luvdunhill Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 1 minute ago, swt61 said: I seem to remember some guy laughing at me trying to read resistors when I built Colin's amp. 🙂 Now I have one bionic eye, and can read them fine. 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmking Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 (edited) 8 hours ago, luvdunhill said: Can anyone recommend a nice portable HD microscope to go with my new far-sightedness for soldering? I purchased a cheap rebranded scope from amazon one a few years back for smd and pcb inspection It looks identical to this one: https://amscope.com/collections/student-microscopes-low-power-stereo/products/se420xyz-2l it works. My only complaints are 1. it does not have a zoom 2. its not trinocular so you can't add a camera look through it at the same time 3. there is no real X and Y adjustment. instead it pivots around which makes moving around a pcb a bit of a pain. 4. because the objective lenses are housed in a rectangular box you cant fit a ring light easily. 5. the objective lenses are not a "standard" mount and that limits you options for different lenses Edited August 30 by jamesmking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvdunhill Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 14 hours ago, jamesmking said: I purchased a cheap rebranded scope from amazon one a few years back for smd and pcb inspection It looks identical to this one: https://amscope.com/collections/student-microscopes-low-power-stereo/products/se420xyz-2l it works. My only complaints are 1. it does not have a zoom 2. its not trinocular so you can't add a camera look through it at the same time 3. there is no real X and Y adjustment. instead it pivots around which makes moving around a pcb a bit of a pain. 4. because the objective lenses are housed in a rectangular box you cant fit a ring light easily. 5. the objective lenses are not a "standard" mount and that limits you options for different lenses Do you use it for inspection or for assembly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmking Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 (edited) 1 hour ago, luvdunhill said: Do you use it for inspection or for assembly? bit of both. working distance is ok for either a hot air handle or a soldering iron. It takes some getting used to since you have a fixed defined viewing circle, you can't move your head and have to organise everything around that. I personally found that exact head positioning was very critical to get a good 3d perspective view and this meant I wanted to minimise the number of times I looked up away from the microscope. Edited August 30 by jamesmking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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