Optical Zoom from 1x to 50x; Digital Zoom up to 200x; 8 LEDs with dimmer for fine tuning illumination; Live view with video capture or snapshot feature; Solid alloy stand for stability. It's also possible that the microscope isn't running under it's specialized driver that MicroCapture requires in order to see the microscope. CoolingTech U500X Digital Microscope User Manual （English） （中 文） Prepared by Cooling Tech 2009.09.24 1/45.

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Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site. Or read our to learn how to use this site. Welcome to the world of Windows 10. Unfortunately the drivers included with the device will only work up to Windows 7 or possibly 8. Your only hope is to either wait for Windows 10 to supply a driver or revert back to Windows 7 if the upgrade was less than 30 days. I did a search on the Vendor and Device ID and could not find a Windows 10 driver but I did find the search led me to page.

I can't say the software will install a Windows 10 driver or not. It is up to you if you want to download. Edit: I would also like to point out that the reversion to Windows 7 from Windows 10 has not been a smooth one for some people. Edit: This is the problem I have with Windows 10.

Microsoft specifically says that Windows 10 will be free until your device is no longer supported. Any major Windows 10 update can render your device such as your microscope or printer useless. Since it is no longer supported, you are expected to purchase a new one. With all previous versions of Windows, you knew your device would work until end of support and in this case Windows 7 end of support is 2020 which is another 4 years from now. Personally, if I had a Windows 7 computer, I would refuse the upgrade if I knew I would be purchasing a new computer after 2020. Edited by JohnC_21, 10 January 2016 - 09:47 AM.

I just tried this microscope on a Windows 7 64 bit laptop and got the same problem. When I plugged it in, it said it was installing the software, then I got 'Device driver software was not successfully installed'. I then tried this on a really old HP Compaq laptop running Windows 7 32 bit and it worked straight away. The moment I plugged in the microscope it said 'Software installed successfully'. On the microscope's driver disc auto.exe, there's a dotnetfx button. When I hover the mouse pointer over it, it says 'Net Framework'.

At the end of the manual it states, 'Please click dotnetfx to continue when the NET Framework 2.0 is necessary'. Hi, the driver file has an.exe extension. I opened WinRAR and chose the driver.exe file.

If I hit 'Extract To' I get a pop up stating 'No archives found in selected files or folders'. Was that what you meant by extract the contents? The driver file is a InstallScript Setup Launcher (not sure what that is). I've read that this has worked on 64 bit systems and even worked on my 64 bit Win 10 PC at one point. I wonder if it has something to do with what.NET each system is running. I ran CCleaner on the old HP Compaq laptop to see the uninstall section so I can see what.NET it was running but it only displayed 5 programs! None of which were.NET.

John, I just got it working! I chose Update Driver/ Browse My Computer/ Let Me Pick From A List Of Devices (instead of 'Search For Driver Software In This Location - Browse' ) /USB Video Device (instead of USB2.0 PC Camera) I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I also opened aveodcnt.inf first in notepad and changed CatalogFile=Aveodcnt_64.cat to CatalogFile=aveodcnt_64.cat and tried the 'Search For Driver Software In This Location - Browse' option which (for the first time) gave me the option to 'install this driver software anyway' but then gave me the 'Driver is not intended for this platform' error.

Thanks for all your help guys Edit: Make sure you choose 'Disable driver signature enforcement' just in case. You do it by holding shift when you restart Windows 10 and I think it only works until you reboot again.

Edited by skyshrimp, 12 January 2016 - 09:58 AM.

Cheap USB microscope on test • • February 15, 2014 •, • When electronics gets smaller and smaller, you first need a magnifier and sometimes a microscope. There are s like one I used in my article. The downside of traditional microscopes and those cheap small pocket microscopes is that you have to stay curved over the target sample to use them. And microscopes are also a quite annoying when you use glasses normally. In some cases using can be used to look at the small details, but it has also has limitations. A microscope that displays the image on a computer screen makes is a big plus over traditional optical microscopes. This kind of microscopes used to be expensive years ago, but nowadays they much cheaper.

