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What do you want on the ExIII? ....

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I am getting ready to leave in a bit and am bored till I do...
So, what would y'all like to see on a new explorer?
I posted this one in 99 or 2000. I would like to see a compact flash or SD disk slot. Especially now that 1gig's are around. I think it would be sweet if you could hit a record button and sweep and save any target you wanted to, then download them on your computer for analysis later. Like an iffy target, record the audio and the screen for a few seconds as you sweep over it after you hit record. Then with software especially developed and marketed by Minelab™ <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)"> you could program your own programs and download them with your card if that was your bag. It would be a valuable learning tool regardless. Plus you could get any firmware updates this way also.
Another thing I would like to see is a nice color backlit lcd screen display. My free LG vx6100 camera phone has one, why not a $1200+ detector? <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D"> I can play with my phone for days with the small lithium battery and it not go dead. That would be so much easier to see day or night! Not to mention the much better display info it would allow <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
How about downloadable tones? I am reaching here but I could easily see some benefits to changing the tones how you want. A falsing nail is higher pitched than a dime, but still close enough that it can fool ya sometimes. At least me anyway. I would like to change a few tones around. It has plenty of variance now, I am just being greedy. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
How about an AMD mobile processor or something like that? It could be underclocked enough to stay cool with a small heat sink and fan. Wouldn't add hardly any weight if any at all. It has a processor now but it can't be the same caliber or close. Maybe that null would recover in a fraction of a second and you would find more stuff?
How about a small LED light on the center of the coil that lights up and gets brighter over the target. I don't have much problem pinpointing but that would just rock! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
A clock and an outside temp sensor is a given. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
I am very happy with my poor old beat up XS but if that stuff was available on one I would sell my detector and a few cars or guns in a heart beat to buy one even if the performance was the same. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
Ok, I think I have killed enough time. Any other ideas? <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
Static discrimination which is no motion discrimination with a TD tone id detector. While the idea you list are interesting I am not sure we are close to that. However, there is a patent pending for static discrimination that may indicate where we are headed. If we could move the coil as slow as we could the old TR type detectors then we would eliminate many of the problems that cause us to use IM-16 with Tone ID. The other would be better discrimination resolution at depth. The first guy with a discriminator that will tell a pulltab from a gold ring will win the gold ring. The last would be a serious display that indicates the size and shape of a target and if it has a hole in it such as a pulltab. I think these are realistic as manufactures are working with these technologies and deploy them in some ways with hobby detectors.
HH, Cody
 
I would like to see faster mode switching
like mabey having the iron mask be adjustable
with out having to turn it off and on again. also learn and edit could be selected thru the menu
so you could switch between smart find and digital
faster. adjustable tones would be nice, it would
be cool if you could have less tones but have
the tones still sound high pitched. And
just having larger numbers and no icons in digital
would be nice i never look at the icons anyway.
 
A 10 inch tall man standing on my coil with a shovel ready to jump off and dig every target would be nice. Other than that my XL has everything I'll ever need. HH
 
As far as your coil light goes they could make it to show up on the display and work like a stud finder does with a light strip. The more lights the stronger the signal. I would also like to see the "X-1"probe and the "Tall Man" lower rod as standard equipment!
HH Gilly in Illinois
 
Colour LCD display that would indicate the differing metals with differing colours. Heard a while back that this was going to be part of a Minelab detector.
David Di
 
Give me a chest mount like the one Fisher offers with a lighter coil at the end of the stem - and the idea about target shape on the screen of your chest mount would be ideal. Mount the factory supplied probe with a 5/8 inch or less diameter, discriminating wand, on the chest box not on the stem, and you have a bigger winner.
 
How about a Magnetic switch. So those suckers just pop out the ground at a flip of a switch.
<img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Tom
 
It might work for magnetic coins but we need to come up with something for the others, Ha ha.
HH, Cody
 
I like the stud-finder idea for pinpoint, but LEDS draw down batteries. I don't want any lights on the coil - just another thing that can break, plus it would increase coil cost.
Instead, have an image of the coil on the display when you go into pinpoint that shows where the target is under the coil!
Also, lighten the unit. A separate chest mountable box is a good start.
 
Not that it could be done, but it would be neat if the discrimination tones could be selected to go diagonally in any direction, in addition to left-right (ferrous) and up-down (conductive). For example, if the pulltab area is the majority of the trash, the pulltabs could be made low tone and the coins high tone. This would be kind of like an iron-mask mode for pulltab fields.
Can an extra circuit be added to get rid of some of the classic iron spike tones? Like maybe if the detector passes over a big chunk of iron then gets the iron spike, it could be programmed to take out a certain percentage of the spike tones. That would be nice for when my brain gets fried by iron filled sites.
 
I will be really pissed if minelabs relases a version III anytime soon !! I bought a Explorer II on jan 23 of this year before I purchased it I spoke with the customer service rep at minelabs and that,s one of the questions I ask If there "will there be a newer release any time soon" he said there was no talk of a new version of the Explorer !!
However I looked over the suggestions everone has made and I think the compact flash slot and color screen would be nice to see on a detector also the sound could be a little louder !!
just my 2 cents
Jeff
 
1. Make the charger universal - one that automatically adjusts for the voltage available in any given country. If my shaver, cell phone, and computer can do it, there is no excuse for not having that capability on a detector.
2. A hard removable cover for the display face. While travelling this will prevent damage to the instrument face. [Sort of like a coil cover] Now that you cannot lock checked luggage on airplanes, I have had the TSA guys just toss the detector back in the bag notwithstanding that it had been carefully wrapped when packed.
3. Weight and balance. Not only is the detector head heavy, it is poorly balanced making it feel heavier. There are plenty of new epoxy materials that can be used to pot the coil while keeping the weight down. On detecting expeditions, swinging that weight for 8 or more hours kills the arm and shoulder.
4. Better reliability engineering. I have owned 7 different detectors incuding two Minelabs -- ExpII and Excaliber. They are the only ones that have broken with use. The knobs on the Excalibur and the electronics fried on the ExpII [thankfully 2 months before the warranty expired]. I have had more than 6 years of hard use on my XLT without any problems.
5. Rain proof. O-rings and other sealing technology should enable a detector that is not necessarily waterproof [i.e. can take the pressure associated with being under water] but is still rainproof. That plastic after market rain cover gets muddy, fogs over, and is hard to see through on a rainy day.
Notwithstanding the comments above the ExpII is a great machine which produces excellent results. Minelab has to be commended on introducing all sorts of innovations into their machines, such as the wire within the shaft to eliminate snags, a better user interface than the XLT, excellent black sand and salt rejection. In only one situation have I found the heavy coil a welcome feature -- while hunting fields with tall stubble in England. The ExpII coil would whack through them, while the lightweight XLT coil would ride above, increasing the distance to potential targets. <UL></UL>
 
Well,
maybe not. Clock might be nice but it is often advantageous to not know what time it is.
I don't like the way the battery wires are hot glued to one side of the handle and the speaker wires to the other. Disassembly is a bit tricky because of this.
chris
 
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