Explorer II help PLEASE

[kingingkunsan]

I will be using the Explorer II for Digging in Virginia hunt in 14 days and have read some scary posts. Do any of you have experience with the Explorer II in the Virginia hot soil? If so, any tips/settings would be great. Thank you

 

[rahoorea]

I live in Va. My explorer is terrible in this red soil...It starts flashing numbers.ect..

 

[MikeO]

I am not in Virginia so, I cannot attest to the soil conditions there nor what might be the best settings for you Kingingkusan. Hopefully a Virginia member will respond.

I will say though that you do not necessarily need a high sensitivity to get decent depth. As a matter of fact the first Indian I dug today was atleast 7" and I had my Sensitivity at 15 manual as thats the highest I could go at this one property yet still achieve decent depth. Just food for thought as to much sensitivity can cause a lot of problems.

On a side note:
Concerning the post below its sounds like you have a detector/coil problem especially after looking back at your prior posts. You mention in the post I linked here about flashing numbers.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,1294616,1294616#msg-1294616
Could you elaborate on the problems because from your posts it does not seem to be a constant problem.
Have you checked it with another coil and the connections etc.?

 

[MikeO]

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,869524,869599#msg-869599

 

[kingingkunsan]

thank you all for the responses