Detection depth is stated per material, never as one number · review
A site-rated scanner that identifies which material it has found and rings the marking hole with a three-color LED — red on the object, yellow approaching, in an IP54 rubber housing.
What the figures leave us with The one that finds the center and survives the site. Its depth figures deserve to be on the page and are not.
A scanner designed around the moment you actually mark the wall.
Fast location of metal, live cables and timber substructures for accurate drilling. Clear information through simplified mode selection, a center indication and material identification, with the detector showing what it has found. A three-color LED ring around the marking opening: red when an object is detected, yellow on approach. A shock-absorbing rubber housing and IP 54, stated as suitable for site use.
Every wall scanner finds something. The difficulty is transferring that finding to the wall accurately, with the tool in one hand and a pencil in the other. Indicating through a hole you can mark through removes the transfer entirely — and the yellow-then-red sequence lets you find the center by sweeping rather than by reading.
No published depths for any material, on an instrument at three times the price of one that publishes four. That is the number a buyer needs to know whether it will find a stud behind two layers of board, and it is in the documentation rather than the listing.
Read on the day this page was built: $130 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 31 August 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Amazon reference | B0D94PBFF7 (identical on 6 markets) |
|---|---|
| EAN | 4053423255355 |
| Probe and body | Metal, live cable and timber |
| Illumination | three-color LED ring |
| Scale | center indication |
| Ingress protection | IP54 |
It puts the indication where the pencil goes. Most detectors show a result on a screen at one end and have you mark at the other, and the offset is where the error creeps in. Bosch rings the hole itself: yellow as you approach, red when you are on the object.
A stud edge is not a fixing point. Finding both edges and marking the middle takes three passes; a center indication does it in one, and it is the single most useful feature on a stud detector.
The listing does not state them. The model reference suggests a figure and we do not report a specification from a model name — the technical data supplied with the tool has it.
8.2/ 10
The one that finds the center and survives the site. Its depth figures deserve to be on the page and are not.
A reference exists on these Amazon stores: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States. Listed is not the same as in stock — availability changes daily.
Details checked on August 31, 2026.
Repeated drilling on site, where finding the center of the stud quickly matters more than reading a depth.
Listed because the accessory names this instrument itself.
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 500.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for measuring instruments and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
Five detection modes · wood, metal and AC cable · works through several wall finishes
A five-mode wall scanner covering wood, metal and live AC cables, stated to work on lath, wallpaper, wooden floors, acoustic ceilings and painted walls.
Best for: General household scanning where the question is "is there anything there" rather than "how deep".
Transmitter plus receiver · up to 2 m (7 ft) reception depth · 7 channels · live and dead cables
Not a wall scanner but a cable tracer: a transmitter injects a signal into a conductor and a receiver follows it, to a stated depth of 2 m (7 ft), on live or dead cables.
Best for: Following one specific cable through a building, which no wall scanner can do at all.
Wood 19 mm (0.75 in) · metal 30 mm (1.18 in) · deep 38 mm (1.50 in) · live cable 50 mm (1.97 in) at 230 V
The only detector here that publishes a depth for every material it claims: wood to 19 mm (0.75 in), metal to 30 mm (1.18 in), deep scan to 38 mm (1.50 in) and live cable to 50 mm (1.97 in) at 230 V.
Best for: Anyone who wants to know what the depth figure means before trusting it.
