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Took the Cibola out today for the first time.
A.Soil Conditions: Everything from redclay,slate,black dirt, all mixed with differing portions of iron ore.
B. Set the machine up as follows: Sensitivity-full CW,
Discriminate-full CCW, "push in big red button" and turn
threshold to just where it can be heard. Release PP and
turn sensitivity back to where it didn't chatter(actually
very little to achicve this)
1: Everything fit tight, almost too tight, no wobbling here
2: Very, very quiet under all conditions, even where there
was a lot of iron (Actually stuck my shovel under the coil a
couple of times to see if it was working)
3: Running the disc. at full CCW, get a target, bump the disc.
up to "iron" if it was still good, dig it. The discriminate
was "right on" every time.
4: While the Cibola ran quiet, when there was a target, it
banged in with a very loud response, no question about something
being under the coil.
5: Checked the ground balance with different soil conditions and
found that it was positive and the same regardless of the ground.
My conclusions: For a factory preset GB, Tesoro has it together on this machine. Under extreme circumstance, manual GB would help but I like the idea of not worrying about rebalancing ever
30-40 feet.
Handles iron as good as ANY machine that I have used, very quiet
even with the sensitivity wide-open.
Discriminate is the best that I have seen on any Tesoro machine that I have used which includes Lobo ST,2 Tejons,Bandito, Bandito II, Bandito II Umax, Conquestador,etc. Too, banging the coil against
roots or brush didn't result in an audio either.
For $340, Tesoro definitly is giving people their money worth.
Is it deep, we'll save that for another day. Best to all,
Richard
A.Soil Conditions: Everything from redclay,slate,black dirt, all mixed with differing portions of iron ore.
B. Set the machine up as follows: Sensitivity-full CW,
Discriminate-full CCW, "push in big red button" and turn
threshold to just where it can be heard. Release PP and
turn sensitivity back to where it didn't chatter(actually
very little to achicve this)
1: Everything fit tight, almost too tight, no wobbling here
2: Very, very quiet under all conditions, even where there
was a lot of iron (Actually stuck my shovel under the coil a
couple of times to see if it was working)
3: Running the disc. at full CCW, get a target, bump the disc.
up to "iron" if it was still good, dig it. The discriminate
was "right on" every time.
4: While the Cibola ran quiet, when there was a target, it
banged in with a very loud response, no question about something
being under the coil.
5: Checked the ground balance with different soil conditions and
found that it was positive and the same regardless of the ground.
My conclusions: For a factory preset GB, Tesoro has it together on this machine. Under extreme circumstance, manual GB would help but I like the idea of not worrying about rebalancing ever
30-40 feet.
Handles iron as good as ANY machine that I have used, very quiet
even with the sensitivity wide-open.
Discriminate is the best that I have seen on any Tesoro machine that I have used which includes Lobo ST,2 Tejons,Bandito, Bandito II, Bandito II Umax, Conquestador,etc. Too, banging the coil against
roots or brush didn't result in an audio either.
For $340, Tesoro definitly is giving people their money worth.
Is it deep, we'll save that for another day. Best to all,
Richard