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Very nice offer, Ersa soldering station
Level42:
Heheh, SMD just started to get out when I was learning electronics. I never had to deal with (de)soldering SMD and in all honesty I have little desire to :D
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Level42 on January 28, 2009, 06:04:11 pm ---I never had to deal with (de)soldering SMD and in all honesty I have little desire to :D
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+1
:D
richms:
All the cool stuff is smd only now, and to tell you the truth, its not that bad once you have some practice in.
Given the choice between drilling my own board for a 40 pin chip, or doing some SMD work... well the SMD wins out every time. Perhaps if I was getting the boards made it would be different, but a solder masked SMD board is even easier again then without mask so its still a tossup.
Level42:
I'm soldering mostly on cool stuff: 80's arcade PCB's :D
The station arrived today. Comes in a nice printed box, well packed. There's a pretty good instruction manual but it's not in Dutch. AFAIK it's illegal to sell a product over here without a Dutch manual, but I have no problem with reading English or German.....
The good (so far, haven't actually used it):
The station itself looks and feels very robust and professional. Heavy.
The buttons feel good quality. The display is really large. Setting/using the station is easy and straightforward. There's a good range of settings (like auto-shut off, auto- "low temp" , setting the buttons to your prefered temps.)
The iron feels good. It's a lot sleeker than the magnastat I had before.
Turned it on and set 300 degrees (celsius). It was on temp pretty quickly, much quicker than the magnastat.
The bad (so far, haven't actually used it):
The mains cord is short ! Too short IMHO. Why do companies try to save 3 cents on a freaking power cord ?
The cord on the iron is not very flexible as expected. Wonder how it will hold while working
Not sure if I'm going to like the stand. I like to "throw" the iron in the stand. That is, I don't want to have to think about how I should put it in. This one looks like it's going to need that....
The tip seems a bit big for general PCB use.
Overall, it looks very nice. I'll open the thing up to see how it's inside. Also will report after some actual use.
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: Level42 on February 11, 2009, 02:45:12 pm ---The tip seems a bit big for general PCB use.
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So I'm assuming it only comes with the ONE basic tip ?
I see they have a pretty big selection of "optional" tips.....does anyone offer any kits that include a couple different tips maybe?
The whole collection would be nice, but obviously pretty spendy I'm sure.
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