Ok, now I'm curious. Do you like both coils for their own abilities or do you have a one over the other preference? I still have only the 10" concentric. I am still trying to decide if the F70 is enough like the F5 to consider Mike H. recommendation of the 5"x8" DD he refers to in his writings about the F5. I did find a nice clean volleyball court yesterday and was able to run in sl mode at a mildly chatty sensitivity of 75 and 0 disc. and 0 threshold. WOW, I was impressed with the increase of depth. No bling but over $5.oo in clad.----HH
Got out this afternoon with the F5 and F70 and my extra coils for each. I used the match coil for the detector, my F5 is an older push in type, but the F5 5" DD coil is the new type.
My findings in my garden, ground balance around 60, your mileage may vary....
On both the F5 and F70, the 5" DD isn't that far behind the stock 10" non-DD when it comes to depth. I was surprised. An inch less, 2 at the most when looking at 7" on the F5 and 9" on the F70.
I don't have a 11" DD for the F5, but changing from the 10" stock to the 11" DD on the F70 was a huge difference, four or more inches? I have a quarter buried at 10" that only the F70 with 11DD running all metal and SL mode can find with a solid, repeatable signal. The F5 can't find a quarter at 8" with either coil, the F70 can get it on DE and running discrimination, though it's on the edge running DE. You can ground balance the F5 on top of the 10" deep quarter and no indication something is there compared to nearby clear ground, while the F70 ground balance will change from 60 to 55 or 57.
I ordered the F70 with 11"DD coil, I wasted money getting the 10" stock coil. I never use the 10", I'm either in clean ground running the 11DD or coin shooting in between tabs with the 5DD on the F70.
I guess to sum up, I use the 5"DD and 11"DD coils all the time. I got the 10" stock to see if it would settle down my initial problems I was having. I don't think about the theory of covering more ground with a football coil like a 6.5 or the 5x8, I use the 11" if I can, I use the 5" when it's crowded.
Unless Dave or someone else weighs in, I'd venture to guess an F70 tuned 5" DD coil on the F70 will outperform, on depth, the F5 5x8 coil mismatched on the F70. Does your dealer have a F70/F75 5"DD coil you could bring in your F70 and try?