EEVblog #1238 - Vion: The World's Worst Multimeter!

let's get into what this one's from stralla because it's possible thank you very much ke week's Queensland up bloody Queensland up don't know what I'm talking about anyway let's get into it what do we got simple oh oh oh oh I know this comes in a loose green case tomorrow it's the vion it's the world's it's upside down all the electrons gonna fall out it is thank you very much can't believe I got one it is Wow the world's Silius multimeter um this was a Kickstarter and IndieGoGo thing and there's a huge thread on the eevblog forum about this it was just like a debacle and it was just like a joke it's like a Bluetooth hooks up your phone and it's got LEDs on the top that light up and was supposed to measure all sorts of like stuff and their app looked ridiculous and they were there on multiple platforms and they delay after the delay but they to live it hats off and yeah the threat on the eevblog forums called vy on the world's silliest multimeter main in korea okay it's a South Korean thing they didn't get made in China that's interesting anyway the vion let's go and here it is check it out they actually had this on Kickstarter and also an IndieGoGo cuz you got to get have to sucks of the South these days everyone does that it's all the rage anyway they raised like over half a million bucks total you know that was a lot of money involved here anyway this was I think March 2018 so it's more than a year so it took him a long time to get it out but hey hats off they eventually did and there were lots of updates and comments about I think me and O people want their money back they're like 800 comments which is a lot received the vion it works great still waiting for the refund anyway everyone like wanted a refund they requested and vile and said that they would refund money and I'm not sure if they did I don't know I won't go into details anyway still waiting for the refund anyone refund refund refund and here it is all started by motley Snickers there's like ten pages of it as we followed the saga over like a year or something there's just no shortage of face palms and I come in to USB charging port yeah that's what you want a multimeter only works when two devices are charged meter plus phone and I love this on the page the rocker I see it's got point seven percent accuracy and I'm yeah and it just promised the world it really did testing the functioning electronic devices with the traditional multimeter is a hazard dials switches tethered leads and technical jargon and complexity and difficulty and keeping track of measurements can be a real pain as well now there's an easier way introducing violin the world's simplest bluetooth multimeter that's why unsimplified testing electronics for malfunctions it can automatically measure electrical output and send data to smartphones and the VAIO an app provides you a live feed of all the electrical measurements taken with violins bulbs it by owns unibody design makes it lightweight and easy to store perfect for your workshop your home or your car connect by onto your smartphone using Bluetooth and measure values in real time by on reads back stored measurements through voice guidance so why worry about looking to buy a phone by on gives you a simple good or bad result indicator so you'll know right Lyle time if your device is working properly by own has colored LEDs built into the photos for quick visual reference as well flashing lights for connectivity status use buy into check if your batteries are running low if your electronic devices are working correctly or if their wiring problems in your home by on caters toward both experts and novices and so it's most functions found on traditional multimeters so contractors and electricians can use it on the job as well as a boy trying to fix it or seek writing reading measurements the fine collects is easy but for those who like data you can review all the detailed information displayed in the by own app you can automatically detect the error of the device and have the measurements saved on the application vayan is the easiest and safest way to troubleshoot problems with electronic lights Christmas live iron eliminates the hassle and expenses of calling for repair services anyone can easily use it for countless situations gita' unlike other multimeters biown has no body making its paired probes easy to store and carry sure it is easy to stop by on the world's simplest bluetooth multiple silliest motivator and they've got another video here where they duped a bunch of Mechanical Engineering students into like talking it up and I I won't embarrass them by showing the video anyway yeah that's what you want you want to put your phone there instead of having a multimeter on the bench that's cheap and easy and rugged and just works and lasts forever yeah you want to have your phone there next to your vion yeah that's the way out in the field do you want to use your phone what makes vion different tangled mess hard to use our multimeters are so hard to use to put it to volts in it gives you a display of volts and no data storage too bulky to carry tangled mess existing multimeter positive and negative probes versus the vayan which has two probes but their point there is just showing that you know it's either polarity it's like you can do that on a multimeter too you don't have to put it the right way around you know has seen now on the eevblog real time storage anyone can use it can be used by the general public and experts let's measure your light socket measure your light bulb and the applications all about the app we'll check that out and check this out this is hilarious it can measure em doctors get seen values of Mahendra's solid red light battery adapters DC solid blue is outlet luminaries AC detection solid green indicates broken objects okay that makes sense existing multimeter fire and it only displays numbers but the