magnified lamp: recommendation?

[HpW]

I used this one, as I use anyway glasses.

Even soldering SMD 402 as good as it gets with the right soldering gear of JVC.

May the availability is may country dependent. I payed about 77€. It is not the usual Ali junk as claiming 10x and finally it is really less than 2x.

just my 2 cents

 

[IVX]

I bought one(3.5X-420) and wasn't quite happy with it because of too high working distance, 10-12" makes soldering inconvenient to me. I tried to find some eyepiece concave lens to reduce the distance but I'm not sure which one will be OK. Would be nice to find an optical online simulator to make sure what I need.

BTW, I found that! https://phydemo.app/ray-optics/simulator/