Minelab Explorer SE

[salaloid]

I just received my Explorer SE yesterday and tested it in my yard. This thing sounds like an R2D2. Is there any setting to switch to normal beeps? I cant seen to find one in the manual.

 

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[dewcon4414]

LOL... welcome to our world. Try switching to Ferr sounds that helps by moving Iron to a low tone. Cond sounds, if you arent used to them will drive you nuts because big iron will give that high tone just like a coin. Make sure you noise cancel and you need to start learning in auto sensitivity it will run smoother and truth be auto looses a little depth, but will still get some serious depth at auto sensitivity 26. You might also disc out crown caps they will make a hight tone in Ferr. If you are running the SE INSIDE... reduce the sensitivity to say 10 to test items or yes its going to pick up EMI. Good machine.... HH.

Dew

 

[salaloid]

Thanks. Will try that.

 

[John Deere Digger]

Alot of guys use cond. and turn on iron mask set at around 28 I think, this will quiet down the iron noise. Also lower your threshold volume to where you can just hear it, this will eliminate some of the noise level also.
JDD

 

[Brett]

If you are running it in your own yard, take a deep breath and hold all judgment until you get out to a soccer or football field.

Personally, in my yard, there are so many buried cables and overhanging cables that it drives my detector NUTS.

Out in a field you won't have too much trash, and you'll be away from a lot of power lines... hopefully.

Set the sensitivity to 20... lower if it's beeping kind of erratically... but there's no sense in trying to run it too hot when you are just learning the sounds of the machine. You'll go for deep stuff once you first understand what you are hearing.

Try using Manual sensitivity if Auto still sounds blipy... I always run Manual on the SE Pro.

Try just an Iron Mask of 27... out in the field you shouldn't have much of a problem with TOO many targets so this semi-all metal mode shouldn't be too bad.

Obviously you are going to want to lay out some coins and hear what they sound like.

If you are going to be a coin hunter primarily, I would stick with CONDUCT sounds starting out.

Keep the coil low and level to the ground, and sweep at about a 1-2 second per sweep rate. Slow down if you are hearing a lot of blips still.

You could dig everything you hear, or you could try to concentrate on digging certain pitch sounds. Learn what a penny sounds like and try to just dig those for awhile, then switch to quarters and try those. Then maybe listen for the low tone of the nickel, and try to match up the numbers for nickels. Stay away from the really high shreaky tones that are above the sound of a quarter until you get your feet wet.

Hopefully this gets you going in a positive direction

Brett

 

[salaloid]

I did my first dig in my yard and found a copper pipe. If confused me with a quarter since it showed a 00-28 in the screen. I did some tests throwing a cent, nickel, dime, quarter, gold ring, pull tab, silver ring, etc and read out the ferrosity and conductivity numbers. The quarter gave me a 00-28 while the copper pipe I dug gave 00-27. Does this make sense?

 

[Brett]

Yeah, you are going to find a lot of things that come up the same as a quarter or other coins.. that are just can lids or other pieces of metal. You can reduce the chance of digging those things if you think about it before you dig. If it's not "coin sized" as you are sweeping over it, it's probably not a coin. But it could be a coin spill! Also, if it says quarter at 4" and you're down about 10" and still aren't finding it yet.... IT'S NOT A QUARTER! IT'S A CAR, LOL. Seriously though, you'll start to pick these things up if you just dig A LOT!

 

[salaloid]

Thanks Brett. Today I did my first ever day out metal detecting. I went to an old baseball field close to my home. The place seems to have a lot of junk since there were many iron interruptions in the tresshold. I was using the factory set discrimination setting, sensitivity at 22 and digital mode, and conductive tones. Found:

4 Quarters
2 Dimes
2 Nickels
4 cents
1 silver ring (925 marked)

In addition I found around 20 pulltabs, a few pieces of aluminum foil and a couple of aluminum soda cans.

There was a lot of noise still and a lot of broken tones. I just dug those solid tones that I could reproduce after sweeping over the same spot a few times. All coins were clad.

Any other recommendations to reduce noise? Or are these real signals of very deep objects?

I will try to post some pictures in the Todays finds section.

 

[Brett]

The best way to reduce the noise is to turn down the sensitivity until those little bleeps and blips go away... it actually doesn't hurt the depth as much as you would think. Find a deep target, or bury one... and try to turn down the sensitivity while scanning it. See where it starts to break up and not give a good tone. I bet you'll be surprised with how low the sensitivity is.

Congrats on your Silver Ring! So I bet that sounded good. Those usually come up as quarter or slightly higher, but nice and solid and loud.