The Bench Meter For Mere Mortals! Owon XDM1041 Multimeter Review
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2021
- In this video we take a look at the excellent Owon XDM1041 Benchtop Multimeter! If you don't want to sit through the video just know this: it is excellent! It will be part of my workbench setup from now on so look for it in upcoming videos!
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I dont see any reviewers ever cleaning the probe tips with alcohol. Plugging in another quality set probes would be fair to rule out the meter fault in continuity latching. BTW plenty meters dont have buzzer sound in diode mode and reviewers never show this, but here you did ))
I bought the exact DMM. It's continuity function worked a lot better with 'higher quality probes'. It isn't the multimeter's fault!
I just got this meter and absolutely love it. Great video, thanks. Had a difficult time figuring out how to use the Dual mode. The manual didn’t explain it very well, but your video demonstrated how I need to be on the AC range for it to show Hz, also. Bravo to whoever designed this meter, it’s great.
I receive mine unit and works very well for me, I don't need a 6 or more digits multimeter.
Speed is fine, continuity works very well.
Big and clear display is one of the best things in this meter.
I work fixing audio gear and motor controllers I have many multimeters and oscilloscopes, for Us$126 dollars this is a very good option in my opinion.
Best Regards.
Just ordered one earlier today and found this video after. Sounds like it’s gonna be great for mostly amplifier work I do!
7:13 - "Reading a bit low".. Its way off if its supposed to be reading 1mA as you said a few seconds earlier.
Fully functional bench top multimeters can be bought for under $500. High end meters can be bought bought for $1000-$1500. Including fluke and keysight.
A support/mounting bracket would be nice for this thing. It appears to be light weight.
Pushing the buttons would move it back or require two hands or a thumb/finger grip!
At: 0:44 - I am confused - are those plug inserts ("current ranges") fused or not?
can you press the buttons without tipping the unit or does the unit tip without support from behind?
No, you have to hold the rear of the unit, at least I have to.
Great review.
I somehow misunderstood the continuity test. I've been measuring this XDM1041 for quite some time now and have never needed to measure continuity this way. The so-called ringer is quite fast. XDM1041 is even faster than XDM2041, see Tony Albus test.
I own this meter, so I can confirm it is a great bench meter for a lab/workshop for its price. I stress the point.. 'for the price'. 150$ when the closest competitor
With similar features Is 500$ is an incredible bargain. It definitely has some issues but all are outweighed by the positives. The best feature is the screen.
Honestly I cannot consider going back to using a regular portable meter with a monochrome display after using this meter. It could get away with being a lot worse with that screen but it isn't. It's very accurate with high resolution. Top pick for anyone's workbench!
I'm flip flopping on this meter. I want one for the bench so I'm not deciding which of my millio other full size meters to use. I have a 20000 count owon that has slow latching until I bought a set of probemasters. Maybe the probemasters will make this meter sing. I check ohms and continuity alot and I like it to be snappy. What's your take on it being an owner? I'm really close to buying it or the uni-t u61e+ for 60cad less and a couple others. The uni t has way more input protection.
@@jstro-hobbytech This meter has a function where you can choose speed over accuracy. You can also choose manual ranging over auto. If you leave the meter on slow setting and it working it's way through the auto ranges it can be quite slow. I'm not sure that better probes will make a difference there. This meter is definitely a compromise but to get a better and faster meter in benchmeter formfactor you'll be spending 500-600 dollars.
Teledyne Lecroy t3dmm4-5 is definitely better but 5 times the price as an example.
@@danishdart thanks for the info. Probemasters make a difference usually. Even on cheap Chinese ones I can make the continuity chirp with them haha I thought the buzzer was broke previously. I have so many dmms I'm sick of having to pick between them. My goto for hobby stuff is an owon b35+ (garbage autoranging) and an old amprobe for household stuff. I collect them and cycle between different ones on my bench but I find there's never a good place for them amongst the real bench stuff which is why this big one is so attractive to me for the new workshop.
@@jstro-hobbytech The gold plating is the secret sauce for the probe masters. If you can get goldplated from a different brand they will work just as well.
@@danishdart no doubt. My wife bought me two probes as a gift and they were like 80cad. I never would've paid it and mine are not compatible with any of their attachments. One of them sets are like 250cad or more after duty. They are well built though I give them that. They're for professional use mostly. I'm just a hobbyist that messes with discreet electronic components circuits, coding and 3d printing. Retired at 40 gives me alot of free time.
