CAN I MAKE A COIL FOR A MINELAB ELITE ?????

[daverave]

i want to make a light weight coil for my minelab elite as the tornado coil is too heavy for me....is there anyone on this forum who has the knowledge to tell me whether i can do this ????? pls someone advise me.

[kt315]

you can cut the cable, without any aftermath, on any length. what type of preamp is your prefer?

[daverave]

i dont understand what you are saying....all i need is for someone to tell me if i can make a home made coil for my minelab elite cause the stock coil is too heavy for me....

[Skippy]

I'm not familiar with the Minelab coils, but it seems there is more than one Tornado coil, 8 inch, 10 inch, possibly others. Minelab's website describe the 10 inch one as lightweight, so maybe you're using a larger one? If you tell us which coil you are using, and the weight of it, maybe someone could assess whether making one much lighter is possible. My feeling is that if you make it to the same dimensions and build quality as the original, it will end up weighing a similar amount, too.

[daverave]

i have a 10" tornado coil which is very heavy and as i dont submerge my coil in water i want to make a coil light weight but im not concerned about submerging...i find apart from you no one seems to want to tell me if i can make a basic coil for my minelab elite....i thought this was a sharing info site but ive got no helpful feedback whatsoever so far.

[Skippy]

I take it you a referring to the two other identical threads with no replies? Maybe you should ask the moderators to delete them, to avoid any confusion. Have you searched the forum for Minelab coil info? There is definitely some info on the type that have the pre-amplifier PCB built into them - the PCB might even be available.

[kt315]

I can design the preamp's PCB, but only tell me what type you prefer. also there is info on PCB in xTerra coil, it seems more universal, as for Elite-GT so for xTerra 30-705, but I am not in course about this preamp opamp and free code for a chip is not accessable.

[daverave]

many thanks for your reply kt315...i really need to try and make a light weight coil cause the tornado coil is just too heavy for me and my wife....does the coil have to be 2D or can i make a pulse coil ???? would i need to use a pcb in the coil or would it work without ???? i think the early minelab sovereigns never used a pcb...but im not 100% sure.

[Carl-NC]

It is certainly possible to make homemade Sov coils, but no one here can tell you whether or not you can do it. That depends on your skills. To my knowledge, all Sov coils have the preamp embedded, and I'm sure the Elite will require it. All the Sov coils I know of are DD coils, but you can make whatever coil you want. I don't know what you mean by a "pulse coil."

[kt315]

Carl is right. the preamp in all sov coils makes this 'wow! now my sov gives me additional 1 inch of depth on penny vs <whites, fisher, garrett etc - put a brand name here you want>' you may read in all forums. while nobody there say you why sov has some advantage. all ways are good in the rival fight for a buyer because capitalistic market. only an replic. in USSR we had all schematics with if we did buy any electronics. even with detailed description of its working and layouts of PCBs. now I do not see schematics, nothing in a manual.

[Qiaozhi]

i have a 10" tornado coil which is very heavy and as i dont submerge my coil in water i want to make a coil light weight but im not concerned about submerging...i find apart from you no one seems to want to tell me if i can make a basic coil for my minelab elite....i thought this was a sharing info site but ive got no helpful feedback whatsoever so far.

Ask plumabob. He made this post a number of years ago, and he still frequents this forum. ->
http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showt...822#post158822
Try sending a PM.

[Skippy]

Here's one of the threads on the subject: http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showt...inelab-pre-amp

[daverave]

thanks guys for your help...hope there is a way of making a light weight coil for this detector as my wife finds the stock coil too heavy

[kt315]

at this page you may see at bottom of page word Archive. it is clicklable. click on Coils section there. you will see a first thread dated by 2005 year.
use also forum's engine possibilites of ADVANCED SEARCH you see here at top of the page at right corner.

http://www.geotech1.com/forums/archi...p/t-10672.html

all the best

[plumabob]

Dave try to find one of these. Minelab Coinsearch. It came on the original sovereign. Much easier then building one, if you have not done one before. It's much lighter when compared to the tornado coil. The wife will love it!


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