THE Compadre

[After-1-]

I was reading how good this very little money out of pocket machine is. Poster were finding keepers that the big boys missed and I don't recall reading anything about EMI interference. ----All this reading was not on this forum -- Would you say that it was (is) the best money spent on a detector,if you own one????- I'm looking at the 8'' coil---------------GH-----------------------after1-----------

 

[amberjack]

I would recommend one if you have mild ground and like digging it all looking for gold the Tesoro 12 kHz platform is hot on gold and the small coil . what emi

AJ

 

[ken ward]

In some places you can get EMI, but not very much. I have this Tot Lot I like to hunt. There are high intention power lines right over the top. On sertian days I will get some EMI. Not to much. As far as finding small gold Items. It can not be beat. The 8" coil will go a little deeper. I like the small coil. I can hunt slow and get inbetween the trash signals. It is one of them detectors you just can not put down. It is just fun to use because it does not have a bunch of buttons or knobs..

 

[slingshot]

There is a park and a school that SOME days gives interference to ALL my machines. Seems some surveillance cameras and security systems are in play. Don't know why it disappears for months, then returns. My Ace 250 w/4" sniper was the only one immune to it, but the larger coil would sound off.
Oddly, I could use the Compadre over 2/3 of the park, but the other third chirped repeatedly.

 

[REVIER]

I have had one since the end of 2010, used it at more sites than I can count in two different states, under power lines and everywhere else and can only remember one site where it was affected by EMI.
A tot lot in a tiny neighborhood park next to a huge transformer or something else electrical sitting on the ground about 15 yards away.
I also have my sense turned up to the max internally and at this site I had to turn it up to tabs to get it quiet but that worked fine.

In my mind you can't afford NOT to have one of these things in the arsenal, it is a blast to use and pays for itself very quickly.

It finds coins easily but for jewelry hunters a must have, it is the best chain sniffer I have ever held in my hands and it finds silver and gold like it was a religion with this thing even in heavy trash at just about any size or shape.
I found a point 3 gram super tiny ring surrounded by park trash once, all kinds of other jewelry and coins in the same conditions many times and in iron it is a dream.
It will find targets not just close to big metal like fence posts and tot lot equipment but literally leaning on these things like no other detector I know by listening for a unique double beep.

Some very accomplished coin and relic hunters that hunt iron infested sites like old fields also come back with one of these when there are no more signals to dig...and still find more.

Mine is an older 7" coil model and I tried an 8" coil version once but I still love mine more because I feel like it is slightly sharper on the disc, probably more than I would the small coil model I assume...but I wouldn't turn down a hunt standing behind any version.
Supposedly some of these 7" units are a little hotter and mine is still hyper sensitive but I still feel like it covers the ground efficiently in larger areas.
I can't say enough about this little wonder and even though I only use it sparingly when I do I have a ball and still find amazing things.
Mine paid for itself 10X's over in the clad and jewelry it found and it is still producing.
I used it in several seeded hunts and it won me hundreds of dollars in prizes.
For the price of a decent coil you get a whole detector...pound for pound there is nothing else as valuable on the market.

 

[Wolfdog]

What they said.I will not part with mine until they pry it from my hands.

 

[MI-AuAg]

In some places you can get EMI, but not very much. I have this Tot Lot I like to hunt. There are high intention power lines right over the top. On sertian days I will get some EMI. Not to much. As far as finding small gold Items. It can not be beat. The 8" coil will go a little deeper. I like the small coil. I can hunt slow and get inbetween the trash signals. It is one of them detectors you just can not put down. It is just fun to use because it does not have a bunch of buttons or knobs..

An excerpt from one of Dave Johnson's essays. This one dealing with electrical interference, this paragraph specifically with overhead power lines.

"when working near overhead power lines, you'll often find that you get the best results right under the power line, and the worst results at about a 30 to 45 degree angle away from the power lines. When you read reports of people bragging that their metal detector worked great right under power lines, this is often the situation. The person doing the bragging often couldn't get out from under the power lines because of weeds, right-of-way fences, etc. and so many have been unaware they didn't have a magic metal detector in their hands."

I experienced the very thing he speaks of. Detector worked great right under the power line, I was amazed. When I was at an angle from it, it started getting sparky.

 

[amberjack]

In some places you can get EMI, but not very much. I have this Tot Lot I like to hunt. There are high intention power lines right over the top. On sertian days I will get some EMI. Not to much. As far as finding small gold Items. It can not be beat. The 8" coil will go a little deeper. I like the small coil. I can hunt slow and get inbetween the trash signals. It is one of them detectors you just can not put down. It is just fun to use because it does not have a bunch of buttons or knobs..

An excerpt from one of Dave Johnson's essays. This one dealing with electrical interference, this paragraph specifically with overhead power lines.

"when working near overhead power lines, you'll often find that you get the best results right under the power line, and the worst results at about a 30 to 45 degree angle away from the power lines. When you read reports of people bragging that their metal detector worked great right under power lines, this is often the situation. The person doing the bragging often couldn't get out from under the power lines because of weeds, right-of-way fences, etc. and so many have been unaware they didn't have a magic metal detector in their hands."

I experienced the very thing he speaks of. Detector worked great right under the power line, I was amazed. When I was at an angle from it, it started getting sparky.

I agree also and even when not under them walk parallel with them it does help.

