Tesoros single tone

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I owned my Vaq and Compadre for over 1 year and swung them for nearly 100 hours each, so I learned to only rely on tones, not numbers. What you said makes perfect sense. However, no amount of tweaking the knobs, power balancing, supertuning, etc.. allowed me to get more than a faint, iffy blip on a 6" dime with a Vaquero in a (fresh) test garden. I dug many of these 'blips' in the field & not one was ever a dime, or deeper coin. I wonder what's in that book that would have made any difference?

old coins, Even silver has a halo, fresh gardens don't ...
Air tests have a similar problem...my Quattro air tests rather poorly compared to other detectors, but in actual practice performs quite well! I would like it better if it had manual ground balance instead of the manual noise limiter function...that is where I am seeing improvement with the Tejon...

 

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Not with a Mazak CNC. I have many years on both manual and CNC and any part with complex features I can produce 1st part quicker with the Mazak.

ok, I will give you that! I think you verified it with complex features...the kind of parts I made in school lacked complexity... For me the mazak was a nightmare gone bad...the simplicity of manual lathe is a work of art... It is easy to find a good used one... Many a person has gone broke buying a CNC that he cannot get parts for...

 

[atomicscott]

old coins, Even silver has a halo, fresh gardens don't ...
Air tests have a similar problem...my Quattro air tests rather poorly compared to other detectors, but in actual practice performs quite well! I would like it better if it had manual ground balance instead of the manual noise limiter function...that is where I am seeing improvement with the Tejon...

Yep exactly! that is why is I specified 'fresh' in the post. My other detectors would have a solid tone on same dime in the same 'fresh' test garden though, not a blip or one-way signal.

 

[Fletch88]

Yep exactly! that is why is I specified 'fresh' in the post. My other detectors would have a solid tone on same dime in the same 'fresh' test garden though, not a blip or one-way signal.

Scott, you may be ready to jump off the kool-aid wagon if you read this book!

 

[atomicscott]

Scott, you may be ready to jump off the kool-aid wagon if you read this book!

Not likely.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Not likely.

Ohhhh, be careful Scott! It is so easy to become a Tesoro Cult Member...

 

[Hot zone]

Ohhhh, be careful Scott! It is so easy to become a Tesoro Cult Member...

just how many Tesoro Detectectors does it take to be considered for cult membership Terry? I see you own a minelab, so apparently one off brand is acceptable if it is a minelab... if I don't yet qualify, I am well on my way... Go Tesoro!

 

[rainyday101]

Not likely.

Scott read the book. I see a Vaq in your near future! Don't worry the guys from the Minelab forum will never read this!

 

[atomicscott]

Scott read the book. I see a Vaq in your near future! Don't worry the guys from the Minelab forum will never read this!

Im moving forward in my hunting, not backward! Twisting knobs all day just don't do it for me anymore!

 

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Im moving forward in my hunting, not backward! Twisting knobs all day just don't do it for me anymore!

Sure we live in a digital world and think we need the latest and greatest gadget... It doesn't need to last because it will soon be replaced anyway... I am waiting to see a solar powered detector! The amount that it would add to the cost would exceed a lifetime if batteries! When I dropped my knife on the lens of my Quattro I knew I wanted no more so called high end ID machines!

 

[atomicscott]

Sure we live in a digital world and think we need the latest and greatest gadget... It doesn't need to last because it will soon be replaced anyway... I am waiting to see a solar powered detector! The amount that it would add to the cost would exceed a lifetime if batteries! When I dropped my knife on the lens of my Quattro I knew I wanted no more so called high end ID machines!

Hmmm. That sounds like it may have been user error by dropping a knife on the lens! Not many detectors would survive that one in good shape. My own mistakes would not dissuade me to buy a high end detector though. If I drop my strat, I won't buy only cheap guitars after that.

 

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Hmmm. That sounds like it may have been user error by dropping a knife on the lens! Not many detectors would survive that one in good shape. My own mistakes would not dissuade me to buy a high end detector though. If I drop my strat, I won't buy only cheap guitars after that.

sure it would have scratched the tesoro... Much more durable without lenses to protect... I prefer the guitar that I can put a few scratches on it with a guitar pick anyway!

 

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Today trying out my new widescan in an area that I gave up hunting with the Quattro after several attempts with the 5 inch coil because of all the square nails... I didn't dig but two bent nails, found clad and some interesting iron relics to help date the site.. A large champion C4 spark plug would have been used on a model a ford 4 cyl engine... The old shotgun shells dating 1911... Still no old coins but the Tejon is the bomb for old iron infested sites! The duel tone Quattro will be relegated to wall hanger!

 

[atomicscott]

sure it would have scratched the tesoro... Much more durable without lenses to protect... I prefer the guitar that I can put a few scratches on it with a guitar pick anyway!

Haha! Hey im gonna scratch it up regardless, right?

 

[NWMP]

Can they put 3 tones in one? Low-iron, medium-gold/nickel, and high-clad/silver. I'd order one today.

Isn't that the truth ! I did a search because I saw mention of a high toned Vaq. I thought, WOW, a two toner, finally some movement ! Then I realized what they were talking about and I drifted away again.

 

[roaddust66]

If you could find someone in your town that works on ham radio repair , they could probably change the pitch of the tone with a diode or something. Or a variable pitch like is on the the Tejon. The tone pitch control on the Tejon is probably a standard part at a electronics store. So would be a ground balance mod as well