Review: VEVOR's HUGE 30 Litre Ultrasonic Cleaner!

hello there I'm Steve from mac84 and today we're going to be looking at this vivore Ultrasonic Cleaner this is a huge 30 liter model so in my review I'm going to be going over what this thing is what it does and why I think it's going to be an awesome addition to the basement so stay tuned so let's unbox this thing and see what's inside well besides an ultrasonic cleaner now full disclosure V4 has sent me this product to review which was very kind of them however all of the thoughts and opinions are purely my own and nobody has approved or reviewed anything that you're about to see so let's slice it open here all right everything looks like it's okay inside let's get this thing on the table oh boy let's get this box out of the way all right so let's start unpacking this thing it looks like there's some plastic covering we'll have to remove the lid to get into that and then I'll review all the different pieces that are inside of this thing foreign Ultrasonic Cleaner here this is a 30 liter model it is huge compared to the 15 liter model that I had my goodness I think I could fit every logic board or motherboard that I have in this thing and that's saying something we have the unit itself we have the lid that goes on top of it we have a basket with a few accessories and an instruction booklet and what I'm actually going to do is take this over to the other side of the basement so we have more room to look at this in detail now to ensure this review isn't over a lot of people's heads I'm going to stick to the basics of the ultrasonic cleaner if you want to know exactly the technical details of how the ultrasonic process works while my good friend Bruce at brancas Creations did an excellent video describing just that I'll put a link in the video description and in the corner as well so you can check that out but essentially an ultrasonic cleaner works by using high frequency sound waves to clean the surface of parts that are placed in the tank these sound waves are created by specialized components called transducers these transducers emit specific sound waves through the liquid in the tank these sound waves create microscopic bubbles via a process known as cavitation the expanding and collapsing of these millions of bubbles do an excellent job of cleaning hard to reach places and in the process remove a lot of stubborn dirt and grime add into the mix some specialized detergent and some heat and you have an excellent way to clean all sorts of things now I've been using ultrasonic cleaners for a few years of course one that's much smaller than this and I've picked up a thing or two however I would want to implore you to look at what you want to clean and do your research about the best way to clean that you want to understand the best cleaning agent chemicals or detergent to use for those items for example if you're cleaning Electronics you probably have to use a much different cleaning agent or detergent than if you're cleaning machine parts it all comes down to what you want to clean and how you want to clean it in addition some things like small computer speakers or any speaker of any type should usually not be ultrasonically cleaned it could damage the speaker so you want to make sure that you understand the risks of putting something in the Ultrasonic Cleaner before you get into doing it okay we have everything on the table here so let's start taking a look at what we have we have the Ultrasonic Cleaner we have the lid we have some instructions we have the power cable we have a hose for draining it we have the main basket and we have a tiny little basket that is hooked onto the large basket and this would be if you are ultrasonically cleaning something small then let's say you don't want to lose it so that's a nice conclusion well let's take a quick tour around the ultrasonic cleaner to look at some of the features that the vivore model has this has a full electronic display we'll turn this on a little bit but this will tell you the time that you're setting the electronic cleaner to go and the temperature you want to set it to which is very nice so you don't have any dials to fiddle with it's all electronic we have two handles on the side here which makes it easy to lift the tank up you can see there are vents on either side here we have the drain so if you want to drain the liquid that's in the Ultrasonic Cleaner you could do so by doing that there is that tube that's also included to make draining a bit easier and on the back we have our standard power connector that our power cable plugs into with a nice on off rocker we have a basket that goes in the cleaner generally you're going to want to use the basket when you're cleaning items it just makes them much easier to retrieve unless you're using something that's really bulky in your Ultrasonic Cleaner I would recommend using the basket we also have the lid and that helps keep everything clean and tidy especially when you are ultrasonically cleaning it now of course there is a manual included with the Ultrasonic Cleaner it goes over the very basics of how to operate the machine however since it's only about four pages long I would suggest you read up more about the subject and do your research about how these machines work and their best use cases before you just dive right into it now I want to use this Ultrasonic Cleaner primarily for cleaning electronic components like logic boards motherboards PC cards and so on and so forth however the manual does give us a few ideas of some of the other things you could use in ultrasonic cleaner to clean it gives examples of necklaces Rings earrings glasses watches waterproof watches electronic shaver heads razors Dentures Combs toothbrushes pen heads printer heads seals watch Parts ancient coins Badges and machine nozzles