Whites for Relics??

[Mike Bearden]

You are 100% right and I hope these fine folks don't take our post as unfriendly because I too USE White detectors and enjoy them allot.
I've said it many times before and I'll say it again ... I've never owned a bad Whites detector.
Those 25-40 m.p.h. winds you spoke of is NOT good for my ole bones and can't stand much of it myself. We've seen many windy days here on the mountain, it's really been blowing hard for the last 3 weeks. I drove out to our local flying field the other day and it got so bad while I was doing the pre-flight, I turned the engine off, cancelled my flight plan and decided to go back home ... just to nasty outside.
On the X-5, I used one for the last NS hunt and took the 5X10 DD with me because I had heard the ground there was pretty hot.
Firts day I hunted with it until lunch and decided to put the stock coil back on. That ground wasn't nearly as bad as what I was expecting and ended up seeing a little extra depth with the stock coil.
One thing interesting about the X-5 that impressed me was while hunting a flooded logging road on the site I used the small 5" coil and was hitting bullets and small brass at 8" + deep with the coil submerged in almost frozen water and mud. No instability, just hard solid hits that said "dig me" Troy did a good job developing this detector.
Oh well so many detectors and so little time to use them all, but aint it NICE to have the choices we do.
Merry Christmas Monte and to all who reads this post.
H.H.
Mike

 

[Monte]

Mike,

First and most important, I wish you a Merry Christmas and also all the best of success in your 2006 searches!

"You are 100% right and I hope these fine folks don't take our post as unfriendly because I too USE White detectors and enjoy them allot. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again ... I've never owned a bad Whites detector."... My second White's, bought on May 22nd 1971 on the way home from my honeymoon, had a cold solder joint. I was headed to Oregon fron Utah the next week and just drove down to White's and they took care of it in a jiffy!

When they came out with the 6000 Pro XL I had a problem with a brand new one I bought shortly after they were released. I got it just a few days before I let on a 2-week vacation to Arizona. Picked up a brand new Classic III SL the day before I left and took it in the box and my 6000 Pro XL nd the 5.3 Black Max coil I had.

Had a terrible time in three old town sites on the way south and when I was in Lake Havasu City, AZ my 6000 Pro XL went whacky on me! I thought it was the 5.3 coil and walked back and took out the new 950 from the box with my Classic III SL. Problems. The 6000 Pro XL had a grounding problem, and the 950 coil, new out of the box, had a dead short! That was on a Tuesday morning.

Went to Larry & Sue's shop and spoke with Sue, she called White's, and I had a brand new 6000 Pro XL and a nww 950 coil delivered on Thursday!

I've had those three White's that had a little problem out of the box, and in all three cases things were quickly taken care of!


"On the X-5, I used one for the last NS hunt and took the 5X10 DD with me because I had heard the ground there was pretty hot.
Firts day I hunted with it until lunch and decided to put the stock coil back on. That ground wasn't nearly as bad as what I was expecting and ended up seeing a little extra depth with the stock coil."... That doesn't surprise me all that much. All too often we read posts stating that the Double-D (widescan) coils are far superior to concentric coils in very mineralized ground. I have done many a field comparison as well as some controlled indoor testing to evaluate widescan and concentric coil's performance. What I have found it that sometimes Double-D coils can provide a little better ground handling, but not always. And sometimes a D-D of similar greater-diameter will hunt at the same depth or possibly be just a little more responsive, but most often the concentric will get a little better depth.

I seldom use a coil larger than 7". I would like to see something like a 5