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My 6" Excelerator coil arrived today! This is my 1st opinion (not an evaluation) - Long

ohio fred

Well-known member
KellyCo's service was impeccable! My coil arrived at the local UPS facility which is 20 minutes from my house on Friday night. It sat in the UPS warehouse for 2 days. It went out for delivery at 6:45am this morning...it didn't get to my house until 11:30 today. UPS dropped the ball!
I put the coil on and took it for a spin around my yard right away. I wasn't too impressed at first, so I took it to a site that I have been over with 3 or 4 different metal detectors and about 7 or 8 different coils. Right away, I hit a nickel. I kept on moving through trash and was pretty impressed with the coil especially the way it picked nickels out. Banged hard on quarters that sometimes, when I put the coil on the ground for exact depth readings, give me an overload, so I thought it was a can until I dug it and found it to be a quarter. All of my numbers are pretty accurate and so is the depth reading. At first , I dug everything to see what was going on with the coil. After that, I hardly dug any trash because it always gave some kind of broken sound, crackle noise, something that would give it away that it was junk. I got fooled on a couple of beaver tails that read 20. My nickels read 18-20. Every coin has been in the ground since it has been made. The GND (Ground Phase Reading) were from 50-88. Coin and Jewelery mode, Relic mode, sensitivity from 9 to +2. One coin 7 inches, penny, and GND was 50. I need to try the coil out some more, because everything I found was from 0-4 inches, (except for that one penny). I need to see if anyone else using this is getting any depth. But, I was still impressed to see the coins that I found, because the area is really hard hit and it bangs good on nickels which means it will bang hard on gold rings. It ran a little bit scratchy, but like somebody said on the forum, if you lift it off the ground about an inch then it runs smooth. So, I don't want to say this is an evaluation, just my first opinion. I still have to try it out some more. I like it, I just need to see if I can get some more depth out of it. I don't know if there just wasn't any coins deep in those areas. Pictures shows what I found in a couple of hours with my new coil.[attachment 60272 6inEXcoilcoins.jpg]
 
Fred, the real virtue of any small coil is not it's depth capability, but rather, it's ability to isolate targets very well at really trashy sites. Thus, go to the oldest, trashiest sites you know of, and work these areas SLOWLY. Doing so, you will have a much better chance of finding good stuff than you would with a larger searchcoil. Another hint: smaller coils "see" less ground at any given moment (which is why they work well at trashy sites) THUS, in many areas, you can use a higher gain setting with the smaller coil than you would with a larger one. For maximum depth, always use the highest gain setting which still gives stable performance. Doing so MIGHT help recover some of the lost depth inheirent with a smaller coil. Hope this helps; HH Jim
 
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