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I have had my Explorer out a few times and I just am not impressed. I have already boxed it up to get rid of it but I feel I am giving up to early. So I will take it out and reasemble it this weekend. Anybody live near Va. Beach that can show me some pointers?
 
I don't live near you but I felt the same way. Now I am starting to love my XS. What I did to get it going was lower the Sens. down to even single digits if you have too. Put the sens in Manual. I got nothing but surface clad for 3 months trying to run it in semi-auto an high sens values. The chirps and pops were a complete mess. Pinpointing was also a problem for me. The all metal mode (pin point) on the XS sucks. It has a crapy sound to it and can go out of wack very easy. If there is nothing around it works OK, and coins pinpoint on the smaller side. You can also pinpoint in discriminate mode which you must do in trashy areas. I would not get rid of it, I had a rough day today only found 3 wheat's but one of the wheats was at least 7" down my digger and hand was going into the hole a long ways down. I think the coin feel out of the side of the dig tho. But at any rate it was deep. Also, I am getting my butt kicked by a Sov. right now, the XS for me is a little hard to pick out the iffy dig signals and so I think I am passing up some coins. I need to learn the iffy signal dig and then I will be set. Most iffy's that I have dug so far have not been coins so I am not learning yet. Another thing that I am having problems with is the sweep speed, I tend to go too fast. It gets frustrating when you can not cover much area. And then if you speed up you cant find anything, so you are a double loser. LOL. Sorry for the rambling.
 
Reading Andy Sabisch's Book Mastering The Minelab Explorer XS & S? If not it will cut your learning Curve for sure!! Not sure if you have these sites but check these out for sure also.
http://pweb.netcom.com/~jimyce/
http://www.frontiernet.net/~jvokes/detecting.htm
Also have you looked at Mike Moutray Settings? He gives a good discription on the settings and why he uses them Very Good Reading!!!!!
Don't Give Up Just Yet!!!! Hang In There if You can they say you will be justly rewared =))
 
I also am not near you but have only a year with my XS. I was just as troubled. Don't give up. Andy's book is good but time is the only real key. You will only scratch the service of what this machine can do in a year. I found that the best thing for me was to go to a smaller coil. It came with the machine when I bought it, so I could do that. I also am new in to hobby so I did not have any hard set ideas of what other machines could do. Some beleive that the XS is not for beginers I disagree. I too switched out of Semi-auto Sensitivity to Manual. I leave mine around 19. Read the info outhers have posted on this somject. There are two schools of thought. I changed half way throught the year to Iron Mask mode -10. This was a good switch for me. Sounds setting is up to you I like the Conduct. Response sould stay at Normal for now. I keep the gain at 7. Th. Tone is up to you I like 5. Variability and Limits are at 10. Now if you read other peoples levels that is fine. But pick one and work it for a while. A long while. Changing the setting everyday or week will mess you up also. Recovery Fast or Deep. I like fast. And as Andrus said sloooow the sweep down. Hunt in the Smart Screen. When hunting in Iron Mask when you hit a target, with on push of the button you can jump over to the Discrim and use this mode to check the target if you like. The sounds the differant targets produce are key also, learn them. Put some good and junk items on the ground and go over them and over them and over them. E-mail me if you would like to chat more. But don't give up.
 
I'll be in Virginia Beach area from 27-30 March doing some army music school training but I don't know if their schedule will permit any time off. If so, I'd be happy to help you with the Explorer.
Bark
 
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