New ATX Coils Finally Released

[Steve Herschbach]

Good question Harry. It could be like the stock coil internally or more like a standard DD coil. A little testing by somebody that had one would tell. I don't see much point in spending a lot of money to buy a coil l so similar to what I already have however so that won't be me.

[Desert Dawg]

Why are these so expensive, are they wrapped with the new high tech leitz flatwire method like the Elite and Evolution?

[Steve Herschbach]

Part of my main complaint about the ATX as a prospecting detector. It was designed into a housing left over from a Garrett project to build and sell military land mine detectors. The housing is robust, waterproof, folds up nicely, but is also very heavy (6.9 lbs.) and needlessly expensive for dry land prospecting.

The design incorporates an expensive telescoping rod assembly into each and every coil. In other words the rod is part of the coil, not part of the detector. You are paying as much for the rod you must buy with the coil as the coil itself.