angry with brevis product

I've had to take power tools to a couple of adapters before and one of our early brevis units seemed to benefit. I gutted the main housing and used a dremel with a very soft bit to smooth unfinished bits out and then took a super high grit disk to try and roughen up the inside. I used some high grit paper and smoothed things out to finish with a flat matte/non reflective coating courtesy of a local car guy that does our tuning for the company "show" car ;). We finished by sealing the ends with a plastic permanent adhesive on the glass after blowing out the barrel with shop air. Seemed to help but elements could not be swapped. The battery/motor and everything was hot/super glued in a similar fashion to factory setup. I sold it a few months ago for a newer unit with the micro collimation and flip.

I wouldn't recommend this for the common user but if you are handy, don't always be afraid to customize to your liking. I've drilled quite a few lens mounts while on set just to improve fitment. I think cinevate has improved on the unit since then. I have yet to have a problem with my new Brevis'
 
PIMP said:
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c'mon - what are you expecting from this thread?

Sure, dust is a problem. But yelling
never open the thing up or you will ruin it, is
stupid and untrue.

I had never problems
with carbon particles or whatever.
I don't know, what's wrong with your unit.
Maybe you statically charged the gg in some way,
or you use wrong cleaning tools.
 
Maintenance should be customer's job (unless you want to pay the shipping and have Dennis blow the dust for you). If it didn't come clean in the first place, that's a different story but not a deal breaker. You will have to clean it sometime in the future anyway (at least when changing the CF's) so, might as well get used to it and start now. Dust was and still is a headache. Trade the option to change CF with a sealed unit and you got it. Amen?
 
P, there is a thread in our user forum with a discussion of dust, static charge, and a few suggestions we've come up with based on a lot of user feedback. Static charge is an issue that we can't fix, but there are a few products that make a big difference cleaning. We're here everyday via phone/email and our video university series has a section on cleaning the elements too...

Cheers,
Dennis.
 
So Dennis, what is the fix for dust?

I never resolved the dust issues with my early version. It was a major problem. Short of major custom job like the guy above.
 
PIMP said:
Word of advice to anyone with a brevis. NEVER OPEN THE THING UP. it will ruin everything.
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Sorry to hear you've had problems, Omar. It's never fun. :(

I've had a Brevis for well over a year. Dust gets in mine every so often but not dramatically so. I've opened it up many times with no problems. I spray a little compressed air and generally it's fine. That "Arctic Butterfly" sounds interesting . . .
 
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