Well, it was a nice day out so I figured I would go mess around with the explorer for and hour. I have to say it was a nightmare!! I read the book and spent countless hours on these forums for any tips but it was still a nightmare. I went to a yard that I thought I covered pretty well with my gti-1500 but the explorer would not keep quiet. I tried the iron mask-16 but until I learn this machine it was entirely to much noise. I ran the sensitivity at 20 but might have been to high. Even when I held the coil in the air sometimes it was just beeping all over the place. This thing must be a nightmare in a trash infested site. Oh well I will read the book again and wait for my mastering the minelab explorer book to come in. I would imagine I will be bumbling around with this detector for quite a while. I did manmage to dig up 2 pieces of aluminum junk that I didnt have a hard time pinpointing so I guess thats a start. I was just pinpointing with the tip. Thanks for all the guys that post their knowledge on this forum I am sure it will help me one of these days. Thanks.
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first experience with the explorer
- Thread starter richg
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RingProfessional
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I had the same problem with my explorer 2 - it drove me insane, i had to resort to buying smaller coils to help make things easier on my ears. I think using the 8 inch detech concentric coil made all the difference for me as it has MUCH better pinpointing and theres less signals coming through as you get with the standard coil. The big 10.5 coil picks too many signals up in my opinion. The standard coil is only good in lowish trash areas so it seems to me. Yes the noises the explorer emits are very hard to understand at first. Try this screen it is called a coin cherry picker it helped me find hundreds of coins on noisey sites.
Thanks for the info, I do have the 8" DD coil, I will give that a try along with your program the next time out. I thought when I heard all the noise OH boy this is going to have to be the beach machine because I'll never figure this out. No biggy, it was my first time out and I am sure after a few months I'll start to get the feel. Thanks for the help.
kansasexp2
Member
I felt the same way the first couple of times I took mine out but try these small adjustments and it should help alot. Use the factory presets but turn down the threshold volume to barely audible. Also, run "noise cancel" after turning it on at the hunting site. The preset sensitivity is 16 and this is just fine to learn with. I have also made a custom coin program that rejects almos everything but what I am looking for. I have found alot of coins with this program and it is very quiet. As a matter of fact I have a friend who has hunted with am Exp ll for over 2 years using the factory presets. He finds alot of "DEEP" old coins that other hunters say can only be found in the advanced mode. Give it a chance and it will make you a believer.
Rich, there is nothing wrong with using some iron mask and it will quiet it down a good bit. I think the preset is im -6, if you feel that is too much , you can lower that to about -10 to -12 and still get most good signals to come thru. There is a learning curve so hang in there, it will come with a little time.
Steve(MS)
Steve(MS)
Charles (Upstate NY)
Well-known member
Ideally though you should go find a less challenging site to learn the machine, that said...
If its going beep beep beep and the cursor is jumping all over the place with the coil held in the air that sounds like interference from nearby power lines. Could be on the pole, underground, dog fence, even a nearby house. I once hunted a park in MA with Todd and there was a radio tower off in the distance, even my dang X1 probe falsed like crazy with whatever was spewing out of that tower.
Turn down the sensitivity to 16 and try a noise cancel, if that doesn't help try going through the noise cancel channels manually, pause a few seconds between channels sometimes you can find an acceptable channel. If you can get it stable then bump up the sens a bit. If not try a smaller coil e.g. a smaller antena.
Try the Big-L pattern for the first 2-3 weeks, about 1/2 inch of the left side of the screen blacked out and about 1/3 of the bottom of the screen all the way across blacked out. That will wipe out most of the trash and iron signals and let you concentrate on digging coins. Thats really the key to a getting over the learning curve fast, dig lots and lots of coins and not much trash, your brain will key in on them after a bit. Then later as you start letting in the trash you will already know what coins sound like and they will stand out.
There are some tips on my site if you want to read through them... www.detectorgear.com
If its going beep beep beep and the cursor is jumping all over the place with the coil held in the air that sounds like interference from nearby power lines. Could be on the pole, underground, dog fence, even a nearby house. I once hunted a park in MA with Todd and there was a radio tower off in the distance, even my dang X1 probe falsed like crazy with whatever was spewing out of that tower.
Turn down the sensitivity to 16 and try a noise cancel, if that doesn't help try going through the noise cancel channels manually, pause a few seconds between channels sometimes you can find an acceptable channel. If you can get it stable then bump up the sens a bit. If not try a smaller coil e.g. a smaller antena.
Try the Big-L pattern for the first 2-3 weeks, about 1/2 inch of the left side of the screen blacked out and about 1/3 of the bottom of the screen all the way across blacked out. That will wipe out most of the trash and iron signals and let you concentrate on digging coins. Thats really the key to a getting over the learning curve fast, dig lots and lots of coins and not much trash, your brain will key in on them after a bit. Then later as you start letting in the trash you will already know what coins sound like and they will stand out.
There are some tips on my site if you want to read through them... www.detectorgear.com
Since you mentioned that going to a smaller coil (smaller "antenna") might help with EMI. I've just started using a Platypus and noticed that I can't run the sensitivity as high as the stock 10.5 at the beach. Not a tremendous difference... say 28+ on the stock but more like 24-26 on the Platypus. Is that normal considering it is a littler "larger"
Charles (Upstate NY)
Well-known member
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