Paul (CA)

Welcome to the forum, please share future finds. You live in an area rich with history, hats off to you. Welcome aboard, Paul

Welcome to the forum, and congrats with ordering the Manticore. Don't personally have one, but a couple of friends of mine use them and both give positive reviews. Looking forward to viewing future finds of yours, enjoy and please share future finds and adventures. Paul

I still have at least one Coin Magnum George, George Payne model. Was not fortunate to have one at the beginning and actually picked one up many years later, a mint one like yours. If memory serves me right, this was the first actual Ground Balance metal detector. If I'm wrong, please someone correct me. George Payne, Brilliant pioneer. Paul

Nice George, Barons are a rare find. Glad to see you still have yours. Mine are boxed up somewhere, hopefully get them unpacked someday see what survived the move. Honestly don't remember what's left, coils, modules etc? Stay active old friend, Paul

Nice,. I was fortunate to have an Outlaw for a short period. Very good grab and go model, I feel you'll enjoy the Outlaw it's one of the better models. Congrats! Paul

Very nice, And congratulations completing the set with this recent 1946 dime. Canadian coins are neat, here in California I've only dug a few but each one was a special find. Congrats again! Paul

Thanks Carl, Appreciate you pointing out C59 and C60, it's use. And indeed, C50 was to short the capacitor, an era on my part not grounded as I had suggested. Thanks again, Paul

Thanks Pi-Man, If I come across more information, will share. Definitely, I wish you and others had the opportunity having a phone conversations or two over the phone with Reg. Truly, A remarkable individual. I enjoyed the many conversations with Reg, not only metal detecting related but also involvement with helping his employers succeed with Regs equipment modifications. Good luck, enjoy and have an adventurous journey scraping coil the soil. Paul

That's terrific Snake Jim sending off your modded TDI to Carl, he's probably the most qualified we have around for future TDI advancements. Based from reviewing notes, reading TDI Mods related threads and opening up my TDI this morning for a look. Unfortunately, Forgot a lot from my conversations with Reg on the TDI Mods. What I will share, is what I remember and it's not much. First, Rick Kempf sold me his modded TDI. Over the years have purchased several great deals from Rick. Great individual, very fortunate he passed the TDI to me. Soon afterwards, On a phone conversations with Reg, he mentioned the changes on the TDI and that he was having a friend do the mods for him. Later, Noticing two mods where missing, I called Reg back and unknown to him these mods had not been completed. Apparently, his friend had not added these additional mods. However, it may be due to location as some areas these two additional mods are not needed. That was both Reg and myself feeling on the matter, no harm done Regs friend made that decision as he probably felt certain areas didn't need these additional mods. Later, Reg sent me the two needed capacitors to replace the original two and instructed me how to perform the third mod. Capacitors C59 & C60 need to be replaced with 104J/RS. I believe this was to bring regular TDI filtering up to speed with Pro model. Please don't quote me on this, but I think that was the reasoning for replacing these two capacitors. And capacitor C50 needs to be grounded, However, I'll need to double check this as I believe it was capacitor C50. Please no one ground this capacitor until I double check it. Grounding this capacitor eliminates a filter in which increases Gain. With this, user can reduce gain 15-20 percent bringing gain back to normal when needed. What I did, was add a switch in which turns off the modded gain with a flip of a switch. Regs mod is a work of art, and afterwards calibrated to ensure mod is working peek performance. The PCB trace mod is labor intense, $125.00 was a steal. Regs friend was very professional, very skilled. We were very fortunate Reg had a friend do his mods for him towards the end, we all know Reg towards the end couldn't solder with a steady hand and I believe his vision had given in as well. Will enclose a few pictures of my opened TDI, I did add in an inline PI probe with a switch between both coil connectors. The added switch on top with the added Gain switch for the Gain mod, no need to add a switch just grounding the capacitor is enough. My apologies for rambling on so long, hope the pics show Paul (CA)

You bet Jim! I'll definitely take good care of the TDI, very fortunate to have one with the mods. Definitely share more when time allows, with information from my notes and email conversations with Reg. Have a good day sir! Paul

