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Hey Minelab! The Explorer needs the GT treatment!

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It would really please a whole lot of people if you redesigned the Explorer with a straight shaft just like the GT. How about putting the screen on top of the handle and the guts WAAAAAAAAY back? And can you please change the yucky pinpoint mode of the EX to something like the ALL METAL on the Sov? You'd sell a whole new bunch if you did.
Your truly,
Bing "Bengay" T.
 
Sending a letter to Minelab U.S.A. explaining your preferences( a detailed picture would be nice) surely have merit and Minelab may take them into consideration. Rememember retooling, designing changes cost money and that has to be taken into consideration also as new Minelabs are costly as is.I remember writing to Whites with such a letter many moons ago and the XLT which emerged as their new unit incorporated some of my ideas...I really don't now if Minelab monitors this forum so I suggest the letter form as am sure they would tke into consideration your ideas. Major companies do have testing teams and prototypes and one never knows..
 
make it lighter somehow. maybe a hipmount version with a belt clip would be nice, no straps.
i would take a hipmount version with a belt clip for sure. that would put the batteries on the belt too. can you imagine how nice that would feel swinging only the rods and the coil? this is the way i used to swing my whites.
what's the biggest complaints about the explorer?
1. swing weight
2. pinpoint function
when i first got my explorer, i asked, how in the !@#$ do you pinpoint with this thing? <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
and there's still something funny going on with the explorer's pinpoint function, trash pulls the pinpoint signal off of coins.
marc and i were at this site about a month ago, cross checking signals with the ML 8" and the joey coil, this one signal sounded good and id'd like a coin, but wouldn't pinpoint. i asked marc to check it..... same thing, sounded good, wouldn't pinpoint. figure that out.
in november, i got a signal, pinpointed and dug, sticking out of the side of the hole was a 1909 barber quarter at about 5", wouldn't pinpoint right.
my brother found the same thing happen. he said sometimes he gets a coin signal, but it won't pinpoint. instead the explorer pinpoints to the left and to the right of his sweep signal, so he digs in between, and then pops out a silver coin.
i watched him one day, down 10", a barber half on it's side, offset all the way over to the bottom side of the hole, maybe 5" offcenter, all we could see was the edge of the half sticking out.
so...why do you think folks sometimes dig empty holes? <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
That would only make swinging the Explorer worst. The weight is not about the batteries and control unit. IT IS THE COIL. The Explorer is nose heavy with the stock coil with all that weight being in the coil.. Hip mounting does nothing to alleviate the pendulum style weight you get when swinging the heavy coil.
Personally I have never had a problem with the Pinpoint at all, how it works, or where the button is located.
JMHO
Don
 
the sweep mode goes deeper than pinpoint. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
i used a whites that way for 13 years. stuck a big 'ol hotshot coil on there and it felt light. i know the difference. i speak from experience.
i disagree with you again.
 
I just put a HMK by Birch engineering on my XS. I absolutely love it. I use the shoulder strap. That way its easy to manipulate the screen to keep the glare off so you can see it. Especially good in bright sunny daylight. I too chest mounted my Whites for years. If you want to keep from wearing out your joints and keep your stamina up its the only way to go.
 
Machine is nose heavy hipmounted or not..Very tough machine to hipmount, but does take some weight off arm hipmounted but you still are nose heavy...
 
do out tuseday the new sov GT.hh don http://www.kinzlicoils.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1637&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=81718d1373a9e3ecc5e4155133ef9840
 
Swingy Thingy !!!!
Nose heavy or not, your machine will be weightless.
Ask anyone who has a Swingy Thingy. Don't beleive me ? Order one, use it for 30 days, if you don't like it send it back for a refund ! Do you know how many I have gotten back ? ZERO !
Here's a new word:
PLATYPUS !
Because it is perfectly balanced it makes the whole machine feel lighter.
I know this all sounds self-serving, being I sell these items, but ask the people that use the Swing's.
Wait until those Platypus coils hit the detecting public !
Take care!
DOC
 
