Cooling Tech Microscope 500x Software Download
Electronic components are becoming smaller and tiny. Sometime it is pretty difficult to troubleshoot a PCB board. A microscope will be a perfect tool to help :)
We are now carrying the USB microscope that have optical magnifier of 500X. Yes, is 500X!
What surprise us is the USB connection, it is so easy to use. Plug into your laptop USB port and it become standard USB camera. No worry, the software is included in a small CD. Just install it.
It's perfect for electronics hacking, rework, SMT (de)soldering, inspection, and soon you'll find yourself pulling it out to look and photograph all sort of cool small stuff around your lab and home.
Oct 01, 2016 Page 1 of 2 - USB microscope not working after Windows 10 update - posted in External Hardware: Im wondering if anyone might know a solution to this. I bought a USB microscope from eBay that wasnt supposed to work with Windows 10 but it did. Its supposed to be for XP, Vista and 7 (32bit and 64bit). Its a generic Chinese. This brand new 3D digital zoom microscope comes with 2MP USB digital system and. User Manual Download; One CD (driver and software); Calibration ruler. USB Digital Microscope - 500X - Electronic components are becoming smaller and tiny. To look and photograph all sort of cool small stuff around your lab and home. **This software can be downloaded under “Attachment” tab or in the CD.
Camapp:
- Window 7: Support zoom function, snap is not supported
- Window 10: Zoom and snap is not supported
- Window 7: zoom button is supported /snap is not supported
- Window10: Snap supported
- Software and driver support Win XP, Vista, 7, 8 , 8.1 and also Linux
- USB 2.0 plug and play connection
- Come with a stand/holder, software CD and a ruler sticker for measurement.
- Adjustable LED brightness.
A USB microscope can be useful for electronics or not ?
I was very skeptical before buying this gadget.
Everyone seems to use it for general inspection and not as a real time soldering equipment.
I have seen the excellent review of Todd Harrison which i highly recommend to watch before buying this gadget.
Two main things bothered me : how responsive would be on a fast desktop computer and if the distance between the microscope and the PCB board would be enough for soldering elaboration.
I bought this 800X microscope from e-bay and i must say that i was impatient to see its capabilities.
The package arrived today without a box. It came with a mini CD with the drivers a little stand, a calibration rule , a plastic cover for the lens and the microscope itself.
The given stand is without doubt an inspection only stand since the maximum distance between the microscope and the PCB can be few millimeters.
I was aware about that so i made a pretty simple modification. I have added a 20cm flexible arm.
Some photos are posted below :
Cooling Tech Digi Microscope Driver
Once done this modification i was able to use a classic 'third hand' tool in order to place the PCB board underneath the microscope :
Time for the installation CD.
The CD has a nice auto-run menu :
Drivers worked well under Windows 7 64 bit version. I have also installed the 'Measurement' program.
This microscope came with two programs, one called 'CamApp' and one called 'Cooling Tech' (the 'Measurement' program from the menu).
The 'Cooling Tech' aka 'Measurement' application haven't recognized the USB microscope at all (at least under Win 7 64 bit).
I was forced to use the CamApp application for live microscope inspection.
The two applications are presented below :
Notice that 'Cooling tech' aka 'Measurement' does not capture the USB microscope but as we can see later you can use it to do measurements from the taken photos with 'CamApp'.
If you are not satisfied with CamApp you can use the Yawcam in order to get live stream from your USB microscope.
CamApp can take snapshots and video captures. Some demo videos will be posted later in this article.
Once again searching around internet i couldn't find any resource for the drivers so i decided like the UT-61e article to put online the hole installation CD made with imgburn.
Download the installation CD (Drivers & Software) of the 800x USB Microscope from here.
Download, unzip and then use imgburn in order to clone the installation CD.
In the next page we are going to take a deeper view of our microscope.