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Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

(OP)
Every year parts get smaller and my eyes get worse. Black etched on black is hard to read. It took a LED flashlight at an angle, a magnifying glass and some luck to identify chips. A friend bought a USB microscope for looking at parts for his race car and paid $300. Looked like a solution so I bought this http://www.ebay.com/itm/321640906258?_trksid=p2060... for $16 US shipment, just a week later it is $20. Not the best quality mechanically but it does the job. This is a picture of a .16 inch chip in the first minutes of use with no practice and no photoshop.

RE: Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

Nice.

Gotta love eBay. smile

RE: Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

I find a geologist's loupe is handy for the squinty print.
Yes I spelled "loupe" correctly.

STF

RE: Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

I guess I'm a bit more advanced (and stationary) than others here... when a colleague left our company, I swiped his stereo microscope. No more issues reading chip tops.

Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

RE: Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

Operahouse,
I just bought one $22.16 with the shipping from Hong Cong , This will solve a lot of problems with my arm not being long enough anymore.
I gave you a star.
B.E.

You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.

RE: Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

(OP)
An amazing device when you consider the ability to document with a photograph a bad solder connection or brush wear in a poorly lighted location with something that will fit in your pocket. The stand is too lightweight, optional stands are available. I removed the rubber bottom pad and glued in a couple large washers.

RE: Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

I came across these (a different manufacturer) a few years ago. We now have several dozen in use around the plant for real time observation, inspection, and measurement.
There are also units that pop into a microscope eyepiece and once calibrated thay are fairly darn accurate (no auto edge detection but rather manual placement of feature points).

-AK2DM

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"It's the questions that drive us"
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RE: Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope

That's brilliant, I've spent many hours squinting thru several layers of magnifying lens.

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