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I was hunting around the Garrett website and ran across mention of a coil with one Tx and two Rx windings and I'm wondering if anyone had made their own coils. I'm wondering if it would be worth the effort to do this, or not?
(I'm on a do it yourself budget until I strike it rich)
I have an old Garrett American SX S1 , early 1980's vintage. (I think thats the right reference) I also have an old Whites Coin Master of similar vintage. Both of these have a depth of only about 5 inches and I'd like to increase that to 8 inches or better. Has there been much experimentation with coil design amongst the members here?
I seem to recall reading an archived post about coils made from layered PCB boards? The reason I mention this, is that I ran across a website with alot of info on a DIY CNC drill for cutting PCB boards, that cost about $250 for materials: http://home.comcast.net/~scottxs/pcbcnc/cncindex.htm
I wonder if that unit would work well with one of those new microwave drills like this one:
http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~jerby/microwave_drill/index.html
I have a few ideas for coil designs of my own, but I've never seen what they look like inside and I don't know what they are normally made of?
F.
(I'm on a do it yourself budget until I strike it rich)
I have an old Garrett American SX S1 , early 1980's vintage. (I think thats the right reference) I also have an old Whites Coin Master of similar vintage. Both of these have a depth of only about 5 inches and I'd like to increase that to 8 inches or better. Has there been much experimentation with coil design amongst the members here?
I seem to recall reading an archived post about coils made from layered PCB boards? The reason I mention this, is that I ran across a website with alot of info on a DIY CNC drill for cutting PCB boards, that cost about $250 for materials: http://home.comcast.net/~scottxs/pcbcnc/cncindex.htm
I wonder if that unit would work well with one of those new microwave drills like this one:
http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~jerby/microwave_drill/index.html
I have a few ideas for coil designs of my own, but I've never seen what they look like inside and I don't know what they are normally made of?
F.
