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My most favorite coil ever is Minelab TS1000 coil.
I had and used dozen of those so far.
Why "most favorite" - because it showed best performances among all other coils i had so far. Also versatile, can be used with bunch of different hand made detectors.
Despite that, final design is suffering from one major lack: cable!
In the past, first series of those coils were with much better cables.
Don't know what happened, but last series coming with very easy "perishable" cables!?
Usually cable suffer from cracks and breaks at those 2 inner coaxial, after just of few months use!?
And almost by the rule (Murphy!) those cracks, shorts, breaks appear at very bottom of the cable, exactly on place where cable entering the coil enclosure!
...
So, very soon, that magnificent coil turns unusable...
I had numerous TS1000 on service so far.
Usually i "dig" into it and replace cable.
But recently i decided to try another "technique"!
Splendid!
Now there is no chance to lose that coil forever!
Idea was not mine, i saw same solution at Turkish Atlantis Imperator II.
Cable connector is soldered closely and fixed with joint filler, epoxy...
Unbreakable, water resistive, simple and easy...
From now on; i am planing to do the same with all my next coils...
I had and used dozen of those so far.
Why "most favorite" - because it showed best performances among all other coils i had so far. Also versatile, can be used with bunch of different hand made detectors.
Despite that, final design is suffering from one major lack: cable!
In the past, first series of those coils were with much better cables.
Don't know what happened, but last series coming with very easy "perishable" cables!?
Usually cable suffer from cracks and breaks at those 2 inner coaxial, after just of few months use!?
And almost by the rule (Murphy!
) those cracks, shorts, breaks appear at very bottom of the cable, exactly on place where cable entering the coil enclosure! ...
So, very soon, that magnificent coil turns unusable...
I had numerous TS1000 on service so far.
Usually i "dig" into it and replace cable.
But recently i decided to try another "technique"!
Splendid!
Now there is no chance to lose that coil forever!
Idea was not mine, i saw same solution at Turkish Atlantis Imperator II.
Cable connector is soldered closely and fixed with joint filler, epoxy...
Unbreakable, water resistive, simple and easy...
From now on; i am planing to do the same with all my next coils...
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