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SE Pro - Arriving Tomorrow, Help! LA/Long Beach

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Socal Hopeless

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I was wondering if anyone in LA/Long Beach would be willing to help me get the hang of this thing. I'm gonna be swinging all weekend and would be nice to have someone with experience give me a hand if needed, I'm a quick learner but I do understand this is a very complex machine, and I've never used any minelab machine before. I've been doing some reading but who knows if that will suffice!

If anyone in Socal is willing to hit a park with me or something to give me some pointers that would be great!

Thank you so much,

Mike
 
Hope this SE does you good.. Only been able to get out once with mine .. Sure is different beast to learn.. I have been told to just turn on noise cancel and detect.. Like taking baby steps.. Learn as you go..

http://www.minelab.com/__files/f/4143/manual_5.pdf
 
I'm nowhere near you Mike but if you've been doing some reading that's an excellent angle to at least get going. Some advice I've gotten and have eventually stuck with is stay in the same tone mode,use conductive or ferrous,but try not to switch between both if you can help it. That way your ears get trained to targets. Other than that,I'm with you,still learning and getting lucky once in awhile. It's a really fun machine,especially since you've got the pro coil,it'll be lighter than my 1050 TANK coil!

Good luck!
Kevin
 
Thanks to both of you, I will start to read the manual today
 
I don't see many say it, but I think you will be surprised how quickly you can learn it or any machine by building yourself a coin garden. I use old silver dimes, at 6 inches, 8 inches, 10 inches and beyond. I never use a quarter because if it will see the dime, it will easily see the quarter. I also will bury civil war bullets at depth. When you bury the coins dig your hole, put in the dime and pack the dirt an inch at a time. Then wet it down good. Your good to go.:detecting:
 
I am not getting on a plane from Pa. but indeed if you can find a local mentor it will shorten your learning period..

Basically use the presets raising the sensitivity to low 20's and of course threshold to your liking...Use these setting till you get the hang of it and do dig a lot at first...
Beach is probably the best place to learn by digging....
 
Thank you, I've been using the machine with discrimination set to only allow high-tones, sensitivity mid-high 20's the only thing I don't really understand is the threshold!
 
On minelab forum there is what they call an emulator. Download your machine. It has all your settings etc. You can learn your buttons and stuff right on your computer screen
 
Thank you I did this.

Turns out my machine is broken, sent it to Kellyco on Friday to get it repaired. Bummer.

Its tough to diagnose something so complicated and cryptic as "broken" when you've never used it before, but finally figured it out after 100 hours.
 
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