I am an avid tesoro user, especially the HOT detectors. I am on my second Cibola and after four times out, I have not dug a nickle. I was going by the scale on the disc knob and I never took the time to check an actual nickle. Today I found that I had to set the knob to just above iron and the nickle signal would fizzle well before the nickle setting on the disc on the detector. With this new found knowledge, I immediately found the deepest nickle that I have ever found, nine inches. After all this fussing, I remembered a field test of the Cibola and the tester stated this fact. I have the 5.75 coil on the Cibola and it amazes me with the depth. I have a thing about proper ground balance and since the Cibola is preset, I am constantly pushing the pinpoint button and lowering the coil to the ground to check the ground balance. I am constantly amazed that the ground balance is almost always perfect. No threshold change or if there is, it is slightly positive. This is alot of bang for the buck in a detector. R.L.
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ED180 Disc on Cibola
- Thread starter RLOH
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There is virtually no mineralization here and my problem with preset ground balanced detectors is just the opposite of most. Except for one every preset ground balance detector I've had was preset way too positive, and some manaully balanced detectors haven't had enough range to balance correctly. I had to go from a 500 ohm pot to a 5 k pot on one detector to get it to balance correctly, and it barely makes it with the 5k pot. The exception was a GMT King Cobra, a Golden Sabre II ripoff by Gold Mountain, that was preset way too negative. You're fortunate your Cibola is preset correctly for your ground.
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Hey Guys and Gals. I know that 9 inches on a nickles sounds a bit outlandish. There were some circumstances that I did not fully explain. In the hole with the nickle was a pulltab. The signal was a whisper or a tick and I always dig these deep signals. I have found the 5.75 to be almost as deep as the 8x9 so there is the whole story. Did the nickle give the signal or did the pulltab give the signal? Anyway, the nickle was 9 inches deep and I found it! R.L.
No I haven't, and haven't seen what the electronics look like. The extent of my experience with the new models so far has been using a Tejon and Cibola that belong to two different guys I hunted with for maybe 15 minutes each. Nice detectors, but the sites we were hunting had a lot of hot rocks that gave them fits. I almost bought a Tejon but I've already got deep covered, and decided I would use the Golden more anyway, so I backed out
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.My Cibola is also off a tad bit in regards to the disc knob indicator and label. You could do as khouse suggested by relocating the knob on the shaft, or just remember where the targets cut. I target test periodically to be sure where the targets cut on the disc.
I really don't use the pinpoint button on my Cibola as X-ing the target is spot on. I due however run mostly in supertune mode which the pinpoint button then becomes useless, but adds additional depth.
I pair up my Cibola with my Tejon, and have also added the 575 coil, and the 575 widescan coil.
I really don't use the pinpoint button on my Cibola as X-ing the target is spot on. I due however run mostly in supertune mode which the pinpoint button then becomes useless, but adds additional depth.
I pair up my Cibola with my Tejon, and have also added the 575 coil, and the 575 widescan coil.