ACDelco ARZ604P 6V Alkaline-Battery Inspection Camera, w/ 8 mm Camera cable+Hook+magnet+mirror

Very awesome tool! The size is perfect, you can hang it, the camera cable is more than long enough, and shipping was very fast!I was recommended this tool from my automotive teacher and i am glad i purchased it. Saves so much time!It has from 1x -2x zoom going in .1x increments. Its a color screen, 4 brightness settings for the light, and only takes 4 AA batteries. The thing i am interested to see work is the video out option. It Does not have a cable for it but im sure it is easy to come by, but it would be great if i can save pictures of what i find to put on work orders. So we shall see.I will be recommending this to all my friends in the industry. (the price is spot on as well) Tear a dash apart to find a noise or stick a camera down there to find it? Sounds like my first use i could make my money back

I have been using a variety of cameras to inspect heat exchangers in furnaces. Most have been three to ten times as expensive as the Delco. I like this one because it can get in places my other cameras could not, making my job easier. If you are looking for high resolution, look elsewhere as I can only call this one adequate, but plenty good enough for my needs. It is solid and and the controls are mastered in a few minutes of using for the first time. Mine has been used daily and bangs around the inside of my service truck, so far so good. A great value for a nice camera.

I am just a home DIY'er - general maint on cars, appliances, lawn/garden machines - not a professional mr. fixit.Just like saving money on simple repairs which most of my DIY falls under.I was looking for an inspection camera that had it all and at a reasonable price.As far as I am concerned this ARZ604 has it all it except for the removable screen.It has a small camera head 8mm (about the size of a pencil) which was first and the main one on my list of wants.I did not want one with head that would not fit in tight places. This one can go most anywhere. 8mm is great.It has what i consider a great range of vision - from across the room down to mm.It has a color screen and the image is real good. Like I've seen others say "not HD" but HD is not needed - i am not watching a movie on it.It has an attached hook/stand on the back but wonder how useful it would be because moving the6 ft camera line around to find things would move the whole unit too. But the 6 ft length is great too.At first i thought 6 ft would be too long, but no way. 3 ft would've been too short.Had the first opportunity to use it - after changing two dashboard instrument panel light bulbs with my daughter in her 2003 Protege putting in the last screw of the dashboard bezel it slipped and fell somewhere into the steering column. Of course it did not fall though to the floor. I said wait i got the super tool for this. Brought out the ARZ604, fired it up and started looking around. Of course the screw fell into a little crevasse and of course not visible without either tearing the plastic steering column covers off. Simply looking around for a few minutes with the tool found it. (It takes a little patience maneuvering the camera and watching the screen.) Got the magnetic pickup tool an out comes the lost screw. Yeah, just could have found a similar screw somewhere (workbench or store) but this was more fun. (Dealer wanted approx $250 to replace the bulbs - my cost $5 for two bulbs and some 'quality' time (30+ min) with my daughter showing basic skills and my new inspection camera. internet instructions for the dash helped too - 5 screws and a little patience. Like I said simple repairs.)It uses 4 AA batteries which is fine by me versus the more expensive 12v rechargeable unit (ARZ1204?).This unit has only one light (with four brightness settings) which works out well. My wish list was for two LEDs.I have not gone in-between walls, ducts, or other really dark areas so cannot tell if two LEDs would be better or not.I am sure it will be fine with one LED. You're not going to light up a whole large area with it.The Digital magnification - you have to cycle through all the settings to get back to normal. Not sure how useful this will be since you can get a clear picture really up close anyway.Overall, I think it is a great tool. Nice hard plastic carrying case too.(last note: ARZ604 helped find where my clothes washer tub was leaking - not a hose but rusted through metal basket. small hole rusted way in the back of the tub - New washing machine time.)

I put all the necessary batteries in it. I could not get it to turn on. No lights, not picture, no nothing. Sent it back. Got refund.

