Sandman, You made a very good point - i quote

[gravediggermax-vabeachva]

An people thought I was crazy when I replaced the brass bolt and wing nut on our old detectors years ago. Coils see metal right, get it as far from your coil as possible

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for years now i have been taping up my coil wires tight against the shaft just for that reason and working in the water it seems to help a great deal.
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You see lots of hunters hunting with coil wire all loose and hanging down right on top of the coil......that can not be good.
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just passing the along for thought, we all have our own thoughts and plans.
good luck out there.
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[Sandman]

Yes Max, wrapping the wire along the side also cuts water resistance to make it easier to sweep. Coil cables flopping around are just sloppy too and brands ya as a newbie if you have them sloppy. Ya gotta at least try to look 4.0.

 

[lookindown]

I've been using my AT Pro for two weeks, and have been making some good finds, but some times it got real chatty and i could only run 5 bar sensitivity. I only had the coil wire taped at one place about 4 inches above the coil. I taped it at three more places up the shaft and today in the water it was like a different machine. I could run at 7 bars sens and it only falsed 3 to 4 times in four hours. I could not believe the difference. So far all the problems I've been having with my AT Pro have been user error, but I'm learning.

 

[seeker41]

"wrapping the wire along the side also cuts water resistance to make it easier to sweep"
yep!!!