need help with exp2 settings

[Andy/Memphis]

i have a explorer 2 with a joey coil and stock 10.5 coil a friends dog ate her earings at christmas they are diamond stud earings set it white gold or possibly platinum the dog has a area he uses to do his business so i will be going to look for them what numbers or settings should i use

 

[Tom_in_CA]

things like teensy gold earing studs are difficult for ANY machine to pick up. The Explorer is a coin/relic machine, as opposed to other machines that excell better on teensy low conductors. An earing stud is just too teensy of an amount of gold usually (depending on the size). The only way you would know if you can even pick them up to begin with, is to have a similar size/composition pair to air test on. You might have to visit a jewelry store (sometime the buy/sell/trade type smelt places are more casual about something like this) to test different settings with a similar size item. Or maybe the person who lost it has a sister pair of the same type/size?

I would go into ferrous mode, and open the screen entirely wide open (nothing blacked out). The hits/TID might be super way low on the foil side of things, or even down into the iron range. Hopefully there's not a lot of nails and flitty little paper-clip type stuff where you're planning to detect.

 

[tab-nabit]

Like Tom says, "gold earing studs are difficult" - a small target that can easily be missed - not impossible, just small and need a capable machine.
I guess it won't hurt to try - but how ya gonna know which piles of dog dirt are x-mas time pile treats They keep them around since x-mas?
If a must try - no disc., wide open, Small coils. If you have other machines, try what you have that works for small targets. PI / gold machine? worst comes to worst, hand searching.uke:

 

[grumpyolman]

Nice offer to help but what a crappy job!