- 42,000 cycle ultrasonic energy wave feature cleans dirt, dust and grime away
- Creates millions of microscopic cleansing bubbles; Simply fill the tank with water and and get professional cleaning results
- Automatic three-minute cleaning cycle and auto shut-off; Quiet operation, Solid State circuitry, and extremely easy to use
- Stainless steel cleaning chamber tank; Detergent can be added to water for enhanced cleaning; Also cleans tarnished items
- Great for business, commercial or home use
Product Description
GET PROFESSIONAL ULTRASONIC CLEANING RESULTS AT HOME!
* This professional jewelers sonic cleaner makes your cherished jewelry sparkle like new in just minutes.
* Using no chemical additives, this innovative cleaner employs advanced ultrasonic technology to gently remove dirt, grime and tarnish.
* With the push of a button, this ultrasonic jewelry cleaner safely leaves your bracelets, necklaces, rings, earrings, watch bands, coins, dentures, shaver heads, glasses even your delicate pieces with a smooth, gleaming finish.
* Simply fill the stainless steel tank with water and get dazzling results!
* Features:
o Ultrasonic jewelry cleaner uses ordinary water never any chemicals!
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Sonic Wave CD-2800 Ultrasonic Jewelry & Eyeglass Cleaner
Comments
I bought this item to clean dentures. Even with cleaning powder added and after 3 cycles of 3 mins each, what went in is almost what came out. Unfortunately the shipping and return costs ($8 each) do not allow me to return the item. I do not recommend this product for heavy items.
Rating: 1 / 5
This product is superior in every way. Small, Light weight, compact Energy saving devise. The price was right and the transaction was tops all the way round…Thank you for a perfect transaction.
Rating: 5 / 5
There were no real directions with this product — there was a plastic basket and some sort of plastic rack but they were not shown on the product diagram. I ran some peices of jewelry several times with only marginal improvement.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is my second machine, the first one lasted about 2 years and I used it several times a week. Easy to use, I add a few drops of Shaklee’s Basic H to the water. I run my jewelry through several cycles. I like that I can put other items in there as well.
Rating: 3 / 5
I purchased this a few months ago and it is already dead.
Sure, I used it pretty hard but it is a very light-duty sonic cleaner. If you are only going to clean the occasional piece of jewelry it might be OK -but it has some serious flaws.
Cons:
It is cheaply made. It lacks features like being able to set longer times. I think the cycle is about 2 minutes which means that for anything even remotely dirty you are going to have to baby-sit this unit and keep restarting it every couple of minutes. You can’t walk away and do something else because it’ll turn off and you’ll forget to restart it.
The blue LED light is annoying. It doesn’t do anything but look stupid. It’s a gimmick and a cheesy one at that.
The tank is very small. It’s fine for jewelry or small parts but not big enough for many things so if you need it to clean anything larger than a few inches long it’ll stick out (and the stupid BRIGHT LED light will shine right in your eye because the lid obviously won’t close -very annoying). It BARELY fits my small wire-rimmed glasses when folded up. I could see some larger glasses not fitting and needing to stick out of the tank. As it is this unit needs to cycle 3-4 times to get glasses really clean and the green goop out of all the spots. Double that if you have to switch positions of the glasses because they are too big to fit in the tank.
The BIGGEST issue is: The top seal that keeps water from running over the top of the stainless tank and into the inside of the machine isn’t very good at all. It’s cheap and poorly-executed and does NOT keep moisture from getting inside the case. Sure, there is a “top limit” to the water and you should never get water above that line -they warn you emphatically about this in the poorly-written instructions (Engrish -The instructions are pretty funny to read if you like to laugh at and about Engrish) But the here is that you need to put water into the tank and pour it out to put more in after it gets dirty. There is NO WAY to pour the water out without needing to pour it past the top O-ring seal unless you have the magical ability to instantly flip the machine upside down so the water falls straight out (and splashes everywhere of course). It’s a fact of physics that water is going to need to be poured over the ineffective O-ring seal between the stainless steel tank and the plastic housing at the top. This means that water WILL get past the seal and WILL run down the inside of the case to the bottom of the unit.
…Which brings me to the final and most damning design flaw:
The circuit board is the bottom of the plastic case directly below the tank. Yup, a printed circuit board with resisters, capacitors, and other delicate electronic transistors along with the 120v power supply. This is bad news! My unit started to act funky after only a few weeks of use, soon after it quit working entirely. So being the electronics tech and ham radio operator I am I decided to take it apart and see what the problem was. The ENTIRE circuit board was crusty with corrosion, the metal chassis screws that held the board to the plastic enclosure were completely rusted out and there was a burned trace in the power supply circuit right on the PCB (printed circuit board). It’s a simple matter to jumper this trace and get the board running again but it’s in such bad shape that it’s beyond salvaging with a soak in some isopropyl alcohol.
It’ll limp along but sooner or later it’ll just go bad again as the core issue of water dripping down into the circuit board directly below at the bottom of the unit will always be the death of this unit. A better design would be to have the PCB on the side behind a plastic enclosure so that if moisture were to get in that it would not drip directly onto the PCB, but be protected and insulated in its dry little pocket. This is just a stupid disposable design and I guess one gets what they pay for when they buy something electronic for this cheap.
The only thing going for this sonic cleaner is that it was CHEAP. The low-low Amazon price isn’t a hardship, but please be aware that it isn’t going to last long if you actually use it much. Perhaps it will get your feet wet (and your PCB) to see just how useful a sonic cleaner can be around the house.
But I’d suggest just buying a decent unit like this one for a bit more the first time:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006DOALG/ref=oss_product
Instead of spending X on a good unit I ended up spending X + Y ( Y for this cheapo cleaner) for a good unit and this cheapo Piece Of Work with which to fill the empty space of my trash can on garbage day. The only reason I’m giving this a 2 stars is because of the low-low price. If you are only going to use it a few times a year and then let it completely air out between uses so it doesn’t get too much moisture down inside the case it might work for you. At the price I paid for this it’s not even worth sending back to Amazon.
Caveat Emptor! -you can’t say you weren’t warned if you have read all of this
Rating: 2 / 5