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Just ordered Tejon - got any tips for me?
- Thread starter tejon_man
- Start date
tejon man,
I think your going to like it seeing that you have been using a Explorer. The Tejon will go just as deep as the Explorer with that 5.75 coil. The Tejon will also grab some coins for you that were masked by iron that the Explorer could not see. I myself would never have got the wide scan DD 5.75. You will get more bridging on iron and junk, which is what the Explorer was doing to you.
Joe
I think your going to like it seeing that you have been using a Explorer. The Tejon will go just as deep as the Explorer with that 5.75 coil. The Tejon will also grab some coins for you that were masked by iron that the Explorer could not see. I myself would never have got the wide scan DD 5.75. You will get more bridging on iron and junk, which is what the Explorer was doing to you.
Joe
howdy Tejon Man
Here is something written by Scully awhile back:
Find a "clean" spot of ground with no signals (scan in the all-metal pinpoint mode). Next hold your coil in the air, pull the trigger to place the machine into the all metal pinpoint mode (this has a fast retune speed), and while still holding the trigger, adjust the Threshold so you can hear a slight audio signal. It may be a choppy or broken, but thats OK. After doing this, lower your coil to the ground
(in the clean spot) and listen to what the audio does. It will either decrease (go quiet), stay the same, or have an increase in volume. To Ground Balance your Tejon, you will want to have a slight increase in volume as you lower the coil to the ground. This will be balancing your machine "slightly positive", which is the best way to tune the Tejon. The way to adjust this is with the Ground Adjust knob. Think of this knob as a "volume" knob, in other words. if your machine goes silent when lowering the coil to the ground, turn the Ground adjust knob "up" or clockwise; if it gets louder as you lower the coil then turn the knob "down", or counter clockwise. Keep bobbing the coil while you adjust the setting and listen to the results, gradually work your way to an ever-so-slight increase in audio as the coil appoaches the ground.
Once you have it GB'd, make a mental note of where the "pointer" is on the GB knob. It is easy to bump this knob while hunting. The key to great depth on the Tejon is to be sure you are allways ground balanced properly so keep an eye on the knob and if it has moved, redo your GB opperation. With practice, you can do this easily in just a few seconds.
One other thing you need to hear the subtle audio characteristics of iron targets is good high-end headphones. The Tejon has a language but without good headphones you will not hear it. Iron targets have a real "snap" to them, a sharpness of audio, whereas good targets have a much smoother "beep" pattern. Some big iron will fool me once in a while, but you should be able to get to the point where you can "call" an iron target before you dig it. When you have achieved that status, you can then stop digging those targets based on the signal alone........
Very well said Scully
Here is something written by Scully awhile back:
Find a "clean" spot of ground with no signals (scan in the all-metal pinpoint mode). Next hold your coil in the air, pull the trigger to place the machine into the all metal pinpoint mode (this has a fast retune speed), and while still holding the trigger, adjust the Threshold so you can hear a slight audio signal. It may be a choppy or broken, but thats OK. After doing this, lower your coil to the ground
(in the clean spot) and listen to what the audio does. It will either decrease (go quiet), stay the same, or have an increase in volume. To Ground Balance your Tejon, you will want to have a slight increase in volume as you lower the coil to the ground. This will be balancing your machine "slightly positive", which is the best way to tune the Tejon. The way to adjust this is with the Ground Adjust knob. Think of this knob as a "volume" knob, in other words. if your machine goes silent when lowering the coil to the ground, turn the Ground adjust knob "up" or clockwise; if it gets louder as you lower the coil then turn the knob "down", or counter clockwise. Keep bobbing the coil while you adjust the setting and listen to the results, gradually work your way to an ever-so-slight increase in audio as the coil appoaches the ground.
Once you have it GB'd, make a mental note of where the "pointer" is on the GB knob. It is easy to bump this knob while hunting. The key to great depth on the Tejon is to be sure you are allways ground balanced properly so keep an eye on the knob and if it has moved, redo your GB opperation. With practice, you can do this easily in just a few seconds.
One other thing you need to hear the subtle audio characteristics of iron targets is good high-end headphones. The Tejon has a language but without good headphones you will not hear it. Iron targets have a real "snap" to them, a sharpness of audio, whereas good targets have a much smoother "beep" pattern. Some big iron will fool me once in a while, but you should be able to get to the point where you can "call" an iron target before you dig it. When you have achieved that status, you can then stop digging those targets based on the signal alone........
Very well said Scully