thigh on can automatically diagnose and battery life based on and automatically diagnosis and battery life based on measurement target what automatic detection of ac/dc and resistance yeah you can actually get multimeters that do that that actually automatically switch like the same price or cheaper than the vion and I love this purchasing you can direct purchase the product from the app I'm not sure if they ever got this working but the whole idea is that if it detected you how to blow in light bulb it would automatically order you a new light bulb like it's no idea what type of light bulb it is so dumb confirming voltage output you can test 1.5 and 3 volt batteries can it no check that size shape variety for usability inconvenient they're inconvenient size multimeters where maybe it's safe blue tech expert general use on my voice guide store connection complete detail analysis of your fault they claim in the world for this silly thing for whom adults children grammar and experts Hitler mustache this is great oh you're that blown multimeter look blowing are you doing to blow me up your cheap-ass multimeter and did you buy on instead all they're spelled inductor right this time find our automatic detection of also it's a crap voice guide it's easy storage anyway he goes on and on and on and on and on and everyone thought like Joe public thought that this was a good idea like unbelievable no no just not but hey Dave don't knock it till you tried it ok well let's give it a burl shall we um the first thing is well this case is kind of nice look at the physical size of this thing it is enormous to enter this pokey little plastic thing is just ridiculous look positive click clip which you can't get out so you toss that because that's just ridiculous and look at this even if you kept your manual in there that's ludicrous why alright so it's the via on VMs of v7 makes it sound like they've it's really refined oh there you go you can download the app yourself manufactured and sold on the responsibility of why Tech Co is the guarantor of this product slip main body sub body at like Yeah right okay whatever look it says what charging instructions p1 p2 p1 3 what p1 is this one over here we haven't even looked at the thing yet like I'd like that's just confusing uh-huh anyway you got to recharge it alright well the first thing I notice is that the this is like really stiff and it's just kind of annoying anyway big flexi curly cord on it and it feels very plastic II as you'd expect there's the VMS v 7 it's made in that south korea excellent my multimeters made in South Korea they make good stuff microUSB B type we've got a power button there there we go they're switch it on how do we do we have to hold it on to switch it on yeah we're gonna hold it oh jeez I can barely see that flash in like I like oh there there it is so if you hold it like that that's all automatic that's already a fail a product design fail right there if you're holding it like this you can't you can barely see that flash you've got to have it like that and then it appears greenish on this side and well I don't not even sure that's a flush in blue is it I think that's supposed to be blue looks very greeny to me anyway oh I don't know no no no no I do notice one attention to detail this one over here has a dual band this one has a single band that's to identify them that's he can't actually push those together can you so that you can shove it up the clock of it like it's not a ring it's just a lid on one side of the PCB yeah fail already and the second fail to charge this thing there's no USB port of course because you can't have a cat safety rated and external metal so you've got to actually undo this does it have a metal threaded it's not captive so you're gonna lose that screw alright that's gone ski don't know what the battery like I can't even get that out how do you how do you get that out there's no like little indent in the plastic oh I figured it out look there's a little fingernail it's not this part here it's that there you go oh goodness do they tell you that in the manual they probably do yes they do read the manual Dave right so there's your little battery little one hand and then there's a little microUSB for charging so you've got to like stick this in at right angles and charge the thing no no just just no anyway there is a metal threaded insert there so that's good attention to detail but like they should have made this thing with like a screw off cap or something like that that had like a single double-a and then a boost converter in there and like it should have done it something like that because like like bluetooth like moaning even bluetooth multimeters that I take a lot of power you can run forever on like a single double-a cell no worries whatsoever so yeah I don't I don't like the rechargeable thing I don't know how long it lasts doesn't tell you and on the other one down in there there's our fuse none of that HRC rubbish glass all the way with LBJ supposed to be a hundred million fuse hmm anyway they did advertise this originally as having current capability but they've removed that you can't measure current so the fuse is just for its in generic protection on the input well even when you put the screw in here I really don't like that I can prise that apart like that and there's only one clip on the like other side kind of holding it in because I know Roenick Lee you take the screw out of here and you're supposed to prise it up from this side which has the clip on it just no bad design now what are my problems with this flashing indicator not only does it work on the other side really but is that you can't you would ultimately probably forget what the indicators actually mean for various things and it's actually it requires quite a bit of force to actually pull that apart like that to get your probes there's a lot of force and that Springs back like that so if I'm trying to