Explorer in parks/trashy areas?

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I have a Whites MXT and thinkin of an upgrade. How does the explorer do in parks/trashy areas? Thanks in advance for any responses. If you set it to discriminate pulltabs and crown caps will you lose rings as in other detectors?

 

[cachenut]

My Explorer II does fine in trashy parks. I use coin discrimination and bump up gain and sensitivity almost until it gets unstable. If I get too many coin tones I back off sensitivity a little or even reduce gain.

Sunday I found a 1954 quarter and a 1902 barber half in a park. Both were down about 6 inches and next to multiple other targets. I got a quarter indicator but it was hidden in the trash. I could not pinpoint either and when I dug out the trash the coins showed up clearer. This was a heavily hunted park.

You can use no descrimination or little with the explorer but you need a cleaner non trashy area or else it is a LOT of work selecting what to dig. All I found in those two hours were the two coins and 20 trash targets.

When you start turning up the sensitivity a lot of the jewelry comes thru also. I get silver rings under coins all the time. Turn it up and even more come thru.

Yes if you use the jewelry discrim pattern you get even more junk.

I had an XLT for 8 years and the Exp is much much much better.

Joe.

 

[Ace]

Agreed, the Explorer does GREAT in trashy areas specially if you add a 8" or 5" coil, the 10.5" is great too but you'll get more separation with smaller coils, I have the 5" EXcelerator and it's one great little coil (cheap too!). With the Explorer 2 you can make a custom discrimination pattern so you can adjust it for your needs, the Explorer has the BEST discrmination out of all the detectors so you can be cartain you won't be digging lots of unwanted targets. You need to set your Explorer on FAST in advanced options for trashy parks with lots of targets close togeteher so that you won't miss anything hiding between trash. I'd suggest you download the manual at http://206.188.2.79/products/detectors/explorerII.htm and click on 'product manual'. Read it if you're really interested on the Explorer so that you can understand its features and if it fits your needs. You should purchase the book 'Mastering the Minelab Explorer S & XS' by Andy Sabisch, it's THE book when it comes to learning the Explorer, the XS is the same as the Explorer II except for 1 or 2 features I believe (for example, in the digital mode on the XS it shows only the conductivity, whereas on the Explorer II it shows both ferrous and conductivity), I HIGHLY reccommend it. Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Thanks for the great responses. I have a whites mxt now and want something a little more stable. Not so may non repeatable beeps and clicks. I assume the Explorer II is that?

So if I notch out pull tabs but leave in jewelery and rings i can effectiviely not dig pull tabs any longer but still get rings? Ive never seen any other detector do this but after reeading the product manual it seems to be the case. Is this true?

 

[Ben ( Lancaster OH )]

hello, stoopstroop, first, yes you can, and second go to the explorer classroom forum down the main page, you will find a wealth of information on discrimination and also some programs. look for any post from Cody, as he seems to be quite knowledgeable on the exp II. ( retired electrical engineer i think ) His insight of how the exp series detectors work, is what drove me to purchase mine. I am not at all displeased with my purchase. Use the search engine to help find a specific topic. I do know that Cody did post a ( program ), more like a process, of how to discriminate out tabs, but include rings and other desirable items. Hope this helps. ben