Hi, after reading the reviews here I purchased the VP-2500DP-CL16 machine. I sent 50% of the money to the exact person as per the quote from Michael, but the info was out of date so the money went to a guys bank account who no longer works the assembly place in China. It took 3 weeks for the money to be returned to me and then sent to another persons personal bank account. In the end the money got there, but slightly worrysome and shows poor communication between China and Michael. The machine came DHL, which was not great as the web site tracking did not work (it just said it was in Ontario) and I had to call daily to find out where it was and why it was not moving. DHL did does not have local delivery in Belleville Ontario so they passed it off to Loomis, and Loomis passed it off to a local delivery company. This took about 3 weeks, annoying because the local company does not accept incoming calls and it seemed to sit for about a week 2Km from my place before being delivered. The machine was well packed in a crate, nothing damaged in shipping, except one CL feeder was slightly bent, and seems to have been shipped like this. The machine works on 120VAC (its a stepper motor version, the servo motor versions seem to need a 240VAC transformer). The wrong cord was shipped with the machine, but I had an old computer monitor cord which fit fine. The machine needs 3 usb ports, and it needed wifi in order to download some drivers, so with a keyboard and mouse and wifi I ended up using 6 usb ports. Sunny and Michael forgot to tell me the english manual was in the download section online, so I tried to Google translate the Chinese manual that came on a CD with the machine (this was difficult). My machine was built with the North side CL feeders called South in software and the South side called North and the numbers on the North side go from 1 on the right to 16 on the left. The downward looking camera is called Camera Mark, and the upward facing cameras 1 & 2 are not related to video #1 and #2. It took me about half a day to calibrate the machine and half a day to load 20 parts and calibrate thier positions. It took me several days to learn the software, mostly because I kept having some errors which I didn't understand, they seem to be related to nozzle vacuum pressure settings. The manual could use some more explanation of this area, and the software error description does not point to any area in particular, I think it says "No more end Limit". I was slightly worried that I would never get it working as the error kept stopping parts placement after the first part. However, the machine is working now, I have assembled about 250 circuit boards with 23 parts each in the past week. I was getting 5 clear tape breaks after 100 parts feeding (not of the same part but total parts) so a clear tape break every minute or so. I took off all the springs and sanded down the sharp edges and this fixed the problem. The CL feeders did not work at first, and I think they need to open and close (perhaps 20 times) to break in a bit and relieve some friction. So I don't intend to be hard on my review, but it was pretty frustrating initially. Overall the machine is well built, the software pretty straight forward (except the error codes and some nomenclature), its doing its job now and I am happy with it. I will try and get Michael to add more info to the manual and send Sunny info on how to word things so they make more sense in English. Thanks to others who have written about the machine and I am willing to help anyone else if you have questions. Jan in Belleville Ontario.
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