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Compadre
- Thread starter BarryL
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Tico
Member
Barry
I've had a couple Compadres, don't remeber how they airtested but know they were a pleasure to use as all Tesoro's are.
If you think it's not performing up to snuff,
Send that bad boy in for a Tune Up , I bet they will squeeze some extra depth out of it.
I sent in my Cutlass II (Old Version) awhile back for a tune up and my coil was bad.
They tuned it up and put a new 7" coil on it.
Now it will airtest a clad dime at 9" and were talking about an old Cutlass II
With 8" brown donut it's getting 10. I have a hot one now!
Greatest service in the known World.
Good Luck and HH
Jerry
I've had a couple Compadres, don't remeber how they airtested but know they were a pleasure to use as all Tesoro's are.
If you think it's not performing up to snuff,
Send that bad boy in for a Tune Up , I bet they will squeeze some extra depth out of it.
I sent in my Cutlass II (Old Version) awhile back for a tune up and my coil was bad.
They tuned it up and put a new 7" coil on it.
Now it will airtest a clad dime at 9" and were talking about an old Cutlass II
With 8" brown donut it's getting 10. I have a hot one now!
Greatest service in the known World.
Good Luck and HH
Jerry
Southwind
Well-known member
I know a lot of people like to say I get 12" for my 6" coil or such things but the general thought, based on the science of the technology, a detector will get roughly the same depth as the coil size. Of course there can be exceptions based on conditions but that is the general rule. I've owned a lot of detectors and when all is said and done it has pretty much always held to be true. If I remember right a electronic technician that designed detector circuits stated that what regulates how high you can adjust the sensitivity of any detector is based on a balance of what a detector can handle before "saturation" happens. At that point you won't gain any depth just increase ground noise and actually lose depth. A detectors ability to handle ground conditions determines how close to the maximum depth/coil size depth it will get. A properly adjusted detector will get closer to that max depth, and incorrectly adjusted detector will get less.
The Compodre with a 5.7 coil should, all things being equal, get about 5.7" in depth. On DD style coils you average the sizes. I.E. a 8x11 would get roughly 10"
The Compodre with a 5.7 coil should, all things being equal, get about 5.7" in depth. On DD style coils you average the sizes. I.E. a 8x11 would get roughly 10"
Like many here, I don't usually put to much faith in air testing, or should I say, in house testing. I do it anyway just for sh*ts and giggles and boredom at times. As I'm doing this Monte nail board comparison though, I have realized some really interesting stuff about testing indoors vs outdoors. When you start comparing 3 machines and 7 different coils on a nail board and do it indoor than outdoor, you realize some very interesting results happen. All I can say is the ground plays a much bigger factor than I ever imagined. I can't say much until Monte posts all results though. Has anyone ever tried Monte's dirt clod test? How about the homestead rock test? That will get ya thinking that's for sure!
REVIER
Well-known member
I have the 7" coil model with the sense turned up internally to just about max.
I can find large cans a foot or more deep, coin sized objects and trash like tabs to at least 8" or more.
Solid signals on those deep smaller targets, too.
Most everything I find is usually 5" or less in depth so I am not concerned, and it goes further in the ground than in air testing, too, especially if the soil is moist.
I can find large cans a foot or more deep, coin sized objects and trash like tabs to at least 8" or more.
Solid signals on those deep smaller targets, too.
Most everything I find is usually 5" or less in depth so I am not concerned, and it goes further in the ground than in air testing, too, especially if the soil is moist.
Hey Rev, I may just get me a Compadre soon. I don't worry about depth, to me the most important factors are disc abilities and how well it handles the ground. I sometimes wonder if the Outlaw is same as compadre circuitry with more bells and whistles but many say no. Anyone know any truth to that? Is really that much better disc than the outlaw? You all know how I feel about MY outlaws disc circuitry...
REVIER
Well-known member
Idxpro said:
All I can tell you is from what I have read the Compadre has some unique older "throwback" circuitry that no other Tesoro models use or have ever used...maybe even compared to the Amigo.
I trust it on most types of targets and especially on zinc pennies because there are so many of those.
Some calibrate to nickels but for me they could come in all over the place and not just at that 5 cent mark and there are less of those out there than zinc pennies.
Every one of those things are at the 3:00 position on the knob with the Compadre with a sharp distinct endpoint and tone, and never any higher or lower.
My vaq is close on this, but sometimes those zincolns do show up a little higher than that 3:00 area.
Comparing it to my Vaquero which I love, as sharp as the disc is on the Vaq I think the disc on the Compadre is actually a little sharper...razor sharp like the Vaq but a tiny bit more so.
I tried an 8" coil Compadre model this summer for a few weeks and on that one it didn't seemed to be quite as sharp as my 7" model either, zinc pennies were again coming in higher and lower than that 3:00 position.
More of them seemed to be out of place than what I see when I hunt with my Vaq.
This might have something to do with that donut coil, I assume.
For whatever reason when I use my Compadre I just feel like I am using something that is so tight and sharp on the disc that I consider it has more surgical precision versus anything else I have ever swung.
As a bonus, except for one site, I have never had any trouble in the least with it being affected by EMI except when directly under just a few high tension power wires, but not even all of them.
Also, and this might sound crazy, but hunting in my extremely bad mineralized soil with ridiculously heavy iron content to boot when hunting back in Alabama, an area where no VLF machine could go much further than 3" or so in the worst of that stuff, I could swear than my Compadre could go a tiny bit deeper and had some clearer signals on the deeper targets than my F2 and even my Vaquero.
Sounds nuts, but that was just my impression but I never did any scientific tests to prove this...I just enjoyed hunting with whatever I happened to have in my hands on any given hunt.
Yea not too worried yet going to give it a try this weekend and see how it does right now got my Bandito II umax in at Tesoro getting checked out for a few things so need to wait and get it back before I send the Compadre in was having a slight problem with the Threshold not wanting to be a contant hum and GB was sometimes hard to set , also with the disc maxed out it would not even elim a pulltab so will see tried two different coils same problem
BarberBill
New member
REVIER said:
Well, she knows you better than anybody LOL - Sorry, I just couldn't resist, but after reading many of your posts, I'll side with Idxpro.
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