REAL REVIEW: Tomlov DM601 HDMI Microscope AMIGA A600 - Burnt Board Post Ultrasonic Clean Inspection!
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- My eyes are not as good as they used to be and I needed to inspect the Amiga A600 board we cleaned up in the ultrasonic cleaner. So when Tomlov kindly offered to send me a digital microscope for the channel, I was keen to give it a try!
This is a review of the unit they sent me - The Tomlov DM601. The specifications are great on paper, but is it any good? This is a real review and I take it through a process of inspecting the solder pads on the Amiga. It's not all sunshine and roses on the way and I do find some solder pad issues.
Tomlov have also given us a time limited 10% discount code in case you're looking for one of these. Both for the 7" and 10" inchers! (oo-er!) - This is active until the 29th of May 2023 and is not an affilliate link.
Thanks for watching!
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#amiga #repair #digitalmicroscope - Věda a technologie
So. I've been using this for about a week and a half now. It's really helpful and much better than my previous digital microscope, with details being much clearer. The HDMI really is a game changer and is really comfortable to view. If I had one real criticism it's the same as I level at a lot of these products. If you have a large board you can't really get it undeneath far enough.
I do realise this is me being picky and all the other 'scopes are the same format. In fact, this model has a much larger base than most. I think there is a market for maybe a bench mounted swivel arm? It would have to be fairly stiff though. Thoughts?
"If you have a large board you can't really get it undeneath far enough. "
Mate this is as far as most people get in their thoughts. Some, however, go the extra mile, build a prototype, and stick their idea on kickstarter. I mean you've got a 3d printer, right? Food for thought bud.
@@baxtardboy That's true. I was thinking of sticking an adapter on a decent quality Microphon boom arm though so I think an easy solution may exist. I'll investigate if there is already before I sink too much time into it.
Modify a laser etcher frame (ie, just remove the laser unit, make a mount) to hold a scope and lights. Then you can scan up and down a board to your hearts content. By now we should be able to capture images and get AI to find faults.
Ortur Laser Master 2 would be enough.
@@MarkFixesStuff Just trying to look out for you matey. You've found a legit problem looking for a legit solution and you are, after all, a man of means.
Wouldn't hurt to use it to your advantage and become a man of cash as well :)
What I did with my microscope is, I ditched the stand that it came with. I bought a 1/4" (tripod socket) desk mount arm and clamped it to my desk. Then I designed and 3D printed a mount that let me mount the microscope onto the desk arm. That way I can position it any which way I want, and since there is no stand to get in the way, I can fit any size of board under it.
Yes, please look at bugs using the microscope Mark, you must suffer! 😂
Get 100 likes and I will. I'll probably vomit too, then look at that.
@@MarkFixesStuff Oh, a meme rehash, two bugs, one Mark!
Yes yes, I know where the door is...
I came to see how it performed with bugs 🥲
The double entendres delivered completely seriously...damn Mark, you would have distracted me to death in school!
It's a sign of age and wisdom when you start looking through manuals 😊
Kioxia -- formelly known as Toshiba (their flash memory department).
Should be pretty good.
Oh good info!
look at bugs 👁👄👁
lol jk you dont have to, great video :3
Get a hundred likes on a comment and I will. Yuck though.
Negative can make sense to use: sometimes details that are hard to see will pop out better if you flip the colours.
For the quality, its a good price too. Been considering one of these for a while now.
Kioxia was formerly Toshiba's memory division.
Black and white is often preferred for recon photos, iirc; eyes are better at picking out contrast in black and white than they are in colour.
Like police helicopter chase footage I suppose!
I think that's black and white because it's thermal imaging.
Guys I want to add a general comment. Not about Tomlov they have great products. On these things please note the depth. The bar holding the camera will not be deep enough for older larger boards - it will cause you headaches. Secondly don't get anything under a 10" and make sure you get 1080p. Don't think 720p is fine, there is a fine line between adjusting the zoom and actually getting the 720p so you want higher. You do want the HDMI to project onto a bigger screen. The batteries on these things do not last long and take a while to charge up. Consider investing in the correct size power cable. I say this from experience buying the cheap and nasty one Aliexpress.
I agree about depth. I mentioned this in the pinned comment. Solid advice about resolution. No battery in this one thankfully.
Thanks for the review. Love the inter-changeable lenses. The working height looks amazing. Lot more space to work under the microscope than my current one.
That glass piece is more about filtering of unwanted wavelengths than it is about ingress prevention :)
Used to remove it on cameras back in the day to observe how coke was transparent in daylight (amongst other weird effects)
Oh wow, that is really interesting. I never imagined it was a filter!
