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I just got my Explorer XS and it looks to me like it will take some time to learn how to get the most out of it. I was doing some air tests in the house, since we have a foot of snow on the ground. I was trying to discriminate out all memorial cents, without discriminating out dimes. I was not able to do it. Is this possible to do or not? I don't like wasting time picking up new pennies. thanks for your help.
Doug
 
yes its very possible, however doing it indoors isnt the best way, as it picks up all kinds of spikes from electric interference. it can be done inside though, turn your sens low down to around 10, lay the machine across a table, go to learn mode, accept the whole screen, out curser size to smallest, then hit the reject button. now go across the middle of the coil a few times with the penny, making sure you dont go over the outer edhes of the coil, just a quick wiggle in the center of the coil.. then pull the coin straight away from the coil.. now turn off reject and try a dime.. you should hear the dime, but not the penny.. if your screen ends up with little reject areas all over theres too much interference or you didnt do it right.. with just a penny rejected with small curser you should just see one small blackened are of the screen....Jim
 
Do 2 more things before you try to reject the penny. First set the sensitivity down low as you can so you will not get any interference and also do a noise cancel as i think you will get a better pattern.
Rick
 
Doug
You can also use the depth gauge to help you avoid memorial pennies, by only digging the deeper targets. Keep in mind that something good and deep could register where a memorial penny does.
Jim
 
I noticed while detecting one day that the memorial and wheat pennies had a slight difference in the position of the target in smartscreen....But....when detecting in a different type of ground they were exactly the same. I think you will miss some wheat pennies by rejecting the memorial pennies. I may try rejecting them too, though,if you have good luck with it. I can do without the zinc pennies! Let us know what happens. -Dave
 
I tried rejecting pennies and I found that you can reject newer memorial pennies while accepting wheat pennies. It isn't perfect though. If I wanted all my wheat pennies to be detected some of the older memorial pennies would also be accepted. Still, it's a great improvement to be able to reject a good deal of the newer pennies...I'm happy about that. Thanks for the suggestion! -Dave
 
Dave,
From what I have seen and understand if you are able to reject the newer memorial pennys you will also reject the Indian Heads and the older wheaties and this is where the depth gauge comes in handy. I still accept the newer memorial pennys but ignor them unless they are deeper signals. I only do this if there is a lot of memorials and I am tired of digging as some of the older coins are not too deep either.
I also find unless it is real trashy or a lot of signal all my older areas are run in iron mask only as i found you will lose a lot of good coins if there is another target close to throw off the crosshairs into the rejected area.
Rick
 
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