Vaquero info..

[Dan-Pa.]

For you fellows familiar with the unit supertuned give me an idea on approx. depth...PM's gladly accepted if you don't wish to reply to the forum...thanks, Dan

 

[lrsjr]

Here is an air test on my super-hot Vaquero:
9X8" coil
nickel 14"
dime 13"
penny 13"
58 cal mine 14"

With the 5.75" coil, these same targets all hit at 12".

My coin garden only has pennies at 6, 7, 8, & 9" and nickel at 10". The Vaquero hits them all. We have mild, sandy soil here, my F75 GB's at about 72.

PS-- The air test= disc mode with 0 disc. Thres. turned up all the way. Sens. maxed out.

 

[KVM2]

That's excellent..Air test silver dime, disc at iron, sens, at 10, threshold maxed, Ten turn set back to middle. a bit over 10 inches on a silver dime, quarter11.5 inches..Seemed to be another inch, to inch and a half, sensitivity maxed, but too much chatter...Is it possible to super tune a "V" and then do an air test? I've never tried it....Tried both phones and speaker, phones did not gain me any distance over the speaker.....

 

[atomicscott]

Here is an air test on my super-hot Vaquero:
9X8" coil
nickel 14"
dime 13"
penny 13"
58 cal mine 14"

With the 5.75" coil, these same targets all hit at 12".

My coin garden only has pennies at 6, 7, 8, & 9" and nickel at 10". The Vaquero hits them all. We have mild, sandy soil here, my F75 GB's at about 72.

PS-- The air test= disc mode with 0 disc. Thres. turned up all the way. Sens. maxed out.

Hahaha! Lucky you! Mine will air test 10" on quarter and 6-7" on dime, supertuned to the edge of chatter (about middle of red zone on sens, thresh maxed). If I max out sens I can hit 12"+ on quarter but it is unusable due to the excessive chatter, so I didn't even bother with a dime. This is with stock coil. With the 5.75 DD it's about 1/2-1" less. This is after being serviced by Tesoro. Can you actually hunt with the thresh and sens maxed out? If not, the max depth numbers are a nonpoint. Mine seems to love pennies, (lol) and I get better depth on a penny than a dime.

 

[KVM2]

I always try and hunt maxed...Some time back I was upset because my "V" could not hit a dime at 4 inches in soil.. One problem was that the connector was not tight..Now, figure this one.. The longer the coil is connected, the better my depth, or so it seems. When I was switching coils to make coil /depth/ air distance comparisons, my numbers were less than what I am getting now...This coil has been on some two to three months, and I am very pleased with the numbers that I got today..If I am on to something, there goes the 8 inch concentric coil I was going to buy,,,,,,and, I'll get a new "V" for my clean sweep coil.Maybe there is a migration of surface metal ions making a better connection..

 

[SpiritRelic]

Something else happened to your old air test.You forgot to supertune.Or extra emi.Different times of day can do this.Cell phone traffic.Some detectorist claim more depth at night because of atmosphere opens up with less emi noise. :O

 

[BarryL]

For you fellows familiar with the unit supertuned give me an idea on approx. depth...PM's gladly accepted if you don't wish to reply to the forum...thanks, Dan

Would like to hear real Depth from actual digs not Airtest Airtest are a Guess Meaning I am thinking of trading for one for three days Have been researching and reading pros and cons on the VAQ so for have read more cons than pros and most are from reputable people will not name names but also lots of PMs as well I live in North Texas and dont relic hunt and mainly a coin and tokens and such I have Tesoro units and know what they are capable of doing in my soil from actual use not airtest even though I have done airtest with a respected member of this forum and his machine and mine Being stock no mods other than design were so close its scary So what I am asking is the plain truth , nothing but the Truth Thanks

 

[DigDugNY]

For you fellows familiar with the unit supertuned give me an idea on approx. depth...PM's gladly accepted if you don't wish to reply to the forum...thanks, Dan

Would like to hear real Depth from actual digs not Airtest Airtest are a Guess Meaning I am thinking of trading for one for three days Have been researching and reading pros and cons on the VAQ so for have read more cons than pros and most are from reputable people will not name names but also lots of PMs as well I live in North Texas and dont relic hunt and mainly a coin and tokens and such I have Tesoro units and know what they are capable of doing in my soil from actual use not airtest even though I have done airtest with a respected member of this forum and his machine and mine Being stock no mods other than design were so close its scary So what I am asking is the plain truth , nothing but the Truth Thanks

more cons than pros? I'd like to know what these are

 

[BarryL]

poor depth and target seperation as well as tone seems to be the main con that I have been reading about . Now not saying that all soil conditions are the same cause they are not I guess what I should have said is let me hear from users in North Texas Soil post their findings on the machine . I am not downgrading It just would like to hear factual depth inn use not airtest I am an avid Tesoro User have no dought use the older models but want a newer modern Umax

 

[KVM2]

I don't think you can do an accurate soil depth comparison that would be valid...If you use the iron free, washed sand of Florida, and then went to highly iron loaded soil from Minnesota, there is no comparison that can apply...I thought about getting clean sand, a tumbler, and adding iron, then seeing how the target distance diminished with increasing iron percentages... It's like a halo experiment I did, where I had a halo 3 times the coin size, and the values were going down because the coin diameter was decreasing.. Eventually, I had no coin, no signal, and a large halo every body.... So, while you all say "Halo", I say electromagnetic field, but that is too much to spell, so "halo" it is....

 

[atomicscott]

I always try and hunt maxed...Some time back I was upset because my "V" could not hit a dime at 4 inches in soil.. One problem was that the connector was not tight..Now, figure this one.. The longer the coil is connected, the better my depth, or so it seems. When I was switching coils to make coil /depth/ air distance comparisons, my numbers were less than what I am getting now...This coil has been on some two to three months, and I am very pleased with the numbers that I got today..If I am on to something, there goes the 8 inch concentric coil I was going to buy,,,,,,and, I'll get a new "V" for my clean sweep coil.Maybe there is a migration of surface metal ions making a better connection..

Man that is real strange! I made sure to double check the coil connection today. Lol. I had a spot today where I was able to run the Vaq at full threshold and a hair past 10 on sensitivity. It seemed to run smooth as far as any EMI, although I had to crank disc way past tab to disc out modern tabs and I had constant popping clicking of targets trying to disc out. Iron the size of a quarter would not disc until well past tab mark. I was able to ignore the poor choppy signals and still find a few clad coins and a vintage copper ring. If the supertuning helped it wasn't noticeable on the items found today, they were all less than 5". There were some larger (presumably iron) targets that I gave up on, at 10+ ". I think I'm going back to this spot with the stock coil to see if there is anything I missed by an inch!