 Good weekend youtubers. Thanks for stopping back by the channel today We're gonna be having a look in-depth at the new snap-on EEDM 596 Smart multi meter we're gonna see what it's able to do all of its capabilities what it can't do in my opinions and reviews on this Product stay tuned So this tool is a tool that we mechanics have been waiting for for some time We've been waiting for something that was hopefully a game changer in the market of the digital multi meter field This one the EEDM 596 f the tool itself is Pretty compact. It doesn't seem to be as big as it was in all of the early pictures and everything It's about eight inches by five inches It's a really nice, you know hold it into a larger hand We're gonna look and see what else comes in the package. It does come in this nice fancy snap-on soft shell case and then inside We have our standard leads We've got an rpm pickup Temperature probe an adapter to go into the meter our standard alligator clips The instructions for the tool These did not come in it, but I put them in there anyways There were a couple of back probe picks and then you would think that oh this is really cool Snap-on put in their very own really cool machined little USB thing You know, I wonder if that is some kind of interactive thing or Some kind of program to show you what to do and how to use it No, that just shows you the instructions in six different languages. So interesting as it may be That's all it is. So let's get into the actual capabilities of the machine So as I said before this is a really nice easy ergonomic design It is more of a horizontal design meter rather than a vertical meter like most other hand tools When we turn this one thing on we go through the different functions The first one we come to is the voltage and AC and DC this thing is very responsive Works really well, and then you see this little LPF I'm not sure if this is like something that just snap-on is kind of has as a marketing thing or What it you know, they actually pointed it as but it does work really well. It's called a low-pass filter What it's going to do is in your AC voltages you're always going to have peaks that are higher and Valleys that are lower and they just point out, you know more than other ones this low-pass filter is going to take away those spikes of Readings and keep the meter from jumping around it's going to level everything out a whole lot more So I would generally just keep the low-pass filter on you know more often is what I would do So that's that function then we have the millivolts just moves the Little decimal place over and it also becomes just a little bit more touchy on the readings that it has I've come to notice I did have a chance to talk to a couple of the reps over it snap on to get an idea of what the Capabilities for this thing were as compared to what you guys asked question-wise on my Instagram account and just questions in general one of the questions was is this a true RMS meter and Yes, it is it does not have to have the low-pass filter on to become a true RMS Meter it is a true RMS meter all the time. So you do not have to worry about that one Ohms Works there. I do also like the nice colored screen all the different variations of color in it Working with your Hertz temperature We'll plug this one in real quick just to give you guys a nice little view of that So instantly we get a good temp And we're going to see it adjust very quickly and accurately at the same time Let go of our little probe Adjust back very quickly. So this one is going to be really nice because it's got a nice lead. It's wrapped up It's about three and a half feet long. So sticking into dashes or sticking down into engines Into bays areas like that. It'll make it really nice for that one able to get into all the places that you need You got micro amps mill amps and amps in the setting Here on top to go with that your amps and then for your micro amps and the temp gauge If you're wanting to do the micro amps, you're gonna have to put in your lead into that port Amps is still a standard 10 amp function volts it does go up to 1000 volts standard as you can see volts DC 1000 volts DC AC you're working at a possible 750 volts AC it is calibrated for hybrids able to work in that aspect Then we get up here into this range your pulse and duty cycles You're able to change between when you've got these things hooked up to the different engines for your RPM you're able to change it between four cylinder and Others For the pickup Look at that all the way up to a 12 cylinder motor and down to a one cylinder So you're able to do a Harley or you know some kind of a lawnmower motor something along those lines So like I said all these functions work very well The knob easy to turn does have really good detent so it's not gonna flop around on you your range It takes the auto off and then you are able to range into the Tents hundreds thousandths all the way across so you've got four or five different ranges there to Select from You are able to record what you read and we will get into that also in the app because that is the whole reason That everybody bought this meter in the first place Everyone asked what can this meter do that any of the other ones can't do this thing is a Bluetooth meter So how we're gonna actually connect to that is this little button right here is just the Bluetooth Function so you would be able to turn that on and it puts out its Bluetooth signal Once you turn on the Bluetooth signal the app here is the eedm 596 Fk app 4 snap on this is what the app looks like they made it just for this meter alone so you can hit the connect button Finds it right away You're able to select your meter then the one thing that I thought would have been really nice and really cool about this Is if you could change your settings from right here on the the turn knob But I know that this is actually a manual selector between the different circuits in this So it's not a capable function. Otherwise, they would have had to had it You know extra relays and this thing would have probably been twice the size to be able to do that So once you switch this thing through You see your meter Instantly changes and you also see what I like look how fast this connection is You really can't tell the difference in this the connection rate is super fast And then you are also able to click here to graph this So this is a graphing multimeter. However, you cannot graph on the meter itself. It graphs through the app alone So see if we can get zoomed into the actual graph here the other downside that Everyone has seemed to find with this meter is that the graph function in this The timetable is what is messed up So in this outer version of the timetable you are only able to see one second of Actual graphing at a time which if you're testing like a wheel speed sensor or something It doesn't really help that much you can zoom in farther and see closer, but If you're wanting to see like an eighth of a second at a time What's really the point you're not going to get a whole lot of data and see everything very quickly and very easily So zooming out That's the farthest you're able to zoom out. You have about a second of time frame there However, there is a way around that to be able to see more. You're able to hit the record button It starts to record everything that it sees you can see that the screen is a little bit dimmer I don't like that. It does that I would like that it would record but not dim the screen so we've got about 15 seconds of recording there and It is going to show you your men your max and your average during your recording. You can save this So we can save it there It's applied in our saved area and then if we would like to see what we just recorded You're going to go up here to the top