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- You may remember in a previous video that Gary
introduced me to the Wiha speedE electric screwdriver.
Now we decided that the best way to test this device
was to have a race to see who could do
a M 3.5 socket screw the quickest.
However, for once we decided to swap roles in the race,
Gary took the advanced tech in the form
of the speedE screwdriver
while I used an old school screwdriver just by hand.
But what didn't change in the race is that I still won
so as you can imagine this left Gary
in a little bit of a stew.
Now this is really exciting because we've managed
to get hold of the brand new overhauled, updated,
speedE II electric screwdriver.
However, we thought it best probably not to let Gary review
it just in case his ignoble defeat should bias his opinion.
So here it is that Wiha speedE II shipped straight here
from Germany ready for us to have a look at.
So, first of all, let's get it out of the box
and have a look at it
and then we can do some comparisons of the technical specs
against the original speedE screwdriver.
Okay, so first things first, let's get this out
of its cellophane wrapper.
So we'll get this opened up and have a look
at what we've got going on inside here.
So this is quite an exciting thing for me.
I live a little bit of sort of a nerdy bit
of technology like this so this is looking pretty good.
So this is the box that it comes in
and if we open that up I'm not sure how you get into here,
but it's got this kind of split down the middle.
So I'm assuming that that just slides open, look at that.
Well, if they put as much thought into the engineering
of the product as they have in the engineering of the box,
then we're probably in for a good bit of fun.
'Cause that is pretty cool.
So let's have a look at what we get inside here
and there we go, we've got this cover part here
and there's some information on there.
All of it in German on this one.
Okay, so that's not much help to me.
Okay, we've got some manuals and information
on the battery charger there but this is what we came for.
Let's have a look at what's inside the box.
I do love this about Wiha products you get these absolutely
fantastic little carry cases that this stuff comes in,
which is brilliant.
So there's the original Wiha speedE
let's have a look at the speedE II now
so we'll open this up and we'll see what's inside
the box and here we go.
What are we getting inside here?
So this is exactly as it's come from the factory.
This is what we're getting.
So we've got here the screwdriver itself.
So that's pretty cool.
So that actually at first glance, that looks, yeah,
that's quite a bit bigger.
Now, that's quite interesting.
There's obviously a reason for that
and we'll get onto that in a moment,
but you can see there that a side by side comparison
leaves this looking an awful lot bigger than the new one.
So it's a little bit longer, a little bit sort of beefier
and I would imagine fits in the hands
quite nicely, actually that's quite good.
That's quite cool.
So what have we got on here that's of interest to us?
So we've got similar stuff to before we've got the twist
mechanism there for the trigger to start it turning.
So just twisting that will make it go one way
and then the other.
And we've got now this additional little switch here
widget which is interesting.
You see that we've got Min-Max,
so that's pretty cool
and that we'll talk about what exactly
that means momentarily,
but that's a new feature as well.
Inside the box we've got two different
screwdriver bits here.
We've got the slotted Pozi number two here.
That's traditionally been used in recent times
to do up the screws in consumer units
and circuit breakers and such like
and then we've got this little flat screwdriver here
as well which is quite nice
and that lovely little bits of kit these
I do like them and obviously they are insulated
VDE rated up to a 1000 Volts.
So absolutely fantastic.
So that's really good.
Interesting that one's red and one's yellow.
And again, there's a reason for that as well.
So we'll have a look at the thinking behind
that in a minute or two.
Okay and we've got the battery charger
just charged by plugging into a USB outlet
and we've got two batteries.
So that's one of the things I do quite like about this
is the fact that it comes with two batteries
means that you can always have one charging
while using one, which limits your downtime
when the batteries die.
Now, I don't think this will be charged up straight out
of the box but we'll have a look at where it goes anyway
and do the back cap there and see what we've got.
So we've got the battery there
and I can't see any information on the inside
of this to tell me which way round it's going to go.
So we'll need to have a look in the instructions for that.