I originally bought  2.0MP Handheld USB Digital Endoscope/Microscope with 8.2mm Tube Diameter  for use in looking under a deck and in walls for where mice might be getting in. Its 90 degree mirror attachment sounded great for that task, but it didn't work in practice. So I bought this AC Delco.The image on the Delco screen is somewhat noisy and "glitches" from time to time like an analog TV with poor reception. It's only a minor annoyance, but quite a contrast from the nearly noiseless, 1600x1200 resolution of the endoscope. Since the endoscope is a USB device, its image data is sent digitally to the laptop whereas the Delco appears to convert to analog at some point before it reaches the screen. The Delco is only 320x240 resolution by comparison, but since you can hold the screen much closer than you can keep a laptop screen with the endoscope attached, the low res is not as much of a problem as it might seem.The biggest thing that bugs me about the Delco is the comparatively dim LED light on the camera. I was using the endoscope duct taped to a clothes hangar for fishing around in walls to run wire in and the endoscope's 5 LEDs illuminated the whole inside of the wall that the camera could see and reached a few feet ahead of the camera. With the Delco in a wall, the single LED only creates a small circle of light where the camera points and the rest of the screen is a sea of darkness. It makes it much harder to navigate and recognize what you're looking at. Navigation with these cameras is difficult enough since you can't tell what direction of camera movement is "up" on the screen you're looking at. In a smaller space (like an engine or pipe) the Delco light is probably more than enough.On the plus side, the Delco is far more convenient to use than booting a laptop, loading the right software, and finding a position where you can see the laptop and what you're working on at the same time. The Delco lets you press a button to flip the image 180 degrees which is nice if the camera ends up upside down as you move it.The zoom feature is handy and you don't see pixelation as you zoom in. I think the screen is much lower res than 320x240 so zooming to 2.5x (the max) is probably showing you the true resolution the camera sees. On the other hand, I don't know why it zooms in such tiny increments (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, all the way to 2.0 in 0.1 increments, then it jumps to 2.5) and it's annoying to have to keep pressing the button to cycle all the way to 2.5 and then back to 1.0. Another weird thing is when it zooms to certain points (1.8 to 1.9 and 1.9 to 2.0, mostly) the screen distorts a bit, stretching vertically or horizontally.The viewing angle on the Delco screen leaves something to be desired and it gets dark quickly if you don't look at it just right. I also noticed that the image has "poor gamma" in that darker parts of the image end up much darker than they should be. If I look at my face under a 100 watt overhead light, the part of my face that's lit most strongly is visible but the rest falls into unrecognizable shadow. The delco does seem to have some level of auto image processing so it keeps the lightest parts of the image in decent contrast without making it overexposed (pure white), but even the light parts of the image aren't nearly as light as they should be. As another example, I was having a problem seeing our office through the camera at night. If one of the computer monitors was in the image, it would turn bright white and unrecognizable while the rest of the room would become unrecognizably dark. I had to find a wall with lighting as even as possible to get a recognizable image and it was far darker than it should have been. The endoscope camera has none of these problems.Unlike the endoscope, the Delco displays an image as if someone had turned the "color" or "vibrance" setting way down. In other words, the image is shifted towards greyscale with all colors equally muted by at least 25% to maybe 50% below the intensity they should be. This isn't necessarily a problem for most inspection work unless seeing true colors is somehow important in what you're looking at, but it's kind of annoying. It could be a problem if you're trying to distinguish the color of hydraulic fluid from oil or something.The endoscope has a little collar you turn to change its focus from seeing across the room clearly to seeing almost microscopic details on something less than a centimeter away clearly. The endoscope focus eventually broke so it could no longer see across the room. The focus on the Delco is fixed so things across the room seem a little blurry while things become clearest at about 6-12 inches away. The Delco keeps things in focus for a much larger range of distances than the endoscope which would seem to indicate the Delco uses a tiny sensor while the endoscope uses a larger one (pinhole optic cameras can make things an inch away and things in the distance clear at the same time).The Delco camera has a slight fisheye effect so things in the middle of the camera that are close look stretched toward the camera while thing closer to the edges stretch away or appear slightly farther from the camera. This effect seems to only become noticeable with things about a foot away or closer. I don't think it's really a problem, I'm just noting it in case it matters to your application.The Delco comes with a nice grey case with two metal latches and, oddly, a plastic latch on the left and right. I didn't expect the plastic latches and was almost ready to force the box open before I noticed them. The case has a glued-in foam square to protect the Delco's screen, which is a nice touch.Overall, I can't rate the Delco too low since it's much cheaper than other self-contained inspection cameras. The Delco is a screen, image processor, and camera combined on a long, semi-firm but flexible cable for the same price as the endoscope which was just a camera, but the video quality and LED brightness are really not so great on the Delco. The Delco is more appropriate for inspection work than the endoscope, but if I needed to use it more than once or twice a year I'd invest in something with better optics and brighter LEDs.