Got My new Excal yesterday and .....

[allison]

Greetings, I received my Excal 1000 yesterday. Spent about an hour with it and another hour and one half today. I am wondering what you all have found about the "learning curve" for this machine? I did find a couple of quarters and about 8 other coins, a shell casing, a bungee cord, a bolt, and a nail. But - I am frustrated. I hope I just have to get used to it but I have trouble knowing exactly where the target is, getting the tone to reset, distinguishing tones, setting the dials etc. Sometimes I go over a target and get a strong high tone then go back to pinpoint it and it is gone! Weird sounds etc.
I have read the instruction very carefully more than twice, heeded suggestions from this forum etc. I have excellent sites to search (lake Michigan beaches, river mouths etc)
I welcome all suggestions and "hints"
I really want to master this thing.
Al

 

[normdiver]

go on beach and water detecting forum, read back in posts, we just talked about that last week, for me
discriminate, not pin point
discriminate knob on 1
volume- where u like it
threshold- so u can just hear it
senstivity- put it at 11:00 position
now go get the gold, dont worry about all the tone changeing, it will do the job

 

[bdahunter]

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You've got to do what works for your conditions but the settings that Norm and I use (as well as a lot of other Excal users) seem to be successful in most areas.

Cheers,

BDA