I’m just using it for examining circuit boards and smd soldering etc. Only as a hobby, fixing the odd friends phone etc.
My current stand isn’t exactly bad, it just gets in the way when not in use.
From what I’ve seen on the web, with the double boom, I can have the stand to the left of me and easily slide it out when needed, sort of like in this pic (although he has it on the right).
I had serious health problems last year, had entire stomach removed due to cancer (am now cancer free yay) then 3 days after being discharged, one of my lungs collapsed and they couldn’t get it to re inflate and I also got sepsis at the same time. Following an emergency op, 12 days in intensive care and another 18 days in hospital, I was finally well enough to go home again.
That was 6 months ago and it takes up to 12 months to recover from my original op, yet alone my lung problems. Been told that I will have chronic pain in my lungs for life. Standing, lifting anything slightly heavy, coughing etc causes me severe pain, I’m already taking a silly amount of tablets a day plus fentanyl patch plus oral morphine, and that’s to cope with every day pain, not the worse pain I get from coughing, lifting, standing etc,
Only reason I’m telling you this is, I’m trying to explain what I’m trying to do. As I can’t stand for very long, I can’t lift anything heavy (by heavy I mean a bag of groceries/shopping which is a lot lighter than my microscope) my wife (or I phone friends) has to move things where I want them. I simply can’t do it. This is why I’m now allowed to set up my lab in the spare room, as it gives me a bit more space to hopefully have everything laid out in a way where I don’t have to need constant help needing anything heavy moved.
If I use my current stand, as it’s only one arm, as soon as I loosen it to push it back, it also rotates, and it was always a struggle/pain to get it back level before I had my health problems. I simply couldn’t do it now, hence looking into the double boom option.
I also must now keep fumes away from my lungs hence also need room for a fume extractor, which I will have coming up the back (bench is 2.5 inches or approx 65mm away from the wall) hence want the microscope to the left.
Building my own fume extractor very similar to the below link. Have the two boxes and the fans arriving tomorrow. I haven’t decided yet how to do the actual filters, the way he did it in the vid seems a little clumsy to me, still thinking about that one. Will probably have it connected to a foot switch so I can turn it on and off while soldering.
https://youtu.be/JdrFsuAcm48?si=uBxvxBnlhS7Y6_Q4Edit, just had a response from Amscope saying they don’t know why there’s two different pictures as they only do one base, they sent me the pdf of the manual to show me the correct stand, and said the website is the correct pic, they don’t know why it’s wrong on Amazon.
However, the manual they sent me had the smaller stand like the ones on Amazon and not like the ones on their website, so I’m none the wiser lol.