The meter looks like it does a lot for the money, however the update seems to be really slow ,but I guess for its price point you can’t expect too much. Nice review.
On the fast setting it is nice but I mean..what's the point of super fast updating when you want precision? Hard to use the last digit if it is flying all over the place
@@SimpleElectronics Right.
I bought that kaiweets meter for my father in law. I'm wondering if you tried better leads or cleaned the tips with ipa. It takes the factory grease or whatever off and makes the probe more responsive
I switch leads all the time, doesn't seem to make a difference, but I have not tried really expensive ones - I don't own any!
Nice video! Did you see any improvements in the new firmware? An improved firmware can make this multimeter ultimate :)
I haven't tried updating it yet - I didn't even know there was one!
Can one disable the auto shutoff? If i am testing voltage cutoff on charging batteries I would need it to not shut off.
I'll check around but mine doesn't turn off...weird
@@SimpleElectronics That is a good thing, I rather it did not auto shut off anyway.
7:37 should be reading ONE mA? Its reading 8 mA.
Kind of a weird price point at $200. The Siglnet SDM3045X 4.5 digit is $500 on Amazon.
Fair enough but for the price this thing is great - if you NEED a 4.5 digit meter - there isn't much for cheaper.
I have two workbenchs, I have the Siglent SDM3045x in one, I have one Fluke 87v in one workbench and one Fluke 28ii in the other.
I love Flukes but now I need big and good quality displays.
I bought one Owon XDM1041 for my other workbench,still waiting.
Most of time I use continuity only, sometimes I use DC voltage, I don't want spend Us$500 for test continuity only.
Best Regards.
Can this measure ESR?
It cannot
Still pretty expensive, i would just get the Aneng speaker thingy
What does the "count" mean ?
Life span or something ?
It just basically tells you the biggest number the display can show at once. so a 40000 count multimeter can display up to 39999 (not including the decimal point as a count) and to go higher, it would have to move the decimal and drop the least significant digit
It is a great meter, but it is not accurate enough to give meaning to the last digit, I think.
This multimeter cost $110 right now. We can't complaint much for a $110 tech lmao. People in the comment are so salty
Some better probes may improve continuity speed.
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this multimeter has better performance after 30 minutes warmup...
Some good option is the XDM2041 at Us$235 dollars.
At that price, why not get a bryman?
The Bryman is a fantastic meter, but the best part of a bench meter is that it doesn't go anywhere. Two different solutions, really. I do agree that now that the price has gone up, it's not as good of a value.
I don't think we need to spend a fortune on brandname gear anymore, it seems the Chinese cheaper stuff will do the job fine.
There are definite advantages to high end, name-brand gear but most of those advantages are reliability and long-term repeatability - great for production environments but not worth the extra price for us hobbyists
@@SimpleElectronics Thanks for that 👍
Great electronics, pity the software is written by bad programmers, ...harsh but true!
I am both an electronics design engineer and a programmer, ..I know what it takes to do it right, so there is NO EXCUSE for that crap! ...maybe the worlds shortage of decent programmers is maybe :):):) ...I WILL BE BUYING ONE OF THESE, because the electronics is GREAT! :):):) so I will put up with the issues, and I expect that is what Owon is counting on, ...shame on them!
Aestetics and functionality are quite OK but this has to be the slowest multimeter I've ever seen.
El software no funciona bien .... es muy malo
Thumbs down for declaring it "excellent" upfront, and ignoring any downsides along the review.
Which down sides did you see that I missed?
@@SimpleElectronics Only the ones you've raised yourself, e.g. 5:17
Looks slow
It is, especially on larger value capacitors with Auto range.
everybody complains about this model yet you say wow! really?
You are deleting people's comments! I was going to edit my reply to a very factual comment on your review error and its no longer here! thumbs down!
I deleted yours yeah, it came off as insulting - and I don't need that. Constructive criticism is allowed, insulting me (or my other viewers) is not.
@@SimpleElectronics no it wasn't my comment, next time I will screenshot it.
Also there are 4 major errors on this review, but guess what there's allready another comment on that.
UA-cam should never allow for comments to be removed, if it was insulting, report it, removing it makes you look very very bad!
I know which one it was, i thought it was yours, but yeah I only removed one. And if you report, it removes it as well. I didn't want the insulting comment on my channel but I didn't think the commenter deserves to lose his account over it. So I removed it.