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Take one of your silvers and place it on clean ground you have checked for targets. Sweep the coil and when you hear the silver coin, press pinpoint as usual. Now sweep carefully back and forth until the sound is loudest and the LCD screen shows it is centered. It will be in the center of the coil of course. If you now sweep back and forth, the sound will be short when you sweep the center of the coil over the target. Then sweep 90 degrees, the sound is still short.

You can bury the coin and do this as well. Now take a nail, spike or chain and repeat. You should be able to hear the tone as you sweep over the short dimension. Then if you sweep 90 degrees the sound should be ‘longer’ as you sweep over the long dimension of the chain/spike/nail.

Finally as suggested above, after you pinpoint lift the point straight up and move it. The theory is if it is light aluminum the sound will lesson compared to the sound of a good solid ‘coin size’ target.

I dug 4 pull tabs that rang 12 at the beach in Beach 2. The fifth ‘12’ I almost did not dig. It was an old hand carved detailed ring that was a mix of gold and brass/copper. So you never know. 

This helped me so maybe it will help. 

Happy Hunting

I use wired third party headphones plugged into the WM-08 module. The headphones have active noise canceling which helps when the surf is loud. I started using the 3rd party headphones which are LL BT but there was a noticeable lag compared to the WM-08 plugged in. The 3rd party headphones also were not reliable to connect via BT.

On the other hand, the minelab ML80 OEM phones had no sound canceling properties.

Happy with this until the wired cable gets in my way once in a while. 

Minelab needs to provide better quality headphones with option of noise canceling.

It is heavier, if you strap a full can of coke to the stock 11” coil the weight will be pretty close. I took a chance on it and also use a counter weight. One thing I noticed is that I cannot swing it as fast as the 11. I have been to the beach mainly just to physically see if I can swing it for an extended time. I can do it 3-4 hours. It is very easy to pinpoint using the coil edge or the center (using pinpoint button).

As far as depth, I do not have a definitive answer. It should be deeper than the 11 but there have been no targets to verify that. It is as sensitive as the 11.

I also use both arms to share the effort. 

I just use vibrate mode on my minelab pointer.

Carolina, how about a detector support strap and as Ridge Runner suggested?

Well my 15 arrived in a homemade box with plenty of bubble wrap and inside a coiltek plastic bag and cardboard fold. But when I removed it, one entire ear was damaged and looked like it had been pulled out too early when hot formed. Florida Dealer was AWESOME and sent a replacement the next day. 

Glad to hear it all worked out. Wonder after warranty expires how expensive it will be with these hiccups. HH

On 4/2/2021 at 10:53 AM, abenson said:

Got the 15" a few days ago. I've been testing it out in my yard. Appears to be slightly deeper than the 11" but is also heavier. Hoping to get it out in the field this weekend and see how long I can swing it.

Any updates on using the 15? Thx

Excellent find! On your first trip. Plenty of videos, but filtering out the helpful ones may take some work. Best bet is this forum under the gold prospecting section. 

I know how you feel. that is a good plan too.

I think you figured it out - that is it. You can not use a computer to charge the headphones (or NOX) fast and properly. I bought these and have had no problem: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JHZXCQD/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_GZQEMW3267Q8JBWW79YP

You get two of them!

Only time that happened was when I laid the detector down with the screen facing the sun while I was doing something else. But never using it even in August on a Florida beach. I suspect it may be the protector. I have a thin plastic protector to protect the buttons just on the face of the pod. Hope it helps. HH

Mine are 2 years old and maybe the newer ones are different but the red LEDs never blink. They stay on solid until charged then turn off.

I would keep trying your dealer and ML to see if yours came with a fault.

Some starting to receive the coiltek coils. One dealer said next week large shipment expected. Won’t know until they roll up to the door.

Seems to be hit or miss. I gave up then last week got a ship notice and it arrived a few days later.

10x5 arrived yesterday. 

Very good info! Thanks. Looks like I will be digging more - numbers at the beach! Your digging reminds me of the experiment Tom Dankowski did. HH

Very interesting! Being hearing impaired and wearing hearing aids, I once tried to find the kHz of the NOX tone breaks and use my audiology report which shows my hearing loss frequencies. Thinking hearing aids just approximate the “all sounds” young ears hear. Anyway, I gave up but this topic may have something. Cheers

As a diagnostic, can you plug the ML headphones into the WM08 module to see if that part works? 

Someone said the ML phones are same parts as the SR71 headphones so you might find some battery replacement video or instructions for those. (The new ones have a BT problem with ML but I have not followed that thread, may be OK now)

Sounds good. Thanks 

Get some TM!

Great idea! I have seen others velcro a water bottle holder on. Pint will be 2# or yo can adjust the amount of water. I have a Steve Pod and it works great! Great invention.

Coiltek website - where to buy:

Australia/NZ has 18 dealers

US/CAN has 24

Florida has 2

At this rate I will be unable to swing the new coils by the time they arrive.

I guess a little suffering is good for the soil.

Great, thats who i used. Getting closer. Lets us know after you fire that baby up. Thx

23 minutes ago, TexasMike said:

Ok, just got shipping info from PayPal for Myers shipping!!!! 

Great are they in Texas or Florida? Glad it’s on the way.