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question on mxt pro

mouseman

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has anybody used the mxt pro with a 6 by 10 eclispse dd in creeks or river in northern california and if so was it a plus or not. as far as gold or any kind of treasure.
 
I have used it with the MXT and loved it. I am looking for one now. I have the 12" that came with my MXT Pro but it is to heavy for all day. The 6x10 is very light by comparison. I understand the MXT was designed around the 6x10. I do have a 6X8 SEF that I really like as well and would like to compare the two in the same inviroment. The 12 " would be a better relic coil. IMO. Personally I think the MXT should come with a 6X10 stock. Just my 2 cents.
 
Red rock, thank you for your respose. Has anybody else used 6by10 eclispse dd .i live 6 hours north of San francisco

on the calif,Oregon coast. ocean, creeks,or river,and what luck have you had. I'm trying to get the most out of this mxt pro like everybody else.
 
I have compared the 6X10DD and the 8x6SEF extensively in a test garden with "tough" ground and found them to be nearly equal - the SEF has a slight edge on sensitivity and the ability to ID. They are so close that I couldn't really say one is better than the other.

George
Oregon
 
glabelle. I would be interested to see how the 8X6 SEF fairs against the 5.3 in your test garden as I think it would be a fairer test. I have both but no test garden. I used the 5.3 yesterday and faired better than today with the 8X6 SEF. Same park but different area so hardly any kind of fair test. Seat of the pants I feel they are very similar. I really want to try them both for nuggets and that will come soon. For pinpointing with the SEF I use the wiggle method and usually find the target between the two points as it drops out of the field. Ok this is going to be very subjective. I measured the length down the center of the coil 6 1/2" the field seems to drop off as that center point passes a shallow target. This is what gives me the impression that the SEF coil is closer to the 5.3 than the 6X10. Anyone else find that to be true? With both coils I was running at the presets in C&G and Tone ID.
 
You are right about the field shape of the SEF, it feels much like a concentric in that it has a narrow sweet spot, front to back. It detects a little deeper than the 5.3.
BTW, my ground is -93 @ 20% as measured with a V3i.

George
Oregon
 
I have both the 6X10 DD and the 6X8 SEF (Just bought both). I was using the 4X6 DD and the 12" stock. I found myself using the 4X6 so much and the 12" never, I knew that there has to be a better option (The 4X6 is great for trashy areas, but covers ground real slow). I tried the 6X8 SEF first and then the 6X10 DD and now cant seem to get the back to the 6X8 SEF. I love the 6X10 DD and actually found my first gold ring today with it. I plan on going back to the 6X8 SEF for the trashy areas and see how it performs.
 
Ok, people I have a 12x10 sef ,and a 5.3 other then the 12x10 getting a deep target I think they act the same. But I have no garden and I'm trying to decide if I want the 6x10 I live near 4 different rivers and countless creeks. Oh, and as far as the 12x10 here on the pacific ocean and the rivers and creeks I've experience the sef not the choice for me it jumps around a lot. Inland it works great on rivers or creeks that don't have lots of active hot rocks. But hey that's me
 
I only use the D2 DD 10" about 75% of the time and probably my favorite coil of all on my MXT PRO
I use the 6x8 sef around the trashier spots and i wouldn't take a bucket full of worms and a cane pole on a sunny day for it.
Sold my 6x10 DD and my 5.3 Eclipse.
I get as much depth / ground coverage with my 6x8 sef coil then i did with the others.
I'am a loyal White's customer but they really need to take a close look at this coil.:detecting:
 
Agree with the above post....the sef 8x6 is a superb little coil.This coil gives great depth,is good in the trash,is very stable and nice and light.It is also sensitive to small objects.I've never used the 10x6 but most say it is a great coil and a well known detectorist over here in England used one on his mxt to find many tiny hammered coins on trash infested sites.If a detector/coil combination can find these objects in high trash areas you know it's good.
 
Heres a response from Dave J that helped design the MXT. He rarely ever post , but he did on treasurenet on 2-3-13.
Here it is in its entirety. I haven't changed anything or any words and exactly as he posted it:

2-3-13 on TreasureNet Forum

I don't often post in other companies' forums, since I work for "the company in El Paso" these days. But once in a while I'll notice a thread that looks interesting and more rarely even post in it. Here goes.

Back in the late 1990's and very early 20th century, the MXT was developed around the 10x6 elliptical DD. When you're used to that searchcoil, stick a 950 on and the 950 feels downright clumsy with its muddy response and bad masking characteristics. Downrightinsufferable. The 950 searchcoil geometry was designed for completely different platforms.

But, if you ask "does the 950 work?", well, yeah, it does.

Wrong question.

I ain't gonna knock the MXT, it may be an old platform but it still works good. More than 10 years after, if you demand "ground tracking" (not that I say you should demand that), the GMT/MXT have the best in the industry. Not even Minelab (!) denies that! And as far as I know, the MXT/GMT are the only VLF-IB machines on the market with active transmitter regulation that makes it possible to work (with reduced performance) in heavy magnetite black sand, a circumstance otherwise left up to PI's. We're talking very good machines here. They may be a bit old in the tooth, but this is an industry that takes time to weed the turnips out of the beet patch. Ain't like celfonz where in 6 months the whole world has decided what kyckes and what szux. It takes time to deliver good beep verdict.



MXT. 10x6DD is the foundation. Everything else is an accessory. I am telling you this because if you are a White's loyalist, I want you to spend that extra buck, the folks in Sweet Home are my friends!

My own marketing dept. will try to kill me for this post (if they discover it), but don't worry, I've been in this a lot longer than they have, it'll all come out okay.

As we say in the Southwest,

"Servidor de Vdes." My mission in life is servitude hopefully of the competent sort.

--Dave J.
 
gldfver:

I just purchased a used MXT Pro with the 12" coil a week ago. The MXT is still under warranty. I think I got a great deal at $675. While I was waiting for it to be shipped I ordered a 6 x 8 SEF coil from Kellyco.

I used both the MXT Pro and the SEF coil yesterday for the first time. I was impressed with the performance of the coil at an old park which is full of iron from some old park building that were torn down. I didn't find any silver but I did find a couple of wheat pennies, copper pennies, three nickles and a couple dollars in clad. I dug a lot of "iffy" signals with one-way high tones because of the iron masking. The SEF coil has great separation and the VDI and depth was mostly accurate. I did have one "iffy" signal that was at 8" but when I went to pinpoint it wouldn't pick up. I dug it up and it was a 2" piece of copper tubing and there was a 4" rusty nail about 2-3 inches away from it.

I've been a long time Whites user and just sold my XLT to buy the MXT and I'm glad I did. I think it will be a great detector. I've used the 5.3 and 950 on my XLT. I think the 5.3 is a great coil but it lacks the coverage that I was getting with the 6 x 8 SEF. I think it is a keeper.

Alan
 
The 8X6 SEF and the MXT Pro are a good combo for sure. The pinpointing is very good but does get pulled off by nearby targets. I find the wiggle method works well for pinpointing. I have the DX-1 probe which completes a great combo. I am hot to try the 13" Ultimate coil for my large coil and the 8X6 as the trash and nugget coil.
 
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