My 6x magnifier works for me perfect. I found it better than a microscope as
you do not have to 'touch' your face into it, just see the stuff above the
instrument and have enough space to operate under it. Maybe a higher
magnification would be better to check the soldering though, but for that
you can get a 20x jewel magnifier at around 20 euros (or 10x for 5), maybe
on eBay even less.

Tamas


On 25/09/06, Ariel Rocholl <arocholl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Binocular microscope of 20x (more than enough) are not expensive at all. I
> bought one (new) from eBay for about 30=80, I guess is a very good tool to
> work with SMD for that price. The drawback: you will see everything with
> great detail, forget about thinking you have some "perfect" soldering
> technic, as you will clearly see even the smallest defects.
>
> 2006/9/25, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl>:
> >
> > > For fine pitch SMD work I use a binocular microscope.  You don't have
> > > to look straight down on the board through a magnifier.
> >
> > Yes, I know those things. When I was young we used them to study small
> > insects. Should not be too expensive (at least compared to an LCD
> > o'scope).
>
>
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