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what if any changes would you make from the factory presets. this is my first time out. have read the manual front to back and back to front more than once. realy want to learn this detector. ron
 
The easiest change & one that should help is to turn up the sensitivity as high as you can without the threshold tone becoming unstable. Many of the settings are just personal preference, no such thing as incorrect if you like the results. HH, George (MN)
 
Here's a tip I just learned about the explorer
it's really helped me on hunting in trash and
on deep iffy targets. the minelab will false
like any other detector but when you get a
good sounding signal go very slow and sweep
the coil very narow over the target only one
inch sweeps or less. iorn falses almost always
go away when you do this and old silver coins
will just scream that high tone. pop cans might
still fool you but you can size them buy sweeping
around the area. Trust the tones they ar much
more accurate than the screen on deep stuff. this
is one amazing detector when you start to learn
how to use it. I pulled a 7 inch deep 1952 dime
out of an area that I could'nt even get a
threshold tone in, solid iorn null but I heard
the high tone narowed my sweep and it just started screaming silver. I do'nt think theirs
another detector out thier that could have found
this dime in this kind of ground. I was very
impressed and I think you will be to when you
start to learn more aboute what it can do.
Good luck
 
Ron,
I first drop the Threshold to 6 for a quiet TH, personal choice as a constant hum drives me BATTY!!!. I then raise the Gain to 7 and set the Sensitivity to Auto 32 and drop it to where it becomes the most stable. Sometimes depending on the soil conditions it can run at 32, other times I will have to drop it to around 22-23.I am still a newbie myself so I use Digital screen and switch to the crosshair and decide whether to dig or not.The only signals I leave are the ones that hit and hold in the upper left of the screen ( iron ) and 1 - 2 on the digital screen ( mostly foil ). These are what I have found by asking lots of questions and trying different settings to be IMO, good set-ups. I also use Iron Mask set at -13 to -14 and flip to the crosshair to decide if it's digable. In this set-up it can be very noisy if there is lots of trash. Hope this rambling on and on helps!
HH, Tony
 
changed senc.to 26 and theresh to what i could hardly hear. first i found a 1965 quarter,at 6 inches. then a 1929 pennie at about 4 inches, then a 1963 pennie at about 8 inches. this was all in about a hour at my fathers house. this is all after i had hunt alot with my xlt over the last 2 years. this is great. hh ron
 
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