hello welcome to Enots engineering i'm Alan today in the workshop i'm looking at this microscope
it's a digital microscope but it goes from 1 to 1 200 magnification and i was wondering whether
it would be any use in the workshop instead of a magnifying glass and whether you could
check things like threads pitch angles using this let's go to the workshop see how it works
now today i'm doing a tool review on this portable lcd digital microscope
i bought this to check out whether it be any good in the workshop instead of using
magnifying glasses i was trying to measure a screw thread a few days ago and found that
under a magnifying glass i couldn't really measure anything i thought how would i have done it in an
engineering company it's used to have a thing called a shadow graph and that's what what you
use to measure the thread i thought well that's similar to a microscope so i've got this to see
whether it is useful in the workshop and how good it is let's have a look what we get in the box
instructions
and that makes a change normally you have printed that small you can't read them
without having a magnifying glass
working part of the microscope the screen is a seven inch screen
camera under there and some led lights around the outside
under the cover
we have
adjustment arm
then you get
usb charger which is a
european type socket adapter for uk which doesn't look too clever and a usb
charging lead now to assemble the microscope
that just screws into the base
the base has four hard rubber feet on the bottom a couple of cap heads holding the
bracket rack and pinion to get the focus
now one of the features i say is you can put this back at 45 degrees so if you're
looking at something on here like electrical components you can see see them at an angle
you have two screws on the top here both have rubber pads on the end
and the lens or the microscope part just slides into that holder
now before i lock that up we'll have a look at the microscope
we'll just go through some of the buttons this is the on off button and you have to hold that
down for two seconds for it to work then you've got an m key which is a function setting key
which is there a d key which is a key to set your camera and different parameters of the camera
up and down arrow keys an ok key and then here is a little led
so if you have it on charge it will tell you when the battery is charged
and what surprised me is that this has a battery fitted um it's sealed in you can't take it out
i thought it was just run on a usb lead from a mains adapter which it does so you can run it on a
battery that's built in or a usb mains adapter so we'll look at the side this knob here is for focus
on the side here we have the usb socket we have a micro memory card socket
and also we have a rotary switch here for turning the leds on and off and the
controlling the brightness of the leds around the camera the camera lens is in
the middle and these are leds around the outside to give you light onto the subject
the screen size is seven inches i'll fit that on the stand and we'll have a look
it's quite easy to fit on just drop it on tighten the two screws up
switch it on you hold the power button down for two seconds
okay on the screen you can see the finish of the base which is like a shot blast finish
here we have the battery condition above it's telling me there's no memory card in the back
of the microscope over this side it's saying it's set up to take photos and if i press the d button
it's now set up to take video
i've just put a five millimeter cap head underneath that is the lowest magnification
i think it's right at the top of the scale and all you do to select the magnification just
lower the head down you see it goes out of focus and all you do is turn the knob to focus it up
you can see the the form of the thread so if i go down to the fullest magnification
which is about there let's move it to the edge of the thread focus on the camera
there you can see the form of the thread the depth of the thread
let's go through some of the settings take that out if you press the m button hold it in
it tells me there i'm on 1080 full hd
press it again i can set various details by just using the up and down arrow so
so if i press enter on that one
you can see i can have the lcd brightness i haven't turned the lcd lights on yet
auto power off frequency language date time format and you can have alter exposure
and date stamp
so at any time you can take a picture of what you're looking at or a video and i'll put the
date time on still photos or a video you can set the screen to turn off automatically turn off
focus up on the base you can see the shot blast base so in video mode you have a resolution of
1080 or 720 or vga and it will film for three minutes five minutes or ten minutes
or until the card's full and then it will film over the data that's already on the card
in photo mode you can have a single photo photos for 2 seconds 5 seconds or 10 seconds
and the pixels are 1.3 2 5 8 10 or 12 and that depends on what you select
you can have color black and white iso is from 100 up to 400 so let's have a look at
something else under the microscope I've put a cutting tool underneath
you can focus here
by turning the knob or if you don't want to do that you want to go down further you can just
move the camera down
refocus move the tip in the center it's a cutting edge
so it's useful for if you're sharpening your own tools you can see
what the cutting edge is like if i go right down
you can see the cutting edge of the tool
at the moment i've done all this without the led lamps being on so if you want to
turn the lamps on you just if i turn the switch on the side see the light start to
come on and that can be adjusted that's full power or you can just turn it down slightly
there's the cutting tip you can go focus it up here so if i go as close as possible
you can see the insert the edge of the insert and even the wear on the tool
so i'm quite pleased with this i've got some other plans for it to be able to measure
in the x and y direction and turn this into a measuring machine
okay i've changed the tool for a circuit board so let's have a look how that looks
under the microscope let's focus up with the up and down movement
you can see two soldered
spots and i can zoom in on that and see if i can move it across to something a bit smaller
you can see on the circuit board you can move the part easy to see
and if you've got a integrated circuit on there you can tilt the microscope camera to 45 degrees
so you can see the legs on the side rather than looking down on them okay i've put an sd card in
and we'll have a look at the quality of the pictures
now this is on movie here now just press ok
and it's flashing a red spot there and it's telling me it's um full hd and i've taken 10
seconds of movie so i press ok again and it stops now if i press d it goes on to photos
i'm set to 2 megapixels here you can alter this to whatever size you like i don't know
i almost i have to go into the program to do that come down to photo resolution okay and select
let's say 10 megapixels okay go back to photo again it's on seven mingle pixels
so if i press okay takes a photo if i change the focus a
bit press okay changes color here and then goes back so it's taking another photo
so let's say we want to see the photos
there's the photo 10 megapixels
it's a small instruction pamphlet with it user manual
as i say the the printing is not small so you don't need a microscope to look at the printing
very useful for electronics if you're soldering something small you need to see what you're doing
and with this you can focus it up and then do the job that you need to do
and it will still stay focused on the part that you're soldering
there you can see the form of the thread quite easily
so i'm pleased with this it's easy to use
and once you have it on an sd card you can put it on your computer well that's it for today i
hope that was useful hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you next time on enots engineering