Big coils... in general...

[jbow]

I was looking at all the SEF coils. I noticeed that some of the prices are all over the board. The 18x15 coils are 700 bucks except for the one for the Explorer. E-TRAC etc... it is 300 bucks. The 15x12 coils are 190 bucks except for the T2 model which is 500 bucks and the GPX which is 330 bucks... and so on...

I wonder why the difference. I am guessing that the E-T/Explorer coils are being dropped and blown out... i imagine they are really heavy and would be a booger to use on a beach without some sort of harness...

I can't think of too many places I could utilize a coil that big (18x15), I guess in the woods or on the beach, using a harness would be ok but anywhere else I can't imagine I would want to dig a hole deep enough to justify the weight/depth difference between an 18x15 and a 12x10... 18 inch deep falses would suq!

That 18x15 really must be a specialty coil but the price is prohibitive if thinking of buying just to see how it does. I'd be afraid i'd be stuck with it or either take a big loss on it. It would really be bad to buy one at 700 bucks and then see K-co drop the price on new ones to 300 bucks... like with the 18x15 E-TRAC coil.

Has anyone tried any of these really big coils ?

J

 

[XT18000]

The reason those big coils are selling for so much is the price of GOLD! Those with the highest prices
are for the detectors that are pure gold prospecting machines such as the GP/SP etc. MineLab ones.
The other ones are generally thought to be use full in the gold fields but are less money than the large
MineLabs but with large coils they can do alright. Large coils can reach deeper to find large nuggets
( they all hope ) and with the price of gold like it is; any dealer that sells large coils will try to sell them at
as high a price as they can. If the price of gold drops to say $500 a oz. those large coil prices will drop
also. If you made a trip to the land down under to hunt BIG gold you would not want to spend $12 to $15
thousand to due it only, to find out when you got there that you were not going to be able to because you
only had a 12" or even a 15"! Those 18x15 and larger coils ( 24x40 ) are made for looking deep, 24"+.
I have and use a large MineLab and several large coils and several small coils and do not regret spending
the money I payed for any of them. You might pay over $1200 on a new detector in the hope it will find a
gold ring 1 or 2"s deeper than the one you have or that someone else has, same thing with those huge
coils ( I'll invest $700 for that new 24" coil in the hope that it finds that $XXXXXX nugget! )
You pays your money and takes your chances!

 

[bootyhoundpa]

have not used the butterfly coils but i do swing the 15in wot coil which cost me about 150,00 used.... i find it an excellent choice for hunting the beach and old colonial sites.. its a little heavy but you get used to it... much lighter when i hip mount sov gt control box....when i hunt in farm feilds i take a shovel as some target are deep and pin pointing is not so great...i have found many deep coins in fields i have hunted for years but just could not get enough depth with other coils or machines... at the beach its easier to cover more sand faster with the larger coil.. many coins over a foot deep.. its not very good in the water at the ocean because its too difficult to control when waves hit it... all in all im very happy with the 15in wot... sometimes that little extra depth is the difference between finding something or finding nothing.....

 

[matthias]

Hey Jbow. I had a SEF 18x15. It was huge to work with. Great coil, but too big for me and the trashy areas I hunt. I got mine way back when they were only $229. Ended up trading it for something I could use. HH. Matt

 

[kered]

I have the 18x15 on the Etrac for the beach, ok weight wise when your finding things but after an hour without digging it gets heavy. Great coil for wide open clean spaces.
I think the 15x12 is cheaper as they are producing more, its probably the most used out of them all so a god production run can be made in one go, the others ie T2 and GPX are not as popular, bit like a ford and a ferrari(well not quite but you get the idea) I will revert back to the 15x12 when i get a chance as its a better all rounder for me.

 

[erikk]

Watched a guy go right over this one hunting the wet sand with a 10 inch coil hunting low and slow. WOT sucked it out @ close to 16-24 inches (4 big scoops)

 

[w6pea]

Nice find....as I said in another topic the larger the coil the deeper it finds items.

 

[Critterhunter]

Now THAT'S a ring! Very nice...

 

[erikk]

Now THAT'S a ring! Very nice...

Thanks but it was the Excal/ WOT that done it! The Peltor mod didn't hurt either. Quiet as a mouse in howling wind & surf