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I wonder if someone could design a detector that could auto-adjust to any coil you put on it?

J

jbow

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I would think that with todays technology, pretty much anything is possible. Can you imagine a good detector, capable of good ID and of depth... just a good all around machine with the capability to adjust to any coil you put on it. I said auto-adjust but perhapsa manual adjustment would be better, there might be some advantage to a little offset in the adjustment... this would be something new as far as I know and who knows how it would work or where it would lead... new ideas usually lead to even more idead because you never know what is behind a door until you open it.
Of course the system would need to sell a set of adaptors to connect different rods to different coils... but to be able to use a Minelab Pro coil, a Fisher or Tek 11" elliptical, a White's monoloop or 950, a Tesoro 5.75 HOT coil... or just any coil you happen to have or want... on one machine. A set of lower rods might solve most of the physical probelms. Money to be made!

That would be a new direction for VLF detectors and if the machine were good and up to date with the things people are wanting like the features in the GBSE/G2 series and some of the features I see in the new Garrett AT-Pro...

I don't know if it could be done or if any company would have interest in making a machine that didn't require the use of their coils... but it's just an idea and i'd like it.

I don't know how many times I have thought when using some detector... "I wish I could use XX coil with this machine".

Heck, maybe Ralph at SunRay could make an inline box for different detectors and a set of adapters for each. It would sell like pancakes if it worked.. IMO.

Could something like this be possible, I am guessing yes if the willpower and money are there. I just don't know how much farther technology can go with VLF, working along the lines of more depth and more seperation... that seems to be pretty well maxed out and new features, while good, are beginning to be tweaks and small advances... maybe a totally new direction for VLF technology would offer a LOT more bang for buck and make someone a LOT of bucks.


Julien
 
the sov and explorer/etrac have about every coil size anyone could ever want and you use those so your already there:thumbup:
 
I think all the machines with true auto trac do what you mention. At least my Whites MXT does just fine with coils from 4" to 14" and the machine has several available presets to lock the ground balance to, if desired. I'm pretty sure the XLT, DFX and V3 can all be set to nearly any variable desired, as well.
BB
 
But that's only minelab coils. I would suspect there are many coils on the market that would work on different machines ( Same Frequency) if they would hook up. I even think, if you check Kelly-co coil page many of the excelerators go on different machines in actuality..I could be all wrong..but it reads like they do.. the end is changed to fit the detector.. Any Good tech could do a double end connector that adapts to each end needed... We use to have to do that on Radio Antennas.......now would it be water proof..that's the big question where it connects. ??? Maybe not .. Look at the DFX 3, 15 KHZ..one coil..Fisher 5 15 CZ's One coil...Minelab EXP. many different frequencies ..One coil...
 
In terms of another form of "adjustment", that being compensating for slight changes in VDI drift caused by different coils, the Sovereign series feature meters that you can calibrate over a quarter to precisely tune the VDI to the coil now being used. This is also handy for adjusting for high mineral sites. Stick a coin in the ground and then tweak the meter until it reads what it should. Most true and best ID system I've ever used. Great scale in the gold range for splitting hairs on rings versus tabs and such.
 
I asked Dave J. about it and he said that it is possibl, in theory but that there is more to it than just adjusting or matching frequencies and that while it might work, it would not work well...

So, there you go.. it was just a thought.

J
 
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