Bosch Multi Detector
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Let’s face it, every home should have one of these for those quick hang up jobs of curtains, shelves, pictures and everything else we hang on our walls at home. This is a must have tool for any toolbox for maintenance and contractors for those jobs of all sizes. This tool is fantastic at finding things in walls not only to miss like plumbing and electrical lines but for finding those studs whether its wood or metal materials inside the wall you’re looking for.
Okay, I’ll get off the who needs this and get to the features and how well this tool works at home and the work environment. The Bosch Multi-Detector Kit is a one tool wonder in its simplicity and how well it works, simply press the on or any other button on the device to turn it on and press it against the wall between studs and other things inside a wall.
If you’re not sure if there is anything behind the wall section your trying to find to start your detection process just try it on a section of wall and start to find things. Depending on the wall surface and what you’re looking for it will have several indications you need to be concerned with.
The digital detector runs in two basic modes, either wood detection or metal detection for trying to find objects inside a wall or other surface. The screen has three sections for the indications you will receive as well as the ring around the marking hole and the audible alarm. The illuminating ring has three states for finding things; green for not finding anything, red for found wood, metal or electrical objects and both for calibration.
The meter shows a cone of bars and a lightning bolt for finding electrical devices and a bar graph for finding either wood or metal objects. There is also an indicator for metal that is magnetic and metal that is not that helps for things like plumbing detection in metal studded walls. The zoom bar shows how strong the signal is when pressing the zoom button for finding the exact locations of objects in the wall.
To use the device to find wood simply press the wood button and move the detector along the wall surface while watching the meter. The zoom key is used to help locate objects and find more precise locations for things inside walls or materials like the stud, an individual screw or nail.
Other objects you can find with the Bosch Digital Multi-Detector would be plumbing ducts or rebar inside concrete or even those pesky things you dropped in the concrete while pouring like your watch or ring. The zoom function allows you to precisely locate items like wires inside a wall so you know exactly where they are by the strength of the bar indications while scanning for items.