V3 is now like a supercharged DFX!

[5randy]

I just received a Whites Eclipse 950, which has V3 stamped in the attachment point, today! So I took the stock D10 coil off the V3 and installed the 950 and took it outside to see how it acted. I can say I am very pleased with the way it acts, like a DFX on steroids! Quarters are solid hits, bottle caps are largely ignored, and a gold ring was a steady solid +12 VDI and tone. I can not wait to go to the beach, if it ever stops raining and summer starts in NH...

 

[jer4004]

I sold my 10" and got an optimised eclipse 950 for my V3 I can run just about wide open and It cuts EMI by at least 50 to 75% compared to the 10"dd.

 

[njgreg]

I gotta get one of those coils for the V. Thanks for the info

 

[Hammie]

A friend of mine , has a M6 .
Can i use that coil on my V3 , i think it is also a 950 !

 

[Monte]

In doing a lot of field evaluations and coil comparisons, before White's had a lot of 'V-tuned' coils, I had the 950 with my M6 to work with, as well as a 12" off the MXT-300. This let me do some larger size coil comparisons. There can be quite a bit of difference in the way certain detectors and coil or coil types perform, and I still think of a coil of about 8" in diameter as being a "standard" size for comparisons.

Unfortunately, there isn't an 8" coil available from White's at this time, but I know I would certainly like to have the opportunity to mount an 8" Double-D to work with. The 10" DD and 10X12 SEF do what they can do and have worked OK in more open areas where the trash level is lower. I had opted for the 5.3 Eclipse used on an MXT & M6 to use on the Vision the V3 I worked with and it made a world of difference in performance compared with the stock 10" D2 coil. I was mainly working some renovation sites that were quite littered with nails and other small iron junk.

When I moved out into an open field and grassy area, there was significantly less trash, but what trash there was consisted mainly of small iron. Both larger DD coils had 'challenges' on the V3. Both with audio response and visual display, and the XLT and XL Pro and M6I was using for field comparisons were sporting 950's, or an 8" Royal 800 on the XLT. On several coin targets in the 4-to-6 inch range I got good hits and very good TID's with those models using the concentric 8" n 9

 

[JimDE]

Monte, I too find the 5.3 amazing on the V (oddly I hated it on the DFX). It would not be my goto coil for large clean search areas but in trashy sites she sure is sweet! Don't own a 950 V nulled yet......