jorge del norte said:
I use one, paid 200 bucks for it from a nice guy on TNET. I believe the Conquistador was discontinued for the Cibola.......pin point is different........I love mine and will never part with it.....It is very much like the Silver UMAX, it discriminates great........light, easy on the batteries........and mine goes pretty deep too.
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The Conquistador mMax (not uMax) is still being sold new (in stock yet).
http://www.metaldetector.cc/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=26
There are some minor differences between the Conquistador mMax and Conquistador uMax (most recent model).
The Silver uMax, on the other hand, lacks the ability to adjust the threshold and has a coil that's a couple inches shallower than the web coil on the Conquistadors. That concentric web coil Tesoro makes is a winner and Tesoro knows it. The last time I chatted with Mr. Gifford he mentioned that Tesoro was thinking seriously about designing a 12x10 concentric coil for the "HOT" machines. Trust me, that 12x10 is one awesome coil and Tesoro knows that also.
The DD coils have serious problems. They're great for some areas but bad for super trashy sites. Loads of great finds are being missed by DD coils due to target masking. They cover more ground area but lose a lot of depth in the process. And too, the DD is not as good as a concentric coil when it comes to target separation in extreme trashy areas.
The stock concentric coil on the Silver is great for coins down to about 5-6 inches. The web concentric coil on the Conquistador is good for coins down to about 8-9 inches (the same as the DeLeon).
Put a web coil on the Silver and it would be the same as the Conquistador. All Tesoros get close to the same depth if fitted with the same coil. The thing that separates them is adjustable ground balance such as the Tejon. But this is only a possible advantage in bad soil. And too, the whole discussion about preset ground balance and adjustable is much more complex than is usually presented on forums.
I've written that a preset is basically an adjustable ground balance detector without a knob. That's really an extreme oversimplification and is partly true at best. But really it's much more complex than that with many variables. I'll leave the explanation of that to those who didn't skip as many classes as I did in school.
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