Forks knife spoons sporks Etc now it also lists the specifications of this specific model this is a th-100a and so this has a frequency of 40 kilohertz this has a power rating of 600 watts it has a timer that could go up to 30 minutes the heater is rated up to 800 watts the specifications also talk about the tank size and the capacity now this capacity for this tank is 30 liters however I do not think you could safely fill this thing with 30 liters you'd have some overflowing but that's usual in ultrasonic cleaners they will rate it for 10 15 20 or 30 liters but you'd be hard-pressed to actually fit that volume of liquid in the tank this is because the tanks are usually curved or they're tapered on the size of the edges even some of the measurements you see in the manuals or online do not take into account some of the curves here now for my personal uses I'm going to use the ultrasonic cleaner to clean computer boards and computer parts these are generally wide and long but not too thick so I don't have to be too concerned about the dimensions inside large Ultrasonic Cleaner like this however if I had a 10 liter or 15 liter Ultrasonic Cleaner I may be a little concerned about how this would fit I might have to get creative of putting it diagonally and so on and so forth however that is something you do want to consider when you're buying an ultrasonic cleaner try and think about the largest size item you would ever want to ultrasonically clean and determine if the tank size fits what you need to use it for sometimes the product manual or the website will list the tank size and the basket size separately what you probably want to do is go for the basket size as that would be a pretty good estimate of what you could fit inside of the tank as the basket is fully submerged a lot of ultrasonic cleaning tanks are rounded and so if it says this is say 12 inches by 17 inches you have to take into consideration that there may be tapered edges or rounded Corners so if you have something that is going to press against those capacity limits you may want to consider getting a larger Ultrasonic Cleaner you might not need the longer width or the longer depth but you might just need that one dimension to fit bulkier parts inside of the cleaner for example When comparing the tank size of the 15 liter model to the 30 liter model the width and the height remain largely the same the only big difference is with the length of the tank I'm going to quickly compare the manuals dimensions of the Ultrasonic Cleaner with my measuring tape here so this says that the width here is 500 millimeters or that's about 19.69 inches I use my tape measurer here we get about a bit over that 19 inches and 7 8 but there is a bit of give to this metal here now if I measure the width that's supposed to be about 300 millimeters or about 11.81 inches and if I measure that here I get just about 11 inches and a bit over 7 8 and if I measure the depth here which is supposed to be about 200 millimeters that's supposed to be 7.87 inches deep and if I measure that here taking into account the curve a little bit and going right up to the tippy top that should be actually eight inches and 1 8 but of course you're not going to be filling this to the tippy top of the unit either way but we have something perfect that came with the Ultrasonic Cleaner that's going to fit in it and that's the basket so let's put the basket in and measure so if I put the basket in there's about a half an inch or so wiggle room for the left and the right and the same for the width and there's about two or three inches from the top of the basket to the top of the ultrasonic clean air excluding the handles so let's measure the basket real quick and I'll put conversions on the video here because I'm not smart enough to do that in real time the manual or vvor's website doesn't mention the basket size but it's about 18.65 inches long 10.65 inches wide and 4.75 inches high not including the handles I'd like to note that the vivore website is pretty accurate with their product and tank dimensions whereas the included printed manual seems to be rounded off I almost forgot the part of every YouTube review you have to take off this protective plastic very slowly well that was a very 41. whether you're using the basket or not you're going to want to place the lid on top of the cleaner while it's working so make sure that a lot of those chemicals and fumes sort of stay in here but of course that being said you want to use this in a fairly well ventilated area especially if you're using harsh chemicals or other detergents now before we do fill this thing up with water and give it a go I want to see what's inside of this thing now of course the manual States and vivore states that you should not open this but I'm going to do it just for educational purposes you should probably not do this okay so I'm probably not going to be able to pull this thing fully up because everything's connected but we will get a peek inside of here we can see the power supplies and drivers for all those transducers and we could see the fan everything looks very clean and tidy let me see if I can get a shot in here with my phone now if you look here we do have 10 transducers which power the Ultrasonic Cleaner so that gives us a lot of cleaning power and then we have the fan here that helps cool all the power supplies and the electronics underneath that drive the ultrasonic cleaner I'll probably need about seven or eight of these gallons to fill this 30 liter tank close to the top but we'll get to that in a little bit in my case I'm going to be using a detergent that's specifically made for electronics like this Branson EC this is a pretty harsh chemical so you want to follow all the safety precautions on the back that goes for any chemicals you are using you want to make