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    Ottlite brand Light Box came in the mail today great for looking through circuit boar

    I have had this item in my wishlist for sometime at Joann for $179.00
    But for Black Friday it went on sale for $69.00

    I said yea let me get this at this price

    I need a light box to be able to look through circuit boards when I can not find a circuit diagram for that board

    I have used the magnifying light that I have but it to small to use it for this
    kind-a use

    But what I just bought will work very well for doing this kind-a thing
    What nice about this light box is that it has three light levels
    The light box is a very nice size it also has storage bins on it

    Yeah I know what what you think that this is mostly by arts and crafts people and you would be right

    The magnifying glass that I bought was from Joann as well which also has storage bins on it but I modified it I took the storage bin unit off of it and mount the magnifying glass on the top shelf underneath the table of work table

    I do use the storage bins that came off of it

    And yes I also bought this when it was 60% off as well

    Here is the magnifying glass

    https://www.joann.com/ottlite22w-sto...nifier&start=1

    Here is the light box

    https://www.joann.com/led-light-box/14809610.html

    I hope you find this useful
    Last edited by sam_sam_sam; 12-03-2019, 04:46 PM.
    9 PC LCD Monitor
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    30 Desk Top Switching Power Supply
    10 Battery Charger Switching Power Supply for Power Tool
    6 18v Lithium Battery Power Boards for Tool Battery Packs
    1 XBox 360 Switching Power Supply and M Board
    25 Servo Drives 220/460 3 Phase
    6 De-soldering Station Switching Power Supply 1 Power Supply
    1 Dell Mother Board
    15 Computer Power Supply
    1 HP Printer Supply & Control Board * lighting finished it *


    These two repairs where found with a ESR meter...> Temp at 50*F then at 90*F the ESR reading more than 10%

    1 Over Head Crane Current Sensing Board ( VFD Failure Five Years Later )
    2 Hem Saw Computer Stack Board

    All of these had CAPs POOF
    All of the mosfet that are taken out by bad caps

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    Re: Ottlite brand Light Box came in the mail today great for looking through circuit

    Never know where and when you can get useful stuff...
    The circline lamp is excellent for magnifiers, it always bothered me with the point source lamps that cast shadows.

    I don't have/use a lightbox, still using a flashlight. Don't know what the best solution is, almost seems like a laser or some coherent (or distant) light source is best to look for buried tracks and vias...

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      Re: Ottlite brand Light Box came in the mail today great for looking through circuit

      When you have this light box light is on high it very bright

      I have used flashlight to this before but I find this to be a pain in ass
      I mess around with a lot of switching power supply board and the like

      This light box is going to make my life a bit easier to this type of work

      I would have like to have this light box when I was working on PLC controller problem a few weeks ago

      The magnifying glass light I use to buy them from Harbor Freight but the hinges wear out in a couple years and then it becomes worth to use when this happens

      The last one I bought from them it not last more than a year
      Last edited by sam_sam_sam; 12-03-2019, 05:35 PM.
      9 PC LCD Monitor
      6 LCD Flat Screen TV
      30 Desk Top Switching Power Supply
      10 Battery Charger Switching Power Supply for Power Tool
      6 18v Lithium Battery Power Boards for Tool Battery Packs
      1 XBox 360 Switching Power Supply and M Board
      25 Servo Drives 220/460 3 Phase
      6 De-soldering Station Switching Power Supply 1 Power Supply
      1 Dell Mother Board
      15 Computer Power Supply
      1 HP Printer Supply & Control Board * lighting finished it *


      These two repairs where found with a ESR meter...> Temp at 50*F then at 90*F the ESR reading more than 10%

      1 Over Head Crane Current Sensing Board ( VFD Failure Five Years Later )
      2 Hem Saw Computer Stack Board

      All of these had CAPs POOF
      All of the mosfet that are taken out by bad caps

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        Re: Ottlite brand Light Box came in the mail today great for looking through circuit

        hmm... I guess I've never done that on PSU boards (usually 2-layer or less). Usually I just photograph at most, otherwise just look at it. Not sure why I don't use light through the board when I flashlight multilayer (buried foil) boards. Now multilayer boards, coherent light may be helpful, too much dispersion with incoherent light.

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