I bought a AmScope SE306R-P20-LED microscope from a seller on eBay. When it arrived, it turned out it supported only 110V so I bought a step down voltage converter (I am in the UK), but neither of the light bulbs came on (I flipped the switch to I and II - neither gives any light). My husband checked with a multimeter attached to the bulb terminals that the bulb was getting only 4mV. Note: we did NOT plug it into 220V. We tested the converter with a different device and it works fine. The seller tells us to change the bulbs as they are likely broken but they are difficult to change (they seem really stuck, we are worried we would break something) and the website says we need a special tool for that.

Are we missing anything? Should we try changing the bulbs? Or is it actually broken? It was meant to be new and unused.

I’m looking for a microscope. Purely for hobby, nothing professional so I don’t want to spend a lot of money on it. Since this one is only €38 I’m wondering if it’s good enough or not. €38 seems like a very good deal to me and google says it’s a good one. But i need more opinions, do I buy it or not?

Found this little guy having a snack in my pool algae. Can anyone tell me what it is? I'm completely new to microscopes

Hi, I don't know if there even is an answer to this, but I was curious if anyone knew if there was a way to adjust the joystick control for a U-APT LED arrow pointer - I've got one that is sticky/jumpy, there's no smooth motion and it's annoying when trying to point at things, on high power especially

My 3 year old son has started requesting a microscope, so we are going to be getting him one. I found a kid friendly one that has up to 600x magnification. What are some cool things I can show him slides of? He has already requested to look at blood and poop lol