So cheap that I tried on less than 25 USD product to see if it were of any use in electronics hacking. This microscope was a very easy to use tool stating from installation. Sarnevesht Serial Killer.

This USB microscope looks to computer as generic USB 2.0 webcam that is already supported on most operating systems without any extra drivers (the device comes with driver and software CD but you don’t need necessarily install them). Worked well without drivers on Windows Vista and Windows 7 PCs. According to this should be (I have not verified this). When I plugged in the microscope, I was ready to view the results with any existing software that can show pictures/videos from webcam.

This microscope has very handy light and focus adjustments, making it really quick to view anything. The microscope an easily focused to different distances. If could even be focused to objects around one meter a way, which means could work as sort of webcam. I could say that this USB microscope is basically just the same hardware as used in cheap webcams, just a little bit different optics and illumination LEDs added. The microscope comes with a stand, and can be used with the stand or without it. The plastic stand feels a little “unsturdy”, but it does its job acceptably in most of the time, but sometimes I would hope it to be more stable.

Ok photo quality considering the resolution is only 300KP (640 x 480), which is not very much. The unit comes with a plastic ruler for calibrating the size of the viewed objects and the software for windows which comes with it allows you to measure the ruler and set a scale for pixes x mm, so you are able to measure the real size of the viewed objects at a given focus. I tested the microscope with the Cooling Tech software that comes on the product CD and it works well. Another good software that works with this microscope is. Both software allow viewing and measuring. Here are some example pictures that are close-ups of electronics. The first picture shows a small SMD LED in details: The seconds one shows what is inside a power transistor: Besides looking at the electronics in details, this microscope can also be used as a cheap to look at fiber optic connectors. I would recommend if you’re looking for one that is as cheap as possible.

It provides good value for money. If you are prepared to spend a little bit more money, it would also be a good idea to also look better resolution (it seems that yo would get much higher resolution if you are prepared to pay double the price). I had to uninstall CoolTech’s own software that came on a minicd disc. Then with the software disc in the cd player Windows found the necessary drivers when I plugged the microscope to an usb port. Yawcam serves well for presenting whatever you want to visualize and the quality of pictures is quite good in comparison with the prize. Hopefully the manufacturer pays more attention to the quality of the software. Obviously there was also some conflict with Windows 7 OS environment.

So far I’m pleased with my purchase. Java Jre 1 7 51 Download Itunes. The remarkable evolution of modern fiber-optic connector inspection probes It’s mid-2017 and nearly everyone is aware that the information technology world encircling us is simultaneously getting both faster and denser. Bits of data are flying through optical network links at rates of 100 billion bits per second and higher, and the feature sizes in the network processor chips at the ends of these network links continue to shrink, as roughly and famously predicted by Gordon Moore. Multifiber connectors such as MPO, MT, and MXC are putting more and more less-than-human-hair diameter glass fibers into tighter spaces. With single MPO connectors increasingly using 16 fibers at 25 Gbits/sec per fiber, the asset value of these 400-Gbit/sec short-reach Ethernet links is exceedingly high, making data center infrastructure equipment failures due to connector contamination completely unacceptable to savvy management teams.

Microscopic connector endface dirt and debris cause light reflections and attenuation – the enemies of optimal optical signal transmission. Thankfully there now exist excellent quality and easy-to-use tools for inspecting and cleaning fiber endfaces. In particular, the brief history and evolution of fiber microscopes shows a compelling level of innovation, in terms of optics, electronics and software.

If You Want to Spend on a Microscope A quick check of the usual Chinese websites will yield USB microscopes for a very low price. However, many of these are little more than webcams with some cheap optics.

Not that they can’t be useful, but they probably won’t compete with an expensive instrument like a Dino-Lite. [Shahriar] looks at the latest offerings from Dino-Lite and shows how they can be useful when examining electronics.

You can see the video below, but be warned: these little microscopes are not cheap. The entry-level model starts at about $100 and they go up — way up — from there.