EXII without discrim

[bluefin]

Hello All,

I'm a brand new EXII user (this past weekend) and, first, I must say that this machine is definitely incredible. I really don't see a large learning curve with regard to the instructions and have been playing around a bit and am awestruck by the number of discrimination variables that can be programmed. I've even been detecting under power lines in the "factory setting" after noise cancellation.

My question is.....to get the deepest possible with the EXII, would you need to eliminate all discrimination (i.e. white screen) and then go by cursor position and tones? This sounds like the most powerful setting if not in a bunch of iron trash. Anyway, the tones are pretty well easy to learn with copper and silver high and iron nickel low. Maybe I'm being too simplistic? I am hunting 17th century farm fields and need to go deep. Last year picked out several conn. coppers, a two reale silver and a 1798 large cent.....with my Tesoro Lobo!

Appreciate any comments, suggestions and I guess I will be paying a lot more attention to you pros out there.

Bill

 

[RingProfessional]

Hi glad to hear you like your explorer 2, Well you asked if you are going to get deeper by using a clear screen , i have tried lots of different discrimination patterns and to be honest i cant see any difference in detection depth by using all metal or discrimination , This is the cool thing about the explorer you can discriminate and get great depth too.

 

[bluefin]

Thanks Ring. I went out yesterday using a clear screen on an area I had previously beat to death....and found a flying eagle penny! Might just be that I missed that particular spot in discrim. Seems like putting together the tones and cursor position on a clear screen is easy and I can still avoid the most of the iron, tabs and cans. I always thought that any discrimination will reduce workable depth.

 

[RingProfessional]

Yea thats fine on sites without a great deal of mineralization / trash. The best i can manage over here in the uk is to run with an iron mask setting of about 12 i dont think many over here run in all metal i think it would drive the user nuts. You may be right though i think you could a slight advantage using a clear screen on a worked out site cos you would not get any nulling like you do with a pattern.. I tried it a few times but i found the going too slow having to analyse signals with every sweep of the coil - you see most of our sites over here are packed with high amounts of trash / mineralization and not to mention cash.