[Louis Kriedemann]

I waited 3 weeks for mine
send Andy a mail and ask him what is happening

[Paul van Heerden]

Yup. I also had to wait about 3 weeks. After about two weeks I mailed Andy, and he said that it is on its way. If you need some help when you get it, that are several guys here, especially luuk that can help you out

[Tony Curnick]

Mine arrived in 5 days, It took an hour to put together and 3 seconds to blow it up!!!

[Paul van Heerden]

Mine arrived in 5 days, It took an hour to put together and 3 seconds to blow it up!!!

And how did you do that?

[jasoncpt]

Cool thanks , I'll mail him again.... Can't wait to get started , might need your help luuk when it's time for testing and tuning.

[Tony Curnick]

Howdy Landuse....Ok it actually took about two hours to solder the board.And in two hours you can drink a lot of beer!!!.And after a lot of beer the positive an negative terminals look the same!!!!

[Paul van Heerden]

Howdy Landuse....Ok it actually took about two hours to solder the board.And in two hours you can drink a lot of beer!!!.And after a lot of beer the positive an negative terminals look the same!!!!

I also had mine swapped around, but I think I got lucky and didn't fry mine

[jasoncpt]

My kits have been sent over a week ago so they are on their way, I was able to get 0.3 copper wire .... Would that do ? Not too sure what is the best way to go about building a coil and what type of coil ?

[Paul van Heerden]

My kits have been sent over a week ago so they are on their way, I was able to get 0.3 copper wire .... Would that do ? Not too sure what is the best way to go about building a coil and what type of coil ?

A plain mono coil is all that is needed for your pi detector. There are coil calculators out there to determine the number of windings for different thicknesses of wire to get the required inductance. Message me your email address and I will send one to you that luuk gave me

[Louis Kriedemann]

Jason, the .3 wire is too thin for a mono coil. the resistance on the wire will be far too high
you need to get some .45 or .50
get in touch with Chrichri....he will be coming up to my place one of these days to build coils for his pi's
maybe you can come with him

[jasoncpt]

That's luuk ....

Well guys I got my kit it the mail , I'm stuck on the last few caps .... Not too sure on how to read the numbers and match to parts list .... I have also added pictures of the whole board if you spot anything that looks wrong please give me a heads up .

Thanks in advance 😊

http://treasurehunters.co.za/forums/index.php?pretty;action=gallery&su=user;cat=6;u=399

[jasoncpt]

Meant to say thanks luuk

[Louis Kriedemann]

the caps marked 0.1 are 100nF caps and go in C3 C4 C8 C16 C18
the caps marked 100- are 1nF caps and go in C9 C10 C11 and C12

[jasoncpt]

Thank you luuk , iv put everything together , will try get .4 wire this weekend for the coil and will be doing tests as adviced here

[Louis Kriedemann]

Jason, see if you can get .45 or .5 wire.  It will have a lower resistance.