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ground balancing a Vaquero
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I beleive a slightly positive GB allows you to hear those ever-so-faint, at the edge of the machines ability, targets to be heard a pinch better. It gives an "almost" unheard signal a little bit more volume so you portentially can hear it. Its like giving a bit more volume to the really deep targets.
I just got a new Vaquero myself this week. This is my third Tesoro over many years, but the first one I've used with manual ground balancing, so it's new to me. I'm here in Oklahoma, so maybe it's just that the soil I'm detecting in isn't mineralized enough to show a difference in the positive/negative adjustments of the GB knob.
When I go to push the coil down and pull back up, should this be done in a smooth motion, or should I push it down, make and adjustment, pull it back up, make and adjustment? I ask, because when I do it in a smooth pumping motion, the threshold cuts out at the bottom of the push. I can't seem to get the threshold to always remain constant. I move the GB knob back and forth, and while I can hear it make rising/falling tones while just turning it, I'm not having real good luck getting a real steady threshold when I go to move it towards/away from the ground. I'm not near any power lines either to have interference. I read where there was a GB video on Tesoro's website, but they must have removed it, because I can't find it anywhere.
When I go to push the coil down and pull back up, should this be done in a smooth motion, or should I push it down, make and adjustment, pull it back up, make and adjustment? I ask, because when I do it in a smooth pumping motion, the threshold cuts out at the bottom of the push. I can't seem to get the threshold to always remain constant. I move the GB knob back and forth, and while I can hear it make rising/falling tones while just turning it, I'm not having real good luck getting a real steady threshold when I go to move it towards/away from the ground. I'm not near any power lines either to have interference. I read where there was a GB video on Tesoro's website, but they must have removed it, because I can't find it anywhere.
Hay GhostRidr,
When you are pumping the coil, remember you are only listening
for a rise or fall of volume while the coil is on it's way down.
As you drop the coil from about 10" to 1/2", listen for a change.
Ignore any other sounds made by raising for now.
Basic GBing only includes the drop, not the rise.
Once you get used to it, it's quick and easy, becomes habbit.
Hope that helps,
When you are pumping the coil, remember you are only listening
for a rise or fall of volume while the coil is on it's way down.
As you drop the coil from about 10" to 1/2", listen for a change.
Ignore any other sounds made by raising for now.
Basic GBing only includes the drop, not the rise.
Once you get used to it, it's quick and easy, becomes habbit.
Hope that helps,