problems with Minelab Excalibur II 1000

[braich77]

hello all,

I been using Minelab Excalibur II 1000 for a year and still do not know what is the best setting for shallow water hunting. shell i go for high sensivity ? all metal mode?
Would anyone knows
thank you

 

[therover]

I have an older Excal 1000 and I find that sometimes I need to adjust the sensitiviy LOWER to go deeper. Sounds crazy, but in certain environments I hunt in ( on salt beaches) the machine gets erratic and I know to turn the sens down. I don't use AUTO at all, but you may want to try it to see how your detector reacts to the environment you are in, and then go out of auto and adjust at highest setting with the machine still being stable. See if you see any depth increase/decreases and how the machine reacts. The machine should not false and it should adjust back to threshold fairly quickly.

I am like most that when there is iron and the machine nulls, I slow up and see if you get any tones. If not, I swing the coil near the scoop to get the high tone threshold back asap. I adjust my threshold and volume based on the highest pitch threshold sound when I start off, so I can hear the faint changes on the deep targets.

Not sure how others do it but it works for me.

JC

 

[kd4hee]

I have an old Excalibur with the red headphones and sea search coil. I find with my machine if i turn the sens way down and go into pinpoint i find deeper targets. What i also do is when i find a target in pinpoint i turn it back to discriminate. If it nulls out usually it is a bad target. If i get no null and hear no tone i dig and then start getting a good signal. I have also found putting the detector in auto can get some deep targets. i think the more you use and find targets the more you get used to it and can see what it it doing. i would try it all different settings each time for a while and just how deep the stuff is and what you are finding. hope this helps.

Kevin

 

[braich77]

hello kd4hee and therover thank you for the advice i will try you way and see if that will work, god bless