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I was able to give the new EXp II a good workout over the holiday weekend and I have some questions if anybody knows:
1 - The iron mask feature seems obvious with regard to it's use. However, I searched in the factory settings bumping the sens and recovery speed and got no iron to speak of at all. What purpose does the feature serve if most of the iron is knocked out to begin with?
2 - Someone on an earlier post suggested that manual sensitivity was superior to Semi Auto. In what way is it superior if true? Better depth?
3 - I tried the FAST versus SLOW(deep) recovery options and couldn't tell a whole lot of difference. Can anyone offer a better explanation of what is going on with this feature so it can be used more effectively?
Thanks in advance for your answers and time.
 
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;">What purpose does the feature serve if most of the iron is knocked out to begin with? </span>
There are two modes of operation, Iron Mask and Patterns. The EX2 only searches in one mode at a time. You can search in Patterns then jump to iron mask for searching at 16 different levels of iron rejection. One good use is if you have co-located targets that are blanking or making it hard to ID a good target. If you go to iron mask at 16 you hear all targets so can tell that you have several co-located tagets. Also, you might be in heavy trash using patterns then get in clear gound so switch to Iron mask at some iron rejection level to search the clear areas. There are a lot of ways to use iron mask. Also, all discriminators will detect faint deep targets better the less you use discrimination. Some target that are good also fall in the ferrous areas. You might want to use iron mask and dig all target at a very old site where you think there are a lot of deep coins and or relics.
There is a lot of incorrect information about manual and semi-auto by new and seasoned users. Semi-auto will detect much deeper than manual IF THE AUDIO GAIN IS SET TO 8 - 10. Manual does not compensate for stray RF or changing ground minerals. However, to really get deep you need to be sure if you use semi-atuo to bump the audio gain up to at least 8. I run this at 10. Try both and you will find semi-auto with the audio gain set to 10 is far better than manul as there is no compensation for SNR with manual. Once you set noise cancel there is no further compensation for external noise unless semi-atuo is ON. Most parks, schools, have a lot of stray RF so manual really suffers as far as effective depth is concerned. Manual is intended as a second way to hunt if you have little stray RF and you can sweep the coin slightly slower. Manual is also designed for low mineral while semi-auto will take care of heavy minerals.
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;">3 - I tried the FAST versus SLOW(deep) recovery options and couldn't tell a whole lot of difference.</span> Fast is to recover the audio circuits after then null over a rejected target. However, there is very little difference as the EX2 has a very quick recovery anyway. Don't confuse deep for a sweep speed setting. Deep is audio boost for faint targets deep or shallow. Deep does not change the sweep speed. You may notice little tic sounds on shallow aluminum if Deep is on. Deep does not indicate the difference between a deep faint taget and very tiny shallow target.
Hope this helps,
Cody
 
What great information. Would have taken me a great deal of time to figure this stuff out solo. Seems to me at first impression that the machine out of the box needs darn little tweaking as my initial finds would suggest.
Thanks much for your info.\
Good hunting!
 
You'd think that XS1 would be faster with FAST on than XS2 with FAST off.
I've had FAST on almost since day 1 and still can't find a good enough reason to turn it off. Always think that even at a clean site there just might be that nail next to a deep silver and I'll miss it because of the slowed target seperation.
HH,
Greg
 
and that my friend Snuff you can take to the bank. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
because my sites have nothing left... just the way I like it! (the done ones) <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
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