Is it just me or is there any merit........

[Ivan]

to what I'm about to ask? I love my Omega 8000 and I've enjoyed the stock 10" eliptical concentric coil. But just having to have ..."more" I went out and bought the 10" Eliptical solid DD coil.Now after about 200 hrs of use........weird things have come to light. I've found about 4 gold chains with the DD coil.( Never found one with the stock eliptical) Also my ring count is up... and I'm finding much more Canadian clad...I've even found "half of a 14K ring" chopped by a lawn mower no doubt. Even though the coil is heavier I'm using it much more. Now here's the question.....do the extra windings in the coil make it hotter on jewelry and lower conductors? I've logged my finds fairly and carefully... and I regularly hunt the same areas with both coils...but the 10" DD is coming out the winner. Anyone care to comment? Do other Omega users find the same kind of results? Thanks for your replies.

 

[thumperjones]

I had both factory optional coils for the Omega, and sold both when I bought the 10" Elliptical (the white one). I have had the same experience that you have, and my depth is better too. It's about as deep as the 11" Biaxial but with very little EMI noise. It definitely seems to be more sensitive to smaller items but I haven't found gold yet. I've dug up several deep bread ties and a sewing needle though! As for the increased sensitivity, if I were to guess it's due to the narrowness of the coil. Maybe it concentrates the search field in a skinnier "denser" strip of "detection"? There has to be something to it because most gold specific detectors come with a solid elliptical DD.

Aside from the other benefits, the biggest thing I like about this coil is the pointed ends. If you get a jumbled or mixed signal, you can back up and just poke around the area with the very tip of the coil and separate the signal out to identify each target. It's awesome. If you haven't tried that yet be sure and give it a go. It's saved me a bunch of finds that I would have passed up on because I thought the funky signal was just one trash target, instead of several nearly touching each other.

 

[amberjack]

I had the white 10 x 5 sold it with the GBP and now use the camo one off the F19 the white one seemed a bit more sensitive but yes they are good coils for sure, only thing I don't like when I put it down it wants to fall over but I can live with that, yep nice machine and nice coil need to use it more.

which one to use right

Ivan what sort of settings you running to find the gold with the O ?

AJ

 

[mudpuppy]

Huge Congratulations on those gold chains Ivan! Lets see a picture!

I dont know the technical answer regarding the coils...you should pop your old one back on and see if it can hit those chains and half ring?

I use DD coils on both my F70 and AtPro and love them for all the reasons you mentioned...I've never had the concentric coil, so I dont know personally if I would have done any better with it or not..
Mud

 

[dave5710]

A couple years ago I wanted a way to compare my V3i verses my T-2. I use the plastic tubes that mini M&M's come in to hold the coins I find while hunting. Anyway I loaded my nail apron up with 15 or 20 of these tubes (i only buy the bright yellow or orange ones,cause they are easy to see in the grass) and set off with the V3i. Every time I found a iffy target with some depth to it I would drop a tube to mark the spot. Then I went back with the T-2 to see if I could find that target again, Anyway you could do the same thing first with one coil then the other. That way you would only need to change the coil once, then next time try it in reverse order and compare your notes. You are testing real conditions and not air testing and planting targets at different depths.. P.S. I no longer own a V3i.

 

[MarkCZ]

The difference is the 10" stock is a concentric, the solid 5"X 10" is a double DD coil. Sounds like the DD likes the gold a little better.
The only coil I ended up using with the omega I had was the 11" DD.

Mark