The Bench Meter For Mere Mortals! Owon XDM1041 Multimeter Review

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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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@eded8045 2 жыл бұрын

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 ))

@davidsaari77 2 жыл бұрын

I bought the exact DMM. It's continuity function worked a lot better with 'higher quality probes'. It isn't the multimeter's fault!

@inventorpaul Жыл бұрын

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.

@treadmillrepair754 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ryanintopeka Жыл бұрын

Just ordered one earlier today and found this video after. Sounds like it’s gonna be great for mostly amplifier work I do!

@frankhovis Жыл бұрын

7:13 - "Reading a bit low".. Its way off if its supposed to be reading 1mA as you said a few seconds earlier.

@tomallen6073 Жыл бұрын

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.

@kingforaday8725 10 ай бұрын

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!

@bobcatt2294 Жыл бұрын

At: 0:44 - I am confused - are those plug inserts ("current ranges") fused or not?

@joeanon1415 Жыл бұрын

can you press the buttons without tipping the unit or does the unit tip without support from behind?

@graemepartridge9086 Ай бұрын

No, you have to hold the rear of the unit, at least I have to.

@jstro-hobbytech Жыл бұрын

Great review.

@ivandrimal5783 10 ай бұрын

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.

@danishdart 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@jstro-hobbytech 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@danishdart 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jstro-hobbytech 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@danishdart 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jstro-hobbytech 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@TheRadiogeek 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

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

@treadmillrepair754 2 жыл бұрын

@@SimpleElectronics Right.

@jstro-hobbytech Жыл бұрын

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

@SimpleElectronics Жыл бұрын

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!

@PallavAggarwal 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Did you see any improvements in the new firmware? An improved firmware can make this multimeter ultimate :)

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

I haven't tried updating it yet - I didn't even know there was one!

@jimthvac100 2 жыл бұрын

Can one disable the auto shutoff? If i am testing voltage cutoff on charging batteries I would need it to not shut off.

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

I'll check around but mine doesn't turn off...weird

@jimthvac100 2 жыл бұрын

@@SimpleElectronics That is a good thing, I rather it did not auto shut off anyway.

@Jnglfvr Жыл бұрын

7:37 should be reading ONE mA? Its reading 8 mA.

@radman999 2 жыл бұрын

Kind of a weird price point at $200. The Siglnet SDM3045X 4.5 digit is $500 on Amazon.

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough but for the price this thing is great - if you NEED a 4.5 digit meter - there isn't much for cheaper.

@treadmillrepair754 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Budget_DIY_zm 2 жыл бұрын

Can this measure ESR?

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

It cannot

@alexstone691 2 жыл бұрын

Still pretty expensive, i would just get the Aneng speaker thingy

@tonycstech 2 жыл бұрын

What does the "count" mean ? Life span or something ?

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

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

@smbrob 2 жыл бұрын

It is a great meter, but it is not accurate enough to give meaning to the last digit, I think.

@pusico6555 Жыл бұрын

This multimeter cost $110 right now. We can't complaint much for a $110 tech lmao. People in the comment are so salty

@XtianApi 9 ай бұрын

Some better probes may improve continuity speed.

@electroniquepassion 2 жыл бұрын

👍👋

@wilsonmachado8695 Жыл бұрын

this multimeter has better performance after 30 minutes warmup...

@treadmillrepair754 Жыл бұрын

Some good option is the XDM2041 at Us$235 dollars.

@oldskool9783 Жыл бұрын

At that price, why not get a bryman?

@SimpleElectronics Жыл бұрын

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.

@edxr6949 8 ай бұрын

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.

@SimpleElectronics 8 ай бұрын

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

@edxr6949 8 ай бұрын

@@SimpleElectronics Thanks for that 👍

@stevenbliss989 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@ssalient 2 жыл бұрын

Aestetics and functionality are quite OK but this has to be the slowest multimeter I've ever seen.

@TheDani7788 2 жыл бұрын

El software no funciona bien .... es muy malo

@giladraz1 2 жыл бұрын

Thumbs down for declaring it "excellent" upfront, and ignoring any downsides along the review.

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

Which down sides did you see that I missed?

@giladraz1 2 жыл бұрын

@@SimpleElectronics Only the ones you've raised yourself, e.g. 5:17

@tablatronix Жыл бұрын

Looks slow

@graemepartridge9086 Ай бұрын

It is, especially on larger value capacitors with Auto range.

@zyghom Жыл бұрын

everybody complains about this model yet you say wow! really?

@alternativespacemisc.8429 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@alternativespacemisc.8429 2 жыл бұрын

@@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. KZfaq should never allow for comments to be removed, if it was insulting, report it, removing it makes you look very very bad!

@SimpleElectronics 2 жыл бұрын

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.