Focus on New Features
The most important software changes are listed above however there are some
more that are not. An example of one would be in the Digital display whilst using
the large zoom screen, the icons which showed in the previous Explorer models as
coins, rings and tabs do now not show on Explorer SE. Instead, the entire pixel
space is given over to four huge and very tall numbers for Fer and Cond to enable
easy viewing of the numeric values assigned to every detected target.
The major changes will be discussed in more detail here and they include the new
RESPONSE sounds although Normal, Audio 1 and Audio 2 have not changed but
instead have been re-named as Long (Audio 1), Smooth (Audio 2) and Pitch Hold
(Audio 3). Normal response remains the same and no changes to it have occurred.
The big change is to Pitch Hold which is, an exciting new innovative audio choice
method for Explorer SE users and a lot of information can be gleaned from it which
will be described in greater detail below.
The Response option allows you to select the way targets sound upon detection.
These are described below. Each Response sound may work better in different
scenarios and you should quickly develop your own personal preferences.
1. Normal
- when the target signal drops the audio blanks, giving a crisp end to the
target response. Normal allows the greatest differentiation between the ground
and a target, but has the potential to miss small targets in areas littered with
objects producing a target response.
2. Long
- long audio lasts until the end of detection. There is no blanking at the
end of the target response. Long allows less differentiation between the ground
and a target.
3. Smooth
- as opposed to the sudden change in audio response in Normal and
Long, Smooth offers a more gradual change/rise in audio response from ground to
target detection.
4. Pitch Hold
- is identical to the normal response during detection. After blanking,
the threshold will return to the same pitch of the peak target signal. The pitch of
the threshold will not change until a new detection is made. The Minelab
Sovereign series of detectors varies the pitch of an audio signal depending on the
conductivity of the target: i.e. a highly conductive target produces a high-pitched
tone, while a less conductive target item produces a lower-pitched tone. The
advantage of the Sovereign's threshold tonal reproductive range is that the tone of
the threshold also changes. After the target signal is heard, the threshold "hum,"
returns in a pitch similar to the pitch of the signal. When the target signal is
blanked (or nulls out) due to some positive discrimination, the threshold returns
again in the higher or lower pitch of the target's conductivity. The advantages of
Pitch Hold should become apparent in ground that is considered fairly clean and
also works very smoothly over salt wet sand.
The
Iron Mask
feature is an overall ferrous discrimination control, which can be
adjusted to reject a large amount of ferrous targets at one time. An increased level
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