Got my new coils today:bouncy:

[Arron(upstateNY)]

The WOT and Platypus were delivered today. I am fired up now. I took the WOT out to the coin garden (snow is almost gone there). Used the set up I have been running with the stock coil. All I had to do was lower the sensitivity to 19 and BAM. First silver almost blew my headset off. I like this thing already. It was easy to pinpoint and the signal was very strong. The quarter I checked was buried at 8 inches and has been in the ground for almost 3 years now. My stock coil will pick it up but the signal is broken up. Same results with a Large cent buried at 6 inches, very strong signal. Silver dime at 8 inches was picked up on the first swing and pin point was more solid than the stock coil. This is just a 15 minute test I did before dark. I can't wait to get out to the old hay field this spring!! We have cleaned out the top 6" of targets there and I want to see how much deeper this coil will go than the stock coil.

 

[Boony]

Hi Arron,

I have had both the coiltek WOT 15 and the Platypus for sometime now and they are great coils, wouldn't be without them, I haven't used the stock coil since they arrived, I reckon you will be very happy and have a lot of success, Coiltek told me that the big WOT doesn't pinpoint as well as the stock coil or the Platypus but this is not how I found it, my 15 inch pinpoints as well as the other two.

All the best....Boony

 

[WessThompson]

your stock coil should have cleaned out a lot more than the first 6"
Well...maybe not cleaned out, but you know what I mean. The stock coil is good for more than 6" on most targets I can think of. What kind of settings are you using??

Good luck with the WOT.

 

[Arron(upstateNY)]

6 to 8 inches seems to be the max depth I can get, occasionally or I should say rarely, I will dig targets to a measured 10 inches. Most of the time good targets in the 8 inch range seem iffy. I don't know for sure but I think its the high mineralization in the soil here. I have only been using this machine for 3 years and I am still experimenting with sensitivity and gain settings. Maybe I have been missing something. I have been using Charles rock solid set up, that I have seen on this forum quite often and have had great success with it. Still 8 inches seems to be the max depth I can get with the stock coil. I do detect one fresh water beach nearby and have dug dimes at 10 inches. It seems I can run the machine with a much higher sensitivity there.

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Soil type plays a big role in depth, with the stock coil 6-8 inches of depth is about what I get in most soil types around my area of Upstate NY and like you small cents are getting iffy at 8. I can get deeper at a couple sites which have sandy soil. With the WOT I was getting 8-12 on a regular basis.

 

[jimb]

May be it is the soil. Right out of the box with the quick start
this month my EXII has pulled clad coins from 8 and a small tape measure from about 11. I did have a lot of detects about 10 but do to not wanting to pound through the frost they will have to waite. The soil here is mostly clay with about 2 to 3 inches top soil where I was hunting. In the one area I did have two blips that were at the bottom of the depth scale. Once I pull them I will see how true it was. I still need to try the 12.5 inch yet. Its still in the box waiting for spring.

jimb

 

[James N.D.]

Good luck with the new coils and hope you find lots of keepers.