sure you're using them properly and I'm probably going to be using some gloves just to be on the safe side now we're going to be filling up this Ultrasonic Cleaner with water in a minute but it goes hopefully without saying that you should never ever run these without the tank fill to the appropriate level you're going to burn out the transducers and put stress on the power supplies and all that stuff so you don't want to do that what's great about this Vivo Ultrasonic Cleaner is that it has a built-in heater so what I'm going to do is I'm going to fill this with water and I'm going to set the heater to 50 degrees Celsius or about 122 degrees Fahrenheit to see how long it takes to get to that level then I'm going to let that water cool down to room temperature again and I'm going to try that again with an external heater just to see if that helps speed up the process during that test we'll also be able to see how much liquid we could fit in the ultrasonic cleaner and see how many gallons we had to pour in until it comes up to this Ridge here now for my purposes this vivore Ultrasonic Cleaner is going to be used primarily for cleaning electronic devices like this computer logic board or motherboard electronic devices can be very very sensitive therefore I'm going to be using distilled water instead of tap water with tap water there may be Trace Amounts of chemicals or harsh minerals or anything like that so distilled water is usually the way to go and it's pretty cheap it's about a dollar per gallon so let's get started okay here goes gallon one [Music] all right here goes gallon two [Applause] here goes gallon three it says gallon four gonna put in gallon five now so this is gallon six okay so it's a bit hard to see with the lighting and everything but we are right up to the top here so we have about uh I'd say an inch or so from the top which I think is fine because remember we're going to be submerging things in here and because we're putting a volume in here that water is going to rise up a little bit so with six gallons of water or almost 23 liters we filled the tank to just about this line the tank could fit a bit more liquid in it but probably not 30 liters now we're going to plug everything in of course you want to use the grounded plug and you don't want to circumvent that grounded plug and you want to be very careful when dealing with power near water all right so I'm going to turn on the ultrasonic cleaner and take a look at that nice bright display so we have the temperature set on the left and the time for the cleaning on the right we're going to ignore the cleaning portion for now because I just want to see how long it takes to get up to temperature I'm going to set that temperature down 250 it's currently about 17c so we're going to set that to 50 Celsius now and I'm going to turn on this heater in a second and we're going to see how long it takes to heat up the entire pool of water I am going to put the lid on just to conserve the heat that actually builds up inside of there and we'll see how long it takes okay so it took just over two and a half hours to reach 50 Celsius in this tank using the built-in heater Now 50 is probably a bit higher than I normally would heat it to maybe about 40 or 45 but I thought it was a nice round number so it took about two and a half hours for that now what I want to do is try to heat up the water with one of these heaters this is an immersion water heater or a bathtub heater I'm going to plug this in and try and heat the same amount of water and see how long it takes us to get to 50 degrees Celsius I am going to leave the ultrasonic cleaner on it's not going to be heating or ultrasonicing anything but the unit is going to be turned on and that way we can get an understanding of the measurement of the temperature and I also have this little aquarium temperature sensor here as well so this is going up into the tank and I'm just curious to see how accurate the temperature sensor is in this unit versus an external one it looks like we're off by about two degrees Celsius but I am curious to see if that changes as the tank heats up okay I have the external heater plugged in and sitting in the top of the tank this piece of wood is just to make sure that the wire doesn't go into the tank here and we're going to see how long it takes to get the temperature up to 50 degrees Celsius okay so it's been just about under an hour and we've surpassed the 50 Celsius temperature Mark you can see the aquarium temperature sensor that I have here is actually saying we're closer to 56 degrees Celsius than the 36 degrees Celsius that the Ultrasonic Cleaner says so if you're going to be heating the Ultrasonic Cleaner up pretty often I would suggest getting an external heater and an external temperature sensor so you have a better idea of when the water reaches your desired temperature okay so now that the Ultrasonic Cleaner has been warmed up well it's time to clean something in it now again you should always follow the instructions for your detergent or your chemicals you want to make sure that you're safe and you're doing things properly what we're going to be doing is cleaning a Macintosh SE logic board and let me show you why I think this is a good candidate for cleaning all right so this is a pretty sad looking Macintosh SE logic board and unfortunately the battery has exploded so we're going to remove that battery and we're going to put this thing in the ultrasonic cleaner to see if we can make it look a little bit better so first we're going to diffuse this Maxell battery bomb here oh yeah look at that that is certainly past its prime look now I'm going to be using the basket with the Ultrasonic Cleaner because this logic board will fit in perfectly with that basket in place it'll make a little bit easier to remove this as well I've