Industrial Endoscope Borescope Camera with Light, 4.3'' LCD Screen HD Digital Snake Handheld Waterproof Sewer Inspection Camera with 8 LED Lights, 16.5FT Semi-Rigid Cable

Got this just for my chimney inspections 5 months back, but it's so easy to use that I started using it to survey crawlspaces and wallspaces. Biggest pros for me are ease of use & value for the price point. The camera pics are really clear, and you can vary screen brightness settings to suit your ambient needs. End-tip LEDs work really well even while rooting through black chimney pipe etc. Lightweight unit. Wasn't confident the camera flex cord would be stiff enough for multiple pipe bends, but the good news is it's been plenty stiff enough: retains its shape. Came with everything organized in compact box for EZ access & storage. Battery has held charge really well after repeated uses, and I like the fast EZ recharge feature. Another + is ease of cleaning; just wipe the shrouds and done, even after creosote. IMO they did really good on this one.

For the price on this endoscope camera you can't go wrong. I've had others that utilize your phone or tablet as the screen that cost as much as this one, and they just don't work right. Plus I don't want to risk dropping my phone in an engine bay and breaking it. This unit can take a dropping and rough handling without any sign of damage. It's saved me time and aggregation when working on cars and works better than an inspection mirror when you can't see and are going off feel for bolts, nuts and plugs in a car. Or when you drop your crush washer for the oilline on your turbo and need to know if it fell into the turbo or somewhere safe outside the engine.I also use it to make sure what's inside the wall cavities in my old house before I start cutting them open while remodeling to make sure it's safe and to see if I'm going to have any obstructions in my way.The screen is about the same size of a Galaxy 23 and is clearer than my pictures show. They're not as clear as the description shows but I assumed that at this price point, but they do still have great detail when items are closer by and you can still see what something is in a dark & dusty wall cavity several feet away. Has good battery life, uses a type C charger, lightweight and easy to use.Bottom line if you work on cars or other motorized items or DIY house projects this is a great tool to have and I would definitely buy this one again if I needed another one.

It's working, but it would be great if picture was clearer. Cannot see in distance. Must be on top of the area to see anything.

I had a situation where the oil-pressure sensor/sending-units on both of my Chevy V-8 vehicles failed within two weeks of each other. The first one I replaced, I did "blind" by working by feel since there's no way to directly see the sensor behind the intake air plenum and the fuel rails, etc - that was the 8.1L - it wasn't easy to find and get the old part out and getting the new part back in was worse. Then I got to the 6.0L - it was somehow even tighter quarters, even with the smaller engine. My hands are relatively large, and I had trouble getting my hand/forearm in to get to the sensor on the 8.1 - the 6.0 was even tighter, so I ordered this tool. Now I'm wishing that I had gotten this scope before swapping out the sensor on the 8.1L - it made it so that I could see exactly where the sensor was, see the locking-clip on the wire connector to get that loose easily, and then get the socket onto the sensor to remove it. Then, getting the new sensor threaded in straight was MUCH easier by using scope - could see exactly where the port was to get it lined up.The LED light at the camera end is nice and bright and has multiple brightness levels in case things are too reflective in the space you're using it when on full power.The battery life seems really good too - I had it turned on for about 1 hour to do that job with the LED lights on full-power, and the battery-level still says it's at 100%.This scope is much nicer than ones that I had used in the past - due to the longer cable, you can set up the screen somewhere stable and where you can see it easily, and then fish the camera in where it needs to be without disturbing the position of the screen. Even in the bright midday sun, the screen was plenty bright for me to see in the shade of the open hood. I did make one minor modification due to previous experience with other scopes - I took a paint marker and put a white stripe on the camera housing to indicate the "top" of the lens - makes it easier to fish the camera into places in the orientation that you want - that's what I show in the third picture. I like this scope much better than the Milwaukee scope I had bought years ago - this one has a MUCH better and larger screen, and a MUCH longer cable, and the cable is much more manageable with regard to being able to manipulate it without displacing the screen position - so much more convenient to use.This tool easily paid for itself in reduced frustration and by greatly reducing the time it took me to swap out that one sensor - probably cut more than an hour off of the job for me judging by how much faster I got the 6.0L sensor swapped out than the 8.1, even with the fact that the space I had to work was smaller and the angles to get to the sensor were more challenging.I would definitely recommend this tool to anyone - don't think it can be beat - especially at this price-point In fact, I'd say this tool is a "must-have" for anyone who works on cars or does other repairs where you can't get your head in a position to see what you're working on - from a frustration-saving standpoint, you really can't afford NOT to have this.It's simple enough to use that anyone who has the aptitude to do minor repairs should be able to figure out how to use it without even reading the instructions - but I looked over the instructions anyway (after using the scope to do that first job) and they are well written.