Customer Reviews for Zircon StudSensor HD55 Stud Finder

The Zircon HD55 Stud finder is a game changer! It's advanced technology makes locating studs a breeze. The high-definition display provides clear, accurate results saving time and effort. The ergonomic design ensures comfortable use. With deep-scan capabilities, it can detect studs up to 1 inch. You will need a 9 volt battery which is not provided. Efficient reliable and user friendly the Zircon HD55 Stud finder is a great investment for any project.

I can go over 3 different walls 3 different time and get 3 different results. I rather just use a hammer and nail. You’re telling me I don’t have studs where I know I have studs and that this 8 foot wall doesn’t have not one stud in it? Don’t buy this. Get a magnet or something that actually works. Oh yea and keep your fingers from the top or it will tell you there is a stud on the front side of the machine. Waste of 20 bucks and honestly I will never buy any of their products ever again.

Unless you like your hard work to look like Swiss cheese I would stay away from this product. I never get the same reading twice and I have had about a 10% accuracy rate with it. Horrible product that I would not recommend to my worst enemy. The picture below shows all the times it said there was a stud on my brand new cabinets. Needless to say I am not impressed. Note: I measured the wall about the cabinet and did a deep scan while scanning inside the cabinet.

We got a couple of slings to winch our kayaks to the garage ceiling, and they obviously need to be mounted onto the joists above the dry wall ceiling. I saw this and thought I'd give it a try. Home depot had 2 different packs - same price but one included "picture hanging kit" that had a small level, pencil, hooks etc, so I opted for that. First the bad... the packaging was a clear sealed tough plastic so opening required scissors. I cut across one end of the pack and then found that the folded up instructions were now cut through too. Why can't they print "cut here" on it, so you can avoid chopping up the instructions? Now the good... I read what was left of the instructions, put in the battery (not included) and tested on a wall. Hold the button, wait for the beep, move across wall. Stud detected. Move further - another stud, move more, another stud. I measured the distance between them and it was 16 inches (standard stud spacing). Looked promising. Weekend arrived and I started mapping out the garage ceiling for the kayaks. Worked the same, with hits spaced at 16 inches. Mapped out some more to double check, then drilled holes. Every single one hit a stud! Didn't expect that!

I tried this stud sensor vs another brand and results shows it detects but too early from the nearest edge of the stud which confuses me. The other brand detects by showing 3 lights showing the middle light is the stud center which is far easy and accurate.

I bought this one few years ago it worked okay. But today I tried to use it, it didn’t work at all. I replaced battery but no power at all. It should not be useful only one time.

I went in looking for a Milwaukee stud finder like my old one that got damged and found only whatever this brand is and ryobi. Bought this went home opened it up and put in a brand new battery. Does literally nothing. Put it on a wall and pressed the button. Not a sound or a light or anything. Junk. Why does home depot do this. Get rid of everything that works and replace it with junk. I will only be returning to home depot to get my money back and shopping elsewhere from now on.

After researching different stud finder options, this Zircon HD55 Stud Finder seemed like a good compromise of value and effectiveness. When it starts to detect a stud behind the wall, the bars on the screen will increase in number, ending with a high pitch noise and red light when the edge of the stud is found. Sure enough, after marking the wall and drilling, the stud finder had accurately detected a stud. I've had mixed results with the DeepScan sensor, but the StudScan option works great.

Ensures you're drilling in the middle of the stud. The arrow projection helps a lot

Looks ok, haven’t put it to the test as of yet

This thing doesn't work. Even asked the maintenance man for help using this stud finder. At every indication of a stud, we drilled and found nothing. I now have a ruined wall and no frames hung!

this tool was a waiste of money. this tool is so inaccurate. i did so many mark and at the end i was at the edge of the stud . save your money and another one. will be returning this and will not buy this brand again .

At first I was skeptical about buying this product after reading the reviews. But I'm glad I decided to go with it because it made my life easy and simple, was using the technology of the edge to edge stud finder feature in this product. After measuring out my wall and find the center point and then was able to use the Zircon stud finder. It was spot on and I didn't have any issues checking it twice drilling once. I was able to hang both my 86" in our living room and the 60" in the basement. I'm VERY happy with this product and I would definitely recommend it!! I used the "deep scan" feature once and it showed where my electrical wiring was on my toggle switches in the living room. Cool feature so that way we don't ever drill into electrical and get a "shocking" surprise. Overall, I'm happy with this product and highly recommend it.

This stud finder should probably just be used as a hammer. It gives tons of false positives and didn’t find a single stud. Just went old school and drilled a bunch of holes until I found one and could measure 16” off to find the rest. Returned this product as you’re better off with nothing.

So many false positives and just missed studs. See photo for how well it found studs. Had a false positive 6 times in a row. Throwing darts would be about as accurate.

To Future Buyers, This stud finder did not accomplish its job for the work that needed to be done in our situation. What it did make was an empty hole in our living room wall. We cheaped out on this one since we were also on the verge of buying the Bosch one. There's no doubt that we will return it.

The stud finder worked great. Did the job I expected it to do.. Now my palle wall looks great.

After reading reviews I went with this one. Glad I did! Works like a charm. Used it to install 3 wall safes and no issues. It will get lots of use around the house!

It’s bad. Can’t even show the right wood location in the wall.

This finder does a good job with finding studs. The problem is that the red LED indicator is extremely bright it can make reading the screen difficult. The bright red light shines directly into your eyes! There is no way to adjust the contrast on the LCD display, so you need to have ample lighting where you are using this device. I would not purchase this particular model again, so cannot recommend it for this reason.

I loved it....I was able to put my 65 in flat screen TV up in no time....

It works really well, have used it many times since I bought it. It also picks up electrical wires as advertised. Seems to be well built and sturdy.

Best stud finder for the price ... absolutely!! I’ve used this brand for years, just bought this one and didn’t disappoint!!

Good product. No problems with any line of stud finders from these guys. Had a major tool brand stud finder that was similar in color and it just wouldn't find anything. Plus the activation button was hard to push and slide at the same time. Get a Zircon and you cant go wrong.

Seems to work just fine. DOES NOT INCLUDE BATTERY!:( or it would be 4 stars.

Worked perfectly for what I needed and very easy to use. I have used other cheaper stud finders and for a little more $, this does a pretty accurate job. More accuracy = less holes and patch up work.

Works better than my original stud finder that is 30 years old. Didn't find the gas pipe but does find the electrical in addition to study. Much faster as well.

Worked quite well to easily find studs (and their centers) in a wall void of electrical wire runs.

Recommend this stud finder to all users. Has a deep scan option that i found to come in handy. Came with a small bubble leveler. Very user friendly when using i noticed there was an electrical sign to let me know of the hazard. The picture posted does not show the arrow due to my flash, but there is an arrow that dispalys about a half inch above the finder once the stud is found. Again very user friendly and easy to use no issues at all one of the best stud finders i have ever purchased and used, especially for the price and have had no issues with it.

Very easy to use like the fact u can find both sides of the stud .And the deep finder allows to find hidden things .