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My purchase list for my new lab -- budget $1000+, thoughts?
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rstofer:
I use the OptoVisor for most simple things but this visor is a LOT cheaper and more featured:

https://www.amazon.com/SE-MH1047L-Illuminated-Multi-Power-Magnifier/dp/B003UCODIA

I bought it a year or so back and I really like the lighting.  It tilts and swivels to put the light right where you want it.  Highly recommended.

I don't like the loupe, I lose stereoscopic vision and it just seems awkward.

I think there is a discussion on microscopes over in Test Equipment (?) and I think the conversation gravitated toward:

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=amscope+se400-z

I don't have one...
AnyNameWillDo:

--- Quote from: rstofer on July 29, 2018, 08:15:45 pm ---I use the OptoVisor for most simple things but this visor is a LOT cheaper and more featured:

https://www.amazon.com/SE-MH1047L-Illuminated-Multi-Power-Magnifier/dp/B003UCODIA

--- End quote ---

Which Optivisor model do you use? (there are apparently a variety of focal lengths / multipliers)

DA-4 seems popular from what I am seeing (2x mag at 10" focal dist)
rstofer:

--- Quote from: AnyNameWillDo on July 29, 2018, 08:27:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: rstofer on July 29, 2018, 08:15:45 pm ---I use the OptoVisor for most simple things but this visor is a LOT cheaper and more featured:

--- End quote ---

Which Optivisor model do you use? (there are apparently a variety of focal lengths / multipliers)

DA-4 seems popular from what I am seeing (2x mag at 10" focal dist)

--- End quote ---

That's the one I use.  I also bought a more powerful lens and it works ok but the focal length is so short that I hardly have room for a soldering iron.

The DA-4 will work for SMD but I prefer a little more magnification.  Not enough to buy a micrscope...

The one I linked has two lens assemblies of 1.9x each so nearly 4x.  One of them flips up inside the housing to get less magnification and more focal length.  I have only had it since April so I haven't played with it much but I think it will work a little better for SMD.

For $10, it's hard to go wrong.  That's about 1/4 the cost of the OptiVisor that has no features.


AnyNameWillDo:
I have a dumb question that just dawned on me.

What exactly is the purpose of buying more leads if we already get some leads that come with our multimeters?
tooki:
Multimeters come with probes, occasionally with some other terminations (alligator clips, etc). But the pack-ins are usually much too big for fine electronics use. Plus you need leads for other stuff, like connecting to a power supply.

I find that I use banana-to-minigrabber cables a LOT for both powering and measurement. Also, banana-to-header ("dupont") cables I make, both male and female, for probing and powering breadboard projects and projects on PCBs. Both of these types of cables are good for powering and for monitoring a value over time, whereas probes are good for when you need to take lots of measurements of different spots in a circuit. And you can often combine both, for example a banana-to-minigrabber for connecting the negative to ground, and a probe for the positive for measuring all over. Keeps a hand free.

Banana-to-banana are also essential.
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