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DeepTech

Tesoro Golden uMax ???

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SkiWhiz

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I am thinking very serious about buying a Tesoro Golden uMax, I was wondering everyone's thought on the detector. Some say the sounds (tones) it makes will drive a person crazy others say they like the tones.

Do you think it works as well as the Silver uMax when it comes to depth/discrimination/sensitivity/etc. Thanks! Steve.
 
Thanks JB, but my main concern is - is the Golden uMax as deep as the Silver uMax.

I know there are several factors that determine depth - the Silver uMax I had last summer was every bit as deep as the Cibola I had. The Silver just seems to work very well in my ground. I am really leaning towards the Golden. Thanks! Steve.
 
Steve, I'm really sad to read about you less than positive experience with the Deleon. I was shocked to here that the TID was giving you unreliable info. My Cortes gives me good data most of the time. I really hope you find success with the Golden.

Corteser (Sphelt)

Jim
 
Hi Steve, the Golden is also a favorite of mine. It will get just as deep as anything else once you learn what it tells you. I just use the stock 9x8 coil and yes the tones are bit close together. I hope it will be what your looking for. Good hunting Steve.

John Tomlinson,CET:tesoro:
 
[quote Wirechief]Hi Steve, the Golden is also a favorite of mine. It will get just as deep as anything else once you learn what it tells you. I just use the stock 9x8 coil and yes the tones are bit close together. I hope it will be what your looking for. Good hunting Steve.

John Tomlinson,CET:tesoro:[/quote] Thanks everyone for your input. I just wanted to note John, that I really enjoy reading your posts on this & on other forums. But after much thought I decided that I am going with the Vaquero. I had a Cibola & really liked it so I figure the Vaq. will be as good or probably alittle better having the manual ground balance adjustment. Thanks! Steve.
 
If it is anything like the golden sabre II I had no weird sounds. It was a great detector and found alot for me.
Simple to use and it just works.
 
Your very welcome Steve and the Vaquero is a good one too. The manual GB is nice to have and just be sure to turn the control in small increments to get to the proper setting. So enjoy and you will be proud to own a Vaquero. God Bless Steve.

John Tomlinson,CET:tesoro:
 
[size=medium]I prefer the Pantera, or the Golden Sabre II (Pantera circuit board but in a 'turn-on-and-go" configuration) over the newer Golden
 
Hi Monte, I kinda like some of the older stuff too. I can get along with analog machines just as well. Ok take care Monte.

John Tomlinson,CET:tesoro:
 
I focus mostly on coins and jewelry and the Golden is a sweet machine. With a beep dig machine, you either dig the beep or you raise the disc when you get tired of trash digging. Raising the disc cuts some of your depth off. With a metered machine like the Cortes, you either dig the beep or stop and look at a meter for every hit you get. With the Golden you just listen for the tones you are after. Just want to high coin or silver hunt? Just listen for the nice soft high tone response on the deeper targets. Steel bottle caps giving you fits? Flick the notch switch over to Wide and poof, 99% of them are gone and the ones that are left are easy to distinguish. Want to include Nickels but still skip the trash? Move the Notch Width to about the 10:30/11:00 o:clock position, switch the Notch to Narrow or Wide, set the disc half way between the Foil and 5cent mark and bingo you are digging nickels. The two middle tones giving some audio feedback you find confusing? Flick the notch switch to narrow and then to wide and see if it clears up some. Gold jewelry your focus? Dial in your disc and notch and ignore the high tones and focus on the middle tones and listen for the goods ones. Hunting in iron? Put a widescan coil or small coil on it, put it into all metal and hunt the zip tones.

I can't say enough good things about the Golden MicroMax. I can not imagine not having it around. My ground runs moderate to extreme in iron mineralization and I have a Golden with a manual ground balance modification. That and widescan coils allows me to use it anywhere I wish.

Tones rule :super:

HH

Mike
 
Mike, that's just an excellent presentation.
Thanks.
 
Wow! Thanks for the info. I was debating whether to get a Golden,as I have a Silver. I love tone ID and have even rigged my silver up with a "tab check" (similar to the coin check that was on the Troy) to help out in tough situations. I still miss the tone id,however and was biting my nails as to whether to invest in the Golden.
 
[quote Mike Hillis]I........ I have a Golden with a manual ground balance modification.........


Mike[/quote]

Hi.

I'm thinking on adding a manual ground balance to my Cibola as well, do you have a single turn pot or a multiturn pot?

Regards
 
April of last year. I can get about 6 inches on a dime here in California. After you use the Golden in some heavy trash and learn how to set the disc and where the bottle caps hit you can pretty much identify just about everything. With the 5.75 coil it's a killer in trash and the preset GB seems to be just a touch negative (with the 5.75 coil) in my part of the country. The high coin and zinc tones are too close together (in freq) but you will learn it after awhile. It's a good little machine with or without the GB mod. You can also hunt in all metal and then just flip over to disc (with the notch on) to check a targets ID. I also have a 7 in Shadow coil that I use on it and it works very well (the GB is just about right here in my area). What ever you decide to do you can go wrong with a Tesoro. They are just fun to use!

Ray(Ca)
 
Joe Logan was the guy who did the mod. I've got a picture on this forum somewhere's back.

HH

Mike
 
[quote Mike Hillis]Joe Logan was the guy who did the mod. I've got a picture on this forum somewhere's back.

HH

Mike[/quote]


Thanks Mike, my problem is that I can only find here (UK) a 10 turn pot or a 1 turn pot.

The 10 turn is probably too deep to be installed and ....it's a lot of turns

I wonder if it's too difficult to ground balance with just a 1 turn pot...........


John
 
Hi John,

A one turn 50K pot will work fine, The only problem is finding an area inside the housing to squeeze in the pot. Some mount them outside inside a miniature box, Or remount the threshold pot above the width Notch pot and mount the added GB pot were the Threshold used to be. Or, Mount the threshold pot underneath the housing near the coil connector and again mount the added GB pot using the threshold hole....Believe me, Not a fun mod to complete with no room for error.

I've done several GB mods with the Golden, And mounted them in several different areas all inside the housing.

A Ca friend asked me to look at his Golden with the GB mod. After looking at the mod it still needed some work done and I didn't want to remount the threshold pot to a different area rather leaving the Golden face plate stock. Since the hole was already drilled out for the GB pot above the width Notch this particular 50K pot was too thick for this area thus making the face plate not close property. So I remounted the GB pot underneath the front left corner housing and plugged the hole above the width notch control with a dummy light...And, Because the added pot is so close with touching components I taped the entire pot with electrical tape to eliminate any chance of shorting out the Golden.

I would not recommend anyone doing this unless you are really sure you know you know what you are doing, And it's not so much the mod itself of adding on the pot but it's finding a proper locaction and drilling a hole without error is the toughest part of the mod.

My friend who owned this Golden with the mod I did the changes on sold it another friend in my area and he loves the detector. I have another detector (King Cobra) which is very similar with the Goldens performance and recently jumped through a barrel of loops adding on extra pots such as a manual GB and width notch pot in order to keep up with the Golden uMax, Both are about equal on performance.

I'll attach a picture of this recent Golden I changed the GB on to a different location, A local friend now owns this Golden so maybe if he ever sells her I'll be the first to welcome her with open arms....Plus, I'll attach a picture of my King Cobra which is very similar with the Golden uMax.

HH, Paul (Ca)
 
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