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Critterhunter said:so never under estimate the ability of companies like Detech to make something happen for the FBS2 coils.
Neil said:If circuits/amps in the coil offered a distinct advantage than minelab would probably be doing that with all their coils.
Critterhunter said:Just curious...Does Minelab require you to be authorized by them to make coils for their machines. In other words, are you required to have Minelab's permission to make coils for their machines?
Ralph Sun Ray said:Critterhunter,
When we manufactured the first coil for the Sovereign (Ultra Depth S-12) back in 1995, we sent a coil to Minelab in Australia for their approval to make sure there would be no problems by our producing them. They Ok'ed it and we have been manufacturing coils (as well as probes) for their detectors ever since with no problems. It was basically a courtesy thing that we felt we should do as well as the potential for problems that they might have with our doing it. However, any company can void their warranty on any detector that uses an after market accessory, etc. if they decide to as it is their detector. I hope this answers your question.
Ralph (Sun Ray)
Critterhunter said:Got this response from Ralph at Sunray...
Critterhunter said:Just curious...Does Minelab require you to be authorized by them to make coils for their machines. In other words, are you required to have Minelab's permission to make coils for their machines?
Ralph Sun Ray said:Critterhunter,
When we manufactured the first coil for the Sovereign (Ultra Depth S-12) back in 1995, we sent a coil to Minelab in Australia for their approval to make sure there would be no problems by our producing them. They Ok'ed it and we have been manufacturing coils (as well as probes) for their detectors ever since with no problems. It was basically a courtesy thing that we felt we should do as well as the potential for problems that they might have with our doing it. However, any company can void their warranty on any detector that uses an after market accessory, etc. if they decide to as it is their detector. I hope this answers your question.
Ralph (Sun Ray)
I guess you could read that response one of several ways depending on where you stand, so I await further clarification before further commenting.
Not going to assume to speak for Sunray, but if a company like Detech has to have Minelab's authorization you would think they'd want to put "Authorized By Minelab" in their ads because that would be a big selling point, but then again maybe they just aren't allowed to make such a statement in their authorization agreement. Just throwing it out there. Don't know what to believe, so if somebody has any links to details on this please post them as I'd like to read about it. All I can say is that I have never read about a coil company being authorized by Minelab to make coils for it, but that doesn't mean that there aren't statements floating around about that on the web that I some how missed. I would bet that if anybody has authorization from Minelab it would for sure be Coiltech since they used to make coils for them, or at least that's what I always heard. I'll do some snooping on the web and if I can find any authorization statement like that from them I'll post it.
This is of course getting way off topic, so let's just say that if authorization is required to make coils for this new machine I hope several aftermarket coil companies jump on that train because there are some excellent coils being made out there. I think we can at least all agree on that.