Cortes

[Mike Hillis]

I finally got a chance to use my new Cortes/Cleansweep woodchipping combo.

The Cortes has much more available power than any of the older Tesoro units and runs well with the Cleansweep coil. It is plenty sensitive if you run the discrimination low. No problem picking up stainless steel earring studs. No doubt if there had been a gold one I'd of found it. No problem with large trash as long as you profile in all metal.

This one is a bit different from the other four (or is is five) I've previously owned. It seems to have more available sensitivity, but it also has less available negative threshold range. The Discrimation circuit is different too. Max discrimiation doesn't show any significant decrease in high coin depth (dime/quarter). Increased discrimination has the normal affect on Nickel depth, but Max disc didn't exhibit the normal high coin decreases that I consider as normal for Tesoro. I found that very suprising.

I find the single tone mind-numbing as always. I wish there was a way to change the pitch ever so often. This one aspect of the Cortes tends to make me dislike then enough to part with them just as readily as I buy them, but if I can find a way to overcome this I will be all right. I think a headphone change will help. Might need to hunt it in All Metal more as well as the VCO is easier on my mind than the single pitch of the Disc mode.

HH
Mike

 

[Hombre]

Hi Mike,

...I know you like tone machines, why couldn't you replace the mode switch with another 3 way toggle switch so you could select SUM mode? That way you wouldn't have to hold it in SUM mode and could release without it springing back.

 

[Mike Hillis]

Hi Hombre,
Next time I get out with it, I'm going to use a rubber band on the Sum switch and see how that works out for me.

HH
Mike

 

[thump7]

I am very impressed with the one I have. Seems that if I run the disc past the middle point of iron and foil, there is depth loss on all targets. But the depth loss stays the same after that, won't loose more depth regardless how high I run disc.
I'm pretty sure the sum mode has an averaging effect to give the best id on a single target, tone and number Id.
Having tones would help a lot, I find myself running disc very low and investigating every signal. In some ways it's a good thing, I dig more and the number of keepers I find is way more than past machines I have used. I can't help but feel my time might be better spent just hearing the right tone and investigate the signal from there, but I guess that is what tones are for.
Turning the volume down a bit on the headphones has helped, at least it's not a constant ear-blasting.
Good luck

 

[HaroldILL.]

I know it is a Whites detector,But that is why I had a Tone Mod. put on my XL-PRO as it is a killer set-up with the Bigfoot coil as you can cherry pick to your Hearts delite!

 

[Bleaver]

Personally I hate tones. If they produce a tones machine in the future i hope there is a single tone select included.