Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great
Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?
Edit: this is a rhetorical question, I'll read the article.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
210 points (98.2% liked)
Technology
68864 readers
4674 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
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.
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...
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.
How the heck do you clean your old carburators? /j
Mate, wtf is an old carburator?
Mate what the hell is a wtf?
A regular carburetor, but old
Car part that meters fuel, mostly replaced by fuel injection.
They're quite notorious for getting clogged up with old fuel.
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.
Real ones are great but definitely more expensive. My wife has one that uses liquid and she puts jewelry in. Works extremely well.
Everyone has a plumbus
Not this.
It's the best sonic cleaner available. There is no better sonic cleaner.
The toothbrush?
I ordered one of these off Ali Express. An oscilloscope app showed it was about 40Hz vibration from the weight on the motor, far far from being ultrasonic. Got a refund, it ended up in the recycling.
I found one of these fakes on the shelves at CVS!
I'm pretty proud I got something banned after a letter.
I bought a fake one off of Temu. It was so cheap why not.
Instantly knew it was fake once it was in my hands. Tried it anyway. Clearly just vibrating.
Returned it. They told me to keep it...
It was so cheap why not... it was fake
That's why not.
Cheap doesn't mean fake, just like expensive doesn't mean quality... Not anymore
No, but there's an incredibly strong correlation between cheap and fake, and that correlation gets stronger the larger the gap between the price and the "usual" price.
If you need an ultrasonic cleaner, just go to harbor freight, they have decent ones for cheap. I bought one a few years back for carburetor parts a few years ago, and it does a great job
I got an AC powered unit off Amazon a couple of years ago. How can I tell if it's fake? Jewelry comes out bangin', but I've wondered it if should work even better.
Wife got this stuff last week and it seemed to make a dramatic difference.
OTOH, I can't see this thing having a legit transducer. Anyway to tell without tearing it down? Guess that's easy enough if I really care.
Should I try something rusty? Should a "real" one work for that? Also, it gets the water pretty hot. Is that an indicator?
From the video a good tell is having a metal basin, also the waves in the liquid when turned on should be grid like rather than wavey waves, finally put some tin foil in and it should come out with wee little holes in... YMMV I guess