Prosensor T6 Stud Finder for Drywall With 6-Sensors, Wood & Metal Stud Detector/Wall Scanner, Made in the USA

Good stuff. Accurate. You need to keep pressing the button on the side while scanning, otherwise it stops working. It runs on a couple of AAA batteries and has a pencil slot and comes with a pencil to mark the wall. Very useful and simple to use little device. After you pop in the batteries, press the button on the side (the only one it has lol) and pass your fingers in front of the sensors. They will light up when they detect your fingers.

This is prob the best budget stud finder on the market works great

I should have read more about this before buying it but I wanted this to find flooring joists to fix squeaks. Unfortunately I found out that this des not work well for wood floors. This works by looking for density changes. With drywall you have empty pockets of insulation and then thick beams of wood. This is great as it's able to pinpoint where studs are immediate. Unfortunately I have hardwood floors and it reads every plank as a dense area. As it move it across the planks it reads the center of every plank as a beam. Not really the device's fault as I should have read it beforehand. I tested it on my walls and it found all the studs immediately though. Just beware of the material applications before buying.

Works great! Everyone saying it senses pipes and such is just user error. It detects your finger behind it so it would detect anything behind a wall. Look for repetitive spacing and then nail in the center of the red lights which is very helpful finding the right place. Overall I’m satisfied with the design. Unlike others the batteries have a good holding position. If you are needing one this is it.

FIRST, before you buy this, look at the online PDF of the instruction/safety precautions sheet. Search: PDF Franklin ProSensor T6 This will give you all of the information you need. There is also a sales video on YouTube which shows the basic idea. NEXT: I highly recommend that you get a Sperry DualCheck voltage tester if you are at all concerned that there could be live wiring behind any wall. https://www.amazon.com/Sperry-Instruments-VD7504GFI-Non-Contact-Indicators/dp/B0152U89DC They are very easy to use and can see an electrical wire from a foot or more away. I bought this simply because I'm working on ceilings and must have positive locations of places to take nails or screws. This situation does not work well with magnetic nail sensors for some reason. The T6 thrives in that environment. It is made especially for smooth sheetrock surfaces, so heavy texturing or blown "soft" materials might be impossible to work with. Sensor depth range is 1.5 inches, and the T6 cannot easily distinguish between wood and other materials that might be within that range on the other side of the sheetrock. The T6 is NOT for walls or surfaces with lathing or other plastering anchors. The T6 is designed for standard residential and office walls and ceilings with sheetrock and minimal coverings. You must not wear gloves while operating the T6 because it is tuned to human skin. There is no calibration required to operate this tool... just push the button and slowly move horizontally across the surface. MY Experience: I am installing room dividers and must connect to ceilings. Some of the walls and ceilings I work with do not have ferrous fasteners, so I cannot use the inexpensive magnetic nail/screw finders. This device not only finds the wooden structure on the other side of the sheetrock, you can easily map it out by seeing where the edges of the joists or studs are and determining the exact centers. I first mark the location of the room divider with a line and then move along the line marking the edges of the joists. It's very simple and quick. I recommend this tool and wish I'd had one in the past. Franklin makes other versions, but this is the one I'd recommend for residential work. Note that the T6 can't identify a live wire, or one that is switched off for that matter. You might get a flash if it is close to the sheetrock on the other side, but there's no way to know if it's a wire or a pipe or a dead mouse, I guess. That's why you will want the voltage detector if you suspect something live or dangerous could be there and you're about to cut a hole or modify the structure... so it's a good idea to map out an area to determine regular spacing of studs and joists. With the T6 it's not difficult at all.

Works great hanging pictures and shelves to studs on drywall in house.

TLDR: It died a few hours after using it for the first time. I was a little surprised that it arrived in a small shipping box without any packaging for item itself, but whatever I pulled it out and found manual, inserted batteries and gave it a spin.. It worked better than any of the other stud finders I've ever used. you simply hold down the button and it lights up when it detects anything (your body parts included). Found studs in wall without any trouble, this was late at night ~11pm. The next day rolled around and I went to mount a tv, tried to mark off studs to drill into and ... nothing. I checked all over and when I couldn't find a single stud, I tried my finger: still nothing. So I checked the batteries hadn't popped out (they do sometimes sadly) and then checked the voltage of the batteries 1.35 (fully charged && great voltage for NiMH). I reseated the batteries and tried once more, no love. Guess i'll have to return it, sad

I was about to return the T9 stud finder because it did not work consistently. I’d put in fresh batteries, it might work once, and 20 minutes later totally dead. I ended up finding more documentation on the Franklin Sensors site that said to not use rechargeable batteries, and sure enough that resolved the issue. It’s been working perfectly ever since.