Wrapping Your Coil Cord...

[Primus Palus]

This might sound like a strange question... when you wrap your coil cord around the detector before plugging it in, do you wrap it left or right?

Now on purpose I did mine to the right (over the top to the right) because it gives the appearance that it's wrapped left over right. In the Marines we always laced our boots left over right.

Anyone else have a weird detector quirk or good luck way of doing things?

 

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[CJayC]

You should always start your wrap in the direction that it connects to the coil itself. If it connects low on the coil, start wrap under the shaft; if it connects higher, start the wrap going over the coil.

On the chance that it connects in the center of the coil, then do whatever you want. I'd most likely still start it going over the shaft.


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[luvsdux]

I'm mostly concerned to leave enough slack at the coil connection that it won't be stressed by any angle change of the coil.
luvsdux

 

[TerryC]

Wrapping the coil cable is very easy. Follow the instructions in the manual that comes with the detector. Used detector? find the manual online. Important to wrap it right as doing it wrong will shorten the life of the cable/coil. If you've wrapped it wrong and you've been using the detector for years and years, with no damage..... you are not getting out there enough! TTC

 

[bigscoop]

Are you right or left handed? ......Just leave enough slack so you can still pivot the coil and you'll be just fine.

 

[Electricfrontporch]

The cable should have some memory when you first get it.
The conductors inside are twisted/spiraled inside the shielding which
Is what gives it the "memory". I always try to wrap in the direction that it lays on the pole
the best. If it seems to fight you while wrapping it will be easier the other direction.

Noah

 

[AlienLifeForm]

I cant see a cord to wrap.

 

[mick56]

I think it depends if you are in the north or south hemisphere.

 

[Geobound]

I think it depends if you are in the north or south hemisphere.

Very good, I wonder how many people got that one!

 

[Geobound]

On my AT Pro I wrapped over the shaft, but left myself enough slack at the bottom so that when I pivot the coil it doesn't strain the cable.

Then I put some black electrical tape around it (just a small amount where the first section wraps around the shaft), so that it doesn't go slack and interfere with the coil and cause falsing at all.

On the CTX 3030 it just runs straight up the shaft. I quite like that feature, as it makes it super easy to collapse the coil for transporting.