hi! this is toby with hmc electronics. let'stake a look at the mantis compact from vision engineering. we will start off with a general overviewof the mantis compact and it's rather unique design that you see right out of the gate.there are no eyepieces. there's this viewing window through which you see your magnifiedproduct. so rather than sitting and staring into two eyepieces, you're simply sittingand looking through this window and seeing a crystal clear image of your product. as far as any adjustments. if you think abouton a microscope you'll have the eyepieces, the turrets, that need to adjusted in andout for your interpupillary distance and comfort.
on the vision unit, you've just got that onedial here. adjust it for the operator, once it's set it's good, you just look down throughand you've got a perfect crystal clear image. one thing to note, as with all other microscopesthat are out there, your spacing between the board and the lens is a fixed distance. sospend some time getting your height from your product set up. the 2x has a different workingdistance than the 4x, 6x, and 8x. in fact those are all the lenses that are availablewith this unit. taking a look at the lenses now. they areinterchangeable by locking in and locking out from under here. simply taking your lens,lining it up, and it's nice and solid and in place. one thing worth noting is the pricelisted for a vision system never includes
the cost of a lens. you can spend anywhereon a compact from a couple hundred to a few hundred dollars for a lens. and we'll showyou those up on the screen along with their part numbers. with the mantis compact, changing of magnificationis done by simply removing one lens, grabbing out in this instance our 6x--and you'll noticethe lenses get longer as they get into a higher magnification--taking it and putting underthere, threading it tight. you don't have to use a massive amount of force, just a slight30-degree turn and you're ready to go. a standard microscope will have a lightingoption, so you'll be either getting fluorescent, led lighting array, or fiber optic lightingarray. with the mantis compact here, your
lighting array is built in, you've got yourlighting panel right under there, which is definitely enough light to view your product.when you look at microscopes and light sources they come with and the masses of light thatthey're throwing down on a board, you might look at this and say, "well jeez, that's notan awful amount of light." i can tell you from just doing some checking with the boardsthat we have here, you'll be amazed at the amount of that light that is actually comingthrough the optical path, and how clear and crisp that image is without it throwing amassive flooded area of light. because this is led--unlike the old mantisunits that are out there where you actually had a fan in there because it had to coolthe bulbs off--there's no fan in here. it's
completely silent. these bulbs are guaranteedto last about 10,000 working hours, so really no need to be worrying about stocking sparebulbs or anything like that. very quickly looking at the setup time ona mantis compact. getting this unit out of the box that it comes in and getting it setup is a very simple set up process. the arm has a c-mount clamp in the back. clamp thatdown to your bench top. this then slaps right on. then back here if you peel back this kindof neck area, you will see that there are two screws. lock those in. attach your head.attach the power cable. and you're off to go. not to say that a regular microscope doesn'ttake a very, very long time to set up. but
definitely in getting this one set up justin here, total set up time was only about five minutes. if you have any other questions on the mantiscompact, or if you are interested in its big brother, the mantis elite, we have a videofor that--but if you do have questions after watching both of those videos, you are welcomeas ever to give us a call or drop us an email. thank you very much, and happy soldering!
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