New to the SE

[born2hunt]

I recently picked up a used SE w/Pro coil and after 3 years of using Garrett detectors.......I'm lost again. Little if anything is relative between the two. Bare in mind that my headphones don't arrive until Monday so I'm really spitting into the wind but I am taking it out to practice every chance I get. For the most part I'm using factory presets but I really would like a manual set up as well. No one ever learned to drive stickshift by practicing with an automatic. I've looked high and low for some settings but had no luck so today I read what each of the settings do and, to the best of my understanding, set them accordingly. The result was the sound of a rush hour traffic jam. HONK HONK HONK without much variation in tones. I'm guessing it was too much sensitivity, without headphones I can barely hear the threshold.

I'm determined to learn this detector and I do understand that what works for some may not work for others but does anyone know the source of some decent setups for the SE?

These were the settings I used:

Sensitivity Lower 20

 

[Bell]

I would strongly suggest the presets until you get comfortable with it. Otherwise its just going to take you longer to learn. I would say having deep on and response set on long right now are definately just adding to your confusion given your switch from Garret since both of those delay the already slow response time of the SE. I would say either factory presets or just iron mask at 20 or so until you start getting comfortable then you can start seeing what of those other options you might want to change. Best of luck!

 

[dewcon4414]

Long is ok once you get used to the detector, but mostly used in trashy areas. To have long on all the time would drive me nuts. Go back to normal. Up your limits and variability to 10. There just isnt any reason to leave them in a lower setting. They will give you better seperation of tones. Find a deep coin and play with your threshold TONE. You might get it to sound a lot like your old detector. Ive found 8 gives me a much better tone for my hearing on deep targets. There's nothing wrong with IM in factory setting. It reduces the amount of tones you hear and the machine still recovers fairly quickly. I prefer a higher gain just because i like to hear MOST of the targets louder even on a high gain you still get modulation on weaker deeper targets. With higher gain ive found no need to use fast or deep on. Fast is ok in trashy trashy areas..... but it does chop the tone. The explorers dont like a lot of air between the coil and ground and you dont swing them like you would a fast recovery detector. You kind of push them along working them along the ground slowly. I hunt almost totally in Cond.... i say almost. The exception is when im old old home hunting or field hunting. Ferr and AM allows me to hear all those nails in a low tone and i dig almost all high tones. It also lets me know when there isnt any more targets going under the coil so i can work back into the where the targets are and not waist time in open clean ground.

 

[DoughBoyDoug]

A also had an ace 250 so things are quite a bit different to say the least.Id say to put the response to normal at least thats what I was told by 3 different people. I even sent the moderator a message and he said he has always used normal too. I was told to take it slow so thats what Im doing. Its a different animal but im going to do my best to learn it.