Inca

[lytle78]

The very name thrills with visions of gold!!!

Say what you want about the Giffords, but they could name detectors!

I'm soon to be the proud new owner of one, couldn't resist the listing in the Classifieds.

OK what sort of fun should I look for?

Monte has recommended a 7" concentric and searching trashy sites as a second best to more modern gear.

What about a cleansweep for gold jewelry on volleyball courts or whatever?

The idea of making something special out of this seems interesting.

What do you all think?

 

[Hombre]

Well,.........Rick,since you PM'd me and asked for my opinion.........

I won't suger coat, or elaborate about the romantic name given to this Tesoro, it is what it is. If you are looking to find small gold like dinky earrings that don't make a complete 'loop' or the ends of the earring don't complete an electrical connection like a finger ring, Not going to happen, the Inca has a more limited lower end discrimination than the later ED-120 detectors and much later modern Tesoros. Looking for tinsel thin gold chains or 14Kt earring backs? Forget about it with the Inca, it won't happen. But what it does good at,, with a concentric coil, is to find deep coins and jewelery (rings). The cleansweep coil is good for coverage, but for deeper targets fogetabouit. Monte is spot on about the 7 inch concentric coil, but Tesoro no longer makes them, so look for one in the classifieds, just my opinion, and yes, i do own and use one.

 

[Mike Hillis]

It runs at 12kHz and it is hot on low conductors. Nickels, gold rings, all the round low conductors it does very well on. But as Hombre stated, since the Disc mode has built in iron rejection, it will miss some of the tiny targets, or the broken loops. If you are hunting the tiny stuff, you would want to use the no-motion all metal mode. However, since it already has built in iron rejection, you can run at minimum disc for the other targets.

It will run all the uMax series coils, including the Cleansweep and the 12 x 10 SEF. I used it with both the Cleansweep and SEF coil and it does well.

HH
Mike

 

[lytle78]

I assume the standard coil is concentric. Is there any advantage in a widescan coil for the Inca - like maybe in higher mineralization? I've got an 8 or 8.5 widescan five pin coil laying around.

Thanks