#Minelab Explorer 2 For Sale How To Reinforce The#

I heard similar complains from other users of Minelab Explorer SE, which made me think that whatever electronic modifications were incorporated into the SE's circuit, the detector's performance was not improved. Something was not quite right with SE's electronics or its search coil, no matter what settings I used, even though the detector was just out of box. Finding and recovering gold rings while rejecting and, therefore, not digging up many pull-tabs of the same conductivity on a beach could be one of many good examples.I used the Minelab Explorer SE for a short while and did not like its performance comparing it to the Explorer II's performance. From the start, instead of using the factory pre-set programs (I never use them anyway), I employed an Advanced Mode which allowed me to adjust the Explorer to most metal detecting conditions.The 2-Dimensional Discrimination scale was incredibly helpful at the trashy sites because it allowed me to reject certain junk targets by their ferrous content ('FE' values) and not necessarily by their conductivity content ('CO' values) which many times would be the same as the 'CO' values of some desirable targets. The Minelab Explorer XS was my first true 'Switch-On-and-Go' machine as it did not require complicated programming or frequent Ground Balance readjustments for stable and productive performance. Images of various keepers (not all of course) I found with the Explorers are shown in most of my stories listed in the following sections: Metal Detecting Stories and Metal Detecting FindsBoth the 'Smartfind' and FBS features seemed to be revolutionary for their time as they enabled the Minelab machines to outperform most advanced detectors of that period at the most problematic (highly mineralized and/or trashed) hunt sites.

Minelab Explorer 2 For Sale How To Reinforce The

Sergei and Shelly with Minelab Explorers in 2002Unfortunately all my 'cosmetic' modifications of the Explorer II's body design did not make the detector somewhat ergonomic, i.e. The clearly displayed 'Fe-Co' read-out (two numbers) allowed a metaldetectorist to see the target's Conductivity (CO) and Ferrous (FE) content simultaneously. Though, the Explorer II's shaft assembly was made from the long-lasting plastics, I reinforced it anyway just to be on a safe side, and modified an identical shaft assembly of the E-Trac - the Explorer's successor, the same way as explained in my article - How To Reinforce the Minelab Explorer's BodyThe Minelab Explorer II also differed from the Explorer XS by a larger 1/4' headphone jack and a Dual Coordinate (Fe-Co) digital display. Due to weak materials initially used for the XS' shaft assembly, the Explorer XS' body would start falling apart after two months of being continuously used. I only wish it did not have the same poor body design as the physical body design of its ancestor - the Explorer XS.

AdvertisementThis is an ad by Amazon. The Minelab technologies that had ruled the market for almost a decade could no longer meet the requirements of the metal detecting reality that had dramatically changed by 2009. Unfortunately, both technologies already began falling behind a new, breaking through technology introduced by the XP Metal Detectors in their XP Deus machine back in 2009.

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