Minelab Explorer User Manual page 40

THE MINELAB EXPLORER
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LEARNING TARGETS
Advanced mode's Learn option programs the Explorer to recognize certain targets. The
following pages show you how to instruct the detector to 'learn' a particular target and
save its characteristics for later use.
Figure 6.1 The Learn screen
Silence please!
For the Learn option to work
accurately, it needs to recognize
the same target characteristics
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with each pass of the search coil.
For this reason, it is essential that
you use Learn in an environment
free of electromagnetic
disturbance. This may mean
moving away from other
detectorists or powerlines.
It may be useful to perform a
Noise Cancel before undergoing
the procedure outlined in the
following tutorial.
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LEARNING TARGETS
Introducing Learn
Figure 6.1
Sometimes during your treasure hunting you may wish to instruct
the Explorer to detect targets with very specific characteristics.
It may be that you have found a particular type of coin which you
would like to find more of, or you find yourself constantly
unearthing the same types of junk.
Minelab has designed Learn to enable you to instruct the Explorer
to accept or reject precisely the types of targets you do or do not
want.
Your new target patterns are treated in exactly the same way as
those you have used from the SELECT target list. Once saved,
they can be used by themselves or in combination with other
discrimination patterns.
In time, you may find this one of the Explorer's most powerful
features. For instance, once you have saved target patterns of
several unwanted targets you may exclude them all from your
current Smartfind discrimination pattern simply by rejecting them
from the SELECT target list. In a similar way, you could combine all
of your desired targets into your own composite discrimination
pattern.
The following tutorial will help you to make Learn a feature of your
metal detecting.
NOTE Selection of Pinpoint effectively disengages the
Explorer's Discrimination functions.
LEARN'S TARGET SELECTION
This tutorial shows you how to learn a target, make
adjustments and save your selection.
Phase 1: Preparation for Learn
(Figure 6.2) Go to the Advanced Learn display. It does not
STEP 1
matter whether you were in Iron Mask or Discrim (shown
in the adjacent figure).
(Figure 6.3) Press the shift button next to Reject All/
STEP 2
Accept All icon to fill in the screen. The icon changes to all
Figure 6.2 Advanced Mode's Learn display
clear to indicate that the next time it is pressed, the Learn
screen will clear. Press the button again to clear the
screen and accept all targets.
While the screen is completely cleared, rest the coil and
STEP 3
check for interference (erratic noises and random
movements of the target crosshair). If you experience
interference press Noise Cancel, reduce the Sensitivity, or
Figure 6.3 Accept all clears the screen
move the detector to a different place.
Check the area of ground where you would like to learn
STEP 4
the target to make sure that there are no other targets in
the ground.
Press the Reject All/Accept All shift button to completely
STEP 5
fill the screen and reject all targets.
(Figure 6.4) Press the lower left hand shift button twice to
STEP 6
Figure 6.4 Reject all fills the screen change the cursor to medium size. The size of the cursor
sets how 'loosely' the target is matched for each
successive pass of the coil. Place the target on the ground
and press the upper left shift button next to the Accept
icon. The tick will begin to flash.
Now the detector is prepared to Learn targets.
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