Any tips on using a 15" blue max coil on xlt?Thanks

[ohio fred]

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[cintisteve]

Use it very slowly. It can easily break your lower rod if you arent careful. It is too heavy for the rod. They really didnt take that into consideration when they made the coil.I could only use it about 30 min before my arm gave out. I gave up on trying to use it after a few hunts. Too heavy; so I sold it.. A swingy thing helps though.

Steve

 

[ohio fred]

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[UK Brian]

Its to heavy, so you will need to shorten up the shaft which will help and it will lose out to other, more modern, larger coils on the sensitivity front.
Unless things have changed over the years slow was not the way to go to get maximum depth on my mineralised soil. What ever coil you use its still a four filter machine. I found slighty faster than with the stock coil was the way to go.
You will also need to adjust the recovery speed to avoid getting two or three target responses from one target.

 

[ohio fred]

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[Groundshaker]

will this coil attached to the XLT be able to seek for up to 5ft deep targets ? the sierra madre is listed at that on the Whites site.

 

[ohio fred]

Thanks i was hoping to go and find some silver or find out that it is not deeper that it is just not there anymore.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

You will not gain depth on coin-sized targets with the 15" coil. Only larger targets will be detected deeper. The rule of "going deeper with bigger coils" hits a wall of diminishing-returns eventually. With the XLT, that "wall of diminishing returns", for coin sized items, seems to be at about the 950 (9.5") loop. I found that by using the 12" and 15" coils on the XLT, Spectrum, Eagle, etc.... that they were less than desirable for coins. The signals become real waffly, harder to pinpoint, more prone to masking (since you are seeing more junk in your field-of-scope), etc... Perhaps better for cache hunting (looking for toaster or hubcab sized deep items), but not for coin hunting.

 

[ohio fred]

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