Can I shorten the Minelab Sov GT Tornado coil cable?

[Ism]

For the life of me I can't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to.
Here's the way I see it....

Minelab uses an unshielded multi-conductor cable (unless there's something to the jacket that I don't know). As pole mounted, my cable is wrapped around the metal shaft 15 times. So that makes for a mild inductor along with the extra resistance of a long cable.
I can only see an improvement in performance as a result of shortening it.

However, when I posed this question in a Minelab forum elsewhere, I got one reply that claimed 2 different people he knew observed performance loss because of it. He wasn't claiming first hand evidence, just reporting a potential concern.

I want to mention that I've read the threads about Sov coilbuilding and didn't find anything relating to cable length or its importance.

Ran

[Carl-NC]

The Sov transmitter is forced digital, not tuned; and the receive has the preamp inside the loop. So shortening the cable will have no negative effect on either TX or RX.

[Ism]

Thank you for clearing that up Carl.

While reading I saw a post commenting on the signal from the coil amp and how it responded to ferrous and non-ferrous objects. So I looked at the return signal and while I didn't observe the difference I was surprised to see a scoped response to an object before an audio response from the box. Don't know what (if anything) I can do with that observation, but I found it interresting none the less.

[Sean_Goddard]

Yes. Try 33". I've heard some of the ML boys say it makes the machine more sensitive!

ROFLMAO for SO many reasons on that one though!!

I recommended 3" on the UKDN. I bet someone on there went and did it too!!