thanks
My similar (but not the same), you hold it up in free space with the gain turned up high enough to trigger, then gently turn it down until it just stops triggering. Not a brilliant device though - I would guess the latest generation devices work rather better.
I had one of the, threw it away, they don't work.
Well I had one of these and seem to recall that in stud finding mode, it involved putting it on the plasterboard and fiddling with the controls until it shut up. You then moved the thing around until it squawked. This indicated that it had detected a stud - or a thicker bit of plaster - or a nearby light switch - or a passing taxi using its radio.
In cable detection mode, you fiddled with the controls until it shut up and then moved it over the wall around the electrical fitting until it beeped to show where the cable wasn't.
The one I had seemed unable to reliably detect either solid walls or power cables when it was resting on them - I threw it away.
Perhaps I was unlucky.
John
I was just about to say exactly the same thing. Throw it away and get a Zircon Triscanner Pro instead.
Do they work ok,if the the wall/ceiling is foil backed plasterboard. ;-)
I would second that!
Alas, nope. I have not found any stud scanner that can work through foil.
Thanks again to this group for the alternative trick for finding the studs, which is to scan for the screw or nail heads using a magnet. However, you still can't tell if there are pipes or wires behind the foil.
Since all the studwork in this house is clad in foil-backed plasterboard, I have no use for a stud finder here. Please can anyone recommend a finder that will work well for just the other two jobs, wires and metal buried under plaster?
The Zircon triscanner pro that Andy mentioned is good on metal and voltage detection as well as studs. I have used it in the past for locating burried screw heads (in plasterboards under the skim)
Thanks, John and Andy.
Has anyone seen a better UK price for the Triscanner Pro than £49 (incl VAT) from RS?
Slightly cheaper here
In a thread a few months back somone posted that they found what looked like it was a rebadged Zircon in B&Q at about £15...
Don't actually know if it was the zircon or just something tha\t looked like it though!
Thanks....
Or maybe wait till I get to a Home Depot, $30.98.
That was me :)
I have been using it for past couple of months and it's been superb. I'm 99% sure it's a Zircon... the 1% doubt is due to B&Q selling something of good quality cheap! As a stud detector this thing works great, it can even detect a change of density in concrete to a couple inches in depth.
It doesn't have voltage or metal detector but you can get relatively reliable one of these for not much.
Ah, that would suggest it is not a "tri-scanner" then! ;-)
(which, as the name suggests, does studs, voltage, and metal).
Just in case anyone looks for it in B&Q.. it's identical to this (apart from the labels of course)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John White saying something like:
I'd say it's a common experience. Mine is resting at the bottom of a box of crap things that will never see the light of day again.
replying to Ian White, Alison Wrigglesworth wrote: Just tried this so thank you for the tip we found the nails with strong magnet and the stud!
Cool.
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