get on the ends of something jeez that's it's really annoying anyway let's measure this battery and we get a flashing red and I presume flashing red is bad let's measure another battery and we get a solid red well is that good or bad I assume flushing is worse than solid and if we get our 9-volt battery which they show you that you can test in there and that one's a flushing ones so there's nine volt battery is supposed to be in the same condition as this no no it didn't like that did it it had to recover let's let's try that again if we go straight from there over to here oh it's switched off no my finger didn't accidentally press that it's switched off okay that's annoying this is supposed to be super intelligent smart 9-volt battery supposed to be in the same condition as this let's get a real multimeter and let's measure that shall we this will be backwards my 9.6 right so this is a brand spanking new 9-volt battery it's flashing red and this double-a it it want to be good wah wah it's not it's point eight volts so this is bad and it gives a flashing red this is good it gets the same flashing red and this triple-a battery it's good and it gives a solid red so yeah right off the bat it's failed between single cell and multi cell 9-volt batteries it's just not intelligent enough to know the difference and let these instructions make absolutely no sense okay blue is AC okay red is DC as we saw green is resistance okay and a blinking red blue need to charge the battery okay red light blinking automatically off what like it doesn't tell you like we're like good bad battery things like that I mean one of the primary uses for this would be testing batteries and I can't even give you I think this is just a jumbled gibberish I can't even like to say okay what does a solid red mean when it's like DC what is a flashing red mean it's just not they're stupid let's see if we get our continuity yeah eventually there's there's no latching cotton your tea there's no buzzer so yeah right there it can't match any multimeter on the market okay supposed to be 300 volt cat 3 rated no independent certification or anything like that so I'm gonna be brave and shove this right up the mains clicker and then we're gonna whack that in there like that no I just switched off damnit solid blue okay so it's detected AC but yeah okay Wow survived mains anyway and can we go straight to that yep and if you measure resistors with it of course it should be exactly the same it can't differentiate it can't do anything if it have a buzzer in it you think it would be able to like if you are totally like a different tone or something for different values of resistance that would have been like obvious and handy let's see if a meg works yep let's see if 10 Meg does the business yep makes no difference whether or not it's a low value or it's like 1 ohm it's a short or going up to 10 Meg or whatever it just shows you a green light I mean me you would think that you know the least they could have done is maybe had like a bar graph LED display or something like without the phone without connecting this to the phone it's it's borderline useless for anything really and one of their big claims is that are well multimeters are hard to use and difficult and technical and all that well at least you have the knobs switch to V and you know you know that's volts you have this switched over to ohms I mean anyone can learn that and it's obvious visual thing if you just get this out of your car glovebox and go measure something you don't know you can't remember what these flashing lights do okay carry around your manual but it's pretty useless like unbelievable alright let's give this a bow I scanned the Android app and well let's go open link bio multimeter install waiting for download verified by play protect who is play protect yep 2.5 stars out of 24 reviews mostly one star rating very frustrating to say the least app would not his store properly create account not in English when finally in the store would be for the device would not pair with Android Sam saying like yeah we're not doing well here we go vai on login why do I have to login I just want to operate a damn multimeter why you load up the 121 GW Bluetooth that you don't have to sign into anything it just works turn bluetooth on refresh there's a multimeter connected there it is it just works no logging crap no nothing that's how it should be anyway it looks like there is a skip option allowing access photos media and other files yeah why not that's a reasonable request location that 121 GW multimeter does this as well it is a quirk of the Bluetooth driver apparently so it's not like we're doing it for any nefarious reason it just comes with the Bluetooth driver it's it's just really weird yeah you can talk to David on the eevblog forum about that if you want to anyway project menu this is a menu list okay okay select device logs save okay this is just the pie chart pie chart it's a bar graph a pie chart unbelievable tutorial anyway this lets hello select device get in devices blank please select one done device no well right off the bat yep that doesn't connect that's a fail yes I shut down the 121 GW app so that's like not interfering not connected to anything else and it's just not it's not there it's Turner Turner oh look look it's got a light it's got a probe light I guess ok well I've turned it off then on again select device hey it's close enough nope there's no list no nothing doesn't work and there's reports of other people not being able to get it work so me fail ok you can see it ok maybe we got a pair at first go to this devices up to pair with it go over to here select device it's just not there what what what one no I've tried all sorts of different like you know timing combinations of when to switch it on during it's like going through the selection discovery process and all that sort of stuff and I just cannot get this to connect at