WEEHAW!!
My Wiha electric screwdriver came today!
First impressions: This thing is Flippin Neat.
Came fully charged (I think) cause the green light came on as I plugged the USB-C connector into it. As it charges there is a Green LED that appears to be breathing as it ramps up and down.
Need to hold in the torque button in to get it to change setting. Green is the low and the 2 smaller bits are color coded to help recall settings. I can stop the driver with my hand in low and it will flash a red LED once it stalls. Orange is the high torque setting. I can Not stop the bits with my hand on High or Orange setting.
This has a Great Solid Feel to it and has some weight, certainly does not feel cheap. Really feels like a quality tool in hand. Handle is rubberized from about the reverse button to the tail cap. Nice texture and feels durable. I didn’t realize at first it was a different coating till I torqued on it and can also feel its softer with my fingernail. For me there is enough room on the rubber section of the handle to really get a good grip without touching the buttons.
2 LED lights at the front are positioned where they light up the area needed pretty well. But only light up with the direction buttons pushed. Would be nice it they had a 3 second delay to turn off the LEDs. That would be enough time to locate the screw head and get the bit ready to remove the screw without having the bit turning to light up.
Bits are all Wiha branded and seem of good quality. Bits are nicely uniformly cut. No branding on the extension. There does seem to be a magnet in the handle to hold the bits in but I cant get it to pickup or hold a screw. The extension has a ball-detent to hold it firmly in the handle and holds in good. Magnet in the extension is Strong to hold bits and screws.
On the handle it is branded:
Screw Driver 4129
Wiha Tools (Shanghai)
Made in China.
I think it shuts down after setting a few minutes. Hard to tell this early on… but twice now I needed to press the direction button 2X to get it to turn. Correction: does seem to shut down but it only has a fraction of a second delay if you hold a direction button after it’s been sitting for a while. Otherwise pushing a direction button is instant motion.
Sadly… The back cap don’t come off. Perhaps it will after some use and a few drops on the floor. But I can’t force my luck on my new toy.
Well, that’s my first impressions of it so far. Happy with it but it hasn’t really been tested yet.