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tesoro mod
- Thread starter fg121798
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Isolating tabs from nice gold jewelry is pretty tough. The picture is of ID number readings with a target ID detector that has pretty consistent, stable ID values across a fairly wide set of soil conditions. If I take the tab that reads 33 and bend it a little, it reads 29. If I take the pull tab and unwind the tab from the ring, straighten it and bend it 90 degrees to the ring, it reads 42 (those rings at IDs of 29 and 42 are two pretty expensive rings with good melt value in the gold).
In spite of having a good target ID detector in the arsenal, I still pull more gold with the Tejon or Cibola working over the dirt digging everything between the low end of foil and just clicking on that pull tab that reads 45 to 46. The gold production probably has more to do with subtle mindsets and how I hunt with the different detectors ... but the Tejon certainly can produce and is pretty hot on the mid-range conductors (gold, lead and that dreaded small aluminum trash).
You could certainly set up a toggle switch (or two) to put a pot tuned to a nominal pull tab setting or an exclude / include combination to notch out the most likely pull tabs. I wouldn't recommend it. Tabs are just too close to good targets. Rather than adding switches and potentiometers to the Tejon, slight changes in the discriminator settings can help you tune to ID targets with the Tejon by listening to how cleanly a target is discriminated out or if it is still clicking on disc 2 and solid on disc 1. Keeping a couple of the variations of the pull tabs you dig for samples to use in set up can help.
The most promising modification discussion I saw for the Tejon was about slowing down the pin-point re-tune speed. It re-tunes pretty fast in pinpoint so you need to keep the coil in motion a little more than I like. The circuit and how to change it was never really fully reverse engineered to where a workable solution was available ... at least in what I read.
Enjoy your Tejon!
Cheers,
tvr
In spite of having a good target ID detector in the arsenal, I still pull more gold with the Tejon or Cibola working over the dirt digging everything between the low end of foil and just clicking on that pull tab that reads 45 to 46. The gold production probably has more to do with subtle mindsets and how I hunt with the different detectors ... but the Tejon certainly can produce and is pretty hot on the mid-range conductors (gold, lead and that dreaded small aluminum trash).
You could certainly set up a toggle switch (or two) to put a pot tuned to a nominal pull tab setting or an exclude / include combination to notch out the most likely pull tabs. I wouldn't recommend it. Tabs are just too close to good targets. Rather than adding switches and potentiometers to the Tejon, slight changes in the discriminator settings can help you tune to ID targets with the Tejon by listening to how cleanly a target is discriminated out or if it is still clicking on disc 2 and solid on disc 1. Keeping a couple of the variations of the pull tabs you dig for samples to use in set up can help.
The most promising modification discussion I saw for the Tejon was about slowing down the pin-point re-tune speed. It re-tunes pretty fast in pinpoint so you need to keep the coil in motion a little more than I like. The circuit and how to change it was never really fully reverse engineered to where a workable solution was available ... at least in what I read.
Enjoy your Tejon!
Cheers,
tvr
Well I have the tejon from groundsman and it has that mod.
Unfortunately for me the coil cable has a break in it.
I just got it yesterday and set it up today.
I emailed him-anybody have and dealings with him.
I would like to get my money back-I have not even had it.
24 hrs.
This mod is a switch which you set disc 1 to where you just still read nickle then in disc 2 turn it until a zinc penny just starts ot break up.
if you get a signal and you flip the switch up and the signal goes out it is a nickle-if it stays then it is above a nickle and should be checked out in disc 2.
if it goes out it is a pulltab.
I can't get it to work with the good coil 5" coil just waiting to here from groundsman.
Unfortunately for me the coil cable has a break in it.
I just got it yesterday and set it up today.
I emailed him-anybody have and dealings with him.
I would like to get my money back-I have not even had it.
24 hrs.
This mod is a switch which you set disc 1 to where you just still read nickle then in disc 2 turn it until a zinc penny just starts ot break up.
if you get a signal and you flip the switch up and the signal goes out it is a nickle-if it stays then it is above a nickle and should be checked out in disc 2.
if it goes out it is a pulltab.
I can't get it to work with the good coil 5" coil just waiting to here from groundsman.
ok this mod works.
I can throw a nickle and a tab on the ground-this is with the small coil that works.
I will get a signal from the nickel and throw the switch up. the nickle drops out-means it is a nickle.
If I go over the tab and get a signal and throw the switch and it still sounds off the it is higher than a nickle and usually means a tab and you can disc it to find out.
it worked tens times straight with me but it is a little tricky setting it up but think of all the pull tabs I won't be digging.
Now I will be experimenting with nails if I can figure it out.
David
it works I will have to try it on a gold ring and let you know.
I can throw a nickle and a tab on the ground-this is with the small coil that works.
I will get a signal from the nickel and throw the switch up. the nickle drops out-means it is a nickle.
If I go over the tab and get a signal and throw the switch and it still sounds off the it is higher than a nickle and usually means a tab and you can disc it to find out.
it worked tens times straight with me but it is a little tricky setting it up but think of all the pull tabs I won't be digging.
Now I will be experimenting with nails if I can figure it out.
David
it works I will have to try it on a gold ring and let you know.
I have added a "tab check" to my Silver umax, and my favorite setting for the second disc set is still where the majority of tabs audibly break up-not just a "click:" but to the point where they're halfway accedpte-several tabs may have to be used to set this point. Then, when the switch is flipped and the sound goes silent, I know it's in the nickel range-when it breaks up, I know it's in the tab range, and whenever it still gives a good signal, I know it's in the coins range. HOWEVER, I don't use it that much because as previous posters said, ONE RING makes up for a whole lot of tabs.
yeah your right-it does bypass the rings-I tried it.
Groundsman is a good guy and is sending my moneyback when he receives the detector in the mail.
My hat is off to him. Well I am still struggling with all the detectors out there.
Vaquero or tejon for coins.
I know they say the vaquero has the edge for coins but that tejon with dual discriminators seems like you do have a better chance of picking out coins.
there are some nice deals in the forum. Which one HMMMmmmm. I think I will be asking that question for years to come.
David
Groundsman is a good guy and is sending my moneyback when he receives the detector in the mail.
My hat is off to him. Well I am still struggling with all the detectors out there.
Vaquero or tejon for coins.
I know they say the vaquero has the edge for coins but that tejon with dual discriminators seems like you do have a better chance of picking out coins.
there are some nice deals in the forum. Which one HMMMmmmm. I think I will be asking that question for years to come.
David