Compadre tweaks

[GA1dad]

After stewing on it a while, I finally opened up the older Compadre with 7 inch coil and tweaked the ground balance and sensitivity. Frankly, I didn't see an improvement in the test garden. It wouldn't sound off on a 6 inch dime before tweaks,, and it still won't. I noticed the sensitivity was within an eight turn from being maxed out to begin with. To confirm I was going the correct way, I turned it the other way until it wouldn't see the 4 inch dime either.

As for the ground balance, I was applying the "power balance" principal. I raised the discrimination just above all metal to where you hear the slightest chirp in the threshold audio, which I believe indicate the change from all metal to discrim mode. In my ground it was a little positive to begin with, and is slightly negative now. I'm gonna leave it there and hunt with it an see if I notice anything different.

I marked it real well, and will be able to return it to where it was, no problem.

 

[GA1dad]

Took it out for an hour after work to a "hunted out park". It was slightly chippy. With the Jolly Rogers and the tweaks, I did feel like the pull tabs sounded more raspy. Sadly I didn't swing over hardly anything good to compare signals too. I'm gonna leave it be for now and see what happens. I did however dig up this hypodermic point. Luckily I saw a glint of "silver" before I plunged my paw into the hole.

 

[jld66]

Keep that needle in your pouch. Show it to someone who complains about detecting in the parks, on the beach, or anywhere else. You know, those few.

 

[GA1dad]

That's a good idea.

 

[slingshot]

I would encourage anyone tweaking the Compadre to mark the factory setting! I didn't notice that much difference either and I struggled to get it back and finally set it positive and backed off from there to smooth out the audio. The only tweaking I would recommend is sensitivity if not satisfied. I actually LOWERED mine to just below chirping as I really enjoyed the quietness until over a target. I really didn't notice that much depth loss. And use a plastic TV tuner and gently turn.

 

[GA1dad]

Agreed,, that little potentiometer is pretty small and requires a light touch. Though I did clearly feel it's stopping point.

I hunted with it again today for a bit. No real difference to speak of. It's kinda funny, you see lots of posts talking about doing the tweaking, but you really don't read much about the performance afterwards. I may go back and turn the sensitivity down a bit and try that too. I will probably go back and return everything to where it was originally when it's all said and done. But I had to at least try it.

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

Worth a try if you're comfortable playing around in there. look forward to hearing the results!!