Question regarding the Excalibur...

[popsmoke]

I am seriously condsidering the Excal 100. I once had a Explorer and it and I just could not get along. I could not understand what it was trying to tell me, and I finally had to find a new home for it.

How similar are the sounds and performance between a Excalibur and a Explorer?

Is the Excal a comletely different machine? What are the similarities and differences?

Any thing anyone can explain would help.

Thanks,

Popsmoke

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

The two machines are as different as night and day. It's a multi-tone ID system with coins coming in very high, medium and big gold coming in the middle and small gold ringing in down LOW.

Here's a link to a post I made with sounds I recorded. The names describe what they are. It's very simple and fun to hunt with and once you know the tones you know what you're digging for the most part. (Crank your sound all the way before playing these for best results...they're good but the recording level is low) http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,405738,405738#msg-405738

 

[captRobert]

Boy is Mike Right...forget the explorer If your going to hunt the beaches/ water, even land hunting to, Nothing compares to Excal for price.

 

[mattockman]

Huh...Hmmmmmmmm....Maybe I should spend more time with my 800...cause I always bring the Ex.XS and the excal to the beach with me and I always favor the XS....it will pinpoint alot deep than the excal.....and I think it is soooooooo much better at IDing targets....If I am going in water then no doubt the excal is it...I would hate to lose the XS to water.....I feel the excal is primitive compared to the XS.....but that is my opinion and I am sticking to it......Popsmoke I wish you luck and the excal is very stable unit.....but it needs constant adjustments to do really good...there are some things about it I really don't like....but It would be petty things.....not worth mentioning......but yes I need to use it more and I know I will someday...