Comments on: Clean Well-lighted Optivisor http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/08/31/clean-well-lighted-optivisor/ We learn, share, and make things Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Max http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/08/31/clean-well-lighted-optivisor/comment-page-1/#comment-3327 Max Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:57:05 +0000 http://www.nycresistor.com/?p=561#comment-3327 I like the optivisor a lot better than a magnifying light. I have a tendency to lose track of normal spatial relations once I'm focused on really small things, and I'll smack the magnifying light with the end of my solder iron. I also get wildly frustrated that the magnifier won't just magically refocus every time I move my head. The optivisor works like the world's most powerful reading glasses; and for that I've already developed the neurological pathways. It took me a couple of months to stop making myself nauseous trying to look at people through my reading glasses. Now that I've mastered that, the same instincts kick in with the optivisor. If I lose visual focus, I flip the visor up to do whatever else I wanted to, then flip it back down again to work on the small stuff. I like the optivisor a lot better than a magnifying light. I have a tendency to lose track of normal spatial relations once I’m focused on really small things, and I’ll smack the magnifying light with the end of my solder iron. I also get wildly frustrated that the magnifier won’t just magically refocus every time I move my head.

The optivisor works like the world’s most powerful reading glasses; and for that I’ve already developed the neurological pathways. It took me a couple of months to stop making myself nauseous trying to look at people through my reading glasses. Now that I’ve mastered that, the same instincts kick in with the optivisor. If I lose visual focus, I flip the visor up to do whatever else I wanted to, then flip it back down again to work on the small stuff.

]]> By: jeff http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/08/31/clean-well-lighted-optivisor/comment-page-1/#comment-3318 jeff Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:31:47 +0000 http://www.nycresistor.com/?p=561#comment-3318 That looks really cool. Is the optivisor better than those magnifiying glass/fluorescent ring light things for doing SMT work? I've never used one before but Harbor Freight Tools has them for a few bucks so I might try one out. That looks really cool. Is the optivisor better than those magnifiying glass/fluorescent ring light things for doing SMT work? I’ve never used one before but Harbor Freight Tools has them for a few bucks so I might try one out.

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