okay so today it is winter time and what do I like to do I like to evaluate
products this time of year so today I'm gonna look at something useful this is
an ultrasonic cleaner and it's a big one well a big one as far as countertop
units go this holds 30 liters in the basin and about this on Amazon full
price nobody sponsored me I did not get it for
free in order to get a review I'm just gonna show it to you and one of the
things I thought I would look at here is how well it cleans parts that are left
inside your aquarium if you're a fish tank enthusiast you're gonna want to
clean your parts every now and again this basket has little rubber insulators
on the feet because we don't want anything in direct contact with the
basin these are the dimensions it is 20 and 1/2 inches long these are the
outside dimensions of course the width is right at 12 inches just a tiny bit
over 12 and 16 and from the surface that sits on all the way to the top it's just
over 13 inches in the unit itself is 12 and a half inches tall the width is 11
inches inside the length is 19 and 3/8 all the way to the bottom and the depth
is right at 7 and a half inches all the way to the top so really only about 6
and 1/2 useful inches because you wouldn't fill it all the way to the top
so those are the dimensions and there is a drain valve on it 3/8 of an inch valve
it has threads on it so you can hook up a tube or a drain hose anything you want
but that'll be the size it's a ball valve which is full bore when you first
run water through it some kind of grease comes out so be ready for that 30 liter
unit it says model JPS tech one zero zero a and then these are the specs of
course it's a 40 kilohertz which is 40,000 cycles per second anything over
20,000 cycles per second is ultrasonic and the on/off switch stainless steel
handles here put this on a solid surface because you're gonna fill it up I think
it was funny hear that on the side instead of caution it says admonition
exclamation point pretty funny so and then it's digitally controlled you
cannot control the power of the ultrasonic pulse so there's no amplitude
control all you have is temperature control and
that's in Celsius and you have a timer minutes and seconds you can set that up
it's preset to five minutes and that's what we're going to use for the initial
test it also cautions you not to use it unless it's that least three-quarters
full if you're rutted empty you're gonna mess it up and do not fill it more than
within an inch of the top and when you look at the interior you can see that
there's like a double Basin and it starts one inch down so there's that and
we're gonna move along here and show you the bottom sheet metal is being cut out
so there's lots of venting here there is a big fan much like a computer fan and
circulates air through it to keep your circuit board from burning out of course
underneath there are transducers that take the electrical energy and convert
it to mechanical energy and you have that piezoelectric effect which is
really exciting to know about but I'm not going to tell you those details now
but that's how we get the waves into the basin of course there's a basket that
goes with it a lot of people want to know what size this basket is and that's
to make sure that your components do not rest on the actual interior surface of
your unit you don't want to wear that away you don't want to rub on your
components 18 and roughly 3/8 in length but all the way to the bottom it would
be 18 straight and then we have 10 and it looks like 5/8 here in width and then
how deep is the basket let's see what that is we are at right at 5 inches so
there's that the basket is pretty nice you can put a bunch of stuff in it but
I'm going to show you how to not mess up all the water here in a minute and the
openings for those who are curious about parts falling through are exactly 1/2
inch square also when you set up your unit make sure that valve overhangs the
counter or your tables you can put a bucket under it to collect the water if
you're using it inside the way I am and I also preheat the water that I pour
into it because the unit uses about 800 watts when it's heating the water and it
will control the heat really well so here it is it's ready to go now would
you put dish soap or bleach or whatever your cleansing solution is in this
entire basin I would rather not so I'm going to show you how I handle that in a
minute first I want to show you my fish tank 54 gallon fish tank and that's my
mark 5 dive helmet made out of plastic and it's got slime
on it and this is some really hard to scrub off stuff by the way the angelfish
are happy to see it go they're hoping that we clean things up for them they're
also plastic plants in here we're gonna get to those too but this is the before
shot let's look at that thing and it's covered in Craig so we're gonna see how
well the ultrasonic cleaner clean set out now the cool thing is that's why I
wanted a 30 liter tank because I want to be able to put bigger things in it and I
put it in these ziplock bags and then fill the bag with water so if you want
