looking for opinions on a good after market coil for the ex2 that will give marked performance and not all the hype.the stock 10 coil seems ok but maybe there is something better? most of my hunts are old foundations and trails so i want a smaller coil that wont miss those coins maybe 8" but not 5" because im coin greedy and walk to fast!
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best aftermarket coil for ex2 ?
- Thread starter todd9146
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Jim upstate NY
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In my opinion, if you could only have one other coil besides the stock, it would be the Sunray X8, gets plenty of depth, works great in iron, is lighter and more stable than the ML 8 inch, especially hunting in the iron trashed cellar hole sites. The 5 inch while being able to work that iron a bit better is more for squeeking out those last few targets from the heavy iron.. between the X8 and teh stock you should be able to clean out a site pretty good. I have quite a few coils as I want to get every advantage I can from my old worked over spots, but if you have new sites to move on to you wont have to worry about what you might have left behind too much with just those two coils. One thing though no matter what coil your using you need to work them slow in that iron
Ace
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Slowing down helps you pick down targets better, specially the deeper ones, and it also lets you get around targets near trash and recognize them as good targets, being a DD coils (the coils for the Explorer) you have the advantage over monoloop coils, but slowing down is necessary, trust me, and why speed up? If you need to cover ground fast get the 15" WOT or one of the EXcellerator coils from 12.5" and above from Kellyco to cover ground quicker. If it's just you who wants to go fast go right ahead, leave some of the good targets behind. You need to overlap your swings, this means you need to go slow... All this is in the manual, didn't you read it?
As for the detector sounding different, no, it doesn't, the only thing that could change is the depth reading being a tiny bit innacurate, but just a bit in most cases.
www.sunraydetector.com (X-series coils and lots of great accessories for the EX.2)
www.kamakazi.com (WOT, Joey, etc. Coils)
www.kellycodetectors.com (EXcellerator coils)
Hope this helps, good luck!
Just one more thing, get the book "Mastering the MINELAB EXPLORER XS & S" by Andy Sabisch, it will aid you greatly. And if you have the money get the X-1 probe it's the best thing you can get as an accessory for your Explorer.
As for the detector sounding different, no, it doesn't, the only thing that could change is the depth reading being a tiny bit innacurate, but just a bit in most cases.
www.sunraydetector.com (X-series coils and lots of great accessories for the EX.2)
www.kamakazi.com (WOT, Joey, etc. Coils)
www.kellycodetectors.com (EXcellerator coils)
Hope this helps, good luck!
Just one more thing, get the book "Mastering the MINELAB EXPLORER XS & S" by Andy Sabisch, it will aid you greatly. And if you have the money get the X-1 probe it's the best thing you can get as an accessory for your Explorer.
I NEVER look at it for ID.
Ace
Member
Bill's right, tones are way much accurate than Target ID, remember that a good target masked by iron or really deep can give a good tone but a bad or 'jumpy' ID. and if you're going by Target ID mostly, then you might ignore this kind of target. Deep targets, those that give faint signals too, can give a good tone but because the signal is weak the target ID isn't 'pushed' were it's supposed to be, Target ID is about 80% accurate sometimes at most.