Non V Rated on VX3

[Daniel Tn]

I just picked up a non V rated shooter DD for my VX3. The will work but not how I expected. I understood that it probably wouldn't work with the high freq but thought it would work great with the 2.5 and 7 kHz single frequency. What I've ran into is that it does false quite a bit. Lowering the RX Gain doesn't help much. The coil still picks up targets and ID's well but it chirps and shows stuff on the screen even when holding the coil in the air and not moving it. Any ideas? I have other coils that are V Rated and they don't false at all. Its not overloading just erratic like their is an external source of EMI bit it only does it with the little coil.

 

[padgett79]

I tried the non v rated 5.3 on my VX3 and what a mess of noise that was. I concluded that to make everything work right all you should use is V-rated coils

 

[nw1886]

I had a prototype shooter with my DFX and ran it for a bit on my "Vision". (It worked at first fine....then only low,low sensitivities.) Sold it to a bud and it is fine with his DFX. Non-V rated coils are a crap shoot.

 

[Rob (IL)]

Some non V rated coils work and some don't. Just by chance some will be nulled correctly, the same goes for the SEF coils. Also it may be a bad coil, can you check it on a non VX[sup]3[/sup]?ROB

 

[Daniel Tn]

Hey guys,

I figured out I could lower the RX Gain to 4 or less and it doesn't chirp or false. Anything above 4 and it chirps and gets worse until it overloads at 11 and above. I am just gonna sell it and buy a V rated one.

 

[mickfin]

Daniel Tn, My 6.59 Oll big Foot works on my VX3 with different VDI#s

 

[Larry (IL)]

You might have a bad coil, I would call White's and get there opinion and maybe a replacement...........