[SML] ⚠ Re: Walabot

[Kevin Linzey]

If you haven't tried it yet check out the "Expert" mode.
The standard modes help quickly identify what was in the wall but the expert mode worked better for tracing.
Once I found what I was looking for and then saw it in the expert mode it became easier to follow the pattern in the expert mode.

I used one a few weeks ago and had a chance to open up the wall this weekend and it worked great.
It was just drywall with metal studs but it could distinguish the electrical runs that were 2" off the metal studs.
It seemed to do a better job with the vertical runs, it was a little spotty when I tried to follow the horizontal wire run and I had to piece the hits together.



KEVIN LINZEY
SPOTLIGHT FEATURES MANAGER
TEL: 410.290.5114
VECTORWORKS, INC.
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I tried scanning in CEMENT mode and it said "you're scanning drywall".

So, here's a scan over my test setup.  Several bricks lined up on a brick floor.  1/2" PVC pipe filled with water laying between two bricks.  One sheet of 1/2" drywall over them.

The picture is in PAN mode, the red area is the pipe.

It the auto image mode it isn't sure if it's a pipe or a stud, but as I know it's a brick wall that tells me there is SOMETHING there that isn't metal.

In the pan mode I haven't gotten the location of the pipe in inches right.  It has the overall pan length right at 20", but the pipe was actually centered.  Still gets you close to where it is and the other modes are more "live".

Overall, I'd say this DOES find things chased into brick walls.  Takes a little fiddling with, but in the end it works a whole lot better than drilling holes until you hit water, then backing up.  It will probably work better after I use it more, things like speed of movement.

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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.
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