krustydog73
New member
Hello,
Let me start out first by stating that I am a NEWBIE in the metal detecting world, and I stumbled across this great site the other night when I was looking for answers about some technical questions regarding a couple of older White's detectors I picked up recently. As I said, I am a newbie, and wanted to start out with it reasonably cheap until I know me and my family will endear the hobby, so I bought a couple of older White's GEB's at a hard-to-beat price. I am into old Indian and colonial relics, and have several sites to hunt for them (which I hope have not been picked over too bad, and I don't think that they have). I bought the GEB detectors, and also bought an 11 inch search coil in mint condition, but when I tried to mount it up on the 5000/D I noticed that the pins in the coil lead were male, and the pins in my 5000/D were male also. Is there something about the GEB detectors that will not allow a non-GEB search coil to be used on them? The plugs themselves are identical, but both are male terminals. I wanted to use this bigger coil to get a little more depth out of my 5000/D and 6000/D when searching a couple of creekside sites. I could easily de-solder the plug off of the search coil head and solder on a female off of a donor unit, but before doing that I wanted to make sure I wouldn't screw up the machine. The 5000/D works great as I took it to a local park on Christmas Eve to try it out (after figuring out the GEB settings by visiting Whites site with the down-loadable owners manuals, without which I could have never figured this machine out) and found several dollars worth of change in a 20 minute time period without even really trying. I noticed several of you out there have a great depth of knowledge on these units and I would appreciate your letting me tap your brain for some advise! Any help you guys could be, from tech knowledge to where-to-get-parts knowledge, I would really be thankful!! God Bless all and have a Safe and Happy New Year!!
Dan
Let me start out first by stating that I am a NEWBIE in the metal detecting world, and I stumbled across this great site the other night when I was looking for answers about some technical questions regarding a couple of older White's detectors I picked up recently. As I said, I am a newbie, and wanted to start out with it reasonably cheap until I know me and my family will endear the hobby, so I bought a couple of older White's GEB's at a hard-to-beat price. I am into old Indian and colonial relics, and have several sites to hunt for them (which I hope have not been picked over too bad, and I don't think that they have). I bought the GEB detectors, and also bought an 11 inch search coil in mint condition, but when I tried to mount it up on the 5000/D I noticed that the pins in the coil lead were male, and the pins in my 5000/D were male also. Is there something about the GEB detectors that will not allow a non-GEB search coil to be used on them? The plugs themselves are identical, but both are male terminals. I wanted to use this bigger coil to get a little more depth out of my 5000/D and 6000/D when searching a couple of creekside sites. I could easily de-solder the plug off of the search coil head and solder on a female off of a donor unit, but before doing that I wanted to make sure I wouldn't screw up the machine. The 5000/D works great as I took it to a local park on Christmas Eve to try it out (after figuring out the GEB settings by visiting Whites site with the down-loadable owners manuals, without which I could have never figured this machine out) and found several dollars worth of change in a 20 minute time period without even really trying. I noticed several of you out there have a great depth of knowledge on these units and I would appreciate your letting me tap your brain for some advise! Any help you guys could be, from tech knowledge to where-to-get-parts knowledge, I would really be thankful!! God Bless all and have a Safe and Happy New Year!!
Dan