Help with Explorer XS/ Sounds

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, it has been about six months since my last post. Situation, I am hunting a CW camp and my problem is this. I am currently using the Sunray 5" coil with iron mask settings @16. I will switch between this and standard coin mode to dig the better finds. First problem is again the false signals. I adjusted my sensitivity to 20-24 in auto. I still get false signals in both iron mask as well as regular disc settings. The reason I switched to the smaller coil is that there is a plentitude of iron in this camp.
Second problem. Hut site bricks! In the Civil War the bricks were made with a material which incorporated iron. So whenever I am digging near a hut site with these bricks and hot rocks, the signals are everywhere these bricks are. If I reject the bricks which will be the upper r/hand corner of the screen then I am sure to reject some good items to. The machine also still signals off on the bricks even after they have been rejected. Any help would be appreciated! The camp that I have been digging in has been pounded and I know that there is stil an abundant amount of good finds there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Anonymous]

........this may speak a bit to both your questions.
If I want to cover a lot of area and it is ultra trashy and noisy, I will run a tight custom coin pattern usually accepting all the high coins and wheaties. I will also accept the nickel range (3 to 7 in Digital)
This set up for the most part will cut way down on the falsing noise, and make it easier to pick out the good signals. Sweeping the coil real slow will help separate the signals, and lowering sensitivity will help cut down noise however if you can get the tones and noise to a tolerable level without lowering sensitivity too much that would be best. The Explorer can see goodies within the Nulling and will even come through the noise, it's just becomes more of a hearing exercise to pick them out.
I'm sure this is just one possible approach, and it would be something I would try before opening up a target pattern with less area rejected or Iron mask. Iron mask, and lower rejection patterns allow you to hear more and even in the moderate to high trash/iron sites can be useful and advantagous, but I have hunted in some extremely high trash/iron sites that it was a bit too noisy a screen to hunt in and had to narrow the reject pattern.
GL/HH

 

[Anonymous]

I'm still very much trying to learn this machine. This site I found is ultra trashy and mineralized. The great part about it is that I'm finding older coins only a couple of inches deep. I'm sure others have been unable to find these items due to these conditions. Our exploders are fantastic machines!....D.

 

[Anonymous]

I would try upping iron mask to around -10, try running in manual sens so the explorer is nulling on the bricks and hunt slow.. I got some sites here with those type bricks and the explorer will see a good target right though them and a null. For the most part the high iron hits will read off the top of the smart screen while most good targets will read just a hair above or below the top