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Awesome!

Tejon use a different circuit than the Vaquero and Cibola. They don't power balance. Again power balancing does not change the physical depth capability of the machine, it only effect the audio response. The more you power balance the louder smaller weaker signals are but it will flatten the response of all other targets too so it will be harder to hear the difference say between a silver dime at depth vs a shallow flip tab.

Power balancing only worked on the Vaquero and Cibola. It doesn't actually increase dept but it does make faint signals louder much like the audio response on the D2. Tejon's circuit is different. You can however fiddle with the gb and maybe squeeze a little more depth out of it. I typically run mine with the sensitivity as high as I can. Sensitivity effects the audio response of the targets so lower sensitivity will drop tiny signals. This is handy in tougher grounds. Sensitivity on Tesoro's is just that and it doesn't effect depth like Gain does on other machines. Sensitivity if too low can lose some small fringe targets so just drop it down as you need so it doesn't chatter.

I've detected around burned out buildings and the grounds usually have so much melted slag from flashing, pipes, wires etc it is pretty much impossible. Probably easier to sift through it all by hand.

In good shape too! Congrats!

Nice test, EMI must be slaughtering the test, I see the lobo had a short range on the wheat cent. I have that same coil on the Tejon and depth should be much much more. Most vlf machines see a can end to about 2' with mid size coil but id accuracy is usually much shorter than that. I slapped a frequency reader posted somewheres on this site that when hooked to a scope you can see the target frequency of the machine when the tx and rx are in balance ie D2 9" coil is 9.5" but frequency will fall off quickly after that. This would be the raw signal (air test). Add in Ground phase and emi and that base balanced range is shorter making id's drift lower at lesser depths. Mid and low conductors have the greatest id drop. The air space in the pvc tube may effect the accuracy of your test vs actually burying the targets. Easy way to test is to bury a target at same depth to compare to the pvc tube. End of the day the test is probably a good baseline to get an idea of a machines capability. Nice work.

Pinpointers in general are more or less a consumable item and will last a long time unless you scrub the hell out of the end or drop them. Garrett has about the best service and customer support. If you want a repairable pinpointer then look at the XP MI4 or MI6 where you can buy all the parts for them. You will learn better from your Mojave and will be able to apply the basics to modern machines. Personally I use my Tesoros more than my digitals.

Predecessor to the Pine Tree, Oak and Will. Think the initial starting bid was 1mil? Remember hearing about it. Quite a bargain since some dink just spent 6 million on a banana duct taped to a wall......... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/viral-duct-taped-banana-sells-6-million-auction-rcna180564

Guess I need to find another trime to be slightly ahead of ya... Faucet think not a tap?

No need to bid farewells, fully understandable to want to bow out but doesn't hurt to lurk in the shadows and toss a thumbs up once in a while. Not a social media fan here either but this is one of the few, very few places I rear my ugly head head. One of the few places where there are some really good people that share same interests.

Hard to beat the Tesoros once you learn them.

The silver bit with the hole might have been a plate that had a screw hole. Maybe from a handle of some sorts? That a half a coin top right corner? Nice run!

New chart using iacs conductivity. Wonder why there are so many using log7 and log5? Thats a load of crap aint it? So fall off has to do more with density of target and has little to do with phase angle relation to it. Thanks! For those that are curious just take your machine and wiggle off a target if you have a dd coil and you should hear and see how they fade.

Conductivity was for the base metals not alloys. Formula on conductivity was off several sites and all had a value*log7 or log6 As I mentioned this doesn't take in account size, shape, orientation or depth. What I do think is if a machine has a consistent swing speed it might be able to also be able to identify material by signal drop. The roll many have learned on the older machines. Many modern machines seem to lose those rolls especially as we muck around with recovery speed.

Clear sounds aren't too bad but hurt my ears, the MS-2 are much more comfortable. If you want lightweight on ear then snag a pair of the XP orx headphones. They hang in back of your head so walking under brush and branches they don't get knocked off. I favor the XP style over all the others I had tried especially in the hot summer months.