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Another F5 coil discovery?

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Hightone

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When you go to the site that has NEL coils, the Hunter for the F5 also lists that it is the same for the Teknetics Alpha to Omega line as well as the Gold Bug and a few Bounty Hunters. Same coil works on all of them.

I just bought a F2 over a Delta. I'm wondering if I could have bought the Delta and interchanged coils with the F5, rather than have to buy F2 coils because the plugs are different.
 
The coil connector is the same on the F2 and Delta, unless you are talking about the first series F2?
A few years back I had both machines at the same time. I tried the 4" coil on the Delta. It worked great, except for the depth. It suffered there. Dave J has said that the best performance will be with the coils that are made for that machine/series. There is truth to that. Others have had good luck crossing over a coil to another series, but it will be hit or miss at best.
 
Hmmm.........

Makes one wonder, how does NEL get around it then?
 
Hightone said:
When you go to the site that has NEL coils, the Hunter for the F5 also lists that it is the same for the Teknetics Alpha to Omega line as well as the Gold Bug and a few Bounty Hunters. Same coil works on all of them.

I just bought a F2 over a Delta. I'm wondering if I could have bought the Delta and interchanged coils with the F5, rather than have to buy F2 coils because the plugs are different.
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The NEL coil in question fits the Teknetics Greek Series of detectors, The Alfa, The Gamma, The Delta, and the Omega and should fit the F5 as its built off the same platform as the Omega. (They are also some Bounty Hunter models that share the Creek coils.
The F2 and the F4 are not part of the Greek Series models and do not share their coils, nor will the F2 and F4 share coils with the F5.

Yes! If you had gotten the Delta you could have shared the coils with your F5 if your F5 has the screw on connectors, The early models of the F5 had push in coil connectors, later they changed that and went to the screw on type, its still the same coil just wired with a different connector.

The Greek series coils all have the screw on connectors, which will work on the F5 and the G2, but to get these coils to work on the early model F5 the connector would have to be changed or an adapter would have to be made up.


Mark
 
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Well, if I had my preference with the F5 and the F2-F4 I would rather have the push in connectors! and the main reason is the design of the control housing. The location of the coil connector on the housing and its access was setup for the push-in connector, not the screw-on type. When they opted to change the connector type they didn't change or modify the control housings leaving it a bit difficult to connect and disconnect the screw-on coil connectors, the same problem I'm sure you've noticed with the F2, being able to only get a finger tip pinch on the screw ring. But, having the push in connector on the F5 limits coil capability for the early model. There have been a few post come through here were people were working on making an adapter cable to covert the push in connector to the screw-on type.

A person could contact the guy at "brokendetectors DOTcom" and I'm pretty sure he would have an adapter cable made up, or could make you one up.

Mark
 
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