New Compadre - First Impressions

[mike5853]

Received my Compadre today and after turning up the sensitivity a bit I took it to a local park and hit one the tot-lots. Now, I was just at this site about 10 days ago with my Vaquero so wasn

 

[wicks]

Looks like you were having fun!

 

[Bucksport]

Good stuff Mike So does this mean we can expect some killer Compadre videos?

 

[Hank68]

Its a great detector to have,thumbs up!

 

[mike5853]

Good stuff Mike So does this mean we can expect some killer Compadre videos?

I hope to. I'll run it for a week or so and do some comps to my Vaquero. It's great little md, I read all the great reviews and still found it much better then I thought it would be.

 

[slingshot]

Good stuff Mike So does this mean we can expect some killer Compadre videos?

I hope to. I'll run it for a week or so and do some comps to my Vaquero. It's great little md, I read all the great reviews and still found it much better then I thought it would be.

Thanks. I wanted a deeper machine than the Compadre-but just had a feeling.....:clsoedeyes:

 

[DetectorOCD]

Welcome to the church of the Compadre, Mike! I went out with mine yesterday. I had a blast. Here are my finds.

 

[mike5853]

Welcome to the church of the Compadre, Mike! I went out with mine yesterday. I had a blast. Here are my finds.

Nice job! This Compadre is addictive. I'm also finding first hand that you can't compare this to another Tesoro. It has it's place in detecting, and in that place I don't think there's anything out there that beats it. I probably wouldn't grab it for hunting an entire soccer field but, a soccer goal, between curb and side walk, smaller front yard, tot-lot, etc. I'd use it in a heartbeat! I'll be out there today with it.

 

[slingshot]

Welcome to the church of the Compadre, Mike! I went out with mine yesterday. I had a blast. Here are my finds.

Nice job! This Compadre is addictive. I'm also finding first hand that you can't compare this to another Tesoro. It has it's place in detecting, and in that place I don't think there's anything out there that beats it. I probably wouldn't grab it for hunting an entire soccer field but, a soccer goal, between curb and side walk, smaller front yard, tot-lot, etc. I'd use it in a heartbeat! I'll be out there today with it.

Well said.

 

[Rick in Pa]

I have been reading how great the Compadres are the last several weeks. I personally have a Cortes and a ML Excalibur II. About 5 years ago I bought my two boys each a Compadre, hoping they would get the bug and I would have detecting buddies. They tried it and had no interest. So now I have two Compadres sitting in my house that I forgot about. So I put the one in my work service van, and since I am required to take lunch every day, I try to take my lunch near a park and use the Compadre. This is one nice little machine. I have found lots of coins so far, and some junk jewelry. Now I am hoping the company makes me take an hour instead of 30 minutes. I can't believe I let them sit all these years.

 

[DiGGER27]

Well Mike, I am not the kind of person that likes to say I told you so....Hold on....My mistake, I was thinking about someone else...

I am EXACTLY the kind of person that likes to say I told you so!
So consider yourself told!

I see you turned up your sense a little before your hunt but can still get closer to the big metal in tot lots.
Great... Must be nice.
Me, I am having a different experience totally.

My sense is not turned up a little bit...it is turned up just about the max.
I can't get closer than one foot away from big metal without this thing going off big time.
I can get way closer with my Vaq max sense and supertuned than this with way bigger coils...but I don't care.

I am getting absolutely no falsing out of mine and I can't remember ever hearing even one false signal in about 15 hours of hunting, and I have learned to find targets well within this one foot range because I found there will be a double beep when I do run across one in this situation.

I found a coin within 3 inches of a large leg on a swing set this way and I am fine with it...I have adapted,I always do.
The payoff is at least one more inch in depth with it set this way, actually, it might even be a little more.

Still learning, still discovering great things about this smooth and sensitive little wonder, and I see many others are doing the same, recently.

I guess the secret is out about how different and good this little one actually is...
But it really wasn't that much of a secret to a lot of it's owners, anyway.

Enjoy it!

 

[mike5853]

Well Mike, I am not the kind of person that likes to say I told you so....Hold on....My mistake, I was thinking about someone else...

I am EXACTLY the kind of person that likes to say I told you so!
So consider yourself told!

I see you turned up your sense a little before your hunt but can still get closer to the big metal in tot lots.
Great... Must be nice.
Me, I am having a different experience totally.

My sense is not turned up a little bit...it is turned up just about the max.
I can't get closer than one foot away from big metal without this thing going off big time.
I can get way closer with my Vaq max sense and supertuned than this with way bigger coils...but I don't care.

I am getting absolutely no falsing out of mine and I can't remember ever hearing even one false signal in about 15 hours of hunting, and I have learned to find targets well within this one foot range because I found there will be a double beep when I do run across one in this situation.

I found a coin within 3 inches of a large leg on a swing set this way and I am fine with it...I have adapted,I always do.
The payoff is at least one more inch in depth with it set this way, actually, it might even be a little more.

Still learning, still discovering great things about this smooth and sensitive little wonder, and I see many others are doing the same, recently.

I guess the secret is out about how different and good this little one actually is...
But it really wasn't that much of a secret to a lot of it's owners, anyway.

Enjoy it!

I'm really enjoying it. It's sensitivity is interesting. Zinc pennies, silver rings, gold rings, and ncikels ring out at 6 - 7 inches while quarters, dimes, copper pennies ring out at about 5 - 6 inches. Easy to see it's more sensitive to metals used in jewelry, but still a good little coin getter. As I mentioned in another post, it's really not fair nor does it make sense to try and compare this to another detector. It's in a class by itself.

