Explorer SE Digital Vs Smart-find?

[Treasure-Diver]

It seems like a lot of Explorer users favor the smart-find window. One of the main reasons I bought the SE was the digital display. I was sick of only having a tone to identify a target. Am I missing something not using the smart-find window or is it just preference? I much prefer to have an idea of what the target is composed of by looking at the numbers. I have read post where people have trouble finding nickels or haven't found nickels at all with the Explorer. I have only been out three times with my new SE and have already found 4 or 5 nickels. If I get a 10 Fer 6 cond readout more times than not I have a nickel. I realize soil conditions, time in the ground, surrounding objects, etc. can effect a targets reading but so far I have found the SE to be pretty dead on with its digital read out. How are the rest of you using the read outs? What methods work best for you.

HH
Frank

 

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[pinebarrens1]

i use the number readout on my xs all the time .....i rather see the number than judge by the graph ......just my thoughts ...and i used the xs for a year now

 

[Don in SJ]

Perhaps if I had a SE I might try the digital, however, since I hunt mostly areas where colonial coins are and colonials vary a great deal, no set numbers for most, so Smart Screen on the XS is the only way to go, since it only had a single VDI system, unlike the SE.

I know my detector, and love the crosshairs and tone of course is the First Alert, and Crosshairs usually , just like you say about the digital is right on, or I know it is by how it acts.

I have one detector with VDI, and had to make a cheat sheet up, since again, I find a varied group of coins in my hunting, and since it was a backup detector, no way of memorizing where what should or could read.

Nickels? What is a Nickel? LOL, think it has been many months since I found one, guess hunters did not lose too many. I seem to get clad quarters in the middle of nowhere, but not nickels, and I dig ALL solid reading, since buttons read all over the place depending upon what they are made of.......

For info, I have been using the same XS since Dec 2000, so I kinda know it fairly well.....

Don

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

I just recently got my se...no problem finding nickels...like you said the 10/6 reading seems to be right on...

 

[dewcon4414]

All the GOOD Explorer uses seems to like the graph i think just because whats already been said coins or relics very and we tend to dismiss more using the digital screen. They dig more than we do but they know the tones and find more. For me, im a digital guy too and i KNOW im leaving good targets in the ground because i get lazy or numbed by the tones. Oh and hey why does my nickels read 10/5? For some reason thou if im using ferr i flip back and forth between screens.

 

[Hardrock]

Hi all: I have some questions on the new SE, I sold my XS which is a great detector and had set up a program which found nickles often,by the way early Indians were of nickle content also so all the GOOD users should practice on this. The reason for the nickle set up is small gold nuggets will read from 4 to 12 and with that in mind have any of you tried to detect nuggets with the SE yet? if so what is the reading on both scales you see if you have tried that. Larger nuggets seem to go with a content difference and I never figured that out completely when in Alaska. Since the higher priced Minelab units for gold run differently(i.e. the older Goldhawk line) I purchased one that I figured should do it all and had quite the time to figure out the gold using a 5" excelerator and on up.Found the most nuggets with that loop. Any input will be helpful as I am ordering the detector and will practice some before heading north for the summer. Hardrock

 

[dewcon4414]

Several coins are of different metal makeup... war nickels, indians, pennies, dimes... ect. Thats why you get a collection of coins that you may encounter and do those air tests. Ive spent the winter in Nev, AZ and Cal... still no gold with the SE. I was told its just not an EFFECTIVE gold machine. However, like i told the person that said that i know it will pick up gold because i use a card with a small nugget. Raw gold is tuff to find with machines not tuned specifficly for gold. As you know gold can change so much based on minerals like magnatite and depth.

 

[Ron B]

Interesting topic!

I've owned two of the SEs, now three; ordering another yesterday and I can tell you from experience finding nickels with the SE in Southern Colorado is tough! Last year, I happened upon a local cowboy arena where, during rodeo time the clowns would throw out nickels for the kiddos. I must have found 500! And, what is so strange, they read all over the place on either screen! So, it could be a "soil type" thing. For those who find nickels consistantly with their SEs, my hat is off to you! Not to say I haven't found many; I dug a lot of pulltabs doing so.

GRB

 

[mastereagle22]

I use the smart find screen because, I am embarrassed to say, I just cannot remember where the good numbers come in.

I find nickels almost every hunt and I have actually developed a cheat for these. If I find what I think is a nickel I will flip over into digital. If it reads 10/4 - 10/6 then I am pretty sure I have a nickel.

I printed up and laminated a few sheets of what coins are supposed to be but I find the digital bounces all over the place so I use the smart find screen to help figure out wether to dig or not.