jorge del norte
Bronze Member
- Dec 22, 2005
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- Nokta Simplex - Tesoro Conquistador Umax
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
--------FIRST MOD AT OWN RISK, DON'T POST ABOUT SCREWING UP YOUR WARRANTY, THIS IS FOR PEOPLE THAT DON'T CARE ABOUT WARRANTY,REPEAT--------"DON'T CARE"--------
(I have hunted for this information for a good while, this is what I have found)
LINK: http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-bin/tesoro/tesoro_config.pl?read=50289
Adding manual ground balance to the Golden µMax isn't hard. It requires a 50 K potentiometer, preferably 10 turn, and anyone who is really good using a soldering iron can do it. All you have to do is desolder the 3 trimmer pot legs from the board and solder wires in their place long enough to reach the 50 K pot you're putting in. Finding a place to mount the new pot is probably the hardest part. When you take the face plate loose and pull it up the ground balance trimmer is in the middle of the board, it's the one inside the red circle in the pic below. The other blue trimmer pot lower to the right adjusts the tonal range up and down the disc scale and affects the notch settings. I can't see well enough, and my hands are too arthritic, to do it any more so now when I want something like that done I get the electronic technicians at the place I work to do it, Getting old sucks
. Joe Bolton, who I believe posts here as TXJB, and Paul Palomo who posts on other forums as Paul(CA)and Old California, both were adding manual ground balance to some Tesoro's for a reasonable price so if you don't think you can do it maybe you can get one of them to do it for you.
(I have hunted for this information for a good while, this is what I have found)
LINK: http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-bin/tesoro/tesoro_config.pl?read=50289
Adding manual ground balance to the Golden µMax isn't hard. It requires a 50 K potentiometer, preferably 10 turn, and anyone who is really good using a soldering iron can do it. All you have to do is desolder the 3 trimmer pot legs from the board and solder wires in their place long enough to reach the 50 K pot you're putting in. Finding a place to mount the new pot is probably the hardest part. When you take the face plate loose and pull it up the ground balance trimmer is in the middle of the board, it's the one inside the red circle in the pic below. The other blue trimmer pot lower to the right adjusts the tonal range up and down the disc scale and affects the notch settings. I can't see well enough, and my hands are too arthritic, to do it any more so now when I want something like that done I get the electronic technicians at the place I work to do it, Getting old sucks
. Joe Bolton, who I believe posts here as TXJB, and Paul Palomo who posts on other forums as Paul(CA)and Old California, both were adding manual ground balance to some Tesoro's for a reasonable price so if you don't think you can do it maybe you can get one of them to do it for you.
