Excaliber 2 Excitement and Questions

[desmond]

Hey all. Bought the Excal 2 from Demarco Detectors. What an awesome guy. Called me twice to answer questions. Just a stand up dude. Took her out this morning. Have some questions. This is what I was searching on:descriminate 4, sens 6, disc on. Pulled alot of bottle caps in waist deep water. One question. The machine seemed to now and again catch a high signal or almost thresh hold, and stay at that tone until it seemed to pick up another target, then it would switch to another tone? Also, I tried doing some dry sand hunting. Weird. Lots of signals, but hard to get solid ones? Found a new penny on the top of the beach, and went over it, kind of weird. I'm not sure I would know a solid quarter if I hit it. Does in hit loud and solid on dry beach? Should I use pin point on dry beach? Dug about 25 or thirty bottle caps in the water, just trying to get used to it. Des in Buffalo

 

[stpauli914]

The threshold will change after you go over a ferrous or non ferrous(iron) target. The higher threshold is more pleasing and I tend to bring my scoop close to the coil to bring the higher pitch threshold back if it goes low. The reason a lot of your target signals were't "solid" is because they were caps which have multiple metals in them. Take some jewerly(gold and silver) out with you next time and run your coil over it. Distinct sound that doesn't change tones very much, if at all, on multiple sweeps. Sounds like your detector is doing exactly what it should. It's a learning curve. I have about 20 hours on my new Excal 2 and learn something new every trip.

Keep it up,
Aaron

 

[Joe of South Jersey]

The Excalibur has what in other model is called "Pitch Hold". What this means is that the thres. pitch remains the same as the last target passed over. Also, Remember That volume is Target Volume ONLY

Example:
If you pass your scoop over it is a high tone. (per stpauli914) So, The thres. pitch changes and stays high until the next targets is detected.

If you pass over a piece of iron that is disc. The tone then changes to the low grawling pitch.

Hope this helps to understand the threshold.

 

[w6pea]

Interesting.
I am not really familiar with the Excalibur, I use a Sovereign Gt. I believe that my Sovereign has a similar feature.

Thank you for your explanation.

 

[jyt2017]

Lower your discrimination to just above 1, if not 1 or as low as it will go. Otherwise you will inevitably cancel out small gold rings. HH -Joe.

Hey all. Bought the Excal 2 from Demarco Detectors. What an awesome guy. Called me twice to answer questions. Just a stand up dude. Took her out this morning. Have some questions. This is what I was searching on:descriminate 4, sens 6, disc on. Pulled alot of bottle caps in waist deep water. One question. The machine seemed to now and again catch a high signal or almost thresh hold, and stay at that tone until it seemed to pick up another target, then it would switch to another tone? Also, I tried doing some dry sand hunting. Weird. Lots of signals, but hard to get solid ones? Found a new penny on the top of the beach, and went over it, kind of weird. I'm not sure I would know a solid quarter if I hit it. Does in hit loud and solid on dry beach? Should I use pin point on dry beach? Dug about 25 or thirty bottle caps in the water, just trying to get used to it. Des in Buffalo

 

[desmond]

Thanks so much everyone! Des in Buffalo

 

[Willee - Texas]

Hey all. Bought the Excal 2 from Demarco Detectors. What an awesome guy. Called me twice to answer questions. Just a stand up dude. Took her out this morning. Have some questions. This is what I was searching on:descriminate 4, sens 6, disc on. Pulled alot of bottle caps in waist deep water. One question. The machine seemed to now and again catch a high signal or almost thresh hold, and stay at that tone until it seemed to pick up another target, then it would switch to another tone? Also, I tried doing some dry sand hunting. Weird. Lots of signals, but hard to get solid ones? Found a new penny on the top of the beach, and went over it, kind of weird. I'm not sure I would know a solid quarter if I hit it. Does in hit loud and solid on dry beach? Should I use pin point on dry beach? Dug about 25 or thirty bottle caps in the water, just trying to get used to it. Des in Buffalo

Des, if you have used a Sovereign GT then the Excal should be very much the same with its sounds.

I use a Excalibur II with the 8" coil and never go to pinpoint mode.
It should hit solid on a good target.

Using it in dry sand for a while is a very good way to get used to how it works.
A little practice will reduce your learning time.
Place a few targets (gold ring, quarter, zinc penny, pull tab) in the sand and hear how the detector reacts to them.

Willee

 

[txkickergirl]

Yes turn your discrim down to at lest 1 I run at zero, but if you want the gold you have to dig the tabs and some caps anyway.

When you go along and your threshold spikes and holds, there is a chance that there is something there, it just is too deep to put out a clear signal, that is why you want an audible threshold. Usually if you take a scoop or too you can get a solid sound.

 

[chip0877]

Des, You went and joined the dark side. I think I am now the only person left still using a BHID.
I will be interested in your progress with that machine since I've been offered to buy a used excal 1000, just can't swing the cash for a new excal 2.
I'm just getting started water hunting this season, I'll keep you posted on results. Chip