For you folks stuggling with the Explorer..

[Anonymous]

I suggest that you forget all the hype, the learn modes, the smartfind, etc. until you are confident in your machine and finding coins regularly.
I suggest you use this simple set up until you reach this point.
1. Turn on your machine and click on Iron Mask..
2. Set your Iron Mask to minus 10
3. Click on Iron Mask again and you will see the detecting screen. Set the sensitivity at 28..
Now go detecting and Dig Every Repeatable Signal. With each signal, view the position of the bullseye and soon you will see how it relates to the tone. However, always dig EVERY REPEATABLE SIGNAL.
To NOT dig will cost you coins sooner or later.
It really is THAT SIMPLE!
Any questions on this, post here or email me.
Good Luck..
Jim Vokes NY

 

[Anonymous]

On where you are hunting as 28 would be considered very high here, while others can go to 32, but I would recomend always using manual sensitivity if possible. I start off at around 20 and if it is real stable raise it a bit and if it is not stable at 20 I will lower it a bit.
learned programs are great to cherry pick, but agree you will miss the coins others get that have the patience to run iron mask at 10 or lower.
I feel many do well with their setting and programs for thier part of the country as the found what works the best, while these same setting and programs may not do very good for a person in another part of the country, but what Jim is saying other than the setting sensitivity at 28 will be a good starting place to start for most everyone and tweek it to what works the best for you once you understand the Explorer.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

But sometimes it gets to much static due to the ground mineralization and I switch to auto and sometimes that takes care of it.
Good point about tweeking sensitivity.. Start at 32 and if it is staticy keep lowering it until it calms down.
But the main point as I said is keep it simple and don't adjust the factory presets or other options until you are finding coins regularly and are comfortable with the machine.
I believe most experienced detectorist finally get to the point where they hardly ever look at the screen and dig according to the tone signal quality.

 

[Anonymous]

I am new to the explorer and did just what you said. It works and you learn fast. I recently dug a colonial belt buckle while on vacation in upstate NY. I dig all repeatable targets I also dug a few coins and civil war era token, and a few colonial era buttons. I have since progressed slightly and prefer running Iron Mask at -16 when I can, I also changed my tones to ferrous but dig all repeatable signals and you will be rewarded! I will keep these setting for a while.
Tamarac Mike

 

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[Anonymous]

Hey Jim,
If you run open screen in conductivity almost every chunk of iron sounds good. Even IM-15 will knock out most of the iron and you can still run conductive.
I run open screen much of the time, except a little chunk of the lower left (bottle caps) blacked out. I see several other that post here do the same. Think it is a matter of what one is used to. I prefer hearing the low tones over iron instead of nulling. I've played around with other settings and think you can probably run IM-13/14 before you risk masking out coins next to iron.

 

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