Bandido questions

[tvr]

Reading the discussion about ED 120 and ED 180 on Gunnar's "Sand lot test with Golden uMax" thread and the note about the Euro Sabre going to a new home has me wondering about the Bandidos.

I see more Bandidos come up for sale than EuroSabres and was wondering how the Bandido and Bandido II fit into the discriminator range (120, 180 or in between)?

I see manuals on the Tesoro web page for both uMax and non-uMax versions of both Bandido and Bandido II ... but not much information about differences.

Any and all insight is much appreciated!
tvr

 

[Monte]

There are other differences, but the primary things that make them differ are as follows:

Bandido (original) has a 10-turn manual Ground Balance, an adjustment knob that directly adjusts the Threshold trimmer on the circuit board, and the All Metal mode has a very functional auto-tune speed. It is powered by 2-9V batteries (can run on 1 for a while) and came with an 8" coil. It works quite well in very dense iron trash sites.

The Bandido II is similar to the original Bandido except it has an additional toggle to select either a very fast auto-tune speed, or manual re-tune.

The Bandido

 

[tvr]

Thank you very much Monte!