiggle will generally give you a better lock on of the target and better response too.. it gives the explorer more time to evailuate the target the longer its under the hot spot, but you need motion for the explore as well, so the way to do it is with little left to right motion.. I do this with every machine, not only the minelabs, but the other machi9nes dont have the edge sensitivity the ML's do.. so if you sweep too far off the target and get it under the edge of the coil with the explorer it can make a good target warble nd you wont be able to tell a good from bad target as easy.. keep the coil flat and as close to the ground as possible as well.. the higher off the ground the coil is the more falsing you get
 
The minelab detects deeper when it passes quickly over a target, especially in auto sensitivity. Try waving a coin over the coil at different speeds and sensitivities and you'll see it your self. Suspect that the speed causes a bigger dV/dT, maybe at slower speeds a slow change in signal makes the explorer think that ground mineralization conditions are changing and balances it out.
So a quick wiggle over the target utilises this fact and you will get a more accurate ID. The shortness of the wiggle stroke is to avoid picking up nearby trash signals.
Everybody says the Explorer is a slow sweep detector, but that is not true. It CAN be worked slow, better than most other detectors. Most of us are finding our goodies in heavy trash where previous detectors out getting exercise swinging their weed whackers a couple of feet off the ground have missed targets that are masked by trash buried somewhere in the same same county.
Chris
 
Hey Larry,
Yea, it sounds pretty dumb! But anyway, here's the way I do it:
1. In trashy areas, I put my 7.5" coil (the center plastic member with the minelab sticker on it) directly over the signal source. Then I grab my lower shaft with my left hand (Ha Ha Ha!) and rapidly swing the coil over the signal. My sweep distance is about 3 inches, and I do about 6 right/left swings per second. I am checking to see how active the signal is. If the signal is high and warbling and sounds like hesitant tones poking out of null, I do not dig. If the signal sounds like uninhibited warbling where the tones are not diluted by silence, then I dig the target.
2. If the area is not too trashy and the target sounds kind of deep, I do the same rapid swinging except that my swing distance is about 4 or 5 inches wide and I do about 4 right/left swings per second.
The "wiggle" is a method to improve signal response and you must be directly over your target for the method to work.
Mike
 
Short side to side movements 3-4 inches dont believe that sacrificing a steady threshold for sensitivity will help, it will miss the valuable deep items and after a rain if coin type targets shriek your program is faulty and use conduct on deep coins to get the proper sound shape which is what we go by 32-34 sens auto willwork on harmony with the groung track because using manual you have big time trouble knowing when to adjust, this is where most operators make mistakes, and use noise cancel on every spot to eliminate the problems people try to adjust. this help the unit to work in harmony. Come to the LT chat i have a proigram that either i or Gare can relate HH
 
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