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W.O.T. for Explorer XS

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Can anyone help me with detector settings and characteristics when using the Explorer XS with the 15" W.O.T. I just don't seem to be getting the depth beyond the factory 10.5" coil when relic hunting on civil war sites?
 
How high are you able to run the sensitivity with the stock coil before the machine hangs on the edge of stability? If the ground is absorbing too much signal, a larger coil will not always help. For example, if you happen to be hunting an area with a black sand infused matrix, the black sand is robbing signal in a diffuse manner. A larger coil merely allows more black sand to be covered, resulting in an equivalent (or greater) amount of the signal being lost in the ground never to reach the receiving loop.
How busy or trashy are these sites? More items under the coil can confuse things significantly.
Have you located a target with the stock coil then switched to the new coil to guage the difference (or lack of) in depth the two see? Sounds like a pain I know, but the only way to answer some questions is to do real world testing and gauge the results.
Let me know the specifics, and I'll see if I can;'t help further.
DAS
 
The soil in the area that I'm working is silt loam with under lying clay a about 8 inchs. There is very little trash, and the ground mineralization isn't very high. I just don't seem to be getting any more depth with the WOT. However, on some days a bullet will sound really good at 7", and other days a bullet will be very ify even at 3-4".
 
Is there a history of deeper finds in the area? The clay can many times be effective at stopping or vastly slowing the sinking of objects with time. I know this is an elementary question, but until we've established that there ARE objects deeper than you are finding them, all other discussions become somewhat acedemic.
One thing to try if you haven't alreay is to bury a known object in a clean area. One method I use is to use a 1" oak dowel about 14 inches long with inches marked off. I place a coin on ground, center the "punch" over it, and hammer it down inch by inch as I gauge the detector's response.
We don't need to concern ourselves with the "halo effect" for this test, we just want to see where the stock coil can just barely read the target, then to compare the new coil's performance. If it were me, I wouldn't be happy with less than 2 inches greater depth for the new coil, assuming the ground is as "friendly" as you think it is.
Hope this helps, but again we need to quantify whats going on. Are there deeper targets for certain? Driving a coin to the limits of the stock coil, is it easily readable with the new?
Let's see if we can't get this figured out!
DAS
 
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