Considering the Explorer Se for hunt silver coins, relic and some beach hunting. Will anyone with experience give me the pro and cons of this machine. I live in the southeastern part of NC ( Wilmington Area) if this helps. Any positive input will be greathly appreciated. Thanks!
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Experience Explorer Se Users
- Thread starter Reddog777
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MNCoinhunter
Active member
I can't think of any cons. It's a great detector once you figure out what it is telling you. It loves coins .. especially silver ones ! Good luck !
JAN1
Active member
Don't take any notice of the readings you get when in pinpoint.
I must have missed loads of things before I realised that I was getting false readings when in pinpoint.
The best thing I did was to buy Andy's book, I stopped using the explorer as it seemed to be sending out Morse code all the time. I have now started to use the gold program in the book, page 192 I think which is very stable and hardly gives a beep unless it detects something.
Got to go now I have two never before detected fields to go and see.
I must have missed loads of things before I realised that I was getting false readings when in pinpoint.
The best thing I did was to buy Andy's book, I stopped using the explorer as it seemed to be sending out Morse code all the time. I have now started to use the gold program in the book, page 192 I think which is very stable and hardly gives a beep unless it detects something.
Got to go now I have two never before detected fields to go and see.
Big Fang Coin Biter
New member
Hello Reddog777,
As Jan1 said, the detector takes some getting use to. Advice to first time Explorer users is to use the factory preset settings until you get the hang of the tones and what it is telling you. Personally I prefer the Explorer II over the SE. They are very similar but the SE I had, didn't ID iron as well (FOR ME). You will be amazed at the way an 8" coin sings out! You will also be amazed at good targets next to junk that you can hear easily. To me it is the raw depth with accurate tones that makes this machine great.
There are a couple things that users have complained about for years. Weight is one thing - good for young bodies, a pain for older ones. Next is the display ID, it only really works good in clean ground. Here is how it works... when you detect a target the cursor moves to the proper spot upon the resumption of the threshold tone. If you are detecting over many targets, the threshold tone may never come back and the cursor gets stuck. This has given rise to the "Explorer ID Flail" where the target is swept, then the coil is flailed upward in an attempt to get the darn thing to show on the display. Don't worry though, because the tone ID is right on the money. That is what is great about the Explorer, you do not have to spend any time staring at the screen, because 95% of the ID is done by ear. People have complained about glare on the screen, but it never bothered me much.
Don't be too concerned about the learning curve. For me it was very short. Like maybe three days and I "got it". Others have more trouble. Of course even after you "get it" the Explorer will keep teaching you it's language.
Hope this helps and HH - BF
As Jan1 said, the detector takes some getting use to. Advice to first time Explorer users is to use the factory preset settings until you get the hang of the tones and what it is telling you. Personally I prefer the Explorer II over the SE. They are very similar but the SE I had, didn't ID iron as well (FOR ME). You will be amazed at the way an 8" coin sings out! You will also be amazed at good targets next to junk that you can hear easily. To me it is the raw depth with accurate tones that makes this machine great.
There are a couple things that users have complained about for years. Weight is one thing - good for young bodies, a pain for older ones. Next is the display ID, it only really works good in clean ground. Here is how it works... when you detect a target the cursor moves to the proper spot upon the resumption of the threshold tone. If you are detecting over many targets, the threshold tone may never come back and the cursor gets stuck. This has given rise to the "Explorer ID Flail" where the target is swept, then the coil is flailed upward in an attempt to get the darn thing to show on the display. Don't worry though, because the tone ID is right on the money. That is what is great about the Explorer, you do not have to spend any time staring at the screen, because 95% of the ID is done by ear. People have complained about glare on the screen, but it never bothered me much.
Don't be too concerned about the learning curve. For me it was very short. Like maybe three days and I "got it". Others have more trouble. Of course even after you "get it" the Explorer will keep teaching you it's language.
Hope this helps and HH - BF
JAN1
Active member
I find no trouble with using the SE on salt beaches which is a good job as there are about 300 within an hours drive from where we live in Cornwall.
On the smartfind screen with the gold program I used the medium cursor to blank out the top of the screen as the large cursor didn't detect the sovereign that I found previously. As I have said before I used this program as you could spend all day digging up pennies and half pennies on the beaches, best or worst day was 158 which is a lot of digging.
I was talking to a detectorist on the beach at the weekend and he said that he sold his SE because of all the noises that it was making. Doesn't seem to make any difference what changes you make it still sounds as though it is sending out Morse code.
I agree with Big fang coin biter, I mainly use the sounds it makes and not use the screen unless I need to confirm a signal as there is loads of Aluminium on our beaches.
On the smartfind screen with the gold program I used the medium cursor to blank out the top of the screen as the large cursor didn't detect the sovereign that I found previously. As I have said before I used this program as you could spend all day digging up pennies and half pennies on the beaches, best or worst day was 158 which is a lot of digging.
I was talking to a detectorist on the beach at the weekend and he said that he sold his SE because of all the noises that it was making. Doesn't seem to make any difference what changes you make it still sounds as though it is sending out Morse code.
I agree with Big fang coin biter, I mainly use the sounds it makes and not use the screen unless I need to confirm a signal as there is loads of Aluminium on our beaches.
deeponedge
New member
Take your time with it bud. The only con I know of is the small learning curve from all the sounds.
My Explorer is on it's way. Can't wait till it get here. All the positive input that out weights the few negative (which are no obstacles to me) convinces me that this is the one for me. A fellow more experience beach hunter (I think he is called Tinker) gave me some good tips hunting the beach and on the Explorer. I love the tones on the detector as well as the ability to " tweak" it. I am a knob turning or a botton pressing geak. I've used the Sov. Gt which is the best the detector I've ever owned. I have learn a lot from it from as well as had many finds. I am not trying to say that one is better than the other because each one does what it is design to do. Just want to expeience some difference. Thanks all for the input.
JAN1
Active member
Just another idea.
I spent yesterday down one of our local beaches which had been scoured out by 80-100 mph winds last week, there were literally tons of scrap iron laying around on the rocks, what I had to do was swing the SE as slow as I possibly move it until it was hardly moving when it was nulling out on the iron before re-setting, it was picking up good signals next to big pieces of iron, so I ended the day with 25 coins and a lot of copper items, should pay for fuel and batteries.
I spent yesterday down one of our local beaches which had been scoured out by 80-100 mph winds last week, there were literally tons of scrap iron laying around on the rocks, what I had to do was swing the SE as slow as I possibly move it until it was hardly moving when it was nulling out on the iron before re-setting, it was picking up good signals next to big pieces of iron, so I ended the day with 25 coins and a lot of copper items, should pay for fuel and batteries.