Viking VK30 coil

[ivconic]

As far I know only Viking 5 (Viking 1) was dismantled and reversed. Never seen something like schematic for Viking 30, which I am sure use the same coil as Viking 20.

Viking 5 is funny toy with just 10 components... nothing comparing to VK30!
I was more than (pleasantly) surprised when opened box for the first time!

[WM6]

As far I know only Viking 5 (Viking 1) was dismantled and reversed. Never seen something like schematic for Viking 30, which I am sure use the same coil as Viking 20.

[ivconic]

Still haven't find coil data... alright; i am passionate man, sooner or later...
In meantime i disassembled whole thing in a pieces, scanned all pcb's and traced them out.
Than i assembled them again.
Now am in progress of drawing complete schematic... which i will not share, of course!
But what i wanted to point out is funny trivia; it's outlook is rather modest and far for being impressive... while inside is pretty complex design!
Is it famous "British modesty" or just bad advertising?
If i was not opened it and not analyzed it's circuitry and if i was judging only according to it's outlook; i would have wrong impression that it is just another simple useless toy... how wrong i could be!
Bottom line; inside there is indeed complex and very interesting design.
Just for illustration:

[ivconic]

So... it really looks impossible that no one from "world forum No.1" is not able to provide me with coils specs for Viking VK30???
Here are some photos of the detector;








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[ivconic]

Thanks!
My VK30 is older model.
Hopefully it's the same thing.

[Skippy]

You could ask them if they sell the coils alone:

http://www.metaldetectors.co.uk/vk30-metal-detector-c-249-p-1-pr-16139.html

A guy on a UK forum got a VK5 coil a couple of years ago,
Quote:"Viking ... told me that they would get a coil out to me by tomorrow. All for the cost of £25.00 so that's a good result."
25 Pounds = 37 US dollars, very cheap.

[ivconic]

Recently i got Viking VK30 metal detector... but without coil.
It's alright, switching ON, fully operational, so it seems.
I did several skim tries with other coils in my workshop and seems original VK30 coil is beast on it's own, differs much from what i have available here.
So i guess; i will have to try to make it.
According to what i saw during the checks; seems TX coil is higher inductance than 10mH!
Anybody here having original coil? Simply to measure TX&RX coils resistances and inductances?