Posted by JB(MS) on 11/11/2008, 5:45 pm
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It will require changing the connector, but from what I've read and a couple of things George said just about any coil designed for a detector that operates in the 12 to 13 khz range and has isolated transmit and receive coils might just work on the Barons. Back when I was still buying, selling and trading used detectors I took a cheap 15 khz Chinese detector in trade that had the same kind of connecter as the Barons. I checked it with a meter to make sure the transmit and receive coils were isolated and plugged an 8 inch Baron coil in the detector to see if it would work. It lowered the audio tone but worked okay so I plugged the Chinese coil into the Cointrax. The frequency of the audio tones was higher, and the meter ID'ed coins a segment higher, but it worked. I never used it on a hunt, and don't know if the Cointrax would have ground balanced with it, but it airtested a nickel and penny about the same distance as the Baron coil. That's in the archives of Carls forum somewhere as I posted about it not long afterward. Kellyco sells several detectors made in China, the current Cobra, Viper and MP series, that use a 12.5 frequency that have coils that could possibly be used on the Barons. The C-Scope CS5MX is listed as having 12 khz frequency but the coils it uses were interchangeable with the 12.5 khz Newforce models, and if I remember right the Teknetic T2 runs at 12.9 khz so that might be another possibility. Maybe Rich can expand on the subject, or tell me I'm full of crap and put an end to it 
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Speaking of forum archives, I spent three hours Sunday night downloading and using Dreamweaver to reformat and remove the popups and ads from this forum. Was gonna upload it Yesterday morning but I forgot I had included the directory where I had the forum in Ccleaner's stuff to clean. I ran Ccleaner before I turned the computer off and it deleted it all, so it was three more hours yesterday morning
. There are links to the archives of this forum on the Baron page, and also my homepage at jb-ms.com, but if any lurkers reading this post want to check the archives without going to those pages they're at http://jb-ms.com/Discovery/.
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