Trinocular Stereo Microscope

[Brettster]

Blimey, some hardcore kit here - are you guys doing kynar wire onto 0.4mm pitch ICs?

For me its my eyes are not what they used to be and it's what I need to actually see what im trying to solder now!

 

[bbz149]

Blimey, some hardcore kit here - are you guys doing kynar wire onto 0.4mm pitch ICs?

Something like that

Here's one I had to do without the Microscope, broken track from leaky Capacitor. Not a great job but will be able to do it better now!

 

[Monstermug]

Blimey, some hardcore kit here - are you guys doing kynar wire onto 0.4mm pitch ICs?

Working with fine pitch surface mounts components and ultra clean trace repairs but these days Im starting to use it to read markings on ttl's as well

. I should really just buy glasses.

 

[John Bennett]

All sounds reasonable enough

I was more wondering what you get out of a £500 scope setup and the 'trinocular' bit vs a cheaper job.

The boom arm is definitely one useful thing, for sure, anyway!

Here's the Andonstar viewing a TQFP

John Bennett2020-11-19 13:57:43

 

[bbz149]

You get any delay/lag in the Video?

 

[big10p]

Any lag in the video would be fatal, wouldn't it?

 

[John Bennett]

No, nothing perceivable.
The spec state 30fps, you you'd be down in the 10's of milliseconds anyway.

 

[NivagSwerdna]

I use a stereo widefield microscope like this... http://www.opticalvision.co.uk/microscopes_and_meters-stereoscopic/stl-80.html

It doesn't have zoom and it isn't trinocular but it does everything I need.

If I was using something all day every day I would go for zoom and possibly trinocular...