My Program for Minelab Explorer XS, II, II Pro, SE and SE Pro for Deep Search
Detect The Oldest Coins And Relics Buried Deep
The
current Metal Detecting Program, a combination of parameter settings, set up on
my Minelab Explorer metal detector is a result of "Try and Error" process that have been continuing
for past few years. My goal in creating an optimal program was to be able
to metal detect successfully under any soil condition that I might encounter
at different geographic locations.
The users of the Minelab Safari metal detector might obtain a few useful tips from studying my program as their metal detectors' settings are similar to the ones of the Minelab Explorer series.
Even though Explorer's 28 Simultaneous Operating Frequencies of the Full Band Spectrum (FBS) allow me to detect without a trouble anywhere in the world, I still would like to detect the deepest targets while hunting under toughest conditions. The following program enables my Explorer to detect a few more desirable finds at the locations where other treasure hunters quit searching long time ago.
The picture on the right shows the deepest hole that I had ever dug up at the "hunted out" site to recover a large coin, circa 18th century. You can read my full story on Detecting "Hunted Out" Site pages.
The changeable parameters are divided into two groups for better understanding of their utilization:
Group A includes the parameters that I do not change every time I encounter different metal detecting conditions such as the type of soil, concentration of junk, and type of the top cultural layer.
Group B includes only two parameters, Sensitivity Level and Discrimination Pattern, that I change even a few times during the treasure hunt according to the site conditions. I operate my Minelab Explorer only in ADVANCED Mode with Sensitivity set up on MANUAL, and with Tone ID.
Group A Settings:
DISPLAY CONTRAST - at 10
AUDIO VOLUME - Max Limit at 10
NOISE - at 5 (if interference from the power lines, other metal detectors, etc. is absent)
RESPONSE - Audio 1
RECOVERY: FAST - off and DEEP - on
GAIN - at 8 (even a deep target produces a loud signal) - Sometimes I lower the Gain level down to 7 when the junk concentration is high.
TH (treshold) TONE - at 5 (on Explorer XS) and 8 (on Explorer II)
VARIABILITY - at 10
LIMITS - at 10
SOUNDS - on FERROUS (medium size ferrous targets do not respond with a high pitched tone as if of silver)
Group B Settings:
SENSITIVITY - usually as high as possible - a notch below a setting that makes my detector unstable, which is allowed by trash concentration, soil mineralization, and the search coil's size.
To read about how the Sensitivity settings affect the detector's performance, visit page 1 of my Article - How To Search Around Cellar Holes Successfully.
Sensitivity Settings for different sizes of Double "D" Waterproof Search Coils:
15 inches WOT Coil - 10-20
10.5 inches Standard Coil - up to 28
7.25 inches Coil - up to 32
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