Zircon MultiScanner i700 Center-Finding Stud Finder with Metal and AC Electrical Scanning and DVD How-To guide
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Zircon MultiScanner i700 Center-Finding Stud Finder with Metal and AC Electrical Scanning and DVD How-To guide
Customer Review: good but room for improvement
Summary: 4 Stars
The first thing I have to note here is the crazy price amazon seller are charging for this! $72.75?? That is a huge jump up from just around th 40 dollars amazon charged before they ran out of stock. I bought mine at Home Depot for 49, those resellers are really overcharging for this thing. The number of stars I gave it doesn't take that into account, but my personal opinion for anyone looking is that while this is good, it's NOT worth 72 dollars at all, and you can get it much cheaper.
The reason I give this product 4 stars is because it finds the center of the stud, and it does so fairly well. That's better than my old cheaper stud finder which just found the edge, and you'd have to calculate where you think the center is. The consistency with this is good, but not great- if I try multiple times the center is generally in the same spot, sometimes there is a little variation but overall pretty good. But sometimes the signal gets weak and it thinks the stud is too deep even when I know it's not.
The AC finder is the main area where it did not perform well for me though. It seemed to just find spots randomly- getting a positive in one spot once, and then nothing the next time I treid the same spot. I'd put it all around an outlet with active appliances and get nothing sometimes. For me, its poor enough that I don't feel I can rely on it whatsoever. If I could give it 3 1/2 stars I think I'd go with that.
Still, I bought it to find studs, and if that's what you're buying it for, it works- and the marker is a useful touch. I believe there is a cheaper model (the i65) for much cheaper which finds the center too though, and it got good reviews on Amazon. If it finds the center as well as this one, I'd say buy that one over this.
Customer Review: i700's don't work
Summary: 1 Stars
I have plaster over wood lath. Despite nice articulating design and built-in pencil, the i700 series simply can't detect a stud.Customer Review: scanner
Summary: 4 Stars
Have used the unit only once but it seems as though it has potential.
Thanks---Brian