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Old 12-01-2009, 11:04 AM
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Default I need a good program for my Explorer...

can someone help me out with a tried and true program that will find the goods please ? I keep on messing with mine, but I've got it kind of out of wack I think. Thanks!! Also, I need a 5" or 6" EXcelerator coil if anyone has a used one they wanna sell.
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Hi Thrasher.I find that simple can be the best way to go.I set mine up at factory settings then up the sencitivity go to advanced settings and set it on deep....works great for me.
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Hi Thrasher.I find that simple can be the best way to go.I set mine up at factory settings then up the sencitivity go to advanced settings and set it on deep....works great for me.
so you leave the gain and discrimination and basically everything else alone ? and you have great luck like this really ? where do you keep your sensitivity ? last thing, does yours go quiet (null) a lot when you're swinging ? mine does a good bit, but more or less at different sites. I usually keep sensitivity between 18 and 24.
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so you leave the gain and discrimination and basically everything else alone ? and you have great luck like this really ? where do you keep your sensitivity ? last thing, does yours go quiet (null) a lot when you're swinging ? mine does a good bit, but more or less at different sites. I usually keep sensitivity between 18 and 24.
Yup.I set the sencitivity at allmost max....but your soil may be different were your at...so play with it some but try to run it as high as you can.I know that some people say that you can lose depth by running high sen.but I havent seen were thats the case at all.
When it nulls thats good.That means that theres alot of iron and were theres lots of iron there would have been alot of activity.I look for areas were I get alot of nulling when I'm hunting feilds.Practice as much as you can and it will get better.
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Yup.I set the sencitivity at allmost max....but your soil may be different were your at...so play with it some but try to run it as high as you can.I know that some people say that you can lose depth by running high sen.but I havent seen were thats the case at all.
When it nulls thats good.That means that theres alot of iron and were theres lots of iron there would have been alot of activity.I look for areas were I get alot of nulling when I'm hunting feilds.Practice as much as you can and it will get better.
awesome, thanks... would you want to sell your EXcelerator coil since you don't use it ?
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awesome, thanks... would you want to sell your EXcelerator coil since you don't use it ?
Your welcome.I would but if I did then I would need it.....thats the way it usualy goes.
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Your welcome.I would but if I did then I would need it.....thats the way it usualy goes.
I know exactly what you mean... if I could get Kellyco to respond to me with a total for the 6" and the lower rod shipped then I would get that. I've sent them and email, but no luck...
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