I have a few questions

[Anonymous]

I am new to the explorer, one week and have a few questions.
1. What is the threshold for. Since it nulls when over a descriminated item why use it. The explorer makes enough sounds without that thing going all the time.
2. Iron Mask. Can you hunt in that mode. I have tried hunting at -15 so as to see where items show up on the screen, is that the correct usage for iron mask. When I use the factory preset I miss other interesting items that are not coins.
3. I have heard the explorer will get unstable, what does that mean and how will the machine act when unstable.
Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

1. I like to hear something going on in the background so I set the threashold at 7.
2. I hunt at -6 to -10 although I much prefer the lower setting due to plenty of nails that I've dug at -10.
3. Hunt with the sensitivity on manual at a setting that barely breaks up. Thats where I've had my best luck.
Take care,
Tim

 

[Anonymous]

The threshold helps alert you that a target is present. Sometimes a "null" can be a very deep "good" target. When you get a short null its always best to scan the area slowly and from many different directions. Try air testing a coin at 5"~6" from the 10.5 coil. You will notice a "blip" . It sorta starts as a high tone and "blips" to a null. This is the DEEP COIN sound everyone listens for. It is hard to learn and the target is subject to bounce around on deep stuff. Airtesting is your best way to learn the tones.
IRON MASK is another mode for hunting. Most people hunt with IRON settings of -8 to -10. The more you open up the screen the more low tone iron you will here. I have found iron nulls that would mask a good target like a nail close to a coin. Opening up the iron mask will help the machine produce both tones. FAST recovery will help the machine reset faster to prevent skipping over good targets that are close to bad ones. I have heard of pennies lying on the surface being masked by iron. You could see the penny, yet there was no tone due to the machine "nuling" out an iron target. Its pretty confusing to start with so experience is the only way to get the "feel" for proper use.
Ustable means usually high ground miniralization. This condition is best handled with Semi-auto sensitivity for the beginner. After you get more comfortable with the machine you can switch to manual and listen to the "falsing" (blips and chirps that are not repeatable signals). Running high sensitivity in manual creates too much extra noise for the beginner....too many sounds to sort out.
Try this....FERROUS sounds and hunt in IRON MASK -8....push it to -10 if there are lots of nulls. Use 30 semi-auto sensitivity. Every no and then try coming off semi-auto and see if you can get smooth operation (not too many nulls or falses)with 20-25 sensitivity. Using FERROUS sounds will let you here the iron(low tones). Remeber FERROUS sound tones are based on the horizontal scale (inductance) not vertical (conductivity). Far right is high, far left is low. I'm not real sure, but most of the vets think discrim mode will cause you to miss deep(old) coins. IRON MASK seems to be the most favored hunting mode.
Hope this helps
HH STEVE

 

[Anonymous]

Personally I think the threshold is one of the most important features, If you run silent you reall cant tell the ground conditions or amoumt of trash if running in disc. If the threshold nulls you know your over a disced out target or iron, depending what your setup is.. this alertts you to slow down.. on the other hand if your getting a solid threshold you can hunt a bit faster and just stop to check on quick nulls or chirps.. as for iron mask I generally use it at all sites and listen to everything. some good targets read in areas you might disc out, but the audio quality on a good target is generally better, so you get some nice stuff that is normally ignored. You can get away with higher iron mask settings in the more iron free areas, but in complete nulls(but you need to hear the nulls) it alerts you to iron, first of all where there is iron there is good stuff so thats one more reson for threshold, send it tells you that you might want to lower iron mask down, it allows the explorer to recover quicker and see the good stuff in that iron.. if you go down to the -15 16 level you might want to use ferrous sounds to distinguishe good targets easier.. as for the noise I assume your talking about interference, most times noise cancel will get rid of most and to hear what it sounds like turn on your explorer in the house near the tv or computer <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="">

 

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