Screens

[Anonymous]

The basic screen can be looked using just the digital screen, iron mask screen, or smart screen. Tones can be based on the vertical axis, conductivity, so any target at the top of the screen no matter how far to the left or right of the screen has a high tone. Any target at the bottom has a low tone no matter how far to the left or right of the screen. High and low is not based on the horizontal axis but only on the vertical. There are 32 tones from Low to High with low at the bottom of the screen and high at the top.
If we want to hear tones from left to right, Ferrous, then we select that option and tones now are Low all the way to the left side of the screen and High all the way to the right side of the screen. It no longer matters how far up or down the target is on the conductive vertical axis it is. It only matters where it is from left to right.
Constant tones will give the same tone with no respect to the vertical or horizontal axis. All targets have the same tone. If we don't like tones then select Constant and go by the crosshairs or digital location.
The primary screen can be selected to be viewed as just a Digital Screen. The PS screen can be selected to be viewed as an Iron Mask Screen. The PS screen can be selected to be viewed as the Smart Screen.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice post but a silver quarter will appear in the far right top of the screen and only about 1/2 of the
cross-hair visible and will read a 28 or 30 on the digital. 31 in most cases is iron..Remember this is under normal conditions with no masking.
Unless one is tone deaf the secret of an Explorer are the tones and a silver dime tone will stop me dead in my tracks while hunting.So indeed learn the tones for more proficient operation.
Just my observations and in my neck of the woods under normal hunting conditions and in no way disputing your post..Yep we don't play on a level field and area conditions may cause variances from area to area..

 

[Anonymous]

I did not mean for the digital reading to be more than an approximation and used the location of the crosshairs due to limitation of the drawing on my PC. The position of the quarter is more correct for a clad quarter and I have the old sivler ones that read anywhere from where you suggest up the far right corner and off to the screen there. It depends on the soil and how worn the quarter is I guess.
I have started a series of post that are directed at the myth of the explorer is a hard detector to learn. I don't know how that got started as you can set the tones and display just about anyway you like. I think most of the problems are from not reading the Users Manual and following the suggestions.
I find the explorer to be very basic and straight forward as a piece of electronic equipment and no more difficult than any of the better detectors.
HH, Cody