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- I'm Jarod Deanda and this is Snap-on Tool Tips.
Scott, we're talking about multimeters, electricity,
you know, just,
it's kind of intimidating for some technicians out there.
Snap-on trying to ease everybody's mind,
trying to find the remedy and we have a solution for you
when it comes to a multimeter.
We kick things off with traditional.
I mean, everybody has seen this traditional multimeter.
It's vertical.
Why would Snap-on go, as they develop this family,
go horizontal, I gotta ask that question.
- Right? So first and foremost, you can kind of tell is,
obviously, the display is much larger
on these horizontal units as it is on the vertical units.
So from that perspective
it gives you a lot better viewing angle,
allows you to see the data much easier and clearer,
and especially if you're at a distance
or in a restricted area where you're tucked up
underneath the dash or wherever you might be.
So that's number one.
Number two, it allows you to actually have a cord wrap.
So allows you to keep yourself organized,
keep your tools all in one place,
rather than having your cords and stuff sort of scattered
all over the place.
- This traditional multimeter, great.
You see these in a lot of technicians' hands,
but with the advancements of vehicles, technology,
all those things,
Snap-on is running alongside the technology that's going on.
So, if you would, please, step into good, better, best good.
Good, this is the digital multimeter basic.
- Right, so the basic one is a great entry-level tool.
And what's important to note about all three of these,
is that they all have true RMS.
True RMS is the most accurate way to measure AC voltage
because it tells it to you in real time
versus averaging a signal.
And that's important because as cars get more advanced,
AC becomes more prevalent.
So ABS systems, things like that, you need a true RMS signal
to be able to understand what is going on with that system.
The traditional doesn't have that.
- Yeah, so it basically finds the finite details
to remedy a solution and fix the problem.
- That's right.
So obviously it does all the basics that you would have
in a traditional multimeter.
So it does ohms, voltage, amps, Hertz, frequency,
and that nice display is perfect for the sun.
There's no backlight, so it allows you to easily read it
in sunlight.
- Yeah, if you take it outside,
you're going to be easily readable and legible.
Moving on to our next digital multimeter,
this is the enhanced.
Cause, basically this one, CAT II.
As the technology grows, this one right here,
the enhanced, is capable to work with hybrid capabilities,
basically.
- Correct.
So this is CAT III rated, which is great
because hybrid vehicles have a lot of voltage,
which means you have to have CAT III.
So as more and more vehicles come out
that have hybrid drives, whether it's, you know,
gas with an electric motor or all electric,
you have to have something like this to do it safely.
- Yep, and that's all about hybrid safety.
Also another feature, temp - That's right.
- because I mean, that's, that's very popular.
- Yeah, temp is the second most used tool
to diagnose something.
So, people say, "Why would you have a temperature gauge
in a multimeter? I'm here to measure voltage?"
Well, you could look at temperature of an alternator
and see if it's way out of spec (laughs)
or even something as simple as, you know,
hey, I want to figure out what's going on
with this radiator hose. Is there a blockage?
Maybe it's, you know, the car's running rough
and you're trying to figure out what's going--
maybe it's the catalytic converter.
You can check pre- and post-temps with it.
So, something as simple as that.
But also what's really cool is this also has capacitance.
And capacitance is the ability to store voltage,
and so it allows an electric motor to start up
without any lag.
So, hybrid vehicles, you need to be able to figure that out,
this will help you with that.
- And that's even on combustion vehicles, you know,
how they sit at idle and all that kind of thing.
Technology advancements, again, very intimidating,
but finding a solution.
So good, better, best, the best right here,
the advanced Bluetooth right out of the gate.
I'm gonna talk about that.
So if you have this advanced digital multimeter,
download the app
because the multimeter could be another place
when you're sitting somewhere else
with either a tablet or device.
- Right. This is just, as it says, it's the most advanced.
So it gives you the app capability, allows you to do,
you know, jobs where you're on one end of the vehicle
and you have your tablet on the other side,
you're able to read what's going on,
whether you're inside an engine bay
and then you're in the car.
So very cool piece of technology.
And then obviously this adds everything that the enhanced
and the basic have, but it adds a few more features.
So this has an RPM pickup. So we give you this with it.
That allows you to figure out what's going on with,
you know, each individual cylinder,
you can see what's going on with the pickup.
What's also really cool about this
is it'll measure pulse width and that's important
because you're actually getting a true reading
at the injector or, you know, when that pulse has happened.
- Yeah. - So it can tell you finitely
if that injector is off just a little bit
and it needs to be replaced or whatever it might be.
So that's very cool.
- Yeah. It's, I mean,
it's very intimidating just seeing all this.
Comes with the extensions, as you can see.
As you step up there are more extensive extensions
and just trying to put the technician's mind at ease.
- Yeah. And what's really cool, too,
is that this captures very, very fast signal.
So up to one millisecond, which is really, really quick.
So it catches a lot of things that some of the others can't
because it catches it at such a finite rate.
- Scott, four different multimeters.
So you can go from the traditional
all the way up to advanced.
Snap-on Tools has a solution for you.
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