I am using a concentric PCB-Coil (ca. 20 cm diameter) and had phantastic measuring results:
- very low temperature dependency
- very thin dimension (ca. 3 mm)
- very easy to build (just making a pcb-board)
- no balancing needed (computer designed geometry - thus automatically balanced)
- most of the area is for the rx-coil
- combined small rx and big rx-coil (due to the geometry, the rx-coil is a spiral from the inner side to the outher side)
- bigger transforming effect (nummer of turns for rx-coil is much more then for the tx-coils), to reduce the gain of the amplifier, thus reducing also noises of the amplifier.
Therefore, it is very sensitive even to small metal objects (nuggets). To achive this, it was a very hard and long job.
If you interested, may be I can put the pcb-board for the search coil here. Please ask me.
I am now working an a new PCB-Coil, same size but lower inductance (tx-coils), bigger rx-coils, lower parasitric capacitance, single side pcb (the prior art was a double sided pcb-coil ;-) ).
Aziz
- very low temperature dependency
- very thin dimension (ca. 3 mm)
- very easy to build (just making a pcb-board)
- no balancing needed (computer designed geometry - thus automatically balanced)
- most of the area is for the rx-coil
- combined small rx and big rx-coil (due to the geometry, the rx-coil is a spiral from the inner side to the outher side)
- bigger transforming effect (nummer of turns for rx-coil is much more then for the tx-coils), to reduce the gain of the amplifier, thus reducing also noises of the amplifier.
Therefore, it is very sensitive even to small metal objects (nuggets). To achive this, it was a very hard and long job.
If you interested, may be I can put the pcb-board for the search coil here. Please ask me.
I am now working an a new PCB-Coil, same size but lower inductance (tx-coils), bigger rx-coils, lower parasitric capacitance, single side pcb (the prior art was a double sided pcb-coil ;-) ).
Aziz
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