childoftechnology
Jr. Member
- May 7, 2005
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I finally got my new Minelab Musketeer Advantage the other day, along with two "Excelerator" coils for extra hunting advantages. Although I haven't had a chance to use it extensively yet, my first impression is that this is a pretty good machine. Great depth, adequate discrimination, excellent tolerance to mineralized ground, and very few unwanted stray beeps. That, however, is with the factory-supplied 8" coil. The other two that I ordered were from the Detech "Excelerator" series; a 5" and an 18" (I'm handy with a shovel!). The 18" coil seems to perform very poorly indeed; it would only find quarters up to about 5", even in all metal/pinpoint mode. Other users have claimed to find quarters and dollars at up to 2' with this thing, so either that's a huge crock or I've gotten a defective coil/wrong coil for this model.
The 5" coil seems to perform as advertised, finding pennies at up to about 5" deep. It seems however to produce broken beeps on good solid targets - such as pennies at 3", with no nearby junk. This may be normal, I'm not sure.
I'm currently trying to get ahold of the Minelab tech at Kellyco (where I ordered the coils & detector from), but in the meantime I thought I'd get some opinions from you guys. The 5" coil may be working normally, but I'm certain that something is wrong with the 18"-er. BTW the settings on the detector are correct, and fresh alkaline batteries have been installed.
Any ideas? I'd like to get this problem cleared up soon, as the nice weather is just finally arriving and I'm anxious to do some serious hunting.
The 5" coil seems to perform as advertised, finding pennies at up to about 5" deep. It seems however to produce broken beeps on good solid targets - such as pennies at 3", with no nearby junk. This may be normal, I'm not sure.
I'm currently trying to get ahold of the Minelab tech at Kellyco (where I ordered the coils & detector from), but in the meantime I thought I'd get some opinions from you guys. The 5" coil may be working normally, but I'm certain that something is wrong with the 18"-er. BTW the settings on the detector are correct, and fresh alkaline batteries have been installed.
Any ideas? I'd like to get this problem cleared up soon, as the nice weather is just finally arriving and I'm anxious to do some serious hunting.