Can a TeJon be supertuned...

[Dan-Pa.]

I have a hot TeJon which is equal in depth to silver coins and deeper on nickles than my CZ...

I know some of the older Tesoro's could be supertuned due to the internal wiring and was wondering could I get even more depth out of my TeJon.
Monte are you out there and course all welcome to chime in...thanks, Dan

 

[Sven]

I really don't think you can do anything to tune the Tejon any hotter otherwise Keith would have done it.
I believe there are two trimmers on the board, disc bias and ?
What it boils down to is component parts that were used met min parts tolerances and had no issues. Maybe they
used better components inside from a different supplier. And maybe the coil was better made. You just happened to get
a detector where everything matches in the build plays nicely with each other.
Take note of the serial number, maybe others that were built in the same batch are also hot.
Keith's detectors always seem to be hot and then again he has a dealer friend like I had many moons ago where you could cherry pick
the inventory for the best unit.

Funny thing is now that "hot" means a special detector, makes it sound like all the rest of the Tejons are not built to the highest potential they could be.
Keith mentioned that he felt the newer Tejons built after the Outlaw came out are of better performance tha earlier versions. So if this is correct, you sure would want to
know current serial number of the one your buying..............does this then devalue the older Tejons?

Knowing this Dan, you should have no problems selling your Tejon, since it is hot. I even thought about buying yours, tempting, but, I just bought a red hot 1994 Discovery Treasure Baron that's shockingly deep using a 5.5" coil. With the 8" equals or surpasses the Tejons I had. Would be interesting if NASA Tom spec'd up your CZ........You now seem to have to excellent detectors that would compliment each other, worth hanging onto. Hunt a site with one, then come back with the other.... I am amazed how well some high end detectors perform so you felt you did a bang up job of cleaning out a site, there can't be anything left. So you get another detector and go over the same identical spots and find just as much...thinking it can't be. I have a schoolyard here that I have spend hundreds of hours going over and over again with different detectors Tesoros, Fishers, Teknetics, DP and my PI and felt fairly confident not much remains. The Baron proved me wrong, don't understand the hundreds of coins that I have found in the same area that the others missed at the same depths. Just picked up an Xterra 70, going back across the street to the school and see what else is out there.

Looking forward to seeing your Tejon finds if you hang onto it.

 

[MarkCZ]

No! but it can be "Power Balanced" which as I understand it is a way to balance it in discrimination mode. At this point I've only got the jest of it so before I could instruct anyone on it I would need to do more research. I know my brother Ron has been using it (forum member WV62) Or do some research on "Power Balance"

If this is your first Tejon you will find out that its a HOT detector, and VERY sensitive. It is amazing on how tiny of stuff it will hit on, stuff so small that the Pro-Pointer won't pick it up unless you touch it with it.

In the Tesoro tour video they state that most detectors have a gain of 10,000-X but the Tejon's gain is 1,000,000-X.

My Tejon seems to run pretty deep on coins even with the sensitivity at only half.

The trick with the Tejon is the tiny stuff, you will dig a plug and the pin-pointer won't detect anything in the hole or the plug, so you think the target is deeper! it could be, but a good bit of the times it will be a buck shot (or other tiny target) somewhere in the plug so you have to use the detector and check the plug. The tiny targets I've found has always have always been higher conductive metals and not iron targets.

Mark

 

[tvr]

Dan,
Both the Cibola and Tejon that I have air test deeper on nickles than they do quarters. What I find hunting with them kind of follows the air test results.

Super tuning means turning the threshold up, in the discrimination mode, to get added detection depth. The Cibola super tunes, the Tejon does not.

Tejon will hit on thin chains that the CZ ignores; but that also means detecting more small trash, like MarkCZ mentions.

In my experience, Tejon is deep in fairly mild ground. As the ground gets more mineralized, the Tejon eventually looses more depth than the CZ does.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[Dan-Pa.]

For those turning up the threshold on Tesoro's that are wired to be supertuned be careful as when you go to pinpoint it will blow your ears off.

Everyone knows tough to beat a Tesoro on micro jewelry for sure.

And yep TeJons pick up bb like object that other units won't touch and go deeper in the lower ranges which make them both coin and relic units depending what you are looking for...