Absolutely, I'll dig up what I have and share on this thread. May take a while, things are boxed up and I'll need to go through email with Reg. Recently, Moved to a town next door and currently selling my house. Luckily found a buyer and should close excrow tomorrow, guess the house sold at the right time, higher interest rates have slowed down sale of homes. Had to reduce house 10% since listing two months ago, I was extremely Lucky to get a buyer especially with what's to come. Give me some time to adjust with the moving, everything is still boxed up notes and such. I do look forward to metal detecting again someday, especially with the TDi for old park hunting. Take care, Paul

I was very fortunate to have many TDI phone conversations with Reg, Reg helped me (with information) add two mods to my TDI. Originally, Purchased the modded TDI from Rick AZ. I've owned a TDI before, but never with Regs mods. Reg shared with me, due to his health his hands could no longer do the finer component soldering. He had a friend, do several of the mods for customers. Unknown to Reg, sometimes not all the mods where completed. I believe three components had to be changed, can't remember what they are I would need to locate my notes and go through email from Reg. My TDI only had one mod, after opening the housing noticed this. The one mod it did have, was the added mini board. Again, I will need to locate my notes and go through email from Reg to fully understand the other missing mods. None the less, with Regs help over the phone he explained to me what I needed to do with adding the additional mods. Later, I had mentioned to Reg was trying to add an online probe to the TDI. After many attempts, Gave up. Continuous falsing was occurring when flipping from coil over to online probe, was a nightmare. Then, Reg laughed and said I can help. He explained I needed to add a certain range ohm resistor across certain coil connector pins. That fixed my inline probe issue, when flipping over from coil to inline probe the inline probe operated fantastic no more falsing. Okay, Now to park silver hunting. Using various Minor John coils, small elliptical to larger coils the TDI operated fantastic as a deep silver detector. I did find a method to help reduce digging false signals. I shared this with Reg, Explained it was combination of reducing GB, lifting coil an inch or two while swinging and there was a third step can't quite remember exactly what it was. I'll need to test a buried high conductive target (silver dime) to figure out what that third step was. Just know this method greatly reduced false digging. Plus, I use a Periscope that also helped reduced false digging. I realize this is getting long toothed, just wanted to share how fortunate I was having Regs help and his phone call fellowship conversations. My days of metal detecting are on hold, for now that is. Caring for an elderly parent, retired this year and my mother suffered a stroke. Fortunately, in the position to care for mom. I'm now her full-time care provider, enjoying every moment. Happy hunting, Paul

Nice Steve, Agree with Valens, Couldn't have happened to a better guy. This silver was the icing on the cake, made the trip even better. Solf/low high tone was a sneaky surprise 👍

I feel gold will continue to drop up into early 2023, how much impossible to say. Maybe another 10-15% maybe even 20%, Flatten out for a period then take off. Just retired this past April, will make it a point to visit more often this is an interesting thread. Lots of good information, appreciate everyone's input. Paul

Hello Jim Welcome to the Tarsacci forum, and Congratulations with the nice finds you’ve made throughout your detecting career. Good informative information left here for you to go over, I’ll add a couple more from my experience with using the Tarsacci. Little over two years now with using the Tarsacci, it’s my main land detector for relic hunting. Especially now, with the 12” coil it’s added more depth. Plus, The 12” coil is great in areas laced with iron. I’ll never go back with the stock coil, 12” coil is that good. Has a tough language learning curve, have patience eventually it’ll all piece together. Some prefer Disc mode, others Mix mode and some All-Metal mode, I prefer Mix mode, more audio information and little more depth. It’s no Deus for tough iron laced sites, but the Tarsacci will hold its own in areas thick with iron. Actually, under some conditions the Tarsacci will punch extremely deep in an iron patch getting a deep target beyond the reach of a Deus or Equniox. I still use the Deus as it has its place, had no more use for the Equniox and gave it to a friend. This week, did a comparison between my GPX 5000 with 11DD coil and Tarsacci with 12” coil, soil is slightly mineralized and away from iron. Tarsacci fared extremely well, GPX has about 1” inch more depth on high conductive coin size targets. On buried nickel’s, GPX slightly deeper about 2” inches deeper. From my experience, no other detector I’ve owned including the Equniox comes close. Good luck, whatever you decide plenty of Tarsacci users out there to lend you a helping hand if you decide to purchase the Tarsacci. Paul