:cry:LITTLE GUY SICK !

[Woodchuck]

Well the mint X2 I just picked up is sick., going off to Tesoro tomorrow.Won't air bench test varies coinage past 5 inches. Buried a large dollar coin in ground at 6 inches could even find it.I even talked to Troy on the phone he said it should air test nickel and quarter at least 8 inches easily.BUMMER just picked this detector up after having to pawn a perfectly good 1270 for a financial crisis thanks to my wife. So I picked this X2 up to replace it. .I'm in severe metal detecting with drawls here.

 

[Hombre]

Tesoro will take care of it, could have been prior owner opened it up and ground balanced the detector improperly. Ya just never know with a used detector.

 

[D&P-OR]

Tesoro will take care of it, could have been prior owner opened it up and ground balanced the detector improperly. Ya just never know with a used detector.

Sometimes ya just never know with a new detector either Randy. -----I got a new one (Tek) that's in getting "fixed" right now.---The g.b. was whacko coming right out of the box.---Ain't cha glad for the repair shop! -----------Del

 

[Larry (IL)]

This might save you some shipping expense: Try to set the internal Ground Balance pot for your ground. Usually that is all that is needed. Here is a past post by Monte on how to do it, might take you 5 minutes.

I just got a used Cibola yesterday and I set the GB today and it improved the air test from 6 1/2 inches to 12+ inches on a clad dime.

Power Balancing in the motion Discriminate mode.​

It is much easier with a model that has an external GB control, but if you're careful you can use a small screwdriver and adjust the internal trimmer as follows. Just remember, the trimmer is a delicate and touchy little control so only move it a tiny bit at a time.

With the Discriminate level at minimum and Sensitivity at maximum, bob the coil toward-and-away from the ground in the Discriminate mode. Do not lower and raise it slowly, but make a quick down and up bobbing motion.

If it is silent, you want to adjust the GB control toward the negative side. Do this while bobbing the coil and stop as soon as you get a 'beep' on the coil's uplift.

Now that you have a too negative GB, keep bobbing the coil from about 6" down to

 

[jmaryt]

send it back to tesoro! they will make it right!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[Woodchuck]

I got it all packed up going out tomorrow.I'm not that brave messing with it.While its there ,they can give it a thorough physical .That's what detector doctors are for LIL

 

[jmaryt]

"smart play!" let 'em take a look at it,and get it tuned too!
just sayin!

(h.h.!)
j.t.