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Nothing like my Explorer se to properly ID trash and find silver coins in a very trashy area. Don't have to dig it all to find out what you've found. Long live FBS Technology with a small Sunray coil. Nice.

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3 hours ago, George Kinsey said:

Nothing like my Explorer se to properly ID trash and find silver coins in a very trashy area. Don't have to dig it all to find out what you've found. Long live FBS Technology with a small Sunray coil. Nice.

I agree that the Explorer SE is a very good detector. The one I had sported the sunray probe….BUT my personal all time favorite detector for coins and rings was Whites Eagle II SL…. Believe it or not, if there were two quarters underneath the coil, the screen would display 50 cents….😃

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8 hours ago, Tom T said:

I agree that the Explorer SE is a very good detector. The one I had sported the sunray probe….BUT my personal all time favorite detector for coins and rings was Whites Eagle II SL…. Believe it or not, if there were two quarters underneath the coil, the screen would display 50 cents….😃

Had several Eagle 90.5's and yes I loved them.

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On 5/3/2022 at 2:04 AM, George Kinsey said:

Nothing like my Explorer se to properly ID trash and find silver coins in a very trashy area. Don't have to dig it all to find out what you've found. Long live FBS Technology with a small Sunray coil. Nice.

That's interesting, George.  A good friend of mine on another forum, Bryce Brown, and I used to playfully argue about which was better, the SE or an Explorer II with a Pro Coil.  Bryce swore his SE was better inland and at the beach while I voted for my Explorer II with the Pro Coil.  I'm assuming you had an Explorer II at one point. Ever run it with the Pro coil?

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I used an SE Pro and liked it for many years.  I bought it used from a friend.  It worked great on the beach.  It got dropped into the salt water one time to many and corroded so badly it could not be fixed.  A couple of years ago we bought a lightly used one and still have it but use it little with the other detectors I have available.

Your discussion of the 'pro coil' makes me wonder if that was the only difference between the SE and SE Pro?  I bought a Coiltek 12x8 for it and it is really quite good also.  How does that compare to the Pro Coil?

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9 hours ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

That's interesting, George.  A good friend of mine on another forum, Bryce Brown, and I used to playfully argue about which was better, the SE or an Explorer II with a Pro Coil.  Bryce swore his SE was better inland and at the beach while I voted for my Explorer II with the Pro Coil.  I'm assuming you had an Explorer II at one point. Ever run it with the Pro coil?

I owned all the Explorer's but found using aftermarket coils was the way to go for me.

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8 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I used an SE Pro and liked it for many years.  I bought it used from a friend.  It worked great on the beach.  It got dropped into the salt water one time to many and corroded so badly it could not be fixed.  A couple of years ago we bought a lightly used one and still have it but use it little with the other detectors I have available.

Your discussion of the 'pro coil' makes me wonder if that was the only difference between the SE and SE Pro?  I bought a Coiltek 12x8 for it and it is really quite good also.  How does that compare to the Pro Coil?

The aftermarket coils seem for me to be the only way to go. Probably only used the Pro coil a few times. Mine SE was the Pro model.

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I still use the SE emulator to play around with settings. It's fun. One key feature is to never noise cancel in auto. I set mine manually to 11 which lowers the frequency to around 13khz. making it a little hotter on high conductors.

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15 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I used an SE Pro and liked it for many years.  I bought it used from a friend.  It worked great on the beach.  It got dropped into the salt water one time to many and corroded so badly it could not be fixed.  A couple of years ago we bought a lightly used one and still have it but use it little with the other detectors I have available.

Your discussion of the 'pro coil' makes me wonder if that was the only difference between the SE and SE Pro?  I bought a Coiltek 12x8 for it and it is really quite good also.  How does that compare to the Pro Coil?

 

15 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I used an SE Pro and liked it for many years.  I bought it used from a friend.  It worked great on the beach.  It got dropped into the salt water one time to many and corroded so badly it could not be fixed.  A couple of years ago we bought a lightly used one and still have it but use it little with the other detectors I have available.

Your discussion of the 'pro coil' makes me wonder if that was the only difference between the SE and SE Pro?  I bought a Coiltek 12x8 for it and it is really quite good also.  How does that compare to the Pro Coil?

I think the Pro Coil was the only difference but could be wrong.  The Pro Coil originated with the Etrac and initially was only Etrac dedicated.  The coil was so successful that Minelab added it to the SE.

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