Goldpick
Chris Johnson
Thanks Heatho, I did have a go with the CTX mounted with the 17" coil, and it's a big bugger to wield, though not quite as heavy as I thought it would be - defintely not a junky park coil. 
I did get a chance today to give the 13" coil a run for the first time, with an 1875 threepence being its first victim of the day. Most of the afternoon passed by with a variety of bullets, cartridges, shotgun shells and lead making up the bulk of the finds.
Before heading home I ran the Deus back around a tree where a deep threepence was found with the Racer 2, and dug some pretty dodgy sounding targets, being an 1874 threepence, and a Hall & Savage button from Adelaide. Pretty much down to digging any repeatable tone now, regardless of where they fall on the conductivity spectrum. I suspect those last two targets were sitting on edge, hence were very hard to pick up on.
As for the new large coil, it's a dream to swing and really no harder to fling about the place than the 11". Using the arm strap is a must, not due to the overall weight, more to do the balance being slightly based towards being coil heavy.
One thing to note was that my headphones did not work with the new coil today, as I forgot to turn on the headphones when entering the coil serial number into the main control unit. This would usually update both the remote and main control box at the same time with the new coil option, so all I have to do is go back and select the orignal 11" coil, re-validate the new coil on both controllers, then I should be good to go.
Sometimes it pays to read the instructions properly, rather than being a typical bloke. :8
Threepence in the plug!
I did get a chance today to give the 13" coil a run for the first time, with an 1875 threepence being its first victim of the day. Most of the afternoon passed by with a variety of bullets, cartridges, shotgun shells and lead making up the bulk of the finds.
Before heading home I ran the Deus back around a tree where a deep threepence was found with the Racer 2, and dug some pretty dodgy sounding targets, being an 1874 threepence, and a Hall & Savage button from Adelaide. Pretty much down to digging any repeatable tone now, regardless of where they fall on the conductivity spectrum. I suspect those last two targets were sitting on edge, hence were very hard to pick up on.
As for the new large coil, it's a dream to swing and really no harder to fling about the place than the 11". Using the arm strap is a must, not due to the overall weight, more to do the balance being slightly based towards being coil heavy.
One thing to note was that my headphones did not work with the new coil today, as I forgot to turn on the headphones when entering the coil serial number into the main control unit. This would usually update both the remote and main control box at the same time with the new coil option, so all I have to do is go back and select the orignal 11" coil, re-validate the new coil on both controllers, then I should be good to go.
Sometimes it pays to read the instructions properly, rather than being a typical bloke. :8
Threepence in the plug!
