R-n-R Magnolia SpringsAla
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Went after work and my son and wife took the other fuzzy kids (dogs) swimming. Targets were getting thin in my waterhole I've been hunting, it was getting late and about time to go home. I decided to try the TR mode on the SR2 to see if I could locate anything with it. All the online responses I've gotten about it say it's worthless and has little or no depth, doesn't work well in mineralized soil, blah,blah,blah. Anyway, I turn it on and start hunting fighting the current and found a split shot, a small piece of foil, tiny bits of crap etc.. Now these targets are not unusual for any Tesoro, but the depth they were hitting at was. I kicked over to disc and could only get a short "pop" every other sweep but in TR they were solid buzzes.(threshold rises) .
When the TR mode "discs" something out the threshold nulls or goes silent....... Anybody here know what other brand machine does this as well ??? My Mine lab Sov XS does this except the threshold tone changes to the disc'ed item. Funny huh? Now I'm thinking how is the TR mode on the SR2 and a Mine lab XS/Excal related???? It says in the SR2 instructions that the TR mode is mineral free, I'm not sure if this means it's preset GB or it doesn't need to be GB'ed?? (another Mine lab trait?) So is it possible that the Tesoro Stingray and the Minelab Sov/Excal are cousin's of a sort?????? I'm shur there's someone here that can shed some light on this? It's really got me intrigued.
Go Jump in a lake!!
R-n-R
Ps. Found a gold ring in the TR mode, I'll post it later.
When the TR mode "discs" something out the threshold nulls or goes silent....... Anybody here know what other brand machine does this as well ??? My Mine lab Sov XS does this except the threshold tone changes to the disc'ed item. Funny huh? Now I'm thinking how is the TR mode on the SR2 and a Mine lab XS/Excal related???? It says in the SR2 instructions that the TR mode is mineral free, I'm not sure if this means it's preset GB or it doesn't need to be GB'ed?? (another Mine lab trait?) So is it possible that the Tesoro Stingray and the Minelab Sov/Excal are cousin's of a sort?????? I'm shur there's someone here that can shed some light on this? It's really got me intrigued.
Go Jump in a lake!!
R-n-R
Ps. Found a gold ring in the TR mode, I'll post it later.
. The TR mode doesn't have the capability to be ground balanced. All you can do is tune the threshold to a slight hum, adjust the sensitivity to the site conditions and take what you get, but as you found out it's not useless. The TR mode is a nonmotion mode that works fine in low to no mineralization, especially low mineral sandy soil, but while they can be used in moderate mineralization they lose depth drastically as the mineralization level increases, and the only thing the TR mode has in common with the Minelab multifrequency detectors, other than they have coils and detect metal, is that the threshold nulls on rejected targets. Being a nonmotion mode, targets close together can be separated better than is usually possible with most motion disc modes. The TR mode should handle wet salt sand better than motion disc mode, and it's arguably a little more sensitive to small, low conductive targets, so it can be handy in places. Seems you have one of the places it works well