I have a Minelab Explorer 2 metal detector and I wanted to know what is the best setting to run the machine at while detecting the wet sand area? Because I want to decrease the amount of pops and chirps that are heard when detecting in wet sand. The program that I thought worked best was Quick-start Smart but I am not sure what Iron mask number should be used what sensitivity level, threshold level and Noise level. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Minelab Explorer 2 Beach Setting
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Mike (Virginia Beach)
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I would run IM-16 because you generally want to hear it all on the beach. And some small gold, chains, and stainless watches can come in LOW, down in the iron range. So I would dig it all anyway. Yeah, you'll get some junk. But you want all the aluminum junk, otherwise you lose the gold. So dig it all and if you run over something good, you know you'll get it.
As for the sens, you want to back that off from land settings. You'll still get killer depth at 18...I would run it there. And you can try the no threshold thing if you like, but I want my threshold, otherwise you may well miss some deepies or ones that you come close to but don't actually go OVER. That's where the threshold comes in...you hear it go away and you take a second look. As for Smart or Digital, that's up to you. I like digital but who cares when you're digging it all? Fast off, Deep on, Gain at 7, Ferrous tones. Sweep it low, medium speed, dig it all.
Of course your beaches may vary, but we don't have a whole lot of targets here right now and digging it all isn't much of a problem. If you have a lot of fish hooks, iron scrap, stuff like that then you might want to go with IM-12 or -10 or just pay attention to the numbers/tones and decide on what NOT to dig based on conditions at hand.
As for the sens, you want to back that off from land settings. You'll still get killer depth at 18...I would run it there. And you can try the no threshold thing if you like, but I want my threshold, otherwise you may well miss some deepies or ones that you come close to but don't actually go OVER. That's where the threshold comes in...you hear it go away and you take a second look. As for Smart or Digital, that's up to you. I like digital but who cares when you're digging it all? Fast off, Deep on, Gain at 7, Ferrous tones. Sweep it low, medium speed, dig it all.
Of course your beaches may vary, but we don't have a whole lot of targets here right now and digging it all isn't much of a problem. If you have a lot of fish hooks, iron scrap, stuff like that then you might want to go with IM-12 or -10 or just pay attention to the numbers/tones and decide on what NOT to dig based on conditions at hand.
My beach is pretty darn clean from the high tide mark down to the water. With the stock 10.5", I run in IM-16, Ferrous, gain 5-7, audio 2. Max on limits and variability. Sensitivity? There's the rub. Go as high as you can without a lot of falsing. Noise cancel often.
You will have to live with some falsing, but listen to the differences between a quick hint of a target and some falsing. As Mike said, I also dig everything (that isn't iron except when it's very deep).. any repeatable signal no matter how bad it sounds. Make sure you have a big scoop. Be prepared to dig some crazy deep holes
You will have to live with some falsing, but listen to the differences between a quick hint of a target and some falsing. As Mike said, I also dig everything (that isn't iron except when it's very deep).. any repeatable signal no matter how bad it sounds. Make sure you have a big scoop. Be prepared to dig some crazy deep holes
I have notice with my EX2 it seems as though it does not really pick up the gold chains in I.M.-16, it kind of twinkles a little? I do not know if I should program it to pickup chains or not but the best bet is to run in I.M. -16.
What settings do you find to be helpful when searching sites on land?
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What settings do you find to be helpful when searching sites on land?
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Mike (Virginia Beach)
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IM-16 is "wide open" discrimination-wise. There is nothing that the Explorer II won't pick up in IM-16 that it WOULD pick up set any other way.
Gold chains are tough for ANY machine because the machine picks up only one link of the chain. If you're lucky, you hit the clasp or the chain is balled up. If not, you get that "twinkle" you spoke of. If you ever find a broken ring you will see the same effect...a closed (whole) gold ring will signal loud and clear. The same ring, cut or broken, will yield a completely different signal, if ANY. It's just the physics of it.
As far as "programming" it to pick up anything, forget that. Running IM-16 at the beach is done to ensure you get EVERYTHING. If you selectively tell it to find rings, chains, etc. that means you're knocking out trash and other items. But since rings, chains, and other jewelry come in all over the spectrum due to gold purity, size, shape, etc. then for every trash or aluminum item that you discriminate out you also discriminate out a bunch of different gold rings. So IM-16 and dig it all is BEST.
Gold chains are tough for ANY machine because the machine picks up only one link of the chain. If you're lucky, you hit the clasp or the chain is balled up. If not, you get that "twinkle" you spoke of. If you ever find a broken ring you will see the same effect...a closed (whole) gold ring will signal loud and clear. The same ring, cut or broken, will yield a completely different signal, if ANY. It's just the physics of it.
As far as "programming" it to pick up anything, forget that. Running IM-16 at the beach is done to ensure you get EVERYTHING. If you selectively tell it to find rings, chains, etc. that means you're knocking out trash and other items. But since rings, chains, and other jewelry come in all over the spectrum due to gold purity, size, shape, etc. then for every trash or aluminum item that you discriminate out you also discriminate out a bunch of different gold rings. So IM-16 and dig it all is BEST.