Yup, I finally got around to using a 3 in 1 tool I got at the junk store for under 10 bucks, so I can do a little carpentry work on my ceiling in the kitchen.
It does metal, voltage and stud detection, and does it very well too.
I did notice however, in stud mode, it didn't seem to detect me? I only paid 10 bucks so I guess there is no great lost there ;).
Jamie
It appears to be working just fine...
You have to have a woody to be detected in stud mode.
-- Boris
I thought Jamie was inverted :-) ...Jim Thompson
oo.
If it works magnetically, it only can tell where the stud got nailed.
It detects STUDS, not DUDS.
Even worse. He was Slomanized.
Maybe. I have one that finds studs acoustically... works quite well. ...Jim Thompson
It just can't locate the elusive 'Lone Neuron' in Maynard Philbrook's granite skull.
Some of them are capacitive.
A magnet finds the nails.
I want a GHz or THz imager that shows everything inside the walls. For $19.95 at Home Depot.
I wonder if you could see studs with a thermal imager. Maybe heat-gun the wall a bit first for contrast.
Or have a flaming liberal stand on the other side of the wall? ;-)
Naw, it is telling you something.
?-)
mine is capacitative, a 555 with a wire antenna instead of the timing capacitor and a an 8-bit microcontroller (which I assume is) watching for frequency changes from the 555
I've seen thermal images showing internal wall structure
perhaps turn the heat up/down on the other side of the wall to contrast with this side.
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