Running The 15" Cc X Coil Over A 6000 Patch

[phrunt]

That's correct, I can still use the NF coil if I wanted to, you can see in the second picture a new plug end if back on it.  I just didn't care about the warranty on that coil as I'd never use it so it shouldn't fail just sitting there, where as I'd rather keep the original Minelab coil intact which is also under warranty as it holds more value to me than the NF coil.    I have so much better coils for my needs the NF coil will just never be used so it made perfect sense to use it to make an adapter.  In hindsight I wouldn't have even bought it, but with the reasonably good reviews I thought it might be better than it is.

[Jonathan Porter]

Every X coil I’ve used with the short lead adapter has caused problems, the coil see’s the connector if it even moves fractionally and if you fix it in place it nulls sensitivity.

[phrunt]

You might be right about that version of the adapter causing a problem with the detector seeing it JP especially with larger coils, I secured all of my coil cables with a round lump as you can see in the photo below which stops them moving inside the shaft.

On the very sensitive coils like the 8" I also have this lump down near the coil to stop the coil cable moving inside the shaft as much like the 6000 the GPZ picks up the coil cable moving when using smaller coils.

X-coils don't recommend that style of adapter, it's just something a few of us have done for convenience of changing coils and is best only used with small coils for the reason you point out above.  I have both sorts of adapter and my larger coils are all using the short standard little adapter with my smaller coils on this adapter style.   I would always suggest people stick with the standard adapter method not this long style one, I just wanted to try one out.

I forgot to mention and people have probably already done it but you'll see on the plug end I have a little white line, this makes plugging the coils in so much easier to line up the plug quickly, worth doing if anyone hasn't done it.