coil compatibility for an old workhorse?

[kimbershot]

happy new year to all!

i'm dusting off my old workhorse silver sabre 2 with 8 inch concentric coil and i am curious if some of the newer tesaro coils are compatible. i want to do more relic hunting in my newly adopted state of sc. tried emailing tesaro service with my question and-no response so far, so any help would be appreciated.

 

[BarberBill]

All the 5pin umax coils should work.
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[richbat]

Only concern I might have using other coils on your Sabre 2 is and don't quote me on this but, wouldn't you have to have any coils being used other than the original calibrated to the machine for best performance?

 

[kimbershot]

compatibility is my concern. i will call tesaro techs to see if i can get a clarification.

 

[Hombre]

Only concern I might have using other coils on your Sabre 2 is and don't quote me on this but, wouldn't you have to have any coils being used other than the original calibrated to the machine for best performance?

Having the coil "calibrated" to the metal detector is a misunderstanding....the coil should be checked for proper "ground balance."

This is easy to do, just switch the mode to "all-metal" and see if it is close. I do this by finding a clean piece of ground with no metal buried in it, with the detector

set up in all-metal with a slight threshold hum, lower coil to the ground, the threshold should remain the same steady hum.

The Silver Saber ll has an internaly adjustable ground balance trimmer/pot and should be approached with some caution.

I can not tell you how to do this on the Silver Saber ll because I do not have one but there are several on this forum that have done this.

I have the Bandido with the manual adjustable ground balance and I can adjust it to use any of the 5 pin coils.

One last point, the 8" concentric coil that comes stock on the Silver Saber ll is the coil I use the most, it does everything well.