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  1. 22 minutes ago, gdzag said:

    Sven,

    That sounds like a great option and you really got me thinking… it sounds as if you have an electronics background… would I be correct? If not… even more impressive. Would you have a part number for the gain pot that you used… I have enough electrical experience to be slightly-less than dangerous.

    Thanks,

           Gerry

    Let me check my notes to see exactly what I used, might be a day or two. I may have extra correct pots on hand to save you the trouble of ordering at higher prices than I paid.  Have been building Pi's for the past 10 years. 

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  2. I'm not letting my V5 and three coils go anytime soon.

    I don't think many V5 or V6 units were sold after the V4 fiasco.

    Don't think, from what I have seen over the years more than 2 or 3 each of the V5 or V6 exist in the US or Canada. I believe you and Paul in Ca have two of the V6. I know of one other V5.

    With a couple changes in parts (pots), my V5 now has a finer more precise GB tuning range than the stock pot to get GB spot on. I switched to a RV6 precision pot. The stock pot is a cheap one.  Between setting lets say 5-6, adjustment range is like 5- 5.5-6. Your GB can be off at either settings. With the precision pot you adjustment range between 5-6 would be like 5.1-5.2-5.3-5.4-5.5-5.6 and so on. A lot more resolution.

    Gain pot was changed from a linear to an audio taper, more usable range than 0-2 usually recommended, which is now spaced over a wider range 0-5. And you get a bit more range at max. Gain. See picture.

    Just those two simple  mods make a big difference in tuning and stability. Makes for a much more fun detector to use. Fast set-up and can be a turn on and go detector. I love it with the 7x9 coil for coin and jewelry hunting.

    Anyways, you may want to keep the V6.

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  3. 1 hour ago, kac said:

    That is really good to know, may spring for the Gold Gain if there are nuances to the audio. I was affraid they would have too heavily synthesized response.

    Curious if you slow crawl the coil over a gold ring and a square pull tab can you hear the difference? On the Tejon you can hear how flat aluminum audio is but of course that can be tough to tell in a noisy park 🙂

    Recovery is fast so you should hear separate  low and a high tone. I found the smaller than stock coils work better for me.

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  4. Wayback when...I had a GTi1500 with the Imaging coil. Had a blast with it. Think it was my first digital type detector with an LCD screen. Finding coins left and right. Eventually gave it to my wife, she loved it.... At that point, picked up a Gti2500. Didn't find it any deeper than the GTi1500 but, like the threshold based all metal mode and the depth it provided. After about two weeks, it had to go. Push buttons were getting stuck, the weight was effecting my elbow and getting tiring to swing. After that, bought a White's MXT. Never looked back at getting a newer Garrett again. Have to admit, over the years had the urge to try another GTi2500, never acted on it. Just too many other brand detectors with better performance and search coil choices, at lower prices.

    Had many Garretts up to the ADS7 since the 1970's, really liked them for our hunting locations. The GTi2500 was the last straw.  Would have been nice if they made a smaller Imaging coil. 

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  5. 12 hours ago, ☠ Cipher said:

    When and where did she say that? The last word I can find on it was that whether or not it would be made would depend on customers. It was one of her last interviews. 

    I was a field tester for a number of models. She said that in a personal email when we approached her to make a smaller concentric for the Simplex. Instead they gave us smaller DD coils. We also tried rallying the Simplex owners to drum up the interest in a smaller concentric. Lots of interest!! Be happy you are able to purchase a smaller DD coil.

  6. Found out Nabble. Forums the host of the Compass Forum was downsizing servers. The  Compass Forum and others using Nabble as the host , will not re-activate the forum unless the original owner of the Compass Forum responds to their email.

    The orig. owner about 5 years ago quit and moved onto other hobbies and gave Joe full Admin rights to keep it going. When Joe stepped down, I took over. Ownership of the Compass Forum was never transfered to Joe. So we have no way of keeping it going. So the Compass Forum as it stands is no more.

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  7. On 6/12/2021 at 11:06 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

    I was too busy, but I also am not looking to compete with people. I thought it would be more we go use the old machines, show what we found. No losers, everyone wins. I’m still going to do it at some point anyway.

    Exactly how it was stated, if we would of had a good registration number of detectorists, I would have been able to get a bunch of prizes from a major detector manufacturer. Since only 5 of us signed up..... Oh well.

    But, still would make a great topic to go out and use an old detector and show what you found.

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