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I just added the Explorer II to my collection of detectors. This makes number five(2 are the wife's). I just did my first hunt outside my own yard with the II and have a question about nickel identification.
Seems like I read that the XS was not good at finding nickels. Other Detectors I have like my MXT really ID's nickels well. The MXT with its 199 number scale has a lot of resolution. It ID's a nickel 95 percent of the time correctly. When it reads 18 or 20 you can just about bank on it being a nickel.
Now how about the Explorer II? Does it do any good at iding nickels? I put a nickel on the ground and it read 10-6 or 10-7. Jumped around a little between 6 and 7. So I started digging those signals and got just pulltabs. It appears to me while the new Explorer has more information than it had before it still only has 32 numbers on the condivity side so it's still going to be hard to seperate a pulltab from a nickel.
Anyway I am asking this in hope of gaining knowledge about the detector. It looks like it is going to be a fun detector to learn and I really like the Joey coil I got from Doc. Pinpointing is easy with that coil.
Since this is my first hunt with the detector and I only hunted for a couple of hours I may not fully understand the ID system.
Thanks for any comments.
Harold
Seems like I read that the XS was not good at finding nickels. Other Detectors I have like my MXT really ID's nickels well. The MXT with its 199 number scale has a lot of resolution. It ID's a nickel 95 percent of the time correctly. When it reads 18 or 20 you can just about bank on it being a nickel.
Now how about the Explorer II? Does it do any good at iding nickels? I put a nickel on the ground and it read 10-6 or 10-7. Jumped around a little between 6 and 7. So I started digging those signals and got just pulltabs. It appears to me while the new Explorer has more information than it had before it still only has 32 numbers on the condivity side so it's still going to be hard to seperate a pulltab from a nickel.
Anyway I am asking this in hope of gaining knowledge about the detector. It looks like it is going to be a fun detector to learn and I really like the Joey coil I got from Doc. Pinpointing is easy with that coil.
Since this is my first hunt with the detector and I only hunted for a couple of hours I may not fully understand the ID system.
Thanks for any comments.
Harold