Capturing a waveform isn't so bad on these guys. But then trying to scroll through the capture and placing cursors is a huge pain. I tried using a cheap little wireless mouse with the USB dongle and it actually worked! It's always amazing when you can get something to work on WindowsXP! But ya, it's super handy and I would recommend it to anyone that does much capturing with any of the newer Snapon products.
I also like to record a lot of stuff on my Verus. I use the vehicle history a lot. I'll enter information into the vehicle file card for vehicles I service regularly. It's actually pretty handy. If you fill it out then you can just go in there and search by name to pull up their vehicle. Then it'll keep a record of all the codes it found before. As well as any lists of data you saved.
But ya, for any kind of navigation or maintenance tasks I find it WAY easier with a mouse.
ecwurban wrote: Capturing a waveform isn't so bad on these guys. But then trying to scroll through the capture and placing cursors is a huge pain. I tried using a cheap little wireless mouse with the USB dongle and it actually worked! It's always amazing when you can get something to work on WindowsXP! But ya, it's super handy and I would recommend it to anyone that does much capturing with any of the newer Snapon products.
I also like to record a lot of stuff on my Verus. I use the vehicle history a lot. I'll enter information into the vehicle file card for vehicles I service regularly. It's actually pretty handy. If you fill it out then you can just go in there and search by name to pull up their vehicle. Then it'll keep a record of all the codes it found before. As well as any lists of data you saved.
But ya, for any kind of navigation or maintenance tasks I find it WAY easier with a mouse.
Good tip with mouse, I may just put one in my Verus kit
I also am a fan of the vehicle history function. I wasn't using it at first, but now that I am, it's much more convenient.
Im not sure about the Verus Edge, but with the Verus Pro D10 it says in the specs that it has a 250GB hard drive. In reality, the D10 has a 500 GB hard drive. If you use a program that allows you to see hidden partitions you will find a 233GB partition that is just unallocated space. If you format this partition then you can use it for say, repair software. Instead of having external hard drives to carry around.
Snapon is really bad at software programming. If the earlier models had 250gig drives they probably just used the same software for setting up the drives. So instead of updating their software for setting up the drives they probably just used the same image that formatted and partitioned a 250gig volume.
I don't use much space on my Verus so I only put a 128gig drive in it. All I cared about was the speed of a solid state drive. It has made a HUGE difference.
Oh ya haha. Mine was off warranty. It's kinda scary pulling them apart. The screws holding them together go into little plastic columns that are VERY fragile and break very easily. There's a really good writeup on the main Snapon forum though. Just google search: Inside The Verus Snapon Forum. Lots of pictures.
Iv taken apart the original Verus. Haven't really look into taking the D10 apart.
I know on the original if the LCD cable popped out it was a pain to get back in
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