Improving the Greatness of the Tejon

[au4greg]

Automatic Ground Tracking with Manual Ground Balance

Frequency Shifter.

I would also like to see a greater resolution in the sensitivity... particularly in the lower end to help the ground balance and fine tuning in moderate to severe ground mineral.

The Sensitivity should control BOTH the All Metal as well as the Discrimination mode, to make it even a BETTER prospector or Deep Coin Hunter.

The Twin Discriminator is a nice feature, but how about Large Visual Discrimination, Even if it were just a Visual Ferrous v Non-Ferrous without regards to Coin and Misc Icons that are so small. Hail to the Toltec 100.

Currently, the All Metal Pin Point has a VERY Fast PIN POINT Auto Tune.....
The Ability to Turn off the Auto Tune so one can more accurately Shape, Size and Analyze the Signal Characteristics in the all metal mode.

Otherwise....... I wouldn't change a thing... its a deep seeking detector keep the 17.5 kHz. Later, a Selectable Very Low 2 or 3 kHz or High Frequency 17.5 kHz.

 

[Mikel]

Your right about the sensitivity needing greater resolution, I normally have to ground balance a little positive around here becasue it just won't go exactly nuetral in this soil. Meter with a back light and all the other improvments would certainly make it more better.

 

[au4greg]

Well Mike L, we certainly have discussed it enough. Again thank you for your patronage. We'll have to talk sometime in the near future.

Good things are coming!!!!

You can confirm to the others that even with the sensitivity 1/2 way, the Tejon still has unbelievable depth and sensitivity on gold items is second to none.

Attached is about 3 hrs out with the Tejon locally.

 

[Mikel]

Yeah, its not unusual to go to the play areas and get deep coins others have missed. They usually come out with alot of oxidation because they have been in the ground for so long. I took the 12x10 DD
to the ball field and snagged a few coin hits then went back with the 5.75 concentric to compare the signals. It took a surprisingly long time to find the exact spots where they were, I guess it takes a lot more sweeps than you realize with the little guy but it is also surprising how deep he goes.

 

[Mikel]

I thought I was having trouble ground balancing the 12 x 10 so I called Vince. He told me to send in my whole shooting match so they could check it all out but instead I went back to the area armed with the analysis of the situation from Greg. Turns out Greg literally hit the nail on the head. It was low mineral sand lots of nails and small pieces of iron. I just used a smaller coil in all metal and scooped em all for a look see. The 12x10 would not go negative on ground balance because of the low mineral and all the metal. What I discovered was that after finding a patch of ground with no metal I got the coil to behave by doing the following. Set GB all the way negative. Set the coil on the ground and rock it side to side by twisting your wrist. it will chatter. While doing this turn the GB Knob towards positive just to the point where the chatter becomes less, don't over do it. This is a good average in that situation that gave me good performance. Seems to work for the smaller coils as well.