Norvic

Nah nah nah no chop, since JPs declaration OZ gold country has been officially declared out of bounds to international gold seekers.🙄

Aye you buy 500kilos of each of these sizes 1.5mm, 2mm, 2.5mm and 3mm CCA litz and I think you`ll have a heap of DIYs buying from you in say 500gram to 1 kilo lots. But no I have enough copper litz here for my next couple of coils, I`d just love to have a supplier of CCA litz in small lots that I want. Yea check up X coils they buy their litz in.😉

Phrunt that is for 500kilograms minimum order, a wee bit over DIY operatives purchase, a wee bit over say 30m which is 1kilo in 3mm diameter. Are you also saying X coil make their own litz wire? I know they make their own coil shielded cables.

Perhaps X Coil are already well into releasing a coil for the 7Z that competes with the 8Z "toroidals", however you would think they`d need access to CCA litz to compete on the weight front. Whatever is the go we know it is the same one-horse race... ML vs ML except perhaps X Coil will add with their excellent innovation. I did inquire direct to ML early on about the 3 coil weights their answer "At this stage the only technical specifications we have are available on the website".

If you have a 2K and did no good at your sites you visit, then the 8Z is not for you. Now I`m well aware the 8Z vs 2K are like comparing apples to oranges, but my point is if you have not the sites the 2K perform on then most likely you haven`t the sites for the 8Z. At this stage I have only an idea in what ground the 8Z will produce because I know where the 7Z/Xcoil combo produced, time will tell if I`ve simply blown 2.5ozs but if so it`ll be a first for a new ML detector.🙃

Are they concentric with a combination of flat spiral/solenoidal windings?

First patch my 6K found was close in, heavily grassed but in the right line thus had given that area some attention with every new detector for many years for zilch, wandered onto it with the 6K and struck a subgrammer within 1/2 hour.... Long story short, this ridge slope patch ended up being approx 100mx700m with small solid nuggets spread very sparingly over this area, largest and only piece over a gram being 1.8grams most were below 0.5grams. Productively it was a low yield patch but one of the unusually largest in area for this part of the country, called it the Placebo Patch for obvious reasons. Being mostly heavily grassed thus with ground depth and a few spots where the slate was exposed allowing the 2K to have fun, it`ll be attacked probably first up with the 8Z that may test it vs the 6K and 7Z, I look forward with some but guarded anticipation...🤞

Les I`m with you there, below works OK so far on much used CamelBack but is only early days, always room for improvement, just wee problem walking between two trees. Think I`m using what riders use to hold their helmet perhaps.

Aye having the technique to use a detector is only the beginning of the quest to find gold. After 45years of chasing it I`m still learning.

My long term dealer notified me he`d probably have the 3coil pack ready for me by end of April. Meanwhile I`ll have fun with the 6K/2K once the country has dried out a bit from a big wet. MLs long term rep means something to me too.... more gold.😉

No definitely not for the 8K AU, I believe it can be done without a guide but a designed 3D print shell for solenoidal/spiral combo windings and with shield painted on external as per modded pirat coil. Lighter and simpler DIY construction but probably not for commercial construction. Maybe I`ll getarountoit next wet but I can feel 2026 gold season coming on, will it be an 8K year??? you bet 😜

I suspect the GPZ8Ks coils innovative feature is about what appears to be a combination of solenoidal and flat spiral windings. But the main telling feature will probably prove be the GPZ8Ks advance features over the GPZ7000. All speculation we hope to prove with many nugget finds in the coming months.😜

A few examples of proven concentrics back in the early 80s, Dtek made them for their 15kHz Searchking detector (8" & 14"by memory) which fitted and proved dynamite on the Garret groundhog & A2B, later on Whites GM2, then the most popular classic Fisher GB2. Recently Xcoils brilliant 15&17 for the GPZ7000.... I`m excited and judging by the frenzy a lot are in expectation that the GPZ8000 will repeat those successes concentrics gave us on so many detectors.... Back to the future🤞

Dead wrong, take small piece of gold that your PI just picks up right at the coil now try it on the on the GM2K, big signal now bury it, see how deep you`ll pick it up with that 5" coil. That also applies to small coils vs larger coils on most detectors, there is a sweet gold size for every coil that allows that coil to go deeper than a larger coil on that sweet gold size. Will this apply to that larger proposed GM2K coil?

HMMM I wonder if on a mono PI coil such a single coil winding arrangement could be advantageous, flat spiral windings on the sides twisted to upright solenoidal on the back and front. Giving a PI Mono coil the depth advantage of solenoidal combined with the sensitivity to tiny pieces advantage of the spiral flat. Bit off topic going to PI from ZVT technology but still on coil design, am I off on a "wild goose chase" here or has this got potential for a DIY mono coil?