The statement about less current at 230v making less wattage doesn't make sense. If it takes 1.3amps at 115V to make 150w, it should still use .65amps at 230v and still produce 150w max. Wattage should remain consistent.
Absolutely incredible format of reveiw, teardown, air quality test and in depth demonstrations. Has definitely opened my eyes to air quality! I do however wish it actually met its claimed fan power, maybe even wish it was more. Would be very curious how this budget unit stacks up to a quality unit, maybe you could contact some companys and see if one would loan out? Anyways, love the video and have subscribed!
I reached out to this company and never heard anything useful back about getting a number of these but wanted to try one before dropping that amount of money, and have been waiting almost a year for someone to review this extractor so thank you 1000 times over. -Neptune
Very well put together and perfectly presented - Thank you and greetings from Germany! PS: I just ordered the 100W model as the lowest power setting on your 150W model is sufficient - might be noisier but we will see. Plus, it was on sale for 120€ and, on top, your 5% discount code also worked. To healthier soldering! 😅
Hey Bruce, I received my unit today and it is great. Just wondering if you would every post the 3d printed clip you made for that button for the power? And I am assuming you just ran the wire through the tube?
Great informative video Bruce! Thank you for sharing this. I’ve been wanting to get one from Weller or similar and like you said, they were prohibitively expensive! I have nothing on my bench currently, but I’ll be getting this one for sure. Those tests you did convinced me.
*I built one using a squirrel cage blower salvaged from a powerful dehumidifier, a dryer exhaust hose, some lumber and other parts until it was sealed airtight in a window and my hose pulled up both fumes and material to be expelled outdoors.* The drawback is ultimately that even with a highly powerful squirrel cage blower, *I need to build another that uses the blower out of a dryer I salvaged.* I realized that in large part, you're really trying to achieve the effect of a giant shop vac and to be truly effective, these machines need to have the force to snatch up large pieces of material, and then you can watch and see that not a single-colored fume escapes. *My current unit looks just about identical to yours in the demonstration, and IMO after using it a couple years, is just "okay" and these devices just need to be incredibly powerful.* The boil down is something is better than nothing and if functions in the fashion of a true fume extractor, the difference in exposure will be phenomenally lower. Ultimately, I want a unit running in the room as a secondary hepafilter in unity with the fume extractor that evacuates tremendous quantities of gas directly outside.
It's worth noting here (CBRN background) your standard A1 rated (altough everyone only buy's ABEK2P3 rated today) filters are the same as they were in WW1 its just activated carbon, the low end spounge/webbing stlye sheets are impregnated with it simply and do actually reduce the vapour level but not remove 100% of it. This product you reviewed has a more commerical build with a P3 or HEPA filter layer with some standard extractor fan filtering packed around it, then the second layer is also a P3 but inpegenated with layers of active carbon this adsorbs the vapour into the carbon with 2 layers of trapping for particulates, if you wish to check if somthing is A1 rated use a can of arosol spray like deodrent and smell the expel port of the filter if you smell nothing its actually captured 95% +- of it properly.
You've sold me. Ordering one now. I assume you just soldered some wires to the existing switch to add the remote switch. Was it difficult? I know some boards have components really tightly packed and very small soldering pads and it's really hard to get it soldered.
Nice review, looks like a nice unit. 👍 Personally I've been just using a fan to avoid smoke in my face and then I have a reasonably large air purifier unit with hepa filter that keeps the air clean. The air purifier is fairly quiet and it comes with remote control plus ionizer and plasma functionality.
@@BranchusCreations Great review but for the love of God, how do I get my Mac 8.5 universal install CD to install to a BlueSCSI V2? I emailed Juicy Crumb but all I got was a lot of technical stuff about needing disc images and to download everything from mac garden or something. I have a few SD cards here but can't work out if I have to format them in my Macbook Pro running Monterey or do I simply remove the original 1GB IBM Apple stickered HDD from my 7500/100 and then plug in the BlueSCSI and then insert install CD and hold down C key? I just don't want to spend AU$130 to realize I'm not tech savvy enough to do this. Sorry to take up your time.
@@theaustralianconundrum You should be able to follow the steps from my BlueSCSI/SheepShaver video, but just use the 8.5 Installer CD image instead of there 7.5.3 image. You can download the image from the Macintosh Garden. Though I would recommend 8.6 as it's more stable.
@@BranchusCreations Thanks for the reply. I have original Apple 8.5 universal installer CD and the 8.6 updater CD so I've used them and restarted and running sweet. I found some unarchiver app that seems to convert all the vintage software I am after and I'm just shutting down the 7500 and removing the SD card and letting my Macbook Pro surf the net for all the vintage Mac software sites. However I will buy the DB25 BlueSCSI V2 as I'd prefer to not be removing the SD card at all if possible. Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your great test! Unfortunately I cannot find replacement filters from Vevor. Can you please measure the filter elements? Are the dimension 238x238x268mm for the big filter and 193x193x265mm for the middle filter like the article you show on aliexpress from HUNST official store?
Great review which decided me to take the plunge. Now a video describing the switch mod would be very welcome indeed.
sold me on getting this. i thought Hakko was rough with a unit pushing $800 but PACE trying to sell one at over 2 grand is insane.
The statement about less current at 230v making less wattage doesn't make sense. If it takes 1.3amps at 115V to make 150w, it should still use .65amps at 230v and still produce 150w max. Wattage should remain consistent.
Absolutely incredible format of reveiw, teardown, air quality test and in depth demonstrations. Has definitely opened my eyes to air quality!
I do however wish it actually met its claimed fan power, maybe even wish it was more. Would be very curious how this budget unit stacks up to a quality unit, maybe you could contact some companys and see if one would loan out?
