Second hand minelab explorer se pro

[Rossy68]

hi i have bought a second hand minelab explorer se pro
Been out with it today
And finding the numbers a bit confusing
On knowing what to dig and what not to dig.
I was using a garret euro ace which was easy to use
Any advice is much appreciated
Cheers rossy

[haggz]

hi. have you checked the minelab section on the left . i too upgraded from the ace 250 to a minelab. with the garett range they are so user friendly. using my nox 800 was a massive learning curve. have you tried downloading the user manual. jumping in feet first will completley drive you bonkers as nothing makes sense. you end up pressing button after button then frustration sets in. there are posts with setups so might be worth trying one out in your garden.

[sweepstick47]

The Explorer SE Pro is still a popular detector and a very good performer on salt wet sand and on some inland sites. The numerical read-out on any machine's meter provides some indication of the target conductivity (low conductivity = low numbers and high conductivity= high numbers) but they are affected by other influences such as ground minerals present, target composition, size, proximity of ferrous targets, depth, shape and EMI etc. etc.

Becoming used to the subtle variations in the sounds produced by the various metals/targets is the real key and this will in time give a much better indication of what a target is likely to be.

Good Luck Regards ss47

[Rossy68]

Thanks for the replies .. I will be doing most of my detecting inland i have access to a fair few acres being a farm worker. I was sort of working on sound yesterday but was worrying about the numbers, found a couple of rubbed off coins and plenty of drink cans. I will post a pick later of something I keep digging but nobody seems to know what they are.
Cheers rossy

[fred]

In my opinion the position of the cursor on the display coupled with the sounds were the key to target ID on the Explorers.

[fred]

Decent enough detector IF you like them. I tried hard to like them & had the Explorer One , Two, and the SE Pro , and as much as I wanted to like them , I just didn`t like anything about them enough to put any admiration label on them. I think its a case of you either do ,or you don`t Gel with that type of Detector .They're not any I`d look back upon and say were great anyway !

I eventually got on brilliantly with mine despite them being heavy and unbalanced. Far more importantly they took detecting technology a few more steps towards the stuff that many of us use today.

[dig-dog]

My first ‘real’ detector was the explorer and found it to be a very difficult machine to master. I did find many good things with it and dig some seriously deep holes with great expectations. The learning curve was steep but when I finally gelled with it I bought an e-trac. This was also a very capable machine but, as before, it was very slow to use. After joining a club I found that my progress around the fields was extremely slow compared to the ground covered by others with more modern technology. A further investment was required and my finds rate shot up significantly. I still use the E-trac on the beach because there are still very few detectors that will touch it in the very difficult conditions associated with wet sand etc.
Low and slow are the key words when using FBS machines. Listen for the merest indication of a mid to mid/high tone in amongst the other noises. There is a load of great advice pertinent to FBS machines to be found on this forum and lots of differing points of view. Try them all and don’t give up easily.
Best of luck.

DD

[wiseprospector]

hello, when these detectors came about many i knew who purchased did find them difficult to master but you need to study the workings and settings, i chose the Safari, same type of working but easy to use on the set programmes,

[Rossy68]

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a few things from last couple of days with the explorer