- Hi, I'm Parris, and this Suaoki company
sent their very latest laser measure to try out.
It looks like an interesting product,
supposedly very accurate and very convenient.
They say this is going to replace
my 30-year-old tape measure.
Now I'm not saying this technology is old,
but it measure inches, feet, and cubits.
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I may be stuck in the 20th century, still using
a mechanical tape measure, but a couple features
of this laser meter look really interesting to me.
One is the fact that this can measure,
in one go, up to 200 feet away.
My 50-foot tape measure, I've gotta do 50 feet and put
a rock down, another 50 feet, put a rock down,
and then realize I haven't been walking in a straight line.
The other thing this does is math.
After you've taken the measurements, it can
figure out the area for you.
It can even do trigonometry, and if you measure the distance
to the bottom of a tree or a building, measure the distance
to the top, it will tell you the height of that object.
For people in real estate, construction, remodeling,
I imagine with this you can do in 10 minutes
what it used to take two people an hour to do.
Goes for $43, and I have a link to it down below this video.
Here's what comes in the box.
There's the device itself, smaller than
I thought it was going to be.
There's a carrying case with a loop
so you can attach it to your belt, a loop handle.
They give you the two double A batteries that it requires,
as well as a screwdriver to open up the battery case,
and the instruction book.
It's nice that they give you the batteries
and the screwdriver, everything you need to start using it.
I've looked through the instruction manual, fairly simple.
There aren't a lot of buttons, so you have
to remember which ones to press.
Now right now, I've got the laser, 'cause it does use
a laser for the measurement, I see it up on the ceiling.
I'll put it behind me here.
You see it on the wall there?
Okay, how far is it from here to the wall?
Push the button.
3.940 feet.
So pretty close to four feet from here to the wall.
Let's check it out.
I'm showing four feet and one inch,
but it's pretty rough measuring.
After you take a measurement, the light stays on
for a few seconds, and then goes out to save power,
but it does leave the last reading on the screen.
And you can go back, I think, to the last five
historical measurements that you made.
Something helpful in getting this level when you're
taking the measurements are these two bubble levels here.
And on the top of the device, the laser's emitted
through here, and the larger lens is what captures
the reflection, I guess, and is able to determine
based on time, the distance to an object.
It is a laser, so you do not want to point this
in your eye or anyone else's eye.
I'm gonna use my tape measure to measure exactly
six feet from the door, and then from that point,
I will try this, see how accurate it is.
It's supposed to be accurate to within 1/16th of an inch.
I don't even know if this has 1/16th of an inch marks on it.
I've got my tape measure lined up with the door.
It's actually one inch off, so I have to go to
six feet one inch to have it actually show
72 inches.
So here we are.
Now with this, I'm going to turn it on,
change the units here to inches.
Okay.
And I did discover, playing around with this a little,
that it measures from the back of it, not from this point.
So that, I wondered why everything was off
for four inches each time I measured.
But the idea is you put this against what it is
you want to measure, and that way
you'll get an accurate reading right from that.
So, you can see I've already got the laser light out here.
Let's put the back of this at six feet one inches,
and turn it on here.
We've got that laser light pointed at the door,
and let's measure.
71 and 15/16 inches, which is pretty darn close
to six feet, seventy-two inches.
Next up I wanna try some math.
Now I've measured this door, and from the very bottom
of the door to the top is six feet nine inches, which is,
well actually it's just under that.
So it's just under 81 inches.
So we've got this set for inches.
Now to get into the mode where it can do that kind
of trigonometry, I hit this, it said, three times.
One, two, three.
Oh, I see, we've got a triangle there.
Okay, and then I turn it on.
And the first laser point I shoot at the bottom.
The second measurement, we do at the top.
And then we should find out that this door
is six feet nine inches tall.
So here are the measurements to the bottom of the door,
it was 85 and 15/16 inches.
The measurement to the top of the door from this
exact same point is 118 inches.
So, using trigonometry, it figured out that
the height of the door is 80 and 13/16 inches,
which is exactly what I measured,
just under 81 inches tall.
This will be used outdoors as well, I imagine.
So let's see how bright the laser is for using it outdoors.
Let me turn it on, get a measurement here.
And can you see it there on the garage door?
Push to measure.
Says 77 inches.
And let's see on the concrete.
A little bit harder to see.
It's able to measure just fine, though, 81 and 9/16 inches.
How about on a reflective surface like the car?
66 inches.
I wonder if it can do the window,
if it would tell me the window.
Let's see if it'll work on glass.
Nope, gave me an error, doesn't like working on glass.
Trying to record an even sunnier garage door next door.
I keep coming up with error 204.
I think there's too much sunlight shining on it,
so it can't get a reading back from the laser.
- Okay, if I wanna get a giant welcome mat
to fill this space in front of the door, and I need to know
how many square inches it would be,
I can set this to, yeah it's that one.
And so now, I take two measurements.
I take one across, and one lengthwise.
And it will tell me the area.
So I've got it against the wall here.
The dot is over there, with some leftover
fluorescent paint from our Halloween decorations.
Push the button.
The first measurement (mumbles) 60 inches that way.
And then this way, you get the dot on the wall.
Push the button.
Okay, so it's giving me a measurement.
The area of this space is
30.311 square feet.
Thank you to Suaoki for sending me this laser measure
to try out, amazingly accurate, did everything I asked.
Just had a little trouble with a sunny garage door
at quite a distance, but the fact that it has the accuracy
of the laser measuring and it has basically
a scientific calculator built into it
to do all the mathematical calculations.
I guess I will be using this in the future,
and maybe retire this guy.
It goes for just under $45,
and there's a link to it right below this video.
I think that's a pretty good price,
considering the time and labor saving and the fact
that you don't need someone else to help you out
with the tape measure, you can pretty much do it
all by yourself with this guy.
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