Anyways, love the video and have subscribed!
Thanks for putting this review together! I’ve only just discovered your videos and I feel I’ve been missing out! Cheers
Thanks, I will be ordering one of these.
My order has been placed!
@@cla3dHow is it?
I reached out to this company and never heard anything useful back about getting a number of these but wanted to try one before dropping that amount of money, and have been waiting almost a year for someone to review this extractor so thank you 1000 times over. -Neptune
You're welcome!
@@BranchusCreations About the only thing i can’t find online amazon or at the companies own site .. is where and which replacement filters you can get
@@cjadams7434 Try Ali Express. Search for "XF250 filters". You can buy the filters individually, or as a bundle.
Great review Bruce!
Very well put together and perfectly presented - Thank you and greetings from Germany!
PS: I just ordered the 100W model as the lowest power setting on your 150W model is sufficient - might be noisier but we will see. Plus, it was on sale for 120€ and, on top, your 5% discount code also worked. To healthier soldering! 😅
Hey Bruce, I received my unit today and it is great. Just wondering if you would every post the 3d printed clip you made for that button for the power? And I am assuming you just ran the wire through the tube?
Great informative video Bruce! Thank you for sharing this. I’ve been wanting to get one from Weller or similar and like you said, they were prohibitively expensive! I have nothing on my bench currently, but I’ll be getting this one for sure. Those tests you did convinced me.
*I built one using a squirrel cage blower salvaged from a powerful dehumidifier, a dryer exhaust hose, some lumber and other parts until it was sealed airtight in a window and my hose pulled up both fumes and material to be expelled outdoors.*
The drawback is ultimately that even with a highly powerful squirrel cage blower, *I need to build another that uses the blower out of a dryer I salvaged.*
I realized that in large part, you're really trying to achieve the effect of a giant shop vac and to be truly effective, these machines need to have the force to snatch up large pieces of material, and then you can watch and see that not a single-colored fume escapes.
*My current unit looks just about identical to yours in the demonstration, and IMO after using it a couple years, is just "okay" and these devices just need to be incredibly powerful.* The boil down is something is better than nothing and if functions in the fashion of a true fume extractor, the difference in exposure will be phenomenally lower.
Ultimately, I want a unit running in the room as a secondary hepafilter in unity with the fume extractor that evacuates tremendous quantities of gas directly outside.
It's worth noting here (CBRN background) your standard A1 rated (altough everyone only buy's ABEK2P3 rated today) filters are the same as they were in WW1 its just activated carbon, the low end spounge/webbing stlye sheets are impregnated with it simply and do actually reduce the vapour level but not remove 100% of it.
This product you reviewed has a more commerical build with a P3 or HEPA filter layer with some standard extractor fan filtering packed around it, then the second layer is also a P3 but inpegenated with layers of active carbon this adsorbs the vapour into the carbon with 2 layers of trapping for particulates, if you wish to check if somthing is A1 rated use a can of arosol spray like deodrent and smell the expel port of the filter if you smell nothing its actually captured 95% +- of it properly.
I'd love to see the power button mod.
Same here
I don’t understand why they don’t sell replacement filters
Thank you very much for review, very informative
You've sold me. Ordering one now. I assume you just soldered some wires to the existing switch to add the remote switch. Was it difficult? I know some boards have components really tightly packed and very small soldering pads and it's really hard to get it soldered.
Thanks for the review, please review a fume extractor by the brand Atten too.
Nice review, looks like a nice unit. 👍 Personally I've been just using a fan to avoid smoke in my face and then I have a reasonably large air purifier unit with hepa filter that keeps the air clean. The air purifier is fairly quiet and it comes with remote control plus ionizer and plasma functionality.
How about a link to the Air Quality Tester? That looked skookum for PB's.
Good point! I've added it to the video description.
@@BranchusCreations Great review but for the love of God, how do I get my Mac 8.5 universal install CD to install to a BlueSCSI V2? I emailed Juicy Crumb but all I got was a lot of technical stuff about needing disc images and to download everything from mac garden or something. I have a few SD cards here but can't work out if I have to format them in my Macbook Pro running Monterey or do I simply remove the original 1GB IBM Apple stickered HDD from my 7500/100 and then plug in the BlueSCSI and then insert install CD and hold down C key? I just don't want to spend AU$130 to realize I'm not tech savvy enough to do this. Sorry to take up your time.
@@theaustralianconundrum You should be able to follow the steps from my BlueSCSI/SheepShaver video, but just use the 8.5 Installer CD image instead of there 7.5.3 image. You can download the image from the Macintosh Garden. Though I would recommend 8.6 as it's more stable.
@@BranchusCreations Thanks for the reply. I have original Apple 8.5 universal installer CD and the 8.6 updater CD so I've used them and restarted and running sweet. I found some unarchiver app that seems to convert all the vintage software I am after and I'm just shutting down the 7500 and removing the SD card and letting my Macbook Pro surf the net for all the vintage Mac software sites. However I will buy the DB25 BlueSCSI V2 as I'd prefer to not be removing the SD card at all if possible. Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like to see a vid on this mod
Thank you for your great test!
Unfortunately I cannot find replacement filters from Vevor.
Can you please measure the filter elements? Are the dimension 238x238x268mm for the big filter and 193x193x265mm for the middle filter like the article you show on aliexpress from HUNST official store?
If you do a search for XF250 on Ali Express, you'll find replacements there: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005159659697.html
Love the shirt! But, Why don't you put her in charge?!?!
Do Vevor sell a 220/240v version? or do you have to run it on a step down? even on the EU site I can only see it listed as 110-120v.
Is that really hepa/carbon Fibre filter? If not, these are pretty much useless.
Looks like bloody Noo-noo!