But I always found it cumbersome in the woods and thick brush where I hunt 90% of the time, so I would only use it IF I was beach hunting or field hunting and using the stock coil, which I hardly use anymore. Also, while using it it tended to aggravate a neck problem I have. Also, another reason I would never consider a hipmount kit or anything similiar. I do not like extras on me while I am beating the bush pingin and I have over 25 years experience doing that!
I have no need to buy another coil, I use the 8 inch ML exclusively now and sure am not complaining about my finds with it. If I had money to spare I surely would consider it, but not on my retirement pay. <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b">
I also stopped using the X-1 probe also due to the weight and some increased clumsiness in thick brush with it installed. Have not lost anything by not using it although I do love the probe, but it is not a necessary item to have when you are a woods hunter.
The probe really serves its purpose for park/lawn hunters in keeping down the size of the hole needed.
HH
Don
 
No good in woods or plowed fields, at least rowed fields.. I guess for beach or very flat ground they are OK.. Personally the weight doesnt bother my arms, its my lower back that hets to me, but usually not untill about 6 hours of swinging.. funny thing is I find wearing a back pack with my extra stuff seems to prolong how long I can go... maybe helps keep the back straight
 
I Have A Different Harness And Makes The Weight Disapear.It Does Take Some Time To Get Used To Useing IT But Even With The WOT Coil It's No Problem.We Go 8 Hours ,The Harness Makes It Possible.
 
Just curious. Tried searching the site,but came up with nada. What is an HMK by Birch Engineering? Sounds like something I need. I have the Exp II and on many a sunny beach I use mostly my imagination when trying to read the screen.
 
buy a nice pair of polarized sunglasses. it also protects you eyes when your out in the sun anyway.
 
I thought there may be something wrong with my Explorer II until I read this post. Bought it new and right off the bat it had a problem, the cable inside the housing was damaged and wouldn't come out of startup mode. Had to send back to Minelab for repairs, works great now. I think. I asked them if it was possible, to tune it with a preference for deeper hunting, have no idea if that is even possible for them. It does completely drain a set of NIMH AA batteries, or the NIMH battery pack, in about 3 hours. I hunt primarily in central Ohio, the soil is fairly mineralized.
I am able to consistently hit buried quarters at 8 - 9", and if I set sens to 10 or 11, consistently reads quarters at a measured 10 1/2" depth with stock coil and only light falsing. My conductivity and ferrous readings both seem a bit off from what I've observed on the other posts. Clad quarters read ferrous 7 and conductivity reading of 28 - 29.
I am actually quite happy with the detector, I have a Garrett GTI 2500 and DFX and it will do at least 1" = 2" greater depth over either of these models.
If I have a complaint, it's that pinpoint mode drives me bannanas. It seems to hunt deeper in discrim mode than pinpoint. I'll get signals on the test bed that definitely hint there's a quarter there and even at that depth, readings are reasonably consistent, "off" only occasionally, close to the "fringe" for this machine. I'll move the coil to the side, hit pinpoint, try to scan the coin; nothing. Repeat...nothing. Throw a quarter on the ground, pinpoint it, then pinpointing the buried target, after about 5 seconds, it'll start indicating a target, weak signal, in pinpoint mode. Switch to discrim mode, find the target (I frequently find I have greater confidence in pinpointing with discrim mode than pinpoint) go back to pinpoint, repeat, now it's going off when the coil is over the sides of the hole but not over the target. Try it again, now I have three targets identified. Give up, go back to discrim. I just found a 1915 Barber quarter yesterday, it was at fringe depth, pinpoint was not useful.
Pull out the DFX with hotshot coil, flip the trigger forward to all-metal mode, easily identifies, with very strong signal, the 8", 9" and 10 1/2" buried quarters when DC sens is bumped up to about 45, very easy to center over the target with VCO on. Makes me wish I could lug two detectors around...perhaps. Read dozens of posts, read a couple books, switch the DFX to discrim mode, try adjusting settings for 90 minutes to every conceivable setting to gain max discrim depth attainable; about 8" on the same targets. Can someone meld the DFX all-metal and Explorer II discrim performance into one machine?
 
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