Which one is a good stud and cable finder under £75?

I have found this one: http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...57327&ts=47417

However, if possible, I would like one able to locate metal and live wires up to 1.5 inches deep, the one above is only 0.75 inches.



Even after carefully selecting a spot far enough from a mains socket, I hit two phone cables which required a lot of work to fix.

Will phone cables be detected?

Thanks,

Antonio

I wouldn't count on the stud detection on that being very good.

Go to your local B&Q's hand tools section (near the spirit levels etc)
and get yourself a stud detector that looks like this (costs about
£16):

http://www.zircon.com/SellPages/Scan...Spro/SSPro.jpg

As a stud detector it's superb but unfortunately it doesn't have live
wire/copper detector but you could get a good one those separately and
they're not too expensive.

cucumber wrote:

I wouldn't count on the stud detection on that being very good.

Go to your local B&Q's hand tools section (near the spirit levels etc)
and get yourself a stud detector that looks like this (costs about
£16):

http://www.zircon.com/SellPages/Scan...Spro/SSPro.jpg

As a stud detector it's superb but unfortunately it doesn't have live
wire/copper detector but you could get a good one those separately and
they're not too expensive.

You can get the Zircon Triscanner Pro from RS for about £40. That has
all the facilities you require. The only thing it can't do is find studs
through metalised foils.

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Thank you John, that looks like the one to go for.

The only thing is that I did, some time ago, tried one, and would give me erratic readings and had to return it. Perhaps there was something wrong with that unit.

asalcedo wrote:

John Rumm Wrote:
cucumber wrote:
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I wouldn't count on the stud detection on that being very good.

Go to your local B&Q's hand tools section (near the spirit levels
etc)
and get yourself a stud detector that looks like this (costs about
?16):

http://www.zircon.com/SellPages/Scan...Spro/SSPro.jpg

As a stud detector it's superb but unfortunately it doesn't have live
wire/copper detector but you could get a good one those separately
and
they're not too expensive.-

You can get the Zircon Triscanner Pro from RS for about ?40. That has
all the facilities you require. The only thing it can't do is find
studs
through metalised foils.

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Cheers,

John.

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Thank you John, that looks like the one to go for.

The only thing is that I did, some time ago, tried one, and would give
me erratic readings and had to return it. Perhaps there was something
wrong with that unit.

You could always try dowsing for the cables!

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Chris Green

asalcedo wrote:
You can get the Zircon Triscanner Pro from RS for about £40. That has
all the facilities you require. The only thing it can't do is find
studs
through metalised foils.


Didn't someone confirm a few months ago that it can still find the
nail/screw heads going into the studs?


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Ian White