all on my huawei mate well it looks like winner winner chicken dinner finally I had to try my old Motorola it's running Android I believe it's like an older dared to definitely be an older version of Android and it's founded I'm first shot so let's connect and open waiting all right that's good zero that was actually quicker than I expected actually not instant but actually that's not that works checking electrical resistance zero ohms all right three Meg RG its he and I you've got to go in to meet abode I mean this one digit of resolution there come on whoa that was the oh no there we go that's actually quite reasonable reasonable update speed don't mind that device ready are please check socket Marine Auto manual devices logs config what's in config version 1.1 one for those playing along at home our firmware version there you go that's actually quite nice gets the firmware version out of this no idea how to update the firmware version maybe via USB somehow but by product can we set up the by product not doesn't even work what's feed not so one of the big advertised features was that you could buy products cuz if you're tested a fuse or something and it's blowing it slam how's it gonna know that just lipo is blow it like it's just it is it is so dumb right so in manual mode now there we go there we go that's not bad the update rates actually quite decent is the voice all rights go for a hundred K well that's why under oh it's going up it's going up it's going up that's not terrific is it why is it like creeping up like that and the voice doesn't work like wow that takes a while like why does it take that long and still going still that took forever to come up to that didn't it there was obviously some charge sort of thing going on - kilo-ohms okay it seems all over the shop when it I II talks and that charging up thing he took a while yeah that voice just doesn't work like a the voice is quite clear but it doesn't work it just sort of randomly does it ten point Oh ten point two volts why is the jumping around this is a battery this is the best source you know like the lowest noise saw she can get and where you can't even reset that high-low thing sensitivity what 5 point 6 volts what I just hit sensitivity and it's now showing me what now it's showing 10 point one nine three volts wah-wah-wah-wah a multimeter has one job and that is to measure quantities accurately and this is like what the hell is that no it hasn't hasn't looked up nah they did this thing is o+ say like how can those highs be jumping all around the place that is just nuts there's something seriously wrong with this see it worked the voice works straight before now it doesn't work like how can you rely on that I wouldn't trust this thing any further than they can shove it up probes the monkey's ass here's probes the monkey trying to use it yep dude look just jumped a resistor nope let's jump back to voltage it's not sure hello McFly anyway you can forget about the originally advertised capacitor in die mm doctor and Dyer D mode um they just don't work and I have no idea what power out is was it supposed to output a voltage or something anyway it's going to scope oh that's all over the shot whoa whoa what's going on there there's a data point off there was a data point off the screen there and horizontal plus minus time plus minus that's just horrible look there's a sample off the screen I just no no no no no no no no plus minus ten what like and what are those Davitt like no and if I go up here and into the logs function over here check this out I'm ohms in nine point five eight no that was the 9-volt battery that we were measure in so it's like it's completely the wrong range the wrong units and and look right it seems stable but it did actually jump up to there you go it did actually jump up to ten point one nine volts and it's it stayed stable for all these all these seconds like what the battery can't output temple at 193 volt this is insane five point two six what that's just what it and why would you have a min/max associate a different min/max associated with each logged value people who designed this just have no clue what they're doing this thing is just a complete and epic fail all around the only kind of positive thing I have to say about it really is that I it's a reasonable Bluetooth update speed that's it everything else Eva wasn't implemented doesn't work properly is unreliable Wow this is a complete and utter turn I don't know how anyone even like it with the lowest level of hobbyist multimeter experience that beginner sort of level or even like just Joe average he knows nothing about a multimeter can use this thing and and think that this is and get the warm fuzzies that this is going to do the business for you it's just it's a joke so I'm just not gonna waste any more time check in specs and everything out like and anything else to do with this it's just hopeless only one thing left to do let's rip this thing apart and let's see if it comes apart somehow if not it's dremel time anyway the key case seems reasonably solid enough on the mechanical side of things they've implemented ok apart from the air for mentioned flip like I don't understand how this is a thing so the battery 130 milliamp hours almost half a watt hour so let's just break into that measure the current consumption I don't care about this thing I'm just going in okay well it won't even start up with the burdened voltage of the low burden voltage 121 at GW so I'm gonna have to whack that over to the 500 milliamp per mode over here 22 milliamps that's not gonna last too long is it with 130 million power capacity we were only talking like five ish hours battery life I know it's rechargeable but that's just nuts now 27 it's even worse what happens if we turn that LED on I 429 million there you go there's your resistance five hours battery life that's just another fail of this thing all right I know you want to