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I really had a time with the sensitivity. Started at 25 manual and got lots of falsing....dropped it to 21 and hovered around 22~23 to stay stable. As I increased the sens the depth meter started showing deep targets but they were hard to repeat if at all.
Question: is the depth meter accurate or does it lie like the cross hairs????
one of the reasons i bought the Explorer was to get the depth meter. I felt that it would really help me to locate targets after I started digging.
I dug several targets today where the depth was half way on the bar and I must have gone 10" easy....no find!!! I thought the meter was 12" so a half bar should be 6"...what gives?????
I found a 1936 wheat so I know I did something right....I just really feel a 200 year old church has more to offer than a penny...I'm gonna go tomorrow and hunt some more
Any advice????? the place is VERY rocky...Hard to dig...I dont want to dig any false signals if I can help it
 
I haven't used my Explorer enough to help you much.
Try switching to pinpoint and get the center of the target, hold the coil still and rotate it 90 deg. and center again. Then switch back to disc and see if the target is still in the center. If it isn't, it's false. If the pinpoint is off to side of the disc it's a false signal. It is much easier to check for false signals with my Sovereign & CZ5. I'll find out more about the Explorer in the spring.
I look forward to hearing what the experienced users say to your post.
Rick
 
One thing you need to know about the depth meter is that it is calibrated for quarter size targets. The meter calculates the strength of the signal divided by the surface area of a quarter and displays the result as a depth reading. So a quarter at 10 inches will read at 10 inches. But, a dime at 6 inches may read as being 8 inches. And as in your case, an aluminum can at 15 inches will read as 9 inches. Think of it in terms of judging how fae away a person is when you see them. A normal 6 foot tall man you would probably guess the distance with a fair amount of accuracy as you are used to, or calibrated, for that size of a human. But a 4 foot tall midget you might guess as being farther away than he really is. And of course you would probably guess the distance of an 8 foot man as being closer than he really is. Sorry for the long winded explanation but to answer your question, yes, the meter is accurate, but you need to know how it works to understand what it is telling you.
 
Hi Nimrod,
I dug one of those no targets. It was a very faint high pitched up in the right corner signals at max depth. Tom NW MI had a CZ5 and we both had the questionable signal and it turned out to be a false signal off of deep iron to the side.
I also saw today how erradic the Explorer can be with the sensi. to high. I was in the driveway with it a 28 manual and it was erradic. How low would you go in manual before going to auto.
Rick
 
Iron halos will look and sound like nice deep silver, especially when your sense is up too high. I really don't have a formula for sense settings other than I do whatever it takes to get the detector stable. If the conditions are fairly constant I stay in manual but if they are frequently changing I'll go into auto. But I had a chance to talk with Carl from Minelab earlier this year and he was saying he has no problem going to a sense level of 10 or less in moist soil conditions. Myself, I rarely have had to go below 20 in manual.
 
A handheld pinpointer will help when you are digging deep and signals disappear. The X-1 or the Periscope are great pinpointers.
 
I think Carl may be referring to the fact that if the soil is "super" wet you get real nice sounding signals off of iron (ie nails) which you can reduce by lowering the sens below what you might normally use (even if it is stable at a higher sens). Sometimes I deliberately will reduce sensitivity in these conditions to avoid digging excess iron junk (I think that the halo effect is overly enhanced under these conditions).
If that's not what he meant I'm sorry for intruding ;^).
HH ... Gord.
 
I believe your correct Gord. I used it as an example of a "Pro" like Carl using low sense settings when he has to. Many new Explorer users seem to think that if you turn the sense down below like 24 that your giving up incredible depth and then the Explorer is no better than a $79.00 Radio Shack detector. The "more is better" attitude doesn't always work in all conditions. The main thing is that you need to match your sense settings to the conditions that you are hunting in.
 
Rick,
I agree with you that this way of pinpointing is a lot easier with the Sovereign. On the Explorer I have done it this way too, but it is a little harder. One of the ways I have been doing this is first see if I can get the target from a differnt angle in the same spot while in disc.Then I go to pinpoint and do this again if I feel it is a target i want to dig or check out more.In pinpoint when I know where the general area is of the target I will push the coil staight ahead and pull it back untill it is right under the tip of the coil and turn 90 degrees and check it again, now where these 2 point on the tip intersect should be the target. Now if I am still curiuos I will go back to disc and wiggle it over this area and get a correct ID, or will dig the target which will be in a small area.
One thing I learned right away was to raise the coil, and if you raise it 3 or 4 inches and the tone dont seem to change and the depth meter dont either, it is a bigger piece of metal like a pop can.
Good luck with you new detector.
Rick
 
Thanks Rick.
As soon as spring gets here I'll be able to try it out more. I'm going to start with the ferrous mode and I'm going to try Charles program where he blacks out the bottom half. I'm going to leave the top half open so I can hear the iron and I learned nickels in and some small gold rings & a gold class ring. The pull tabs are disc out except for one with the tongue crompled up. This should work great on nice lawns & parks where you don't want to dig everything.
Can't wait to get out detecting again.
Good luck in NJ.
Rick
 
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