Albert van Dalen

735 orders since Feb 12, 2017

Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

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Average Ratings

Product: (4.78)

Documentation: (4.09)

Shipping: (4.35)

Communication: (4.61)

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Duncan | Sept. 19, 2024

Fits perfectly

For Yamaha PW-X and PW-X2 nylon gearwheel repair

The gear was a perfect press fit. No new gear noise when riding the bike. Runs very smooth and quiet. If he sold little tubes of Yamaha electric motor grease it would be one stop shopping
AMAZING QUALITY

Laurent | July 28, 2024

Super et bravo tout tout ce boulot

For Yamaha ebike dongle to use any 3rd party battery

Super tout fonctionne
Test sur banc équipé d une moteur yamahaaaaa !!
Je n ai pas compris le paramétrage de la jauge... il me faut travailler le sujet
Batterie reparable à 100% c est bon pour la planète
Merci et bravo pour tout ce boulot
Bien cordialement
Ps il serait intéressant de développer ce même produit sur les nouvelles générations de batteries power tube yamahaa et bosch...

Sven | June 18, 2024

Awesome product!

For Yamaha ebike dongle to use any 3rd party battery

It's a little bit tricky to set the battery size, but once you get the hang of the one button menu it's actually quite clever!
I got a huge replacement battery for a Yamaha equipped bike and this adapter is amazingly simple to get going with and the bike runs like it was new. Five batteries out of five from me!

PostNL, or the Nordic post system, screwed up the delivery but we sorted it out and great service from you to fix a replacement.

Jacek | March 10, 2024

great product , perfect quality , A+++++

For Yamaha ebike dongle to use any 3rd party battery

This is an amazing product , very nicely made , high quality......easy to install , I wish it had more programming options and the ability to have an ungoverned speed option to improve top speed for people who are looking for that in a bike, but maybe next version. Keep up the good work, if you could make a battery dongle for bosch system would be amazing also, I would buy a few
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Mike | Aug. 15, 2023

Saved my bike!

For Yamaha ebike dongle to use any 3rd party battery

Works as described - nice small form also. Shipped quickly and well packaged. Excellent technical support. Thank you!

Lorenzo | April 19, 2023

Yamaha battery dongle

For Yamaha ebike dongle to use any 3rd party battery

Hello good morning
This is the second dongle I have purchased.
Today I received it, by the way very fast
The first one took a long time to assemble, but it works perfectly
I note that this second dongle is different
Well I would like to thank you for the effort made to develop and build this marvel
I feel envy for not having your knowledge
Thank you so much

Richard | Aug. 16, 2022

Good product. good shipping into and packing .

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

The Product is well packed .Practical and easy to use . Communion with buyer was fast and efficient

Eric | Jan. 8, 2022

Works Well

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

Invest in some time to get familiar with how it behaves. first couple uses were a bit clumsy, but use became much smoother as i became familiar with how it behaves.

Ricardo | Dec. 15, 2021

Good seller

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

Not tested yet but it look a good quality. Shipping without tracking number is a little risky, anyway, I get it and I am satisfied.

David | Sept. 14, 2021

Bottom line: it works

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

It works. Installing the syringe is a fiddly procedure, but it’s simple and it works. Most of the alternatives seem to be complicated things with motors and pumps, so I consider it a winner.

Took just one week to arrive in Arizona. Whoever is in charge of making sure the international mail takes forever is not doing their job.

Dan | Aug. 13, 2021

Exelente vendedor

For Yamaha PW-X and PW-X2 nylon gearwheel repair

Vendedor muy puntual.
Respondió todas mis preguntas.
Llegó muy rápido.
Aún no lo pruebo pero se ve de muy buena calidad.
Quedó muy agradecido

Eric | May 24, 2021

Great product

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

I love this neat little device! It does a fantastic job dispensing controlled amounts of solder paste.

James | May 6, 2021

Fantastic

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

These are fantastic. With a small enough tip, you can almost dispense one tiny sphere at a time. By far the best solution I've found for placing solder paste on supper tiny SMD pads.

Response from Albert van Dalen | May 6, 2021

I'm happy to know

Richard | March 7, 2021

Works great for applying very precise amounts of paste

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

I found once loaded this was very easy and natural to use, I was able to apply small amounts of paste (I used a chipquik T5 paste ) The instructions and videos are great, my only reason for not awarding 5 stars is that its quite fiddly to load the syringe and get the spring in the correct position - I think I will try adding a small washer as one of the other reviewers suggested, but its minor - its a great cost-effective solution for applying paste

Jeffrey | Jan. 5, 2021

Works exactly as described

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

The product works well and as described. I have successfully used it to add paste to several circuit boards. The only challenge is getting the spring on the syringe inserted properly without over stressing the lever arm. It takes a little practice, but otherwise, it works well.

Thomas | Oct. 8, 2020

great product - easy to use - precise for 0.65 pitch

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

Meanwhile i did about 10 board using the dispenser and it's amazing how precise i could put solder paste on 0.65 pitch pads - great deal to me - thx
two little things to mention:
- installing the syringe with the spring needs some training
- cleaning the needle after use is a must - tried to protect the tip by sticking it into rubber doesn't made it after 3 days storage
However this is more to make a better picture rather than pointing to disfunction or bad design - the product is absolute great!

