Compadre Sensitivity Adjustment Worth It?

[berryman]

I've read a number of posts on this forum written by Compadre owners who claimed that they were able to improve the performance of their detectors by tweaking the sensitivity pot inside the control box. I'm wondering how much performance was actually improved by making this adjustment. Was the improvement major or minor? Were there cases where tweaking the sensitivity pot resulted in degraded performance, such that owners readjusted the sensitivity pot to the original factory setting?

 

[SkiWhiz]

On all of the Compadre's that I have had I turned the internal sensitivity up until it chattered then backed it off just a tad to where the chatter quit, it made them hotter in my opinion.

 

[REVIER]

On all of the Compadre's that I have had I turned the internal sensitivity up until it chattered then backed it off just a tad to where the chatter quit, it made them hotter in my opinion.

I have one that SkiWhz turned up and he was foolish enough to let get away.
It is the 7" coil model, goes pretty deep if I need to and it is hotter than hot.
I can't get within one foot of tot lot metal, fence posts or bench legs without it going off, but it still manages to double beep on any targets near, next to or even leaning on big metal like that easily and effortlessly.
I would never own a Compadre that was set up any other way.

 

[kaolinwasher]

I left mine alone and it is doing just fine, , and the internal GB seems to be set just right as well , When I had the 5,75 compadre I turned up the sens and it made a difference on depth ,

 

[BarberBill]

I have the 7" model with the sensitivity turned up to where it's almost chattery. It did make enough difference that I fell it was worth it.
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[Ptrevino97]

I have one with the 8 inch coil. I added both an external sens pot and a ground balance pot and must say that both were worth it. Made a big difference in my opinion.

 

[CaptEsteban]

I have one with the 7" coil & have thought about doing that to it. BUT, it is a winner as it is. Any pictures on what to adjust & how to do it ?

 

[Tajue17]

same here except I bought mine used and it was chattery when I got it so someone explained about going inside and adjusting it and it kind of super tuned it,,maybe gain and inch or two but curious if anyone can do a test using a stock compadre vs the same compade then tweaked to see what the gain is

 

[tvr]

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?22,875409,906955#msg-906955

Link is to where I posted the results I got in a couple of air tests before and after increasing the sensitivity. I've found that when the sensitivity is set to chatter a little with the coil in the air, it quiets down when the coil is near the ground searching for targets. If it is a little chatty when searching, when the coil gets over metal it quiets down and locks on the target.

Cheers,
tvr

 

[slingshot]

I actually turned my down some and don't see too much difference. I just have to pay attention to the soft hits.

 

[Skillet]

I recently modded my 'padre into a diving rig; (short rod, guts installed in an "Otterbox" and submersible headphones added)

BTW, this rig is hot on tiny charms (5.75 coil on mine)

Just tweaked theVR4 pot... It added an extra inch, on most targets, it's damn near as deep as my Tiger Shark, and uses only 1 9v!

I'll try it in the lake tomorrow. Tesoro really should make a water machine based on this platform. It hits jewelry hard!

Skillet

 

[Ace350]

I turned up mine and got an extra 1" of depth out of it..

 

[machineman]

I put an external sens on mine. I'm not sure about the depth change but it allows me to de tune it when near powerlines and such. Also works in the wet sand, not too deep but fairly smooth.

 

[Hotwire]

machineman..........When you say it works in the the wet sand is that salt or fresh wet sand?

 

[machineman]

Amazingly it works on wet salt sand. Both my compadres do. You do get som falsing but they aremuch smoother than my outalw or the conq I used to have.