BH Quick Silver coils - 8in vs. 10in.

garfik said:

Hi everyone,
I've got BH Quick Silver with standard, 8 inch coil.
There's a possibility to buy 10 inch one (they're very rare in Poland). But, is it worth? It's more expensive than I paid for whole detector...
What are real differences between them? How would the bigger coil increase my MD range?

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You might get an inch or two more...maybe.
That was the difference on my F2 between those two coils.
However here that bigger coil only cost 1/4 of the detector, to buy a coil that won't help you all that much that costs more than your detector doesn't make much sense, to me.
Save your money, one day put it toward a more powerful and deeper detector because they are out there.
I know because I started my career with one of those too and upgraded as soon as I could.

And so, I've bought that coil for 200 zl (about 57$).

And, I must say, I'm satisfied.

Range increased noticeably - like Digger27 said. For example, Polish 5 zl (coin about 1 in. diameter, like US quarter) is now giving stable signal from 20 cm (8 in.) - previously it was 16 cm (6.5 in.) max.
One Polish "grosz" - the smallest coin, about 1.5 cm in diameter - detecting range jumped from 13 cm (5.2 in.) to 16 cm (6.3 in.).

And, even with that coil, complete detector was less than 300 zl - it's about 86$.

Can't wait for rain to stop