The EXPADES (EXotic PArticle DEtection System) [1] detecting setup consists of 16 Double Side Silicon Strip Detectors (DSSSD) with active areas of 64 x 64 mm2, arranged in 8 ∆E (40 µm) - E (300 µm) telescopes. All detector faces are divided into 32 strips 2-mm wide, ensuring a 2 x 2 mm2 pixel configuration. Alternatively 8 ionization chambers can be used as ∆E stages or, if needed, as an additional third layer for more complex triple telescopes. Both the signals from the silicon ∆E layers and the ionization chambers are read by using standard electronic chains, while 32-channel ASIC chips are employed for the E stages. This detecting setup is still under development but several tests have been already performed, obtaining promising results, on each device (ionization chambers, ∆E stage, E stage, electronics) with radioactive sources, test signals and the scattered particles from a 58Ni target by an incident 17O beam.