[geeks] Q: Affordable soldering station

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Wed Dec 5 01:09:55 CST 2018


Am 04.12.18 um 01:57 schrieb Mouse:
> Someone summarized it to me as something like "