The red tint gave it away :) I believe it's mostly filtering infrared but could probably be some uv too?
I highly recommend checking it out. It's outright absurd to observe just how little we actually see with our eyes and a modified camera is still only seeing a small sliver of the full spectrum.
I am an old head too so I completely understand how this magnifier could be a god-send (my eyes are a bit shit too!).
Pretty sweet!
That discrete wording 😂
My partner bought one of these for my birthday as my main gift, being the sort of person she is, she bought it as soon as I'd mentioned it after it becoming available. When I opened it, I checked it out and all was good, in fact my delight was immeasurable... until I tried to record, it didn't. Outside its warranty and unable to return when I got it, it now resides in bits spread across various junk parts boxes collecting dust.
No doubt if they'd sent one to me for review on my electronics channel, it would have been double inspected and more than likely fully working. I may still do a review based on my findings. Obviously won't be an unboxing vid though; that ship already sailed, but might make an interesting video as to the story behind why it is in pieces in various junk boxes. I'll see how I feel about it first though; every time I see it makes me feel highly disheartened and I would probably over-bias my video with too many negative sentiments.
3:55 now what would go wrong with that power adapter? 🔥🔥🔥
Cries.
I bought a 5" random name one for £45ish. Was suprised how good it is for the price, this one looks good for it's price too.
It seems to be a decent product for working on small PCBs.
You're such a naughty boy Mark! 🤣
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There are just so many of these devices out there!!!!
Gives me a headache trying to decide on which one to buy!!! Mainly thinking "dang!!! I should have waited or gotten the other one!!!"
Yeah. I get that. I just think "what works for me", now.
It looks good, but how would you be able to view the middle of a larger board like the Amiga? Wouldn't the stem of the stand be in the way?
Can be an issue. I think I will get a boom arm.
I'm surprised you needed the ruler to know something was 7 inches long.
I can't visualise anything larger than a solid 4 inches.
solid!
Too bad it hasn't
USBC yet. I've decided only to buy USB products that have USB-C- Thanks for the review.
2560x1440 isn't 2K, it's 2.5K. But there's a growing trend to misidentify it as such. the number refers to the approximate number of rows. There's a lot of marketing crap and as such 1080p and 2160p which are the consumer 2K and 4K aren't quite 2K or 4K, 1920 and 3840 respectively. Would love it if you'd help fight this misconception Mark 🙂. It's just confusing and people are weirdly underselling their monitors as being lower res than they really are, all because of how the number of "k" has become such a hot marketing buzzword. You could technically market this as a 4:3 4K output since that's what 2880x2160 is.
What usb power supply did you get. Im keen to replace a few of mine.
For the workbench I bought a six slot Anker 60w charger. amzn.to/3M3O2Uu - really good and saves the tangle!
It's not just me then with my eyes
Definitely not 😂
@@MarkFixesStuff Me too. My poor mother (whose eyes I think I've inherited) now needs injections in her eyes every few weeks to stave off blindness. Kill me now.
I'd rather watch and celebrate Mark than a man having a silly hat put on his head any day.
Rather look at bugs?
Totally agree 👍
@@MarkFixesStuff Rather bugs than reptilians mate :)
I was hoping to see what Terry and Dave thought of the microscope :(
They went to Windsor today in case they found free booze.
@@MarkFixesStuff That sounds about right for those work-shy lay-abouts.
Bugs bugs bugs
Interesting that this 7" version, the DM601, allows the use of both the screen and the HDMI output at the same time. The 10" version, the DM6012, only allows one or the other which is a real deal breaker. Check out Branchus Creations DM602 review to see what I mean. He doesn't show the firmware version on his so I'm wonder if it's something that can be updated. His review is a few months older than yours but it looks like the firmware on yours is from 2022-10-17.
I sure looks like the hardware is identical except for the screen but maybe not.
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must be a shame that you can't solder TQFP by eye anymore in your advanced age
Oh, I can solder it.
I just can't SEE it... hahahah
Too much music. Informative video, though - thanks.
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And i bet a certain person with the massive ego who sits in his loft with bad acne will still say "It's just a toy". Just like he's said about other ones that were too cheap for him.
‘my eyes are terrible’
You need to wear less mascara and probably a lighter tone of eye liner would help…
I hate you Mark. You just made me spend 200 quid.
Unbelievable stil usind Micro USB in 2023, so stupid.
what's the big problem with Micro Usb, please explain me
@@dsavoy66 Because almost everything uses USB-C now, so why not
make it USB-C now everyone has laying around, there is no good reason
to still use a 14 year old connector, when we have years now a much
better one, called USB-C.