Need Help With Minelab Sovereign XS-2 Pro

[goldmine03]

I just bought a used Minelab XS-2 Pro and am having a little trouble. I took it to a Southern California beach and started to detect. I was toggling from Disc to All Metal modes and cannot get the meter to work correctly. It almost seems like it is in its own little world. That is just one of the problems. My second problem is while sweeping across the sand, the digital meter locks into a low negative number (-1395) and gives a low growl. It comes out of the growl when I sweep it across my ring The growl goes away to a perfectly sounding threshold. Within 1 minute, the negative number comes back and the growl starts again and so on. This is mainly in the discrimination mode. I believe that all of the settings are correct? I am still finding things but it sounds like it is really draining my battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[goldmine03]

I just bought a used Minelab XS-2 Pro and am having a little trouble. I took it to a Southern California beach and started to detect. I was toggling from Disc to All Metal modes and cannot get the meter to work correctly. It almost seems like it is in its own little world. That is just one of the problems. My second problem is while sweeping across the sand, the digital meter locks into a low negative number (-1395) and gives a low growl. It comes out of the growl when I sweep it across my ring The growl goes away to a perfectly sounding threshold. Within 1 minute, the negative number comes back and the growl starts again and so on. This is mainly in the discrimination mode. I believe that all of the settings are correct? I am still finding things but it sounds like it is really draining my battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Beachcomber310]

Sounds like you have your sensitivity set too high. But anytime you go over a piece of iron the meter will go to the high negative number and the Threshold will drop to the low growl you spoke of. That is all normal. As far as anything being wrong with you meter you really didn't give us enough information. Just saying it has a mind of it's own doesn't help. The Audio Tone and the Meter reading should lock onto a number when you go over a target. Going negative while just swinging it over the beach can mean the beach is highly mineralized or the Sensitivity it to high for that beach. On East Coast Beaches you can usually set the Sov's Sensitivity control to between the 11and 12 o'clock position without any problem. If you still feel that there is something wrong with the meter please give more specific information about what it is doing that you think might not be correct.

HH

Beachcomber

 

[jeff of pa]

I take it you have Never used a Sovereign Before ?

The Sovereign changes tones everytime you move accross
a target. if it changes while swinging you probably moved accross something.
and maybe too fast if you didn't notice that. I say maybe because
certain ground condition changes will change the tone also.

Hunt in Auto (All the way Counterclockwise till it Clicks on)
& Swing slow. The Sovereign has True Auto.
It will Adjust on it's own for ground changes in auto)

As for your Meter if you get it wet it will go crazy.
You will need to let it dry before it will calm down again.

Of course it could also be Defective or Normal depending on
you & what's in the ground.

The meter only works in Disc

and dosn't lock on on the XS2 pro if it is the original meter
it will stray some. but as you learn it, you will be able to get the meter to
appear to Lock on with short strokes in disc.