also removed all the memory modules from this motherboard here and we're gonna put it in and hopefully we'll see a much cleaner result when the Ultrasonic Cleaner has finished cleaning it and they're going to put the lid on to help retain the Heat and everything okay so I'm going to run the ultrasonic cleaner for about 20 minutes with the logic board inside of there when 20 minutes is up I'm going to flip it over and we'll run it again on the opposite side remember the heater is off although we did preheat this to about 50 degrees Celsius it was a bit over that so I'm not really going to be paying attention to much over here we are just running the Ultrasonic Cleaner not the heater at this point in time here we go three two one all right time to flip things over now just be careful when you lift the lid of the Ultrasonic Cleaner there's likely going to be a lot of water and moisture on the bottom of the lid so you don't want to just open it up like this and water is going to go everywhere especially if this thing is on and plugged in so I'm going to open the lid carefully I'm just going to let it drip there now of course the water is hot so I'm actually going to use a screwdriver and just get the edge of the basket there and just lift the basket out of course I have these gloves on wow that board is already looking very clean so I'm going to flip this over and we'll run it on the same setting for the back for a little bit and I'm going to put the cover right back on now since this is already looking very clean I'm only going to run it again for 10 minutes but usually if I had a very dirty board or something that had a lot of corrosion I'm going to run it for a longer period of time but for this demonstration I think 10 minutes will be fine while the unit was running it was consuming about 436 Watts or about 119 volts and 3.7 amps the heater was off in this test but if that was on I could assure you this would be a bit higher all right so it's done let's open this up and see how things look [Applause] that's looking very very clean my goodness that did a phenomenal job let's get a better look at this oh wow just look how clean that is it really cleared away a lot of the rust that was on here there's only a tiny bit left visible by some of these little resistors and such I mean I could see a little bit by the battery terminal to be fair but that is where the battery exploded so that's to be expected so as you can see the V board ultrasonic cleaner did an excellent job on that Macintosh SE logic board however I am curious how it will fare with a bit more of a damaged and dirty logic board this board is from a Macintosh LC series and well it's seen better days this thing has had a battery explode on it and unfortunately it is not salvageable most of the pins on the processor are rusted and have fallen off however I am curious to see how well a lot of the corrosion and Gunk from this board will be cleaned using an ultrasonic cleaner so this will be our next test subject all right so the Ultrasonic Cleaner is already up to temperature so we're going to put this in run it through a round on this side then flip it over and well see how it looks so let's put that in foreign it's already looking much better see give your close-up later okay so let's run it again for 20 minutes again I'm not using heater since the water is already up to temperature so only the Ultrasonic Cleaner will be on all right it's done let's take a look oh wow I mean there are obvious flaws because the board is beyond gone but that looks pretty darn clean you could see a lot of the corrosion on this scuzzy port is gone and you could see a ton of that rust is gone too not all of it but a good majority of it is and although this processor isn't going to work anytime soon you can see it's a lot cleaner in that area we could actually see a lot of the pins that were covered with Rusk before in this corner especially we had a lot of corrosion and Gunk and you can see a lot of that is clear now I think the V4 ultrasonic cleaner did an excellent job on these logic boards this one looks practically new and although we have this four parts Macintosh LC board over here that has seen better days a lot of these chips are looking great and I'm sure we could salvage some of them if we needed to for future projects just not that CPU I'm very impressed by this vivore Ultrasonic Cleaner it was surprisingly quiet it wasn't as loud as my smaller ultrasonic cleaner and it did a beautiful job and not a lot of time my only suggestions would be to also purchase an external thermometer and a heater these are inexpensive and they would let you get a more accurate reading on the temperature inside of the tank and save a lot of time heating it up I'm very curious to see how this will tackle some larger boards that I'll throw at it later on as a vintage computer Enthusiast I think an ultrasonic cleaner is just another great tool to have at your disposal whether you're doing microscopic repairs or just trying to clean in between hard to reach places a Vivo Ultrasonic Cleaner would be an excellent addition to your tool it so if you're in the market for an ultrasonic cleaner I can highly recommend these vivore line of ultrasonic cleaners check out the link in the video description for a special discount code to get yours at a great price thank you again to V4 for sending me this great ultrasonic cleaner if you have something that you'd like to have ultrasonically cleaned let me know what it is in the comments section maybe we'll try it in here in a future video but that's about it for now thank you very much for watching and I'll catch you right here next time on Mac 84. foreign [Music]

Channel: Mac84

Views: 1,409

Keywords:

Id: ls4hTFee7Qw

Length: 23min 31sec (1411 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 13 2023