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DeepTech

Moddified my Lobo St

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Keith Southern

Active member
Put it on a straight rod (this is my first straight rod and it blows the pistol grip with the lazy s away) and added a remote all metal/disc switch! Used a toggle switch from radios shack along with a stereo extension cable. I fabricated a aluminum plate for the top of the pistol grip then cut the extension cable into and used the plug to connect the switch to the control box. Cut a small slit in the battery door to get the cable out didnt want to harm the control box with the mod.Just solder the cable to the back of the selector switch on the face plate simple clean and easy and can be reversed without harm to the unit.just stick on another battery door and its back stock.

Swings like a charm now.I had the coil tuned at the factory to the machine and shes plenty deep .

best machine I have had at pulling targets out of iron.!! puts alot of the latest and greatest to shame in nails!

Just thought I would share

Keith Southern
 
for relic hunting the sensitivity to brass combined with the lighting fast target response with the low noise circuitry it will find targets the 1236 is missing hard to belive but i have proven it to myself in the last few weeks.I ran the lobo back in about 97 or so when they first came out but never gave the full range disc a chance. I was trying to make it run like the typical tesoro back the with the 120 disc they were offering at the time. Now I amn taking advantage of the 180 disc with the low noise circuitry and its just awesome what this thing will see. I dug civil war buttons last week in hard hit iron holes. So I know the machine is doing it.

The lobo St is one sweet machine an love's brass.

Truly a relic killer.


thanks

for the reply

Keith Southern
 
Sweet mod Keith!

Kinda like an Inca......only different.
 
I like the use of the concentric coil Keith. The Lobo is a great machine ! Thanks for the show and tell. Good hunting and be safe.

John Tomlinson,CET
 
Keith managed to get some contact cleaner, shot it thru my pots and switches on my Sterling. The bad pot actually started working again. And found a problem with the orig. open center coil wires from pin 3 and 4 were making contact on and off. Like the Advantage coil.......

I had a LOBO for a brief period after I moved to Ga, I wasn't working it right and now think it needed to be recalibrated as a local guy at a schoolyard was killing me with his Silver umax in the depth dept.
So I got rid of it, makes me wonder what it's performance was actually supposed to be like.
 
Mine had that oval DD coil , how does the Concentric compare with the DD?
 
Thanks Sven!

Glad you got the Sterling going!

The Lobo St is a fine performing detector if you utilize the expanded iron disc range it has. I know the C,V,&T have the 180 also but they are more noisy on rejected targets than the Lobo St.I can compare the Lobo St to the Tesoro Bandido in the big box it has the clean rejection of that detector but has the added ability to get the disc lower in the iron.

I believe the Lobo St is the best offering from Tesoro to date and the Lobo St is about 13 years old now!

Airtest wise the Lobo St with the 8 inch concentric coil is on par with Cibola or Vaquero not super tuned . About 14 inches on a nickle.

The Lobo St also has a analog audio that the newer offerings does not offer.

The Lobo audio is Second to none it's modulated for depth perception,It has a VCO audio in disc with a lightning fast target response that is on par with the latest and greatest, plus it has the added advantage of the audio nuances a single tone analog machine offers. Most of your Digital machines now days are tone oriented and tones leave stuff behind period.

Coil's I have used on the Lobo St include the stock ,the 8x9, the 5.75 concentric and the 8 inch brown concentric open center and this is my coil of choice even as far back as 97.Actually a s the 8 inch brown is my coil of choice on all Tesoros.

The 8X9 always seemed to have sort of a wash out sound on the deeper targets. From its inception on the Eldorado Umax on up to the tejon it always seemed to lack the deep target separation that the Brown coil offers.They are both about the same depth just the Brown 8 inch seems to hold the nuance and tightness of the signal better.

the 5.75 is O'K' but the size difference to depth difference makes me want the 8 inch.You see better depth results with the 5.75 on a Hot Technology Tesoro like the C,V,&T.

Lots to like about the Lobo St.I had the 8 inch coil balanced at the factory since the lobo has a pre set ground balance in disc mode.and it is amazingly right on around this area i hunt in. As long as you have a good functional ground balance that isnt too negative for your area with the ability of the 180 disc you can out do a manual ground balance machine with say a 120 disc.I can find targets under my sample rocks I have and even man made red clay bricks from the mid 1800's that my other machines wont hear even on zero disc.I notice when im hunting i am finding alot of my targets in area right out in the open that I have swung dozens and dozens of times before and I can only attribute it to the excellent mineral rejection and low disc range with the targets being masked by mineral and Iron or a combo of both.


Thanks for the replies.

Keith Southern
 
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