see some high voltage on this thing it's supposedly rated to 500 volts DC so let's get the high voltage supply here I'll crank it up a hundred volts here we go yep two hundred what 230 volts what yep there's nothing wrong with my a high voltage power supply our but that's it's 32 volts out you kidding me at over 100 volts it's it's out it's now 5 volts here Wow anyway 200 volts 300 volts oh it's coming back here it's a little bit about 400 volts 500 volts can handle it and I smell any magics mic 600 can do it seven six and we've reached the limit of my 121 GW anyway I'll take it back down it survived but I don't want to smoke it because I want to do the yacht what do the teardown first sorry well as expected that's it on the Probie side of it just the fuse and Bob's your uncle and after Dremel in it out this is the main board you know you can only squeeze so much into this it's looking okay ish you know for what it is here's how input probe over here that's fallen off they've actually shear off when was that a surface mount okay maybe I did break it off in the force anyway yeah we've got multiple diode protection here so that's all right is that a bridge configuration we can see bugger having the extra but I presume that's a Zetas zena's Eddie and I are in there so bugger having that extra protection no moths no Polly put the kettle on protection we've just got input resistors that's it a couple of a MOSFETs i don't i can't read those numbers from here are they widen the zener clamping configuration maybe they're using that instead of the zener anyway at piers how RGB LED over here they've got a little slot cut out why that trace is going right next to that resistor there don't like the looks of that i was going to say the spacing is reasonable as you can expect for such a teeny tiny thing but yeah i don't know it's probably what what what i expected like yeah you wouldn't be using this for serious mains use that's for sure and i doubt it so never going to meet any sort of cat rating we've got some heat-shrink here this is because the battery sits in there so that was just a cheap and easy way to insulate the board from the battery and that's okay no worries it's common technique it's a little regulator that'd be the battery charging yeah it looks like we got a programming port there so there's our ground coming in from the other board so let's snip that off see what we have under the hood here what is that anyway there's our there's a little Bluetooth a antenna and of course the one thing you won't find it any of this is your regular multimeter chipset nothing it's just got the Bluetooth II processor over there that's it looks like maybe a couple of switches or something like that anyway if you aren't gonna use a multimeter chipset then you have to roll your own and your really have to know what you're doing in terms of multimeter functionality that's why the end of that was some silly sensitivity setting in the software which is absolutely ridiculous no world's simplest multimeter should have like a sensitivity option that can give you the wrong reading that's just like insane they've completely come a guts are on this not a huge amount of protection it's sort of like yeah $2 Harbor Freight but even a $2 Harbor Freight one's got have some sort of varistor in it anyway that teardown really doesn't matter it's just academic as the eevblog foreign title suggests the world's silliest multimeter I am struggling to think please help me a reason for this turd to exist like even if they implemented it properly it's just like a silly idea all the stuff that they came up for this thing there are other ones not this probe type format but quite similar like I think the poke it is one it's like a little key ring one with a little zip out quarter that's designed it you know throwing your glove box or in your pocket or whatever but any pocket multimeter just there's just compared with this there's no comparison whatsoever why anyone would want to own this it's just a file in virtually every aspect let alone all the crap that they claimed during the Kickstarter and IndieGoGo campaigns most of it doesn't work no capacitors no inductors no diodes I just repowered it and which one do I choose that's it's insane what's got storage scan finished it no longer works the green LEDs coming on I don't get anything over here and there it is again it's way out 95 K that's out by 5% that is so bad this thing is just all over the shop one it looks like it's 10 ohms resolution so why even display the three decimal places like that so I've got it in automatic mode here now and I'll feed in 30 volts boom and your bar graph vanishes to be replaced by this time little text that's ridiculous and where's your automatic voice six hopeless and I just hit this over here waiting for load list what am I supposed to do Oh God Oh what what what is this one person comment share model what there's a kettle to measure how to measure kettles it's a flurry tube what so these are like just and how to measure battery this is just so what are they trying to do here Oh what and believe they are you it's like they're trying to give these all these weird random examples of antlers look we've got an LED there I see values zero zero step one two or what value 2105 type AC for a lead what oh my goodness these people have no clue at all so that's your big like automatic operation thing is your select your device a moto driver battery a battery step one okay I'm going to test my battery here we go oh no I can purchase here we go we've got the fantastic automatic mode here let's see what happens if I good good it's that good I just got my fingers on them the pros bad I waiting open it doesn't seem to know what to do let's have a look zero point zero volts there is not zero point zero volts in there there's like point nine volts in that I'm waiting it can't even tell you that their battery is bad are you kidding me