A New Concentric Coil Coming For The Earlier GPX 4500/5000 Series From X-coils

[phrunt]

X-Coils have been working away in the background and took me by surprise with this one, I've always wanted a Concentric coil for my GPX 5000 but not a giant sized one, and I think they've nailed it with the perfect size coil for my needs, a 15" Concentric for the legacy GPX.

I have a spot that I like to detect that's quite close to home but the hot rocks drive me mad with the GPZ there, I've found a few bits of gold there, biggest is 1.2 grams and that was with the Equinox 800 and 11" coil, the reason I was using it was I got sick of digging hot rocks with the GPZ, I haven't even bothered to take the 6000 there as I already know it's worse on these particular hot rocks than the GPZ.    I've had the GPX 4500 there once but had a fair bit of problems with EMI as it's near a busy road and every car going past sent my 4500 nuts, their alternator or something, you could hear them coming.  It's quite a steep gully with a road going through the bottom of it.

This nugget would have been no more than 20 feet from the road

So, I'm very much looking forward to using this 15" Concentric coil on my 5000 and going back to this spot.

In mono mode on the GPX it's a full-fledged spiral mono coil, flick it to DD mode and it's a Concentric coil which handles bad ground and my hot rocks very well, along with being very good for EMI.  A real 2 in 1 coil.

This coil will be on its way to me very soon, I can't wait to use it.  My 5000 hardly weighs more than my 6000 now with its carbon fibre shaft and lithium battery setup.

[dig4gold]

Hi Phrunt. Don't you have a 15"CC X coil for your GPZ 7000. Have you not tried that at this spot you speak of? From what I have read I would think the 7000 with 15"CC would be better than a 15"CC on the 5000. The bonus of this coil for the GPX's is that no adapter is required. Plug & play.

D4G

[phrunt]

4 minutes ago, dig4gold said:

Hi Phrunt. Don't you have a 15"CC X coil for your GPZ 7000. Have you not tried that at this spot you speak of? From what I have read I would think the 7000 with 15"CC would be better than a 15"CC on the 5000. The bonus of this coil for the GPX's is that no adapter is required. Plug & play.

D4G

I have tried the 15" CC on the GPZ there EMI wise it's perfect, but still had me fooled on many hot rocks as they're just nasty at that spot.  The 5000 handles them better, it will be interesting to see how it goes with the Concentric.   Yes, the 7000 with 15" CC will be better than a 5000 with 15" CC for many uses, but this one the 5000 may well win, soon see 🙂  I have a few high EMI areas I'd like to try it out too.

 

[Luis]

What would be the price Simon?

[phrunt]

1 minute ago, Luis said:

What would be the price Simon?

They haven't worked that out yet.

[Luis]

Just now, phrunt said:

They haven't worked that out yet.

okay.  I will be careful

[Aureous]

1 hour ago, Luis said:

What would be the price Simon?

Something insane....probably 4x what any other coil from Eastern Europe would cost. Sell a kidney and you might be able to afford it 😁

[10fp]

im lucky enough to hav a Detech 18cc for my 4500

[Northeast]

5 hours ago, phrunt said:

15" Concentric for the legacy GPX

You mention the GPX 4500/5000.  I assume they will also work on a 4000 or even a GP 3500 - any Minelab PI that has DD ability?  Or are they just not as useful as they are on the more recent GPX models? 

[phrunt]

6 minutes ago, Northeast said:

You mention the GPX 4500/5000.  I assume they will also work on a 4000 or even a GP 3500 - any Minelab PI that has DD ability?  Or are they just not as useful as they are on the more recent GPX models? 

No, they will work on all GPX models, it's just such an annoying thing they called the GPX 6000 a GPX when it's nothing like a GPX 🙂 So trying to avoid including it, while including all previous models is tricky to word.  Perhaps I should say All GP/GPX models except the 6000!