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Learning The Explorer

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I've had my Explorer about a week now. I've read all the instructions and also read the other book on the Explorer.I mainly hunt coins. I'm satisfied that this is a real tool and my other metal detector was just a toy. I've returned to places that I had previously hunted and found coins that me and my other detector simply did not recognize. I just wondered if somebody could advise me how to proceed with the learning process. Should I use the coin program or should I modify it? I found that it's easy to discriminate too much stuff out. Should the sensitivity and threshold be adjusted or left at about factory settings? Is there a time when I should use the iron mask? I have trouble telling the difference between a bottlecap and a coin. Those cable tv connectors read real close to the coin range too. Is there a better way to sort it out or do I just need to dig some of the trash in order to find the coins? Thanks in advance for your advice.
 
you can bump the sens up to what ever the conditions will handle (when it falses alot or nulls on most of the swing you have it to high)
Threshold is a matter of what you like to listen to.
you can bump the gain up to enhance the faint deep signals.
Now if you want you can use Iron mask set to about -10 this will let you listen to most of the signals then you dig the good high tones, I would practice a little with a silver dime and a bottle cap tape each one to a paper plate then turn them over and listen to each one.
One thing you need to remember is that the XS will avg. what is in the hole so if you have a dime and a nickel in the same hole the sound will be different, this leads up to you need to dig almost any signal that stays centered as you go around it and yes you will dig alot of junk but you will also get alot of goodies to offset it.
Charlie
 
You should use iron mask if you are concerned about missing coins next to iron. Iron mask means accepting iron (such as nails) to some degree so you don't get a deep null from it that would mask a coin next to it. As for telling apart coins & trash, clad, copper & silver normally ID in the upper right corner of the screen. Zinc cents ID at top just to the right of the iron range. Nickels ID below zinc cents, just outside of the iron area on the bottom half of the screen. Bottle caps ID along the bottom half of the screen at the right edge of screen. Pulltabs & nickels have a large area of overlap. It might be easier to find some nickels without digging all the pulltabs using the digital screen. HH, George (MN)
 
Usually they will be more accurate than the crosshairs. If using ferrous, nails have low tone, coins have higher to highest tones but bottlecaps will have a high tone too, so use the screen to ID them if running ferrous sounds. Also pulltabs would have a higher sound than nails in ferrous audio. Ferrous sounds is usually considered best if you are using iron mask. If you are not using iron mask, using conductive sound will give all modern US coins except nickel the highest tone, & nails will usually be silent. If you use ferrous sounds without iron mask, zinc cents (& nickels) would have a lower tone than copper, silver, or clad. HH, George (MN)
 
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