Vaquero with Rapoo wireless and SEF 10x12 coil

[homebre]

Took the V out again before the really cold weather hit and hunted the same field I have been hunting for a year now. Wanted to try the Rapoo wireless with the V. My first thoughts were the earphone tones are not great but acceptable. I had trouble ground balancing using the wireless and the big coil. There seemed to be a bit of a delay, small, but just enough to make ground balancing very tough. So I ground balanced with the speaker and was set to go. After about an hour I found a lot of deep pull tabs and a few Zincolns or other pennies (no wheats) and one nickel and one dime. I was getting a bit frustrated hitting so many tabs. I had the DISC at the notch below nickel and was running about 10 on sensitivity and 2 on threshold. I decided to forget about finding any gold, and cranked the DISC to a notch below max. Started finding clad dimes and quarters probably because I wasn't stopping to dig pull tabs. Then I found a 1953 silver quarter and an aluminium kids ring. Ended the day with 4 quarters, 3 dimes. a nickel and a bunch of pennies, but it was the first silver quarter I have found in a good while. Again, I think the coil gives me greater depth, but the wireless worked better on the MInelab musketeer.

Andy from Hillsborough

 

[tabman]

Way to go on the silver quarter. Those are fun to find. The V works great at cherry picking if you're in an area where there's likely silver.

Thanks for sharing your experience with the wire headphones. I wish they would make some that would work well with Tesoro detectors.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

Andy thanks for the report on the SEF & settings, must be so nice to find silver ,

 

[Scanman]

Wireless headphones are on the top of my list, thanks for the report.

Scanman

 

[BarryL]

I used the Rapoos on the Vaq that Gunner has and did not care for them as you say had a lag in it and the tone is kinda dead but the did work better on my AT Pro but after a while they seem to not want to hold a charge in the battery very well congrats on the 53 silver quarter (year I was born)

 

[jarid]

I don't use them with any of my Tesoro's. However I do use them with my E trac. Try this little test, grab the Vaquero and your good corded headphones set the threshold as usual then plug in the wireless phone's, in my test the threshold was gone. So then I wondered if I would also be missing something with the E trac, however after further testing I feel confident using them with the E trac for most situations, if I am at a place that I think the coins are real deep and I am ignoring shallow stuff I use my Sunray pro gold headphones. You must remember with our tesoros all that we have is the audio, that is there strongest point don't give that away. (Just my two cents)

 

[homebre]

thanks. good idea and I will try it. My hearing isn't that good anyway, but somedays the cord on the phones is a pain. As I said, the hardest thing was trying to ground balance with the wireless.
Andy from Hillsborough