Beale said:
Would somebody in "Plain" English explain the whole functions of the pinpoint button? Including Reset and what it is and does please, Beale.
In Robert's report on the pending release of the Outlaw, he stated the following:
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The MODE toggle switch allows you to choose which mode to hunt in, i.e., discrimination or all-metal, as well as switch from the motion discriminate mode to the non-motion pinpoint mode. If the detectorist prefers, the pushbutton does the same function. When you push it in, it goes into the all-metal auto and when it is half way out it goes into all metal normal modes. Its position on the face plate makes it easily accessible for one-handed operation."
So .... in "plain English" the Outlaw has the same mode-selector and retune toggle as some other models. With the toggle you can select the motion Disc. mode, the auto-tune All Metal mode, and what they say is a static (non-motion) Pinpoint function.
Then, he adds: "
If the detectorist prefers, the pushbutton does the same function."
You can, he said, push the button in and it shifts into the auto-tune All Metal mode, or let it be half-way out and you get the non-autotune function to Pinpoint.
He closed that report by stating that "its position" (referring to the push-button) on the face plate makes it easily accessible for one-handed operation. Hey! Aren't ALL of the controls on the face plate for easy one-handed operation!?!
I guess it will be interesting to see how well this new approach is accepted. Personally, I felt the toggle worked just fine. If I did anything it would be to add a simpler push-button to function as a mode-change. If in the Disc. mode, press it for All Metal, and if in the All Metal mode, press it for Discrimination. That was a suggestion I had on my Coyote example I offered up several years ago.
I used the gray housing and rods because I am a bit tired of the brown.
I had the Disc. mode adjusts down to a ferrous/Non-Ferrous accept, better known as All Metal Disc. acceptance and in Tesoro lingo, a
true ED-180 accept.
The Battery test was like the Eldorado where the operator could select it at will, any time during a day of hunting, rather than hear the audio blare at turn-on.
I wouldn't have the very fast auto-tune in All Metal but a nice, comfortable auto-tune speed like the 'original' Bandido had and several other Tesoro models. It worked just fine for searching or for pinpointing.
The Push-button was a MODE change selector. If in the Disc. mode, press and hold for All Metal Pinpoint. If hunting in the All Metal mode, press and hold for momentary Discrimination to check a target.
Pretty simple, and different from what Tesoro offers/offered. I made this suggestion several years ago and got a personal E-mail from Jack suggesting that we not provide ideas like this. It could start some discussions and 'the boys' would work on their own ideas.
Oh well, that's what we get for trying. Oh, the name Coyote was because the higher frequency has the Lobo. Also, it kept with a sort of western or outdoor theme and wasn't a negative sounding name. I have a good friend who bought a competitors nugget hunting unit back when I was a dealer and tried to sell him a Diablo
