Ok not huge, but I did get 30 minutes in with it today before dark. In the 30 minutes I had I found 10 coins. Ok not bad. Here's what I observed: 1 the coil is very sensative (almost too sensative). What do I mean? Well, if swinging the coil some what fast, it like to give a high tone chirp on a lot of targets, but was I honed in on the target, the ID stablized and the true target ID would sound. Not a bad thing, makes you stop and really listen to each target.
2) Excellent target seperation. Like all the EXcelerator coils I have, the target seperation is absolutely awesome. 3) Deep. Yes I said deep. How do I define deep? Well in our lovely iron infested, mineral rich red clay ground, I found 2 dimes at 6 inches with this coil. Although the audio was somewhat broken, there was enough repeatable high tones to justify digging the target.
Why did I decide to try this coil? After all I had the White's 6x10DD coil. Here's the story behind it. When I first got the 6x10 I was headed for vacation to Nebraska. I only used the 6x10 while I was there, and in the few total hours I actual hunted I came home with 6 silver dimes, 3 of which were 8 or more inches deep! Now the soil conditions were very fine, moist granulated black river bottom dirt. Excellent for detecting. I was impressed. But once I got back to North Carolina, I found the 6x10 was struggling to find coins any deeper than 3 inches in our soil here. I started to evaluate the success and finds of those I know also use the 6x10 a lot around here and determined the 6x10 just does not seem to perform well here. Since I have both the 10x14 EXcelerator and the 4.5x7 EXcelerator I know the performance of these coils is proven in our ground conditions, and could only hope the 10x12 is just as good. So I sold the 6x10, and now you know the rest of the story.
I plan on giving the 10x12 SEF a pretty good workout this weekend (6+ hours) in various area and conditions. I will report on it's performance as I get some time to use it. First impression? So far, I'm pretty impressed.
CJ Tuffy
Thanks
Joe, Very good report. Thanks for teaching everyone about the different coils available to the Whites machine. You did get a chuckle out of me describing the soil here. This is a tough area to get any depth out of a machine. But with the right tools we will get the best odds on getting those deep good targets.
Digger
Thanks for the info Joe..
cadit
Hey Joe: Doing real good there buddy. Have you tried to get on the Whites list for testing equipment for them? May be something you could get into!
You do so much with Whites equipment, let it work for you.