AJ

 

[After-1-]

Thanks for all the reason to have a Compadre-------The reading that was done on the machine ,everyone that had a 7'' coil all thought it has a little more than the 8''--------Also did read post that if they wanted to find jewelry, Take the Compadre for a spin-----Good Post Guys -----Ok----- HH-----------------------after1---------------Thx--------------

 

[slingshot]

I have had one since the end of 2010, used it at more sites than I can count in two different states, under power lines and everywhere else and can only remember one site where it was affected by EMI.
A tot lot in a tiny neighborhood park next to a huge transformer or something else electrical sitting on the ground about 15 yards away.
I also have my sense turned up to the max internally and at this site I had to turn it up to tabs to get it quiet but that worked fine.

In my mind you can't afford NOT to have one of these things in the arsenal, it is a blast to use and pays for itself very quickly.

It finds coins easily but for jewelry hunters a must have, it is the best chain sniffer I have ever held in my hands and it finds silver and gold like it was a religion with this thing even in heavy trash at just about any size or shape.
I found a point 3 gram super tiny ring surrounded by park trash once, all kinds of other jewelry and coins in the same conditions many times and in iron it is a dream.
It will find targets not just close to big metal like fence posts and tot lot equipment but literally leaning on these things like no other detector I know by listening for a unique double beep.

Some very accomplished coin and relic hunters that hunt iron infested sites like old fields also come back with one of these when there are no more signals to dig...and still find more.

Mine is an older 7" coil model and I tried an 8" coil version once but I still love mine more because I feel like it is slightly sharper on the disc, probably more than I would the small coil model I assume...but I wouldn't turn down a hunt standing behind any version.
Supposedly some of these 7" units are a little hotter and mine is still hyper sensitive but I still feel like it covers the ground efficiently in larger areas.
I can't say enough about this little wonder and even though I only use it sparingly when I do I have a ball and still find amazing things.
Mine paid for itself 10X's over in the clad and jewelry it found and it is still producing.
I used it in several seeded hunts and it won me hundreds of dollars in prizes.
For the price of a decent coil you get a whole detector...pound for pound there is nothing else as valuable on the market.

You could,start some kind of movement- sorta like a church.

 

[Mega]

I own a Compadre and also the 8'' Concentric,7''WS and Concentric and 4'' Concentric coils,its just been sat here in the corner gathering dust,never use it,maybe the odd occasion for fresh water ford/river crossing but apart from that its a door stop,its nice and light and simple to operate,but it will be gathering dust for possibly another 12 months it just does not get used as i mainly do deep pasture or ploughed and rolled so depth is the important thing for me.

The Compadre is a great 'Tots lot' or parks detector as i understand it,but for my deep pasture sites then they are about as much use as a 'inflatable dartboard' lol

 

[amberjack]

yeah not a depth demon that's for sure, but good modern shallow park hunter.

AJ

 

[Mega]

yeah not a depth demon that's for sure, but good modern shallow park hunter.

AJ

I totally agree with you its great at what it can do,but for the most part detecting in parks and most sites like that are out of bounds as the local authority always use the trump card of health and safety or the other bizarre comment they use that that some will allow detecting but no digging,what use is that ?? hence that is why almost all our detecting is done on farmland or beaches which are the better options that say a park anyway which would only tend too yield modern coinage and finds and of course loads of modern trash.

 

[amberjack]

see the people on the beach in Rio that would be an interesting detect.

so what happens if you go detecting in a park Mega?

AJ

 

[Mega]

see the people on the beach in Rio that would be an interesting detect.

so what happens if you go detecting in a park Mega?

AJ

AJ,as i have never ever detected in a park i cannot say for sure what would happen,but i am assuming some member of the public would get on the blower to the boys in blue lol and report you for being a naughty boy,a little motor with a blue flashing light would roll up and correct your wrongs

 

[amberjack]

yeah mobile ph's hey no one is safe, been drug out of a park by the boys & girl in blue I didn't go peaceful either , I asked them if they had a real crime to be at they said yes , I then asked them if they seen me detecting without some dill ringing them would they stop and escort me out of the park they said NO.

I have had cop cars pull up ask me if I have found much I just smile and say rubbish mostly and they say have fun and go.

its the public that are the problem and so yeah less eyes on me the better most of my detecting is done at night or I could go live in the US and wear a pistol on my belt sure could have put down a few walking dead around here I can say just quietly.

so really I want to sell my list and head bush to find the real treasure and pretty sure I can carry a shot gun under my seat for the snakes

so yep you are lucky out there in the paddocks away from the walking dead I will get out there after billion year out stuff asap

AJ

 

[slingshot]

I was at a park under a swing that I and others have detected for 30+ years. It just came to my mind to set the Compadre to just reject the iron flakes in the bad ground. I found not one but three nickels at approximately 3"- they were a dark red color. I know what you're saying about it not being a depth monster, but raw power is just part of the depth equation.

 

[finnfoto]

By far one of the most fun and decent detectors on the market. also one of the easiest to modify into a set of headphones as well.

 

[JJdigs]

Max depth for me was 6 to 7 inches with the 8" dounut coil at some cellar holes... the signal was choppy but to me it said dig.. got some nice colonial buttons. I love it at parks, one of my favorite park machines for sure !

 

[C.J.M.]

WOW---What a work horse worth every penny