Tiger Shark Mod

[Lake Hunter]

Finished the new coil mod for my Tiger Shark. I installed the new Tesoro 11X8 coil. I have several coils I interchange with the Tiger but the 11X8 beginning to be a quick favorite but more testing will tell. Sensitivity and depth is amazing. The coil hits on thin gold chains and small gold jewelry as good as the 5.75 coil. I tested it against my compadre with the 5.75 and the 11X8 hits deeper targets as expected...but the sensitivity was neck and neck in the test garden. I don't post much, but felt I had to share this. I will be river hunting in the morning and will post my findings after water hunting with it. I will also test it against the 5.75 I have for my Tiger so the same machine is used.

Darryl...Lake Hunter

 

[Hombre]

Nice mod there Darryl...just curious....... how is the coil connected to the control box, hard wired or screw on connection?

 

[Lake Hunter]

I dont need to hardwire so I use Bulgin buccaneer connectors. I don't dive so these work great to 10'-15' submerged.

 

[nenadgbeepin]

Looks nice. Wonder if the DD would perform better on the salt compared to the concentric?

 

[mb@elmid.de]

Where the wire take togther what pin on the shark what pin on the coil.

Thanks

 

[pistolpete]

Any updates on this Darryl? Are you happy with this coil? any issues? thinking about doing this myself...did you use the epsilon coil? how deep are you detecting?

 

[finnfoto]

I'm currious where you aquired the coil. A as I had the same exact coil connected to a compadre headphone unit. .

 

[bibelot]

I'm currious where you aquired the coil. A as I had the same exact coil connected to a compadre headphone unit. .

I think I can answer that for him...The white colored RSD coil is the epsilon 5 pin version. The 4 pin Delta RSD coil is black in color.

 

[Neil]

On the machines Ive used, there was no difference in sensitivity between the smallest coil and up to a larger coil. For Tesoros I know the 5.75" widescan I had on my Tejon was no more sensitive than the 12X10 widescan I used to use on it for beach hunting. I just changed the coil on a compadre, 5.75 to 8"...again no difference.
There are probably some out there since you read it so much about small coil sensitivity but Ive not seen it and Ive used quite a few.

That 11X8 looks like a nice coil. Is the cable coming out of it in the way of the cable bolt......looks close.

 

[bibelot]

I didn't realize this was an old post. I was looking forward to reading the results, then I seen the date that it was posted. I would still like to hear how well the coil worked. I have one in the mail somewhere, thinking either tomorrow or Thursday.....

 

[pistolpete]

I talked to Tesoro about installing this coil on a TS and apparently there are some issues. Firstly, the coil is not depth rated to the same spec as the TS, they explained that there were concerns even at 10-20 ft. Second, the TS would have to be retuned for the RSD coil...something they will not do. They will not sell me a new TS with the RSD coil on it so I have given up on the idea.....

 

[finnfoto]

I have a mint Stingray 2 with interchangable coil connection. Been debating on installing the epsilon or maybe just unloading the unit for somthing else? Not sure yet?