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Just picked up a excal 1000....question
- Thread starter KCK
- Start date
You can buy them from his site:grumpyolman
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I have followed Gulf Hunter's settings from day one and have found what I'm looking for. I'm sure he'll read this and type them all again. You could use the 'search' function and look up his posts. You can do that by subject, author, etc. If I remembered them I'd tell you but I just leave it set there so don't check what it is. Just that the pointer on the dial is in the correct direction...Jim
grumpyolman
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n/t
Gulf Hunter
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OK grumpy, you told KCK to look over the old posts, figured that was enough ammo to gitter done, savvy? Here they are again(these change from time to time, but that is where I'm at now), Discrimination on 1 (leave it there, if you like to find gold), Sensitivity on 12 (may be able to run 11 if stable)for Excal and 6 for Excal lI (may be able to run 5 if stable), Volume wide open, Threshold barely audible (listen for the VERY high pitched strained tone and get out of it, asap) low or mid growl is best, and Disc. The reason I warn about the high pitched strained tone, is the unit is not dealing well with the ground and losing depth. Either the sensitivity is too high or you are sweeping too fast. Pinpoint (all-metal) can be run with depth gains in clean/intermediate clean surf areas, where a PI could be used. Best of luck to ya mate!
Grumpy (Texas)
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GH,
Can you tell much difference between the Excal and the Excal II? I see your settings have changed sine I got my 800.
Grumpy (TX)
Can you tell much difference between the Excal and the Excal II? I see your settings have changed sine I got my 800.
Grumpy (TX)
Gulf Hunter
Active member
I have never owned an Excal II Grumpy, but the dials are just renumbered differently, no big deal. My settings change, as I see the need. The ones I mentioned is where I'm at currently and they seem to be working well.
Im just curious if anyone knows this about the excal. I have noticed that I get more depth in the regular discrimination mode compared to the pinpoint all metal mode. I get louder, better signals in regular mode and switch to pinpoint to determine if its deep or shallow and of course to pinpoint the target. Do you guys agree with this? Which mode is deeper in a clean area without alot of trash on the beaches. Does it really make a difference in what mode you detect in if your digging most all your targets?
Bob
Bob
Lou from downunder
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Bob,
my experience is that I get better depth in pinpoint.
I prefer to hunt in PP if its not too trashy. On getting a signal I'll switch to disc to check if its ferrous, however if its deep, disc often cant pick it up until I remove some sand.
Lou.
my experience is that I get better depth in pinpoint.
I prefer to hunt in PP if its not too trashy. On getting a signal I'll switch to disc to check if its ferrous, however if its deep, disc often cant pick it up until I remove some sand.
Lou.