Does Tejon work well on salt water?

[sultan]

Dear Tesoro experts
I have the possibility to buy a second hand Tejon. It should replace my Cortes which I can`t use on the salt water, because the manual ground balance in all metal mode is not possible. I cannot balance out the salt water effects. I have read that the Tejon can be used on difficult ground like saltwater. Is that true? Does anybody of you has made good experiences with theTejon on the wet beach?
For the wet beach I bought a CS4PI, but it was very tiring to dig every small piece of rusty iron. This is the reason why I am looking for a another detector with discrimination mode. I know the Minelabs do run very well, but I would prefer a Tesoro cause of the lighter weight (Problems with my shoulder after 15 years of hunting...)
I have to make a fast decision, so I hope, you can help me!
Greetings from Switzerland
Christian

 

[tvr]

At the ocean beaches I've been to with the Tejon (US Atlantic ocean coast and Gulf of Mexico) I did best over the wet sand when I ground balanced to the dry sand and set the discrimination at mid-foil to discriminate out the wet salt conductivity. After set up over the dry sand, I'd walk to the wet areas. I was not able to get a lot of depth over the wet salt areas.

The Tejon would not ground balance to the wet salt; that is why I set it up over the dry area. In all metal, it would make too much noise to be useful for me, as it sounded off on the salt variation.

Tejon has excellent depth over the dry sand.

I go with a CZ6a or Sand Shark over the wet salt sand and use the Tejon with the clean sweep 3.6 x 18 inch coil over the dry sand.
tvr

 

[therover]

Chrisitan,

I hate to say it, but your PI will work MUCH BETTER than the Tejon in salt water. I tried my Tejon at several beaches here in NJ, and it worked very well in the dry sand, but I could not get near the wet sand. The machine would not ground balance and was falsing continuously. Even at higher discrimination settings. I felt there was no way I could find any gold with it due to how it was operating, and if I had to raise the discrimination level to settings where it would not find any gold, in order for it to be somewhat stable, what was the point.

Its a great dry sand unit, and it will find small gold there...but on the wet salt water sand...no way.

It really is not a detector made for that. The higher gain and frequency is a major disadvantage in the wet, salt sand. I think if you finally get the Tejon to calm down by lowering the sensitivity and upping the discrimination to run somewhat stable in the wet, salt sand, the unit would probably have lost 80% of it's detecting depth and sensitivity.

If Tesoro ever comes out with a dual frequency, 3 tone ID machine ( I don't need a screen ) with manual ground balance, in the same light weight control box, and the unit can use different coils, I would sell most of my other units. Just as long as it can run in wet, salt sand. Just imagine the Tejon with all the functions it has, but dual frequency and 3 tone ID ! WOW !

My 2 cents.

JC