Hello,
I have two of these for the last 3 years(MV-7xi). Buy the machine with the best camera they offer and with the telecentric lens - it gives great view and resolution. I had to replace the controller for conveyer open/close on both of them. I also have one big dense PCB that will use many mounting windows and will crash the software because it is using all the memory(from Mirtec offered me to make two programs for this product). It is hard to make solder recognition to work without many false alarms(pad size, pad shape, amount of solder, shadows from taller components, package differences ...etc.) It also runs a huge database(we have around 50 customers and several hundred individual jobs that we run. Unless you run a high quantities, you will probably deal with some amount of false calls. Other that that the machine is doing the job and is relatively stable - it catches the defects, which I guess is the purpose.
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