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Excalibur Sensitivity Setting-Beach Huntin
- Thread starter Surfline
- Start date
I used to run mine too high and got lots of false noise etc. After about a year of that I read that turning it down would work a lot better. I dig deeper targets now and its a lot more stable turning it down. I rarely have to move it much to smooth it out. I'm sure you'll get a lot better explanations from others. Try it and you'll see that it works.
Cal
Cal
SandPhantom
Member
Between 6-8 on the Excal II is what I use. Rarely do i use more. Im pulling coins pretty deep.
I agree with Sandphantom. Between 6 and 8 is the ticket. If your looking for depth, hunt in pinpoint and when you get a signal switch back to disc and see if it nulls or sings. If it has no noise (your just hearing your threshold) dig it up until you can see what it is. I routinely dig rings and coins up to 20" this way.
I have been running mine between numbers 4 & 5 will try between 6 &8 and let you guys know how I make out. I have been averaging a ring every 4 hours with sensitivity between 4 & 5, I hope when I get back to the beaches I normally hunt the conditions are similar. I have Clive's book and and he said when in doubt lower the sensitivity, I think I will
"EXPAND MY HORIZON, go for the gusto
Gerry
"EXPAND MY HORIZON, go for the gusto
Gerry
JOHNMARKHAM
New member
ive been running about 8 and seems to be just fine for me...
found this ring at about 16 inches....
found this ring at about 16 inches....
too much sensitivity is detrimental to depth and clarity of the tones,( they will sound strained) you will get nulls where nothing is there, any slight touch of the sand may sound off but not always, you are better off with a more moderate sensitivity in all metal than trying to max out in disc, put it at highnoon in disc and go from there, less in all metal
Thanks Kered,
When hunting the wet sand, my sensitivity dial is "clicked" to AUTO and the discriminate (top of the unit) is turned fully counterclockwise (1). I hunt in all metal mode, then switch to disc (bottom of the unit) if I want to know if the target is iron or not. I am looking for depth. What do you think about these settings? These settings have worked well for me in the past, but could I do better with some adjustments?
Thanks,
Surfline
When hunting the wet sand, my sensitivity dial is "clicked" to AUTO and the discriminate (top of the unit) is turned fully counterclockwise (1). I hunt in all metal mode, then switch to disc (bottom of the unit) if I want to know if the target is iron or not. I am looking for depth. What do you think about these settings? These settings have worked well for me in the past, but could I do better with some adjustments?
Thanks,
Surfline
Great info from you experienced hunters! I was using Disc 1, sensitivity at about 7 on my Excal II (11 O'clock on an older non-numbered Sensitivity unit) . When I hit a good target, I tried switching to AM and it was not as obvious a signal. This I thought strange. These were clad coins. I tried switching to AM when the Disc 1 signal was feeble and likely a deep clad coin, to see if AM signals would be more obvious, telling me I might be missing deeper targets in Disc1. Yet I thought that Disc 1 was at least just as clear of a signal. I'll have to check this again very carefully based on these posts in the thread here. So I was getting at least equal depth but still using discrimination to boot. Because I felt this was occurring, it made Disc the best mode to use.
Maybe I need to tune using method below???
example: If I am swinging in Disc 1, Sens 7, nice steady threshold, and just get a little fluxuation that is repeatable indicating perhaps a deep "good" non ferrous target, should this signal not become MORE obvious when I switch to AM/Pinpoint if this is a deeper mode? Or, should I switch to AM and if it is not more obvious. play with Sensitivity until it is more obvious? Then I know that AM will be going deeper, correct? This to me would seem a viable way to tune for Maximum Depth in AM over and above Disc 1. It may take some hunting to find a target that allows this, but what do you all think about this method?
Maybe I need to tune using method below???
example: If I am swinging in Disc 1, Sens 7, nice steady threshold, and just get a little fluxuation that is repeatable indicating perhaps a deep "good" non ferrous target, should this signal not become MORE obvious when I switch to AM/Pinpoint if this is a deeper mode? Or, should I switch to AM and if it is not more obvious. play with Sensitivity until it is more obvious? Then I know that AM will be going deeper, correct? This to me would seem a viable way to tune for Maximum Depth in AM over and above Disc 1. It may take some hunting to find a target that allows this, but what do you all think about this method?
I'm not keen on air tests. I think that really, If I'm putting 3-4 hours in at a location, I'd like to to start with a tuning that has worked elsewhere and when the opportunity of running into a very obscure good target presents itself, do some diagnostics right then and there. I'd like to think that one ideal method is best for everywhere, but could it be that certain ground conditions make Disc deeper than AM? It will be easy to test things like that over time. By the way, I'ver heard very few positive comments on Auto. I'd be very surprised of you go deeper on Auto. Most comments that I have read are that Auto will lessen depth and that the first thing to do is click out of auto!
If you run into a target at the edge of detectability, its an opportunity to test your machine in many ways before digging that I think will provide much more info than an air test could.
The ground is such an integral part of the event of detecting that removing it to me results in not much of a conclusive test at all.
After reading the posts this thread, I keep asking myself why I did not take some time on my second hunt and do this more thoroughly? Why??? Because I was "DIG CRAZY!!!". Got to get it out da ground!!!!! I was like an early ape man in 2001, A Space Odyssey. Time to evolve now. I'll be anxious to hear your results. Can there be variance from machine to machine?
If you run into a target at the edge of detectability, its an opportunity to test your machine in many ways before digging that I think will provide much more info than an air test could.
The ground is such an integral part of the event of detecting that removing it to me results in not much of a conclusive test at all.
After reading the posts this thread, I keep asking myself why I did not take some time on my second hunt and do this more thoroughly? Why??? Because I was "DIG CRAZY!!!". Got to get it out da ground!!!!! I was like an early ape man in 2001, A Space Odyssey. Time to evolve now. I'll be anxious to hear your results. Can there be variance from machine to machine?
forget AUTO you will lose an amazing amount of depth, i would only suggest auto in a real highly mineralized zone when nothing else seems to help quieting the machine.
An easy thing to try, put sens at 12 oclock and go hunt in disc, when you find a quiet target switch to auto and quite often it will disapear or be very broken, you have the same difference in AM vs disc, hunt in AM till you find a target switch to disc to check for iron, sooner or later you will come across a target that is very faint in AM, switching to disc mode you won't pick it up at all and will have to scrape off some sand to get it to register, if you get a iffy null/beep scrape of a bit more and look for a solid null before leaving it, quite often that iffy null will turn out to be a good target.
An easy thing to try, put sens at 12 oclock and go hunt in disc, when you find a quiet target switch to auto and quite often it will disapear or be very broken, you have the same difference in AM vs disc, hunt in AM till you find a target switch to disc to check for iron, sooner or later you will come across a target that is very faint in AM, switching to disc mode you won't pick it up at all and will have to scrape off some sand to get it to register, if you get a iffy null/beep scrape of a bit more and look for a solid null before leaving it, quite often that iffy null will turn out to be a good target.