Amazed

[markg]

I received my Explorer SE PRO yesterday.
Noticed right away the balance is a lot different from the *** (not overly heavy, but different).
I took it right into my test garden of 3+ years old.
Turned on, noise cancelled and tried each target with factory settings.
All but three targets revealed their location with a very smooth consistent high tone (enough for me to dig).
One important note about my test garden, prior to burying the coins, I did not clean out the iron before planting each coin (some might disagree with this procedure).
I have 13 coins in the garden.
A copper penny, nickel, dime and quarter were buried at 2, 4 and 6" deep (flat), plus a half at 4".
The three coins I could not hear were the same ones that the *** could not find when the ground is very wet. (We have had 3 days of soaking rain)
Now, back to the Explorer, I adjusted the discrimination to about half the preset settings and all three of the coins became known.
Each gave a very "nice" dig high tone. ID numbers were fairly constant.
Please keep in mind the area where I live have very high mineralization soil content. Many areas will max out the FEO meter on my ***.
I am pleased with my first encounter.

 

[born2hunt]

You're gonna love your new detector, it's a coin magnet. Planting your coins among the already existing trash produces a much more realistic scenario and there's nothing wrong with that. I too started out with a different machine but once I picked up the Minelab there was no looking back.

Take your time and learn the language, you'll be going back to your old haunts in no time to see what you walked over in the past.

HH

 

[dewcon4414]

The disadvantage to not having cleaned out the area is the averaging and HALO affect. The machine has a tenancy to pick up the size or targets closest to the surface and averages it and other objects around it. You may get unreal reads or even no read as you proved based on the effects of trash. More cursor bounce which might make it more difficult to properly adjust the machine to a specific target at depth. Sounds like you have a great start toward the learning curve.

Dew

 

[teleman2525]

nice move on making good adjustments to find the missing coins step 1 in the learning curve passed the test with an A CONGRATES