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Heya all, I am getting ready to buy a compadre and need to know if the 8" coil is as sensitive as the 5.75" coil to small gold, I know from the forum that the larger coil gets better depth, but am I going to loose sensitivity to the small gold chains and such.
Also who would be good to buy from?
bkkd, I just got a new Compadre with the 8 " coil yesterday. I have been testing some small jewelry items like stud earrings and a small gold chain
and the 8 " coil is hitting the targets. The 5.75" coil may hit a little harder on the small stuff, but the bigger coil will hit them too. The small gold chain was hitting to about 3 inches
with the disc set as low as it would go. I think the extra coverage of the bigger coil is worth the difference for me, but I have a Tejon with a 5.75" coil so either way I have it covered..........HH
The key to any Compadre is to set the discrimination at the very lowest setting you can handle,once you start getting up around Foil your going to start losing the smaller gold items,not always but a very good chance of it.Now I have the 5.75 and depths in air tests really aren't that valid compared to what you will experience out in the real world of digging so take them only as an approximate depth.I have no experience with the 8" model so can't really tell you about that one only the 5.75 and it gets around 3" on small gold.HH
I played around with a borrowed one this past summer and did some testing.
Totally non scientific and indoors where I turned off my wifi but 5 other neighbors did not, and also some other EMI was affecting it, probably.
I also was not in the center of the coil on most of these passes but you can get an idea on what this thing will do on several objects under these conditions.
I was impressed on the stock sensitivity out of the factory.
If I owned this one I would have turned that sense up internally to the max.
Doing that and then testing outdoors away from interference I am sure the results would have been even better but this will give you an idea.
thank you all this is exactly what i was looking for
it looks like the sensitivity to small gold is there and the only thing i would be giving up is maybe target seperation in trash with the smaller coil versus the eight incher
I played around with a borrowed one this past summer and did some testing.
Totally non scientific and indoors where I turned off my wifi but 5 other neighbors did not, and also some other EMI was affecting it, probably.
I also was not in the center of the coil on most of these passes but you can get an idea on what this thing will do on several objects under these conditions.
I was impressed on the stock sensitivity out of the factory.
If I owned this one I would have turned that sense up internally to the max.
Doing that and then testing outdoors away from interference I am sure the results would have been even better but this will give you an idea.