However, I suspect, oh just down the bottom there yeah,
there is a little plus symbol down there.
So that is going to be that in going in there.
Okay so that's cool.
Just in there like that then it's got this little seal
on it as well 'cause it's got a specific IP rating,
which is pretty good.
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Oh and look at that we've got a little bit of charge
there which is good.
Oh wow, that's new as well that's fantastic.
So let's have look at that in a moment,
we can see there on the original speedE screwdriver
you had the one LED there to illuminate your work
area while you're doing your screws up
and on this one we've got a ring of LEDs
on there so that's pretty cool.
Look what like that that's a change.
I'm not sure why that flashes after use,
but that's pretty cool.
You got a lot more light there.
That's quite intense as well, actually.
So just be careful pointing at your eyes.
So that's cool that's one new change.
That's interesting.
But again, let's talk about some of the other changes
that are going on here because some of this
is really quite interesting.
And I think it's about time we had a look at digging
into the technical specs behind what's significantly
improved from the speedE mark I
to the speedE mark II.
So that's what's going on with the stuff you can see,
but what about what's happening inside
this updated screwdriver?
What makes it a step up from the original iteration?
Well, there's a couple of key changes.
The first is that little Min-Max power switch,
which we looked at earlier.
When set to Min, as you can see there the motor
in the screwdriver will cut out
at 0.4 newton meters of torque.
Exactly like the previous version of the screwdriver.
However, set the switch to Max
and it will now cut out at one newton meter.
So it will actually get to a tighter setting effectively.
So not only is there a bit more torque available,
but there's a measure of control there as well.
So maybe if you're doing up switching socket fronts
and you don't want to overtighten and crack the accessory,
then you would use the lower power setting
that would be appropriate for that use.
And if you're doing up connections
that need to be a little bit tighter,
such as maybe in a consumer unit
then the extra torque is available
if you set the switch to Max.
Now, quite a nice little additional feature
with this Min-Max button is that actually,
it's also color-coded.
So let's say for example, that you want to do up
some M3.5 screws on the front of sockets,
you'd set the switch to Min as we've already said.
And then what you do is you look
for the color-coded screwdriver bits.
So here the red color coding here indicates
that this is best used for the minimum setting.
So again, you'd use this screwdriver bit
to do up your switch and socket fronts.
And then if you want to do something
to the higher torque setting.
So if you're using something along the lines of,
this in a consumer unit, you set it to Max
and then what you can do is simply pop in
the screwdriver bit that's designed
for that heavier duty action.
So again, that would be used for doing up
your consumer unit screws.
So there's some extra little features there
that have gone into that, that I think are quite nice
and just worth having a little think about.
Now, I think it's important and fair to assess this tool
in the context of what it is and isn't designed for.
It is not designed to do screws up
to specific torque setting using the motor.
It's designed to help you in situations
where you have a lot of connections to make
to reduce the strain you can get in your hands
and wrists from doing up lots and lots of screws
in a repetitive fashion.
Torque setting bits are available
so once the maximum drive from the motor is achieved
you can complete the connection by hand.
So in other words, you get up to one newton meter
with the motor and then once that's finished,
you tighten up by handling it to the right torque setting.
The other feature worth mentioning here is that the motor
is faster than it was before.
The documentation claims that it is three times
as fast to do up a screw.
And if you remember from our previous video,
that was really the thing that we felt the speedE
was lacking as I managed to beat it doing up a screw
with just a regular screwdriver by hand.
So I think it's fair to say taking the Wiha speedE II
in context with the improvements in speed
and available torque.
I think that this tool is now one that is worthy
of your consideration rather than just a novelty item.
However, here at eFIXX we really love a race.
and I think the only way to really check
this out is to have a head-to-head between me and Gary
and between the speedE II and the old school screwdriver
that we used in a previous video.
So stay tuned for that in the future.
All that remains in this video is to say
thank you very much for watching.
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