• jonathan@lemmy.zip
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    Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great

    Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?

    Edit: this is a rhetorical question, I’ll read the article.

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      I can attest that they are great. I use them daily for cleaning stuff at work. Much bigger ones than these tho.

      Ironically he says cleaning electronics will damage them, but thats exactly what im doing. The frequency and strength is the important part here. He generally has no understanding of electronics and makes some stupid nonsense claims about the circuit of the real one, but thats not the focus of the video so idc.

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        Few years ago at work, people were using them to clean electronics after soldering, etc. but once, they did it on a board with a MEMS device, a gyroscope and accelerometer chip. Took them a while to figure out while none of them worked until they narrowed it down to the ultrasonic cleaner…

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          Yeah that makes sense that those would break. Its quite aggressive, but most standard smd components dont care. Its even kind of a good QC test in my experience, because if anything wasnt attached properly it will get detached in there.

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      I got one a while ago and they are great for cleaning small objects, and glasses. Basically ultrasonic sound waves get send through water, small cavitation bubbles form and rip off the dirt.

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        Real ones are great but definitely more expensive. My wife has one that uses liquid and she puts jewelry in. Works extremely well.