Too many noises...

[Dan-Pa.]

Perusing the forums see many newbies and even oldbies are distracted by too many tones or erratic tonal behavior..

1. Sensitivity many be set to high for your area.
2. Outside interference but proper use of noise cancel button should correct this.
3. You must remember even if you are in quickstart you will be accepting low foil to high silver and yep lots of junk in ground along with good targets so expect many tones and learn to pick out the good ones..Going to SELECT you can eliminate facets to cut down on the tones as if you are after silver certainly don't need to accept tabs etc. and all a matter of what you want to accept for your hunt. SELECT may look hard but is very easy if you play with it. Caution extra discrimination may cost you some depth so take this into consideration.
Seeing many post on this subject feel this may help many learning the unit or not understanding the discrimination to more efficiently hunt with an Explorer..

 

[Joe G]

After hunting my front yard a hundred times, I tried it again when I got my machine back with the replacement coil. Lowered the sensitivity to around 16 (lots of interference in my front yard area...)and tried raising the gain. Lo and behold, the first place I put the coil down I hit a nice Rosie about 4 or 5" down. Then about a dozen or so Wheaties. I see now that running at the higher sensitivity was like putting my brights on in the fog. Once I lowered it, all the targets started showing up.

Also, in the last couple of months, I've finally come to understand what it means to "tune out" the bad and listen for the good. What was once a confusing mass of tones now makes more sense. I've also been playing with the 3 tone settings by changing the limits, variability and threshold tone... made some adjustments to Cody's original settings and, while I'm still experimenting, I like it.

 

[Captain Kirk]

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