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Looking for recommendations for headphones for relic hunting and prospecting. I had a Minelab Koss with my 4000 but they went with it. Currently all I have is a set of Minelab RPGs that I had as a backup pair. Thoughts on a good pair?

I’m about to order a backup coil for the GPX. Torn between getting a used once 15x12 DD commander for 200 or getting a Coiltek 14 Elite DD at retail. I’d like to try both and keep one as a backup. I already have a basically brand new 15x12 commander DD.

Besides very old Native American stone tools, worked glass, and a mica cut out associated with the mound builders. I live near a lot of old native settlement sites. We also have a lot of colonial sites here. I’ve found copper kettle points. Copper that was cut to make arrow heads. Quite a bit of Spanish silver. Cuts and wholes. Some just pounded or sanded flat. 1773 Virginia half penny. A cut silver dates back to 1730. Lots of buttons from the 1700s. A lot of these sites overlap with Native American sites.

I’ve seen the cables that come to the houses here. It’s a small fiber with a small copper wire attached for locating when it needs to be marked. The main lines are in a 1 1/4 orange pipe right along the road ditches. They have recently come down into the rural area in my area along some of the roads where I hunt. I was hoping to not get any interference. Under ground Power lines, and phone lines are a pain. As well as electric fences. Believe it or not the fences are more of a pain than anything else. But all can vary day to day.

That’s a good idea. I figured I could do something like that. I have a heat gun for bending plastic electrical conduit. I’m sure I could get one to fit pretty well. Thanks

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I’ve never really had a coil without a skid plate. Except maybe the older whites machines. I was just curious I wasn’t sure if people took them off for a reason or if some of the older coils never had one. But I’ll let you know about the cool ASAP. My dad still swings the old whites for relics. I haven’t asked him about it. They still do well if you if you know how to run and listen to the machine.

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

How fragile do you think it is without a coil cover? Did someone take it off to make it more sensitive or deeper?

I was talking about the skid plate or coil cover. I was trying to find one that might fit it.

Was the one that came on it black? I might be interested

Yeah it’s a 6.59 frequency. Same plug. What’s the bottom of the coil look like?

Could I find a coil cover or make one?

What size is the hot head? 12? I have a whites blue and grey that I use for relics. Would it work well on that?

There are some nuggets that came from Virginia that ended up in the Smithsonian. One the size of softball.

Do you think the Iron reject is deeper with the Spiral DD?

Which Coiltek are you speaking of?

Do y’all think the 11 coiltek elite is similar to the detech 11 ultra sensing as far a small gold and depth?

@RickUK I won’t submerge mine either. Also I’m very careful with the machine. Even though I love the way it operates if the most part it does have a fragile feel. I broke the coil ears on the first 11in coil but It was from over tightening I believe. Right after I put a put a stiffener on it as well. I was also in a rough, rocky cutover over with my wood laps and ruts from logging equipment. I may have stumbled and leaned on it. But I epoxied it back and tie wrapped it crossways it’s been holding for 18 months. I have a new spare just in case but I’d figure I would get all the use out of it I can. I might get a sturdier arm cuff for it. But I have some creeks and rivers that I might use the legend in if there’s a chance I might submerge the equinox. If it’s no more than a foot to 18 inches deep I’ll use the equinox.

@RickUKHave you tried running the 15x12 commander mono onthe TDI? I also have the ultra sensing 11 detech but I was hoping to not get the tiny bits with the 11 (I’ll save that for chasing gold) and maybe hit some larger deeper items with the commander when I want to use a lighter machine. I’m sure it would get more depth the the stock dual field 12.

Exactly! If it was going to crap out it would have done it shortly after it was submerged. I can’t bring myself to dunk mine.

Exactly! If it was going to crap out it would have done it shortly after it was submerged. I’ve heard the nokta legends are better in water than the original equinox. Is this true?

I run the 800 in field 1 most of the time with the 11in coil. If I’m in an iron patch like a colonial or pre civil war home or barn site I usually turn the sensitivity down to 18 sometimes less like 16. I haven’t been running to the updated iron 2 mode. Maybe I should. But I usually keep the iron bias at 2-3. 5 tones, recovery speed at 6-7. I leave the iron audio on so I can tell when I’m hitting heavy or lighter spots moving quieter ground. Or if I’m walk away from the main home site I can tell when I hit another structure or area of high activity. Typically I can pick through the iron pretty well. It takes some practice a learning the sounds but I can usually tell a False positive from a good signal most of the time. It takes a lot of digging and seeing what you have at first but I’ve noticed heavy flat iron pieces have a larger louder not so smooth tone with the ID jumping around. There’s a type of old tin can material that will fool you sometimes especially if it’s folded over. But it usually shows up at an ID at 16-15 or below and sound have a broader signal especially when shallow. With the sensitivity turned down the better signals that are in between and deeper have a more crisp sound and give a solid ID. I need to try some of the smaller coils soon. A lot of the times I’ll move to the outskirts and need the 11 because of its good all around abilities to get the deeper stuff. But you will start noticing tendencies like that. Different ways the machine reacts to a target. Deep square nails especially if bent when at the depth limit will give an iffy signal but so will a deep bullet. I used to run the Whites MXT and the flat iron, beer caps or larger iron would always have a rougher signal with a subtle iron grunt mixed in with the good signal. Those deep square nails at like a foot deep+ would give iffy signals but sometimes its a bullet. That machine faired better with the gain turned back in iron as well. Some people get in trouble running the gain to high in iron patches. No machine is perfect but the more you dig and learn with it the better. Definitely take the time to learn the machines language.

Has it been submerged?

What are the prices you have on them?