Need response to this.. PLEASE

[Anonymous]

If you read this please respond with your comments.
I have had trouble with my XS it would not turn on so I sent it in. They replaced the key pad. But ever sence I got it back it does not seem the same. Before I sent it in I felt like I was getting the hang of it and I was finding deep wheat pennys and I was getting pretty good at the machine. I really started to love it and I could tell that good finds were on there way. When I got it back I can not find my shadow. Something is just not right. I get falsing like crazy I cannot keep the machine quite. When I am hunting with a good threshold and everything seems fine then I get a few beeps and it turns into a falsing flute. I can't stand it so I turn it off then when I turn it back on it seems fine again for a short time (30) seconds then falses again. I have tried everything but I just can't seem to hunt anymore. I went through this piece of ground by and old home that I knew should have had targets and I found nothing, the machine falsed all the way through. My buddy then hunted the area and found 4 wheat pennys. I did find that his machine (sovergn) interfered with mine some but a noise cancel did not prove to be of help much. I know I am a new operator (got the explorer in June) but I just think something is wrong. Do any of you guys have problems like this with your machine. I have lost a little faith in this. Should I send it back in or do you think I am just a bad operator. My buddy found a target and the XS could not see it, I don't know, the target ended up being a wheat penny at only 4 inch. (laying flat, we could tell because we saw the imprint on the plug. HELP ME PLEASE.

 

[Anonymous]

If your sensitivity is set too high the explorer will act as you describe and you will not find anything. First thing is to put in manual and drop the sensitivity way down to 1-5 range and see if this stops the chattering. Make sure you are in manual, auto will try raise the sensitivity, that may be why you are o.k. for the first 30 seconds. If it is still unstable call Minelab, perhaps your detector has problems.
Good Luck and keep trying. I've had many days were I'm convinced that the machine is messed up but usually it is caused by trying to run at too high of a sensitivity.
HH
Chris
Also set your detector to open screen- no discrimination of any kind. I recently met a person that was using an explorer with a WOT and the standard coin program. He couldn't get any depth, wasn't seeing a quarter at 4 inches. He was fairly new to the explorer and let me play with his rig. It didn't sound too bad but once I got rid of the coin program could hear it chattering away. Moral of the story is that if you have alot of the screen blacked out the explorer can be running very unstable and you might not hear it.
With an open screen back off the sensitivity until it quits chattering. If you are a newbie back it down even farther. The target id icon is much more stable and repeatable at lower sensitivities. If you are running at close to unstable the ID will bounce around each sweep over the target in clean ground, in trash it can get much worse. As you gain experience and start to feel comfortable with the sounds you can start to run a little more unstable and get a bit more depth. Once you are sure it is running stable you can add the discrimination back in.

 

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[Anonymous]

Is it in basic mode or advanced? you might try the reset.. holding the power on button till it resets back to basic mode factory settings and then reprogram it the way you like.. if that dont help try the power on reset by pulling the battery out while its on.. I bet one of the above might fix it.. could also be loose connections.. make sure your coil cable is tight at the control box, and reseat that as well