 

[DiGGER27]

I'm really enjoying it. It's sensitivity is interesting. Zinc pennies, silver rings, gold rings, and ncikels ring out at 6 - 7 inches while quarters, dimes, copper pennies ring out at about 5 - 6 inches. Easy to see it's more sensitive to metals used in jewelry, but still a good little coin getter. As I mentioned in another post, it's really not fair nor does it make sense to try and compare this to another detector. It's in a class by itself.

Actually, that was one thing that really surprised me, too.
Two minutes after I got it I started air testing and I saw a nickel went further than a quarter...I was floored, and thrilled!
I got this thing to find jewelry, gold jewelry specifically, so...yea!

As another Vaq user, I wonder if you noticed the difference in that disc knob between the two.
I sense the Compadre is just a little sharper on some items, a little less "slop" or "play", if you will.
For instance on a zinc penny, when I locate a signal and turn the disc past it and then thumb back down till it comes back in, something I always do because I found the accuracy to be several degrees better, on my Vaq that signal will come in at about the same place, but sometimes not exactly the same place.
Not a whole lot of difference and I don't know if I could even measure it with a micrometer, but I just can sense it.
On the Compadre, however, every zinc signal so far has come in at from what I can tell and sense at EXACTLY the same place on my dial.
On mine, I turn it down to the 9 o'clock position and nothing...one slight teeny tiny move down below that and its there.
Every zinc penny I have found till now has come in at this position...and one zinc button, too.
I have not come across a toy car or any other zinc item yet..or a big gold ring, so I wonder it results will be the same on those, and even though I don't have that many hours with this thing yet, I have already gotten to the point on zincolns that I would be willing to bet you my truck that when I get a signal like this and I see the disc knob in that position just below 9 o'clock...it's going to be a zincoln.
I am that confident.

I wish it was the same on every item like pull tabs, but alas, the universe can be cruel, sometimes.
Still learning, though.

HH

 

[DiGGER27]

Ooops...make that the 3 O'clock position on the above post in referring to that zinc stuff.

 

[Diggler]

This detector is fast, accurate, relatively deep (solid 6 inches on a dime after adjustment) and laser sharp on targets!]

What did you adjust?

 

[mike5853]

This detector is fast, accurate, relatively deep (solid 6 inches on a dime after adjustment) and laser sharp on targets!]

What did you adjust?

I opened the cover and adjusted the sens pot. It's the pot on the top. They're small and I moved it about 1/4 turn counter clockwise to get another inch. There is still about another 1/8th of a turn to max it out, but I like setting a good baseline for dimes. The settings I use on my Vaquero, get me 7 inches on dimes, as well as other coins. This allows me to get a better idea of depth as I raise my coil.

 

[Diggler]

Cool. I would really like to see someone hard wire a CleanSweep to a Compadre. 180ED+3x18 = Au+.925

 

[slingshot]

Cool. I would really like to see someone hard wire a CleanSweep to a Compadre. 180ED+3x18 = Au+.925

Send me one and I'll do it!

 

[mike5853]

I'm really enjoying it. It's sensitivity is interesting. Zinc pennies, silver rings, gold rings, and ncikels ring out at 6 - 7 inches while quarters, dimes, copper pennies ring out at about 5 - 6 inches. Easy to see it's more sensitive to metals used in jewelry, but still a good little coin getter. As I mentioned in another post, it's really not fair nor does it make sense to try and compare this to another detector. It's in a class by itself.

Actually, that was one thing that really surprised me, too.
Two minutes after I got it I started air testing and I saw a nickel went further than a quarter...I was floored, and thrilled!
I got this thing to find jewelry, gold jewelry specifically, so...yea!

As another Vaq user, I wonder if you noticed the difference in that disc knob between the two.
I sense the Compadre is just a little sharper on some items, a little less "slop" or "play", if you will.
For instance on a zinc penny, when I locate a signal and turn the disc past it and then thumb back down till it comes back in, something I always do because I found the accuracy to be several degrees better, on my Vaq that signal will come in at about the same place, but sometimes not exactly the same place.
Not a whole lot of difference and I don't know if I could even measure it with a micrometer, but I just can sense it.
On the Compadre, however, every zinc signal so far has come in at from what I can tell and sense at EXACTLY the same place on my dial.
On mine, I turn it down to the 9 o'clock position and nothing...one slight teeny tiny move down below that and its there.
Every zinc penny I have found till now has come in at this position...and one zinc button, too.
I have not come across a toy car or any other zinc item yet..or a big gold ring, so I wonder it results will be the same on those, and even though I don't have that many hours with this thing yet, I have already gotten to the point on zincolns that I would be willing to bet you my truck that when I get a signal like this and I see the disc knob in that position just below 9 o'clock...it's going to be a zincoln.
I am that confident.

I wish it was the same on every item like pull tabs, but alas, the universe can be cruel, sometimes.
Still learning, though.

HH

HH - I find the disc a little sharper as well, with pinpointing a lot sharper. So, you have a md that has great target resolution ( it can hit on the smallest, tiniest, targets), extra hot on jewelry, pin point accuracy, light weight, depth to 7 inches on some metals, and incredible discrimination, all at $160! It almost doesn't make sense not to own one!

 

[tabman]

HH - I find the disc a little sharper as well, with pinpointing a lot sharper. So, you have a md that has great target resolution ( it can hit on the smallest, tiniest, targets), extra hot on jewelry, pin point accuracy, light weight, depth to 7 inches on some metals, and incredible discrimination, all at $160! It almost doesn't make sense not to own one!

I find myself wanting a Compadre with the 8 inch doughnut coil. I read somewhere that's the way they're being sold overseas. I wonder how much depth they would get on coins here in the USA? On the other hand, if they had the 5.75 coil and we had the 8 inch coil, I'd want it also.

tabman