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    What detector does this NEL Hunter coil fit

    Might fit a T2? My wife has that coil on her Teknetics T2 and she loves it.
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    slight issue with coil on manticore

    How far away from the coil did you wave the coin when you air tested? And, how deep were the coins/targets? Modern high-gain DD coils will double blip on surface targets, unlike concentric coils. If you get a double/edge blip, try raising the coils 6 inches or so, and see if the signal centers...
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    Whites TRX Pin POinter

    There are friends, and then there are FRIENDS! :thumbup:
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    Ctx question

    As far as that lower shaft slipping, and not staying in place....there was a guy that posted a quick repair vid 7 years ago on YT.. It consisted of using 2 zip-ties, and appears to fix the problem quite well. *Caveat* - I've never actually tried this....YMMV, but it looks to me like it would do...
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    Newer coins dissolving in the ground

    Tommy Boy, As 'thepest' alluded to, modern pennies are no longer made of copper. In mid 1982, they replaced copper pennies with copper PLATED zinc. The zinc can easily form an electrolytic action with the ground mineralization/salts/moisture, and .... as you noticed .... actually dissolve into...
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    COILTEK 15 inch all terrain with Equinox?

    brianatsea, Nope....won't work....sorry. :( Starting with the CTX, the multi-freq ML's have dedicated/patented circuitry in the coil to aid in processing. This has some advantages with cleaner signals (some processing done at the coil, rather that going down the coil cable to the 'box')...
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    My Friend almost Died Detecting..!!

    Be Prepared? Actions have consequences? Life is hard....it's harder if you're stupid? I suspect he won't do that again... My brother-in-law did something very similar over 30 years ago. Thought he was invincible. Went hiking up Pikes Peak wearing shorts and a t-shirt late summer. Nothing else...
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    Still love my 3030

    Very nice! (y)
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    Nature called

    Nice! That V Nickel is in great shape for a buried V. Mercs are pretty sweet, too, (y)
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    Have you ever had hostility from people while You Detect.

    Yes, YT can be very misleading....especially if you're trying to compare raw numbers of a smaller country to the US. (And don't get me started on those YT first amendment "Frauditor" videos, lol.) My friends from the UK always express their disbelief at the sheer size of the U.S, when they...
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    Need your input??

    Probably the Fisher CZs. mike
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    Charging batteries using alkaline pack?

    OC, Alkaline packs aren't seen by ML charger for safety reasons. Rechargeable lithiums are twice the voltage per cell of alkaline. (3.4 - 3.7 volts) If you found some rechargeable AA lithiums to fit the pack, and charge them somehow, it would likely fry the detector in short order...
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    Minelab has responded to the 50% more power mystery.

    LOL...I can certainly understand how it could be seen as "Boring as hell" to a non-engineer. :) As a lifelong Engineer, I found both editions to be a riveting read...but as my wife is fond of reminding me....I WAS dropped on my head as a child! HH, :) mike Edit: If a person is interested, the...
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    Minelab has responded to the 50% more power mystery.

    If you'd really like to learn about what makes metal detectors work / 'tick', then I suggest reading a copy of "Inside The Metal Detector", by George Overton and Carl Moreland. You'll learn about a thousand times more than you would otherwise, hoping to get spoon-fed with YouTube videos. And...
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    Doubts over Manticore 50% extra power.

    BTW, when Minelab says 50% power increase, they mean 50% greater power to the coil than the Equinox. (You can download the Manticore brochure from the Minelab website, and read all of what ML has to say about it....manual and quickstart guide, as well.) Also note, that boosting power to the...
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    Doubts over Manticore 50% extra power.

    Pretty sure the only thing the FCC regulates with metal detectors is spurious emissions. Referring to power output in watts is a completely meaningless number, as detectors don't 'output'....they create a balanced magnetic field. If you think of the coil of a detector as a weirdly shaped...
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    GPS on the beach

    Yes. GPS works by communicating with satellites overhead, just like your phone's GPS... It doesn't care anything about the ground.
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    Eagle II SL

    If it's not in your instructions, then you've got the wrong instructions....probably the ones for the original Eagle. The Eagle II SL 90 Basic Users manual lists the preset starting programs on the very first page; CJ = Coin & Jewelry, PP = Prospecting & Relic, bh = Beach Hunting, and...
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    CTX3030 determining gold rings from aluminum junk like pop tops, pull tabs can slaw

    What you're asking for is tantamount to the detectorists equivalent to the holy grail, I'm afraid. (....and masking high conductor silver targets with low/mid conductor aluminum isn't really the same thing as telling one low/mid conductor from another.) If the aluminum junk is ragged enough...
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    Reposting a ground balance question tech advice needed

    1. The Cibola. It's a fixed/manual ground balance, manually adjusted at the factory to a 'mostly' neutral setting. It doesn't 'turn off' or 'turn on'. It's a fixed, static setting that neither knows, nor cares what your ground is like. Just hunt with it. 2. The Sovereign. It's a BBS Minelab...
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