Gwendolyn | Aug. 6, 2020

A wonderful design!

For Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

I build amateur radio kits, and more and more of them are being made with surface-mount components. Some of them have a mixture of SMD and thru-hole components, and most of those pre-solder the surface-mounted parts to the board for you. But more and more often, these kits have fewer and fewer thru-hole parts and more SMD. I've had one kit that was about 85% SMD and have a new one that's nearly completely SMD. There's fewer and fewer that pre-mount the SMD components for you, so you need to develop the skills and get the tools to build these kits.

When I set up my workbench a few years back, I still had not done any SMD work, but I knew it was rapidly approaching. So I started acquiring the tools to work on these parts -- a hot-air pencil station, a programmable soldering hot plate, tweezers for holding the components, and a microscope so I could even SEE them. The old magnifier with a ring light around it on a spring arm just wasn't enough, and I hate those huge magnifiers that go on your face like glasses. So a fairly decent electronic microscope with an LED display helped immensely. But applying solder paste was a real issue.

If you don't use a stencil, you need to have some way of applying individual dots of paste to the board. Solder paste IS sold in little air-piston syringes for this purpose, but the plungers to squeeze it out onto the board are nearly universally uncomfortable to use, and most don't even hold in place in the syringe, so they're constantly dropping out when you set them down. Powered dispensers were expensive, powered by air compressors and vacuum pumps. But finally, someone came out with an electronic extruder that didn't use compressed air, it used a stepper motor and a microcontroller. It works very well, but it's really a pain to load and clean up when you're done for a while, and can be very wasteful of solder paste. It's a shame to have to put it all together just for a few parts, or for a short period of assembly. If you have to assemble boards all day, it's perfect, but just for a couple of hours? Overkill.

So when I saw this on Tindie, I jumped at it! It's small enough that it's light and easy to use, holds just enough paste for a short session of kitbashing, and is easy to load and clean up afterwards. It's also very affordable! I just got it a couple of days ago, and put it together in anticipation of starting a new build, and I'm very excited at the simplicity of the design.

IF there's only a couple of nits I'd pick, add to the documentation that all those vertical spaces in the syringe clip are so you can fill the syringe with a fair bit of paste, and move it inward towards the back as you use it up. It isn't absolutely intuitive, and it looks like you're just supposed to snap it in place at the rearmost slot. I figured it out, but some might need a more explicit direction. Also, I'd add one more part: a small washer, to fit between the spring and the spot on the dispenser where the spring must press against. That'd make it easier to pull back so the syringe can be popped into place, and would keep the spring from pressing directly on the plastic, maybe damaging it over time. I plan to do that with mine.

But other than that, it looks like a fantastic tool, and I plan to use it soon, now that the heatwave seems to be breaking here and I feel more amenable to working with things that melt metal.

Ben | June 23, 2020

Great Item but the Packaging Let it Down

For SAM15x15 Arduino Zero compatible SAMD21 board

Good item and good documentation but the packaging is probably the worse I've even seen from an ESD point of view. The item was wrapped in foil then taped down onto some cardboard. Coming from a professional electronics background I would prefer to see either the cheapest pink esd bag or even the global standard metalized esd bags.

Patrick | Feb. 5, 2020

Small is beautiful, SAM15x15 is very beautiful !

For SAM15x15 Arduino Zero compatible SAMD21 board

I love it, easy to cut, perfect size !

Easy to use, just have to build a small USB adapter, quite easy.

And to me, it's a good idea to not have the USB connector, it save place and let you choice for which USB connector you want, in case you want.

Very happy with it !

Giovanni | Feb. 13, 2019

very nice piece of hardware

For SAM15x15 Arduino Zero compatible SAMD21 board

Extremely easy to use with arduino IDE, works like a charm, you'll need some skill to solder to your pcb but hey, you have seen the pictures right? I used the 15x15 configuration that I obtained by sanding away the larger part of the board that was shipped to me, that operation didnt damage the chip and/or the connections integrity. Very satisfied!

Jyrki | July 3, 2017

Excellent product for prototyping

For SAM15x15 Arduino Zero compatible SAMD21 board

Works with Arduino IDE as excepted. Very usable form factor. I used it with microUSB adapter. Highly recommended.

P | April 25, 2017

Beautiful board, however.....

For SAM15x15 Arduino Zero compatible SAMD21 board

Albert did a _really_ nice job designing the SAM 15 X 15 board, but it gets messy from there. The documentation is all over the place on his website. It's not obvious which libraries one needs to get the board up and running. He has one large zip file that has all the "needed" libraries in it but many of libraries are by other vendors, and doing a straight copy overwrites what my be important without knowing it until later on. It would be nice if he spent the time to put all the examples strewn around his website into an example folder. Doubly nice if he spent the time put all his libraries in order per Arduino spec. There's a reason I love Paul's work on the Teensy, but truth be told if Albert can get the doc/libraries for the SAM 15 X 15 in order it's hard to beat for the size.

Chris | April 17, 2017

Nice board, Great working with Albert

For SAM15x15 Arduino Zero compatible SAMD21 board

Nice quality board, good datasheet, would recommend for anyone designing with the SAMD21. The SAM 15x15 even has an on board LED!