Compadre Is King

[Sven]

I lucked upon a really nice hot Compadre last winter for parts as the owner said it was working the year before. Wouldn't turn on when he put a new battery in. Took the gamble and bought it cheap.
Well, when you put a battery with the wrong contacts touching those in the detector, its not going to work. At home, popped in a new 9 volt---Bingo---it was alive and well.
Decided to give it a mod. Dual disc, external sensitivity, fixed and manual ground balance. What always made the Compadre a killer machine was the ED180 discrimination circuit.
The dual disc controls works great.

 

[C.J.M.]

This past June I went into a sand competition. Both my wife and I were using Tesoro Compadre's. I use the one with the 8" coil and my wife uses the one with the 5.75" coil.
The event was sponsored by Nokta. I only saw one other person using a Tesoro. Everyone else had Minelab Equinox 800's, Manticore's, Simplex's, Legends and Deus 2.
While everyone was looking at there screens on whether to scoop or not or adjusting there menu's, I probably just scooped five times more.
The picture shows all the coins we found in the sand and the prizes we had won above. There were these brass foreign coins with a different color on them for a different prize.
My prizes are on the left and my wife's are on the right.

TESORO PLEASE COME BACK .

 

[Dirtdigger33]

The Compadres are amazing. I have had my 5.75" one for 14 years now and it has found me so many amazing things and I have used it many hours. I recently purchased one with a 7" coil for $80, and it has found me a good amount of coins. I will not part with either one of them and if I find another Compadre at a decent price I would probably pick up a third one. I want to always have a working Compadre. They are my go to detectors especially since I have limited hours to go detecting right now. Thank you for sharing your post synthnut about your brother. It sounds like he enjoyed detecting and life very much. I enjoy every minute I get to to be out detecting. Your post is a reminder to enjoy every minute of life we have with family and the things we love doing.

 

[MuddyMo]

I had all 4 of the big name 1 knob detectors; whites, Garrett, Tesoro and Fisher. My 2 Compadres had the 7” coils and were my 2nd favorite but I believe the Fisher 1212Xs are better based on my priorities. They all had pros and cons and I should of wrote them down as I cannot remember them.
I know what dirtdigger means when he’s thinking about getting a third one, I have 3 1212Xs..

 

[tab-nabit]

Compadres are amazing little machines!

You got that right - I would never let my Compadre go. Simplistic, light weight and just flat out works.

 

[Odanscoils]

I lucked upon a really nice hot Compadre last winter for parts as the owner said it was working the year before. Wouldn't turn on when he put a new battery in. Took the gamble and bought it cheap.
Well, when you put a battery with the wrong contacts touching those in the detector, its not going to work. At home, popped in a new 9 volt---Bingo---it was alive and well.
Decided to give it a mod. Dual disc, external sensitivity, fixed and manual ground balance. What always made the Compadre a killer machine was the ED180 discrimination circuit.
The dual disc controls works great.
View attachment 58599

Now there's some mods I'd Love to do.
Have any diagrams ?
Parts list ?
Now I need another Compadre.
Not gonna bust open this mint one I have.
GB at a minimum. And coil plug mod.
Volume and sens would be nice to.

 

[Odanscoils]

I lucked upon a really nice hot Compadre last winter for parts as the owner said it was working the year before. Wouldn't turn on when he put a new battery in. Took the gamble and bought it cheap.
Well, when you put a battery with the wrong contacts touching those in the detector, its not going to work. At home, popped in a new 9 volt---Bingo---it was alive and well.
Decided to give it a mod. Dual disc, external sensitivity, fixed and manual ground balance. What always made the Compadre a killer machine was the ED180 discrimination circuit.
The dual disc controls works great.
View attachment 58599

Do you have any Mods for the Mojave ??
Though every coil I've put on it seems to work fine.
From the 5.75 to the CSC.
I feel an external GB could tune them in perfectly.

 

[Odanscoils]

I lucked upon a really nice hot Compadre last winter for parts as the owner said it was working the year before. Wouldn't turn on when he put a new battery in. Took the gamble and bought it cheap.
Well, when you put a battery with the wrong contacts touching those in the detector, its not going to work. At home, popped in a new 9 volt---Bingo---it was alive and well.
Decided to give it a mod. Dual disc, external sensitivity, fixed and manual ground balance. What always made the Compadre a killer machine was the ED180 discrimination circuit.
The dual disc controls works great.
View attachment 58599

Vito
Could you please share those mods with me ???
At least the GB, Sens and Volume control.
Schematics and parts list would be Awesome !!
I have a full electronics lab.
Though mostly still boxed up from the move.
No room to set it all up.
I guess I'm saying I'm fully capable of doing the work.

A GB dual mod on the Mojave would be greatly appreciated ...

 

[vito]

Vito
Could you please share those mods with me ???
At least the GB, Sens and Volume control.
Schematics and parts list would be Awesome !!
I have a full electronics lab.
Though mostly still boxed up from the move.
No room to set it all up.
I guess I'm saying I'm fully capable of doing the work.

A GB dual mod on the Mojave would be greatly appreciated ...

Hi @Odanscoils . Think you mixed somethng up and this was adressed to @Sven .

 

[vito]

Vito
Could you please share those mods with me ???
At least the GB, Sens and Volume control.
Schematics and parts list would be Awesome !!
I have a full electronics lab.
Though mostly still boxed up from the move.
No room to set it all up.
I guess I'm saying I'm fully capable of doing the work.

A GB dual mod on the Mojave would be greatly appreciated ...

@Odanscoils : p.m. sent