their big selling application for this thing like automatic detection of products it just does not work this software is truly awful maybe I had it back to front did I know it can't even measure that purchase Amazon there you go it kind of sort of works through their affiliate program I'm sure but they're not gonna make a cent from their affiliate program because this is the most product ever and people are just going to bin it like minutes after they get it unbelievable this turd said it just shouldn't exist it is better off not existing then two people to try and you buy this and try to use this thing and they went to so much effort to actually produce this over the last year as I said like hats off to them for eventually getting a done look at their our production they designed all this custom test cheek so they've got like capability to design all this stuff or do they subcontract that out there are all various delays as there are with Kickstarter campaigns they have the expertise to do that yeah they don't have the expertise to implement a like even some basic functionality let alone all the ridiculous stuff that they actually promised and they did actually keep everyone updated on the progress of this look they show you all the reels of parts and everything it's great so you follow it along but that's the only thing you're gonna get out of this as well as a free lesson in how not to design a product for a niche market well it's interesting to follow along about like how they got their dodgy parts from Aliexpress and they identified them as I don't know some issues and things like that so they've got the skill and capability to do all this but yet not to design even the most basic practical multimeter but before this thing even shipped you saw how everyone was asking for refunds this is why they posted this up on June 12th we took a gamble and upgrading the product as much as possible before sending out the rewards however after additional tests and experiments we found the performance and accuracy of vayan is lower than it was initially you think if you find this to be unacceptable then we'll issue a full refund I don't as I said don't know if anyone's gotten refunds yet AC voltage is 380 not 500 but the voltage rating to this ID it's not a huge deal I don't think as long as it can do 240 volt mains relatively safely then you know that's what you care about capacitor inductor diode test voltage are not available the batteries are not available that's why nothing works the voyant app is unstable and will be corrected soon it takes about a month well it's been a month and I've got the latest version of the app and it still doesn't work so yeah like they decided to ship anyway open that they can fix this the option menu a scope and storage function will be reinforced whatever that means so they've completely coming out Sauron not only the viability of this product in what it can do but just the basic implementation of this I just like don't understand the thinking behind this how could any engineer with any sense of using a multimeter come up with this concept because it doesn't be Bluetooth connected because well that's how else are you going to get money on Kickstarter these days surprised it didn't have blockchain and graphene in it it just goes to show what's possible and not just like the concept but all the other software things that they thought that this thing would be able to do all sorts of market segments it would be able to tap into and do it's delusional thinking but that's the end result of people who have no clue looking to just develop some product for some kickstarter or whatever and then just going down that delusional rabbit hole I wait at no time did they stop and think well look hey this shopping cart thing it's a bit stupid I mean it obviously dawned on them eventually if you just stuck with something basic and like they couldn't even implement all the basic stuff like hardly any practically nothing on this works properly you wouldn't trust as far as you could shove it I'd just no no no no oh goodness catch you next time ah by the way if you hadn't guess my rating that is my rating I mean you want me to get my toes out as well [Music] you

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Rating: 4.7457428 out of 5

Keywords: eevblog, video, vion multimeter, review, kickstarter, indiegogo, bluetooth multimeter, product review, kickstarter fail, kickstarter crap, indiegogo fails, indiegogo crap, crowdfunding, vion, worlds silliest, worlds worst

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Length: 39min 34sec (2374 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 14 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/ab00]

Covered when it was a shitty kickstarter about a year ago, it's actually a lot worse than anyone ever expected but at least they delivered I guess.

I know Dave's videos go on a bit but he does know what he's talking about and has years of industry experience. In the old days a video like this from someone in the industry would hopefully prevent many people from spending their money on this crap, but to be honest I have little sympathy for anyone who saw the Vion promo video and thought "oh yes this is going to be far easier than a traditional multimeter".

[u/elwyn5150]

For the non-Australians, i will help

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[u/Icon_Crash]

So it's an expensive battery tester / light bulb verify-er?

[u/YOUREABOT]

It would be hilarious if someone hacked the buy now and Amazon store to offer a GW121... Or even a BM235.

[u/Sonny_Jim_Pin]

Link to the kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1441579202/the-worlds-simplest-bluetooth-multimeter

Previous threads on Vion

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It uses a green light to indicate that what it is measuring is faulty ... ?

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