hows the t2 se on silver coins

[Monte]

Darn, half a month of seeing various doctors and trying to mend my foot, and at the same time trying to sneak in some bird hunting and deer hunting. The latter two have proven as successful as healing this blasted foot. A couple more days and I'll take a break and put in a little detecting time.

Howdy Monte... Now down "memory lane." As you remember from your "Compass Days," Don Dykstra designed the "DD" coil. Gosh, this was back about 1973 (?).

I believe the DD coil concept was a vital part of the first Compass TR models, also referred to as IB back then, with their Nugget and Yukon series models. That would have been since their start in '71. Don's coil design idea was something he had figured out when he and Henry Gorgas were engineers at White's, but at the time their 'Triplet' labeled coil design was working and the detectors selling. I think it was part of the ideas they had in mind when they left White's and joined with Ron Mack to organize Compass Electronics.

It was one of the nice features that were in Compass' favor and some other manufacturers, such as Garrett with their 'wide-scan' TR coils, followed suit to gain a little better coverage on the side-to-side sweep. I liked those early Compass models because they also could 'work on the fringe" of sensitivity and that raspy audio they were noted for sure help me hear some of the coins which we (at that time of the detecting era) just a little deeper.

For me, it was a better choice then the concentric coils while nugget hunting in northern Nevada while using a "Gold Scanner." I used mine as a body mount and sent it in to have it modded for your revised belt mounting clip.

The advantage of Concentric coils, when compared with a Wide-Scan or Double-D design, is that Concentric were usually able to hunt a little deeper, Discriminate a little better, and Pinpoint much easier. In the early-to-mid 1970's, I enjoyed the DD Compass and Garrett models, but by the late '70s to mid-'80s period rolled around, the Co-Planer coils and latter the better Concentric search coils were what I used almost all the time.

I know we hear so much about how a Double-D coil is supposed to be a better pick for higher mineralized ground and that nugget hunters should prefer them exclusively, but that hasn't been the case for me. There are times I like them. For example, when the Dave Johnson designed Tesoro Diablo

 

[parrott]

Monte... Thanks for the reply and information... I did well with the 6-inch ultralite concentric.