to the result section And you can see all the different test results that we have taken I'm going to go to this one and then it's going to bring up our test results The men the max the average of whatever test results that we have also You are also able to share this Results you can see your graph here at the bottom When I test was testing earlier 12 volts up and down for 14 volts up and down of Testing the charging of a vehicle, but I was letting on and off the meter. So you can see the Duty cycle and me moving the meter Right there the timetable works as the exact amount that you would have recorded During the test So I think that's pretty cool You can fill out all these other things on the top you can fill in your work order To make the model license plate of it and you can then send this to Anybody you want via email or connect to other apps you message it messenger Facebook all that other kind of stuff So that's kind of neat that you can record it and you can send it to anybody Their results of whatever you were testing Also done here at the bottom. We'll see if you can see it very well It's all the buttons that are on the meter as well So if you're wanting to change and turn on and off the low-pass filter can't do that the Hold button you can apply the hold for the peak at min and max right from the app What else can you do here? You can switch between AC and DC Relativity You can select exactly what you would like to record Min max average whereas if you just leave it standard wise the Recording is going to show everything and then your range you can auto-range it or change the ranges as well So all in all there's a whole lot of functions to the app. It works very well Connect to the device You can change your shop information and what version the tool is on So as I said the only downside that I see to the actual app itself is going to be the timetable I did also talk to the developers of the tool and the app and they said very likely in the future They are going to be in the near future They said they're going to be coming up with a patch to the app to where you can change the timetables here on The app as well, which will be very nice for the graphing functions It would have been cool to see some of the graphing actually built into the meter itself But you know, you can only hope for so much. So there is The only graphing that you're going to get on the app All right, so now we're going to start talking some of the accessories that come with this one The accessories that actually come with it as I showed earlier. First off, you have the standard meter leads They're like three and a half foot long They have the tips on the ends that screw off and are able to put different tips and different accessories on The actual cable is able to wrap around the whole meter And then there's a little strap right there on the bottom of it to be able to hold it in place One of the worst things that we had while testing this was all right I want to use the Bluetooth function of it. Where am I going to put my $700 meter? Well, you know you kind of SOL on that one You've got a standard back for it that flips out so you can set it up On a surface, but it doesn't really come with any kind of case or anything like that There is a little strap area and it will work for this strap The magnetic hook strap. That's what they tell me my snap-on rep didn't have one to actually show you guys So I've got one on order, but they said that that one should be able to fit into that section quite nicely I already showed the two temp probes in the pickup and then the other one that I had the chance to try out was the Snap-on low amp probe part number on this one is EET a 308d I wanted to try this one because I guess the The point of it. I wanted to try was for low amp like battery and off draws And we wanted to try this one for graphing as well, but I wanted to use it for a low amp off draw It doesn't work so well mostly because this tool is so fine-tuned that the pickup on it is Way too wigged out It goes back and forth and jumps all over the place because it is an actual magnetic pickup Like if I had a magnet sitting in my pocket It would throw the reading off of it you would set it on millivolts because even as an amp probe this thing does the Conversion from volts to amps, but you have to plug it into the volt side of the meter, which doesn't really make that much sense But that's how they have said that you have to do it It's got a couple of different settings 20 and 60 amp on it and then you have to sit here and convert it because you've got it on Amps which converts that one from amps to mille amps and It's a whole bit of confusing It took like 20 minutes of me talking with tech support to try to get it to work And even then the thing was jumping all around the place. So really it would work, but it's more Better used for using in graphing situations with like a Zeus like the oscilloscope It it's able to pick up pick up really fine low amp functions like for fuel pump pulses things like that So I would not recommend using that for your meter They said the technology really doesn't exist for finding low amp draw clamp to be able to clamp on Still if you want to find amp draws you're gonna have to hook this thing up with a battery in series to be actually accurate So in closing we're gonna go through my pluses and minuses of it on the positive side of things I really like the screen. I like that. It's nice and ergonomic I like that it's a horizontal grab rather than a vertical grab is most meters have been an R I like the Bluetooth function. It is very fast very responsive very quick on that one The range functions on this gives you a whole lot of play the auto works very well as well The low-pass filter is a really cool, you know option for it it keeps your meeting from jumping around on certain applications and then the fact that it's an RMS meter is Just another little add-on plus to the side of things so all in all great meter To the minuses the app as we said before the timescale on graphing it The whole point of having this is being a graphing meter if we don't have enough time to see our graph live then Not too much of an extra point to it. So hopefully they change that one in the next app update That's a little bit glitchy in the app when you go to the high and low functions when you're when you're recording the peaks and the lows So hopefully that will get fixed also And the fact that it doesn't come with any kind of like hangar or case In with the kit especially when you're talking a price range. This thing is going to be selling for $699 so I wish you guys would have put some kind of hanger or a case with it That would have been something a little bit better But all in all I am still going to keep it. I'm going to purchase it have it on you know for my everyday tool Because I really like this as a functioning meter. It's really really nice and I Like it so I don't know what you guys think about it Leave down in the comments. Tell me what you guys think what you guys wish it would have had Maybe some other options for the future if you guys get a chance to check out that in the app Let me know send me a message. Tell me what you think what you guys Think it should have or did have what you like what you don't like about it. Leave those down in the comments below Well guys, that's about all the information I got for you today Hopefully this was nice and informational for you able to give you guys a good buying guide on what you think That you should get for this tool like I said it is going to sell for right around $699.99 700 big ones here in the United States Thank you again for tuning in today I really appreciate all the views and all the support that you guys give me and thanks and you guys stay awesome