Explorer ll

[lostlake88]

I have been using this machine for about a week with excellent results, but only with the 6" coil. The stock coil gets plenty of good signals, but it I find it nearly impossible to pin point with it. I have found plenty of 6" to 7" targets w/ my 6" coil, does any one know how deep this coil operates? Thanks.

 

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[bazinga]

Throw on the stock coil. It's easy to pinpoint with it. Just find the signal and you can bet it is somewhere under the coil. I'm known for digging some mammoth plugs to get down to those deep coins.

 

[Shenandoah Digger]

Set a coin on the ground and practice pinpointing that way. I typically pull the coil back until the sound disappears, then it's at the tip of the coil.

 

[neilo]

Have you got the manual? Before pushing the pin point button, make sure you have the coil at least a foot away from your target.Push the button and swing slowly over the target take note of the point where the signal is the strongest.Then swing over it again at right angle to your first swing and once again take note of the strongest signal.The point where the two signals cross would be where your target is. You can also use the depth guage as an indication as to the location of your target. When your depth guage is showing its shallowest it is directly under the centre of the coil.

Another thing which affects the pinpointing of the explorer is sensitivity. The explorer is very powerful and in experienced people run the machine on high settings thinking they are going to find more good targets. This is not so. Remember the machine has Auto sensitivity mode which when used will reduce sensitivity to suit the ground conditions.In harsh ground conditions you might have the machine set to say 30 but the macine has reduced itself down to a much lower reading as low as low 12. But when you pinpoint in high sensitivity settings it will exaggerate the size of the target, giving an indication that the target is under the centre of the coil but in actual fact it is not. This is more noticeable on shallow targets. You could also lift the height of your coil this will help narrow down you targets location.

For better pin pointing you could change your coil the Coiltek Platypus coil is a much better coil, giving better signal response depth and pin pointing. seeya Neilo

 

[johnnyboy25]

get a sunray probe, use stock coil and you'll go deeeeeep and find just about all your targets

 

[Ricardo_NY1]

The stock coil should be hot right under the Minelab logo sticker for PP'ing. That is my reference point on the XS stock, and I believe it to be the same on the II coil. I also have a II now, so I'll check it out at one point or the other.

 

[Iron Patch]

Many people are lost going from a concentric to DD coil. A concentric they're used to pinpointing side to side and that's good enough, on the DD with the Explorer in PP mode you wiggle the coil side to side but also back and forth about every 3rd swing to get more precise location. (It's all very quick just taking a few seconds) No matter how good you ever get with the Explorer trashy areas will always be tough and that's why the Sunray probe is so popular.