DEWALTStud Finder, 3/4”, Locate Framing Studs Efficiently with LED Arrows, Ideal for Wood and Metal, AAA Batteries Included (DW0100)

I’m not skilled with tools at all, but this tool is so easy you can’t miss. Made it super easy for me to find the studs in order to hang heavy objects on the wall. It’s totally accurate lightweight and small. Most definitely recommend.

Works well. Beeps well. Lights up well. Battery holds up. I like it. Can’t go wrong with it. Just be patient and don’t think it’s a $100 stud finder. Does its job for a great value, just a tad slower than a much more expensive one.

If you put the right hand battery in backwards *once* then the negative contact gets bent back and the device will no longer work! All is not lost. You can bend it back out again carefully with a needle. They dropped the design ball on the battery connector! Just a little too wimpy : (Cannot say I love the multi-lingual/illiterate directions.So far, seems to find studs ok which is what I wanted.

Lightweight, easy to store, battery life is great, easy to use, metal detection is great and on point.

I was expecting A good quality product but this stud finder is the worst one I have ever used. One stud was next to A electrical outlet and I knew it was there and it did detect it but was off on mark but moving to find the next stud it was marking it 4 inch away from the actual stud which I consider A complete failure. I had A ten year old one get A closer spot mark than this new one. It also did not detect the live electrical wire by the one stud so it was A complete failure. I would not recommend this product to anyone

It seems pretty solid in finding studs. There’s times where it’s dead set there’s a stud, and other times where it lights up for a while then goes out. I hung up a bunch of shelves with this and it hit every stud. Problem is, the big selling point for me was the ability to locate power lines. This thing will constantly alert for power lines at every single location. It’s unreliable and made me uneasy. Should I have just returned it? Yes, but I just sent it on the shelves and luckily avoided disaster. I’ll likely return it and spend a little more on something else as if your tool isn’t instilling confidence, then it’s gonna make you lose confidence.

Prettyv good stud finder.

So I was very skeptical to purchase this after seeing the reviews, however it was on sale and I love DeWalt products plus I like to develop opinions based on my own experiences so I bought it to give it a try, at first I when holding it outside the package I thought to myself this is so lightweight and cheap now I see what everyone was talking about. However when I tested it several times over and over it was spot on atleast 90-95% of the time! Both with studs and live wire! Not saying the folks who couldn’t get it to work don’t know what they’re doing but for me it really did work and I was very pleased with it, even tested it against a 3 in 1 more expensive finder I have and this was quicker to detect the objects and from much further away as compared to my “better” one. For the folks who can’t get it to be accurate I would not read the instructions but watch the video so you can see how to really use it, make sure your walls aren’t too thick, make sure they are actually drywall and not plaster or any other material, make sure you lay it flat on the wall and hold the middle button until the lights minus the power light go off, make sure your moving it in one direction on the wall not changing your height or position on the wall it should be slow smooth slides in one direction also not up and down and back and forth on the wall, just one clean slow uni-directional movement. Also you have to keep your hand in the same position once it’s on the wall you can’t be moving your fingers or hands at all, this will throw off the calibration, you also need to make sure your opposite hand and arm are at your side and away from the hand with the finder if you touch the wall with your other hand or even bring it near the hand your using to locate the stud it will throw off the calibration. If you do all of these steps and it’s still not working for you maybe it isn’t the best product and I lucked out. However I must say I am fully impressed by this stud finder.