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Finally got my 10DD Excelerator

J

jcooking

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It took a while because it was on backorder, but it showed up and on my first time out with it I was getting deeper signals. There is an area in a local park that I named penny hill, because I have found many wheats there and an Indian, and Buffalo. This area is about 20'x40' and I have hit it hard with my 6x10 and stock coil. I dug every coin that those coils would find in anticipation to taking the excelerator there for a test. It took me a little while to figure out how it pinpointed, but once I did it was great. As soon as I got to penny hill I got a wheat penny at about 6 inches. I decided to take a break and called my hunting buddy to tell him about it. When I got off the phone, my very next signal was a double wheat spill. Two feet further and another deeper 2 wheat spill:clapping: I got one other wheat off of the hill before I left, for 6 wheats in an area that small that my other coils couldn't find. Overall I was very pleased with the new coil, but it seemed to confuse screwcaps for pennies quite a bit. Hopefully this new depth will help me get a few older coins.
HH
jcooking
 
Great coil and it will go deeper than 6" for the really deep ones i like to hunt in relic mode and listen for a faint or small high tone a lot of times relic with trigger forward.
 
If there's wheat cents, there's usually silver. Good detecting and that coil should work good for you! HH, Nancy
 
I've had the 10" for over a year. You are correct it is deeper than the 6x10, but so are the stock coil, and 8" Excelerator. The 6x10 basically gets the depth of a 6" coil.

You are right the screw caps can fool the 10" coil. What coils do you have that aren't fooled? What do these coils show to let you know they are a cap and not a penny? Rob
 
The other coils I have are the stock coil and the 6x10. I didn't mean to say that they don't get fooled by screwcaps as pennies, but it seemed to me that the excelerator coil mixed them up more often. I had never dug so many screwcaps that I thought were going to be pennies. Still a great coil and I dig almost everything anyways, it pays off!
HH
Jon
 
I've got the other two coils also. I'm always looking for info. I was just asking how the 6x10 and stock coil shows or lets you know or think that the cap is not a penny. Rob
 
Hi Jon,

I just bought a D2 Whites coil and had the same experience with caps sounding and reading as coins on my DFX.
I found that doing a fast short (1 Foot) sweep over the target would break up the signal on the caps while coins would hang in as a good signal. Worth a try.

HH

Drew.
 
I'll give it a try Drew, thanks. Rob
 
Thanks for the advice, I have never dug so many caps, hope this will help.
 
As a general rule, the DD coils love the bottle caps...just part of the design of the windings.
 
On my MXT with the 10" coil (D2) bottle caps will have a different sound than a coin plus almost all the time when I target with the front edge of the coil it'll read iron.
 
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