to add detergent if you're putting down dish soap in there or if you're gonna
put a percentage of bleach or something like that put it in the bag why do it to
an entire basin because the sound is going to travel right through the
plastic bag and continue on to the component that you put in the bag and
turn it on there that's also where your fuse is located and then again remember
it's preset at 5 minutes but you can run it to any setting you want you can run
it for an hour if you want to and it's set at 50 degrees Celsius and it held
that temperature really well by the way pay attention admonition like it says
there also I'm gonna tell you ahead of time don't stick your hands in this
water your hands will conduct those cavitating bubbles and you can get some
interesting problems going on so keep your hands out of the water when this
thing is running so right now inside that bag we started off with just water
and you can see micro bubbles you see bubbles traveling but the bubbles that
are really doing the work are microscopic you don't actually see them
and what happens is where the ultrasound impacts the surface of this little dive
helmet that's where the cavitation takes place and that's where it starts to
break away anything that's attached to the surface and it's more effective than
you might think and we're gonna find out at the end of the video also here's one
of the plastic plants which if you keep tropical fish or if you have plastic
plants underwater or any kind of plastic ornaments they tend to get grit and
grime and of course algae into the little teeny details here so why bother
scrubbing all that out I thought we would drop this in the ultrasonic
cleaner and see what happens to it that happens so ultrasound when it hits
the air the surface here found over 90 percent reflective at that surface but
it does travel in every direction through the water so don't bother trying
to turn your components around and try to orient them towards the transducers
that are coming through the bottom there because the water will reflect refract
and redirect the sound into every angle possible and it will get into that
plastic component even where it connects if you're using metal tongs like this
remember the ultrasound is gonna travel right up through them so limit your
exposure there to grab things quick get them out of there don't hold things
underwater and hang on to those tongs you're gonna find that your fingers are
gonna vibrate now for kicks I took my dive watch I dropped it in right on top
of one of those bags and look what happened it actually starts it looks
like it's doing nothing but then I started seeing these little enamel
painted numbers from the bezel start floating around in the water so this
thing actually took the enamel off the surface of the watch so I don't care
about that I don't read the bezel anyway and of course it's embossed so you can
still see it but I thought it was really interesting that even enamel paint on
the vessel of a dive watch that has been in service for over 19 years it comes
off in this ultrasonic cleaner so if you want to clean something like that it
works fantastic plus if you've got these web straps for your wrists that are
designed to go on the outside of your wetsuit it also will clean and sanitize
those so if you wanted to put this in a ziplock baggie of alcohol or something
that would work fantastic now notice that the debris and stuff that came off
of these components we put in there was contained in the bags great idea right I
like that story because now when we pull the bags out look how clean the basin is
and there's that lip that you can see that's with one inch of the top never
fill beyond that so I just took it over the sink we dumped everything out and we
went rinse these products off and I'm gonna show you what happened look at the
plastic plan it is perfect now I did actually longer than five minutes we did
three cycles at 5 minutes each and each time I looked at them until it was
completely clean but even these little plastic insert connectors and stuff were
totally cleaned out so when we rinse this off and put it
back in the fish tank it looks like a brand new plastic ornament so this is
absolutely perfect for those synthetic plants that a lot of you like to keep in
your fish tanks like I do so that's a win but I want to show you my dive
helmet and look what happened it cleaned it too well this dive helmets supposed
to look like antique bronze but it actually took the paint off it didn't
just take the algae off so if you leave it in too long I put this dive helmet in
there for actually 30 minutes overall and I wanted to see if it really would
take the paint off and it did so if you are familiar with aquarium fixtures and
you know of a good paint that is safe for ornamentation inside a freshwater
fish tank please put that down in the comment section I would love to learn
about it that's what I'm going to be looking up next I hope you liked this
review it works get one if you want to the link is down in the video
description thanks for watching