Instruction manual
The two design teams then combine resources to assess the prototype coils:
• Manufacturing multiple prototype coils
• Testing and revising electronic specications
• Mechanical testing, including:
- Temperature stability cycle testing
- Cable stretching and bend testing
- Rubbing, vibration and impact testing
- Accelerated aging and salt spray testing
• Field testing second prototypes using internal and external eld testers from around the world
• Finalizing specications and drawings
57Understanding your X-TERRA - Coils
That is not the end of the process! Minelab’s
manufacturing team then get involved with
building prototypes using nal o tool parts and
then ALL of the engineering tests are repeated to
conrm the design.