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“4th grader jacked up on sugar...”
Or my wife jacked up on energy drinks....
Check this article out. BTW; in heavy trash inner city parks I run between 14 and 17 on sensitivity or else chatter, even when I exclusively use the 6" coil. We have very mineralized soil here in Oregon. Noise Cancel and Other Tips
Very interesting point on the coil cable to route it straight up the lower shaft then wind it..
Is dealer told me about not winding the cable around the shaft some years ago…. Not sure where he got it from.
Interesting reading… thanks for the link!!
I've always ran the wire straight up the lower rod to the juncture using velcro, then wind it around the upper to the control box. Don't really know if it makes a big difference, because I've watched many veterans posting videos with sloppy, loose windings all the way up. Some of the videos were even from metal detector manufacturers in their presentation.
Setup on most shows the wire wrapped around the bottom rod
Even though I was told about this, I have never tried it, but it could make a difference, especially on the Equinox since it seems to be more sensitive to EMI than other detectors.
To me the Deus is the most affected by EMI because it is all wireless sometimes you can never get it to quiet that’s one reason I prefer the nox over it and it can be used in the water because it’s waterproof and has the cable from coil to controller..
I use my equinox on salt beaches loaded with iron red and black sand I have no problem with mineralization..
I was advised by a trusted electronics person years ago, who stated that wrapping the coil wire introduced a 'kind of internal' short across the transmission and reception signals. In computer networking classes I also learned that the 'wrapped pair' in Ethernet Cat5 cabling functionally created an interference to outside signals and/or prevented loss of signal. I just don't remember so well these days. So... all this time later I avoid any wrapping until several inches from coil, and the same thing with keeping cable straight for several inches in approach to control housing. I use cohesive athletic tape as it has some give for flexing the coil, provided I left a smidge of slack there. The cohesive tape protects my cabling and is easy enough to remove and wrap new tape. Soon enough I will get one of the cable skins; and I will still wrap cohesive tape around it all, so it will not slip as easily when wet.
