Pelican 1065cc iPad Tablet Case Unboxing & Torture Test
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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now the first time we checked out the Pelican 1065 hardback case which is an
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iPad case or 10-in tablets case was at CES but this is our first time having a
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chance to really look at it Hands-On and
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yeah we're going to stress test it so I brought along this is my personal iPad 2
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so I am actually like super hoping that
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uh this case survives the stress test I've got the brightness turned way down
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so uh you guys probably can't even see that it's a working iPad but uh
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there you go working iPad so uh no scratches or dents of any sort of
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reasonable level because I have a snug case which I absolutely love by the way
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uh but that's a slim case this is more like uh an extreme ruggedized dust proof
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watertight Crush proof legendary Pelican lifetime guarantee case so it's got an
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easy open latch which is sealed shut under pressure and impact a foam liner
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which has a unique mold to protect iPads and tablets and a watertight gasket
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around the outside which has a Tight Seal when the case is shut the automatic
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purge valve keeps water and dust out while balancing air pressure and it is
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tested for impacts up to 3 ft and submersion to 3 ft now I suspect it'll
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survive just looking at having seen the case already in person I suspect it'll
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survive a drop of more than 3 feet to be perfectly honest but there's only one
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way to find out crazy crazy unboxing so there you go
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let's have a look at the case itself it's Pelican so you know it's awesome
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it's a nice strong plastic it has kind of a Hollow sound to it because there's
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nothing inside there's that purge valve
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here's the latch that has kind of a two-stage latch so it's one two just
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like that okay so we're going to try and open this up if I can actually figure
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out how to do it uh okay what else we got here oh yeah
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rugged hinges so like five pieces of
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overlapping this and then there's a little feet here so you can put it down
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on stuff I don't know all right let's see if I can ah yes there we go so it
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had kind of a a bit of a seal going on so thank you for purchasing Pelican uh
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they sent me this one so I didn't actually purchase it but there you go
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Pelican protector case and the storm case care and instructions so you know
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make sure that you maintain your o-ring and don't let
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it become sort of cracked and and and let it go bad over time because that
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will not be a good thing so speaking of the O-ring the O-ring seal is right here
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and is actually more like a instead of like a rubber it's more like a a
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neoprene like in terms of what the material feels like so what you can see
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is that uh rather than having like a a a
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flat surface against a rubber o-ring it's more like an indented surface here
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against like a neoprene seal so this should actually be very very waterproof
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and then the pieces here are going to prevent the screen from getting
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scratched or anything else like that so let's go ahead and chck the tablet
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inside I wonder if it'll fit with the snug case oh look at that you don't even
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have to take off your uh like you don't
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have to take off your regular day-to-day case although I don't think it sealed
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100% when it was like that so here we go let's take it out of there so this is my
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pristine 16 gig iPad which I really really hope I'm not about to break so
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we'll go ahead and put that in there does it go in a particular way uh
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doesn't really look like it all right so we're going to leave
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that on and I'm going to cross my fingers that the things we're about to
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do to it do not destroy it we'll be back
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I have to confess the shaking is inside
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doesn't really Inspire confidence to the extent that I would normally have with a
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pelican product but here we go here's a 3ft drop
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test okay
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so the tablet survived our 3 foot drop
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test let me do a four foot drop
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test we're going right we're going right for the corner here we're going for the
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goods you guys so uh actually here you can see what happened to the corner on
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it last time if you want to check that out so that's our three-foot drop test
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let's go ahead and hit it again four feet all
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right okay yeah okay no cracks no uh no
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no damage of any sort inside got some grass in here that's probably a you know
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additional impact resistance okay so
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I've had a lot of people ask how tall I am especially in the context of how I'm
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a lot shorter than slick so we're going to do a 5 foot 6 in drop test because
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that's how tall I am ready
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okay all right well the latch hasn't come open which was the problem we had
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with our Otterbox iPhone case and you can see that our tablet has indeed
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survived however when we dropped it from
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that height you can see that we did get some wear on this corner right here so
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as much as it was perfect for the 3ot
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and the 4ot drop test sorry I might be too close to the camera for them to see
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that so there you go that's what the uh the wear on that corner looks like so I
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would have liked to see this case a little bit more um a little bit more
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padded right around the edges so you can actually see the spot where that corner
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impacted but other than that it did keep the screen from cracking it did keep it
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from being damaged and I mean the case is waterproof so if we were to say for
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example I don't I don't really want to dig it out of this puddle so I'm not
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going to do that but uh don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for unboxings
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I mean that that probably wouldn't break it even actually that probably would break a tablet wouldn't it we can do one
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more let's do iPad bowling here we
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go I mean that's the kind of thing that would break your tablet and that's the
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kind of thing that I would expect to you know we should drop it right on the
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hinge no okay the hinge because of its double lock actually doesn't have any
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problems cool okay yeah survived that's good see screen's still on still works