Excellent cordless screwdriver! Lightweight, powerful, and easy to use. The 3 torque settings and 25 bits make it versatile for furniture and bike repairs. The LED light is very helpful. Battery lasts long and recharges quickly. Great value for the price Read more
This electric screwdriver set exceeded my expectations. It is compact, lightweight, and very easy to use, yet powerful enough for everyday tasks. The different torque settings are very helpful, especially when working on furniture or delicate items. I really like that it comes with a wide variety of bits, which makes it versatile for many projects like furniture assembly, bike repairs, and small household jobs. The LED light is a great addition and makes it easier to work in low-light areas. The rechargeable battery lasts well, and the case keeps everything organized and easy to store. Overall, this is a high-quality, practical tool kit that offers great value for the price. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable cordless screwdriver. Read more
I bought this electric screwdriver for my husband and he loves it. He uses it for household chores; it's very easy to handle and comfortable to use. The battery lasts a long time, it comes with 25 pieces, and it has three speeds. It's very useful. Read more
Let's put the VCAN's best foot forward. House hold monotonous tasks are obliterated by this - have an outlet anchored by 2" 6-32 screws? Save yourself, use this. Have a flat pack desk that came with a single 3" Allen wrench for assembly? Hopefully one of the 4 included hex heads fit because you're going to want to use this. Want to screw one or two drywall screws into some soft wood and for some reason you don't own an impact driver? This will do that... provided your wrist can hold it. Are there better tools for these jobs, sure... most of those are also electric screwdrivers. Every house should have an impact driver though... or at least a drill, and this is intended for things that a drill is too powerful for. . This is very powerful for a screwdriver indeed. It is a good solution for a junk drawer for a low effort or low ability household. This does come with a general use bit set and keeps it all nice and tidy in the included storage case. There is an included LED light and it is USB C rechargeable. This is an all in one solution to many tasks... assuming you know what bit to use by sight. Yeah, marking the case was a bridge too far. The VCAN isn't necessarily breathing rarified air with those pros, but it is more affordable than some alternatives. There are many more household applications where this will work, but would be a poor choice. Need to replace batteries in a device that annoyingly has a screwed on terminal? This will work in roughly the same capacity an industrial drill press will for that. Screwing on a switch plate? That flathead will walk under the speeds of this screwdriver and the plate will bend or crack at the lowest torque setting if you don't stop in time. Stepping up in skill and ability and a lot of those mentioned features start to roll back a bit more. This needs to be reiterated: The bits aren't labeled in any way. The included bit set is not matched to the application particularly well. While you might encounter square head bolts in some really cheap flat pack furniture, more often than not hex will be used... choosing to include 4 Robertson and 4 allen bits is odd. Things that were Robertson are generally torx now, although to be fair I think campers still use these, so if you have a trailer or RV these might be more useful. Maybe 8 sizes of allen bits instead of 4 would have been a better choice for a wider audience. The 4 flathead bits also seems excessive, the speed and torque will limit usage on flat head screws. Including maybe a PH0 or more than 4 torx bits instead would be nice. 4 square drive / PH hybrid bits are included as well, I don't know where I've ever seen these outside of medium thick pan headed lag screws from the last millennium... maybe some electrical panels. I mean, you can use any 1/4 bits you have, but: This uses a magnetic bit holder, not a collet. This is now industry standard for screwdrivers I think just because people accepted it. Like all magnetic bit holders, if you have a tight fit on a screw, the screw will pull the bit off the holder. If you're lucky it will levitate on the screw head, but more often than not the bit falls into the abyss somewhere. If you're working in a tight area, tape the bit on. Also if you need a screwdriver for one of those one in a million tasks that doesn't benefit from magnetic bits, ie rebuilding a brushed motor, you can't really use stainless or otherwise non magnetic bits or bit holders with this. Like many electric screwdrivers, the VCAN Active is not variable speed, and can't be used with delicate components. Torque setting are more common on competitive products. While this does have 3 torque settings, which will protect some things, this is not via a torque limiting slipper clutch, rather a low power mode. It still needs to overcome its internal gear/motor resistance while reaching what I would call a blistering speed. Just as you can't "toss" an 80MPH fastball, this won't be gentile on fragile assemblies. Overall, the VCAN Active is a poor choice for assembling fragile or plastic items. Most would find that a pistol grip screwdriver is more useful than this form factor for the use cases the VCAN Active does excel in. To me there's no reason to have your wrist in an active position unless you need to provide the torque yourself (ie, an analog screwdriver) or feel for how sensitive a threaded connection is (a straight electronics screwdriver). The VCAN Active can be overly powerful to people with weak wrists and is not gentle enough for sensitive work. For these tasks my Ryobi HP41L surpasses the VCAN Active in every metric, except the omission of a case and bit set. That recommendation isn't likely to help anyone, that legendary driver hasn't been manufactured in a very long time. Still some affordable name brands are currently available for not much more than this with some better features. My intended primary application isn't well suited by my existing HP41L nor my generic micro electronic screwdriver, I needed something in between those two things; something intended for medium duty consumer good repair. I wanted a tool that was able to assist with things like audio receivers, video tape/disc/game components, desktop PCs, guitar amps and processors, etc. This has far too much torque and almost no usable bits for this sort of work. This will open and seal the cases of many of these items safely, but working on the internals - like mounting NGFF components - is a no go. While my other electric screwdriver is also too powerful, it does have a slipper clutch and runs at a lower speed, making it safer for this work. To be fair, this screwdriver wasn't necessarily marketed in this capacity (except for PCs, which it specifically is marketed at). Still it wouldn't be an insurmountable task to change this driver a bit to fit a wider audience. My rating doesn't reflect the uselessness in this category. This is a good choice and excellent value for general usage in a junk drawer for people who don't frequently work on their house. For frequent use or niche use cases, there are far better choices. Read more
