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I'm a mostly park dirt jewelry and coin, old site relic hunter. The M-15 is the least used of the three Manticore coils for me. But, in the situations it is called for, it's pretty sweet. I use it mostly for parks that aren't too trashy. Easy turf contact swinging with great coverage. For me, in my dirt, I can't really say I've seen a depth increase over the M-11. Maybe, just a tiny bit, maybe. But the coverage is awesome. It pinpoints surprisingly well, which for me in a park setting is important too. Like I say, the least used of the three, for me. But, glad I have it when I want to use it. - Dave

I would think just rap a wire or black tape around where it don't slip through and it should work.

Hi Tyler, I have made covers for coils, go to a heating place or duck worker that puts in heat ducks, and they have pipe covers that are from 4" to 14" white plactic end cover for heat ducks. They work very well for coil covers, just then plactic. If a little to big, put a heat gun to it and it will srink. Good Luck Dean

Hi guys I’m trying out the bungee today as hip stuck just arrived. I am having issues as the bungee wire can’t be clamped the wire very well. every time I put weight on the wire will start moving. The clamp appears very loose. Am I doing it wrong or? Thanks Ethan

The concept of better educating your consumers to generate more sales is an old concept. Charles Garrett did this very well in his various books in print. I know because I've read them since the 70's. Today's media has turned to video obviously which does the job quite well until the power goes out! 🙂 Technical concepts in this video are for the most part nothing new, only the sources of EMF have increased. The basic technical principle of Induction Balance metal detection, first commercially patented by Dr. Gerhard Fisher in 1931, has not changed. How the circuit operates and the amount of battery drain has. The earliest circuits were analog based, today they are digital. With the consumer budget for the average detectorist at stake, I wouldn't hold your breath for the "wheel" to get re-invented. Metal detector manufacturers, then and now, have created quite a science out of getting us to part with our wages! 🙂

I'm out of M15 coils but can still get folks the M8 coil with their Manticore.

No, fibre optic cables are just light.

Added a couple more used detectors and some more spiral wound coils.

I have used the BM mode relic hunting for a couple days now and after setting the IR to 2 (and all metal)I am able to tell the difference between the ferrous and non ferrous targets. I really like this mode for relic hunting as it doesn't seem to miss any relics and its cool how you can crank the sensitivity up the whole way and there is no chatter..however after burying a couple shallow (4 inch quarter,dime,and modern penny) coins I noticed that the park and Field modes were noticeably better on these targets than the BM . The BM was really sketchy especially on the dime. Could it be that they need to be a bit deeper for the BM to shine?

Does anyone know if fiber optic cables put off EMI that will interfere with most detectors?

I just received my new weapon, a 10x6" coil for the Algoforce, and of course the GPX. I haven't weighed it yet, I'd have to take it off to do that and just put it on not long ago so I'll get to that at some point, all I know is its light, and on the light detector like the Algoforce feels like it weighs nothing, at least compared to detectors I'm more used to swinging. X-coils have certainly improved their coil cables a lot on these newer GPX coils over the old ones, the cable feels very nice. They make their own custom cables for their coils rather than using existing cables from the market as they like to do different shielding methods in the cable. As you can see, it calibrates fine. I haven't renamed the slot it's in yet, I just used the end slot as I use that slot for coils I don't regularly use for testing. I will end up using the 12x8" slot for it. I tested on a deep coin I've got in my yard, no problems getting the ID on it, sensitivity was on 24 out of 30, pretty stable on that setting, so the smaller coils helping nicely with EMI. I wound the sensitivity back to 20 and still getting the ID fine, that's pretty good for a 10x6" coil on such a deep coin, well ahead of a VLF with a 10x5" coil or 6" round coil for sure on the results there. The coin is somewhere between 25 and 30 cm deep and has been there for many years now. I tested on shot pellets, a lead 7 1/2 is as small as it will hit, and hits a #6 lead with a nice scream and over an inch depth. Perhaps slightly behind the 10" full spiral X-coil on tiny targets, but not by all that much. I'll have to compare it to my Coiltek 10x5" Joey being the closest coil I've got to this 10x6" in size. All in all, looking good, I hope they end up re-releasing Legacy GPX coils now the Algoforce is out. Please note they don't sell this coil, or any other legacy GPX coil, but it's promising to see them developing new test coils and I hope they make it to market at some point.

price reduced from $375 to $350

April 18th Australia time (about 7 hrs ago) when we could start posting prices. We were allowed to post the Teaser 14th. How come you have not called me yet and purchased one?

It's freezing outside with gale force winds, but I couldn't wait any longer and had to do a new test. Park Mode in A, first tone break at 1, 25 sensitivity, 3 recovery, IF 0, BC 0, AG 3. I used a U.S. nickel, ground balanced at 26 on clean ground, and buried the nickel deep enough that in Park mode, I would very occasionally get a tone and an ID of 2 and 3. The signal was so iffy, that it could easily be mistaken as some of the ground signal coming through. I switched on DT and set it to 3. I now got fairly consistent two way hits, but they were kind of "crunchy". The ID jumped from 2/3, and I saw a 48 / 50 a few times. Switched to BM using A and set the IR at 2, AG at 3. Ground balanced at 31 on clean ground. The two way hits were much cleaner than DT, and the ID was similar to DT. On a side note, I tripled checked the ground balance in Park and BM, to confirm that the ground balance was slightly different between those modes.

Just curious Gerry, when did Minelab officially start this deal?

May 5th my friend. I already have a couple guys who put $300 down and promised the rest when they get their tax return in the next 30 days.

The first thing I thought of when seeing that 6" coil was the algoforce (I may buy one myself) There is a 6" coiltek mono for sale on Facebook marketplace atm for $125. (Search "coiltek)

It shouldn't be, the small size means there is less ground signal to deal with. If there's noise, there's a fault....which is usually in the bottom 1/4 of the coax cable or plug.

Gerry I’ve been known to over look things but how long is this sale going to last? Chuck

HOLY CRAP! Bargain of the century! I woulda jumped on that too 👍

You could sell it to someone with an Algoforce, they'd love that little beast.

Just now I'm thinking, maybe there should have been a look out by now. Too bad someone like Sarge isn't on the look out. Those guys would have been toast. I hope you are ready!

Yeah, i just can't see how that little coil would work on the 2200. Surely it would be massively noisy in mineralised ground. I used to own a detech" mono and that was noisy on my 4500.

Yes thats the one.

Along the same vein, I would have liked to have seen how some of the other settings (Recovery Speed, Iron Filter, etc) were set for the Park/Field modes in the Nokta video. Maybe it’s safe to assume they were left at default settings since they weren’t specifically mentioned? Lower recovery speed in the original modes can definitely improve detection depth in many situations. Beast mode obviously has its own detection limit for a given soil environment, so it would be interesting to see how the full settings compared in the video for reference. Regardless, thanks for the video, Nokta - it helps clear up many questions.