HANMATEK Stud Finder SF1 Wall Scanner 4 in 1 Electronic Stud Sensor with Depth Tracker, Unit Change, for Wood, Metal, Cables, Circuits Detect in Walls

This item was able to find the wooden stud that I needed to screw a hand rail to. Not perfect but found enough wood for me to use. Not used other capabilities of the item

WORKS WELL ALTHOUGH I DID GET ACOUPLE OF FALSE READINGS

5 stars

I got this for my kitchen new extension to locate cable. I tested it in the rest of the house, and it worked fine. However, the new build is is plaster board over brick with a small cavity between them. As a result, the detector was UNABLE to find any cables.It worked fine in the rest of the house where the cables are just below the surface. But the plaster board plus the cavity sems too much.I've not tested the other settings as I've not needed them yet.Hope you find this useful.

Does what it says on the tin. Quite precise too. Even managed to pick up the titanium bolts in my leg, which as everyone knows... is hard to detect (airport scanners don't find it). Extremely useful for the average DIY fan.

Wanted to cut a hatch in laminate flooring and floor boards but needed to find joists to be able to cut in correct location to allow re-fitting when hatch cut. This meter helped identify the nails on the floor boards under the laminate identifying where the joists were fixed. Worked perfectly.

I'd love to do a video, but the cupboard is too confined yet perfect to demonstrate just how useless this product is. I bought it as I had recently purchased the same brand's digital meter. Just how different could their reliability be? As wide as Southampton to New York dock!So, how did I reach this conclusion you ask? In bed... literally. On my bed is a piece of 18 mm ply board, on that is the detector and my laptop. In turn, those are on top of an OTTY mattress. That is it.Image 1 (from left to right) shows the detector active... zero, zilch, denada.. not a sniff of a baton - agreed?Image 2 - it gets a twitch. Now whilst you cannot see this, imagine I am moving this detector mm by mm to the left then right. the bar scale fluctuates and then gives an edge reading.. over two inches from the edge.Image 3 - pictures never tell lies - guess what.. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes they do!Let me explain. The detector states there is a batan there - wait for it... when I hold it on both sides with one hand... What the actual ahem! I doth protest me lud, it must have a case of electronic woodworm! How can you detect a baton, only when you completely shroud the scanner with one hand - immmmmmmmmmmpossible! Moreover, how can it detect a baton if/when it doesn't twitch when simply switched on? It can't!!So, cupboard test... place it directly on top of a baton I know is there and... (see image 1). Correct, it does not detect. Ah Ha! Active deep scan (it is only plasterboard) and... zilch, zenada... Absolutely useless, as much use as a chocolate fireguard!Now check out the final image... enough said!Copper pipes? Not even when placed directly next to or on top of... Electrics, I wouldn't trust it if the other analysis is anything to go by. Water.. floods, electric, kills!Refund requested.

This only works with stud partitions. The pipe locator rarely worked and led me to believe there was a pipe so I cut into the plaster board a few different places and it was wrong. The live wire for me did not work, moved it round light switches and it didnt pick anything up or plug switch. Kept on flashing the electric symbol when looking for pipes and I know there was no cables. It did find where the stud partition was but this is its only use. Returned