Very simple conversion Bill. Just go inside the Compadre, and remove the strain relief that is located at the control housing. There are wrench flats (nuts) on both the inside and outside. Once that is lose, just snip the coil wires between the coil cable and the PCB, leaving enough on the PCB to identify what goes where. You will be snipping the orange, grey, purple, and black wires that attach to the PCB. Note that the black wire is actually soldered to the ground/shield wires in the coil cable.
Then, remove the 5-pin plug from the coil you want to use. and strip the outer covering back about 2 1/2 inches. Separate the orange, grey, purple, and blue wires from inside the ground/shield wire mesh, being careful to keep the mesh intact. Just twist the two sections together into a single strand.
Once you've done that, remove the coil wire from the Compadre housing and the hardware from the replacement coil. Thread the replacement coil cable back through the strain relief sections like you removed the original, and then solder each wire back to the PCB or to the sections of color-coded wire that you left on the PCB when cutting off the original coil cable..... orange to orange, grey to grey, purple to purple, and the ground/shield mesh to the black ground. It's actually just as easy (or easier) to remove and replace one wire at a time from the PCB while soldering each cable wire back directly to the PCB points. Be sure to either wrap or use a piece of heat-shrink tubing on the exposed part of the mesh ground/shield part of the wire to avoid ground contact with the PCB inside the housing (red covering in photo). Also, the extra BLUE wire in the coil cable is not used, so just snip it off close to your strip edge where the other wires come out of the outer cable covering.
Here's a pic to give you an idea of what is involved inside the control housing, but it is actually a simple modification.
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I don't know if Rusty will do such modifications at the factory or not, but if you don't want to tackle it yourself, drop me an eMail and I can do it for you if you want to send the detector and coil out to me. All I would need is the stock control housing / coil combination and the extra coil. Saves bulk and expense of shipping the search-rod assembly.
Hope you and yours had a good Thanksgiving Bud.......
Ralph
