let's be honest Rick to say you love a gadget and a tool is a massive understatement and ever since
Eddie turned up from Pegasus Electrical to install the trunking system here with his Milwaukee laser
level you've been trying to get your hands on your own as I look down on the desk it looks
like you've achieved that but we haven't got the Milwaukee one so what we got in front of us no so
we've got a Cigman CM701 from a well known online retailer that offers next day delivery so we're
saying maybe this is competitively priced and we will leave a link in the description to it
however make sure you stay on to the end depending on when you're watching this you might be able to
get your hands on one of these for free yeah I've just popped it in this box Gaz for demonstration
if I flick that switch on there you'll see that it's automatically self-leveled if I tilt it ever
slightly it starts to blink that indicates that it hit its limits and it's not going to
level anymore it's also got a 360 degree beam okay so when you say 360 degrees it's because I
can rotate it around 360 Degrees nice that the beam is physically going 360 degrees round and
if you see there we've got the beam going up and across the roof effectively yeah in two directions
so we've got two vertical and one horizontal thanks for the obstacle on what 360 degrees
means when it comes to laser levels you want to go through the buttons for me next yeah let
me just flick this on a minute so each of these buttons so we've got one horizontal two vertical
just look at my hand there we can see it turns each
on and off and we've got a one here also okay so as I look down here we've also got what looks
like another power on button is there any other functions for that yeah so again if you look at
my hand you'll see that every time I press this it cycles the brightness and back to full and
the four LEDs are which two illuminated by the look of things are for the battery levels how
long would it last on full charge approximately 30 hours and how do I recharge it to recharge it
we've got a USB C cable here we just pop open the side oops just flickering I'll just turn that off
and from my earlier bit I'll take it with flickering because it wasn't in the level
plane that's correct so pop it into them we can charge you could go USBC to C we've got a C to
A on the charging leader sent with it just take a look at the bottom here Gaz there's a standard
quarter inch UNC threaded adapter also in the pack the sender's a floor mount which will attach so if
you screw those two together am I thinking that most tripods also got the same sort of adaption
they have yes okay so that's on there and we know it can spin 360 degrees so we saw that earlier on
when you turn it on am I right in thinking that I'm going to have to use my hand in order to make
the adjustment against the wall or ceilings or floor you can make them with your hand or you can
use this adjustment dial here to make some fine adjustments if you're out like me you're a little
bit heavy-handed Cigman have also got you covered with this bracket here it's the same threading
method we screw that onto there and in the back of the bracket there is a slight keyhole which allows
us to fire a screw into the wall and then we can hang it from there okay and that removes the need
for us to say carry a tripod around on site to mount it and as I look at the back I can also
see a couple of magnets so we took it outside at Line Side Studios and attached it to the scaffold
that is currently surrounding our building to see if it can work outside we know that some
laser levels can be difficult to see when you're outside but we projected all three lines against
the building and they were all visible I'm getting more and more convinced as this video goes on I'm
in the description I'm almost clicking that link but remember stay on to the very end and you can
find out how you can get your hands on one of these for absolutely nothing now talking about
getting your hands on it Rick you've been all around Line Sides Studios with this using it
to level up your mineral insulated cable in the kitchen area you've used it up in our office in
order to make sure our dado trunking is dead in line you've also been in our workshop where we
have our metal trunking surrounding the whole of the room in order to get it level but what
if I don't want a level horizontal vertical plane has it got me covered yes if you want to bring in
that box okay bring the cardboard box back in what you gotta show me now then Rick you want to grab
the camera we'll just go back to earlier we flick this into the on position or the self-leveling mod
we can see there we're getting the rapid blinks to indicate that it's hits limits
but you're obviously wanting it on the angle to do that we need to flick this switch back into
the off position okay so that locks the lasers but the one thing I have noticed is also turned itself
off it does yeah so if we just hold down the on button here for three seconds you can also see
here on the top of the unit we've got a red LED which indicates that it's in non-self leveling mod
and as I tilt this see we get a fixed angle the intermittent blink there that you're seeing is
just to to let us know that it's it's not in the self-leveling mode okay somebody else is going
to pick it up and I just have as well there's a little gap here what's happening there yeah
so that's not my finger in the way it's actually part of this unit so as you look at the top here
there's these little arms which are obviously part of the fixture in but obviously impeding
the uh the laser beam okay now everyone knows I don't like an app but I absolutely love a remote
control and I've seen the one out of corner of my the eye that looks the simplest remote control in
the world to work can you just go through the buttons for us yeah so as on top we've got on
and off so we've got vertical one on are off even and then we've got vertical two on and off
and then we've got the horizontal again on and off and in the corner here we've got
the brightness so as you press that I should see this dim down yep yeah you can see it's
cycling through on there to say you're winning me over it would be an understatement but let's
do some of that technical babble yeah so the leveling accuracy has a plus or minus 1.5 mil
per five meters okay yeah the working distance is 30 meters okay and it's got an IP rating of
IP54 it's I'm always impressed with the amount of great information you can remember Rick however
you would have remembered at the start of this video I suggested I was going to give one of
these away in order to find out how you can win this and if you're a little bit late there might
be something else you can win the competition tab is in the description however if you're
interested in other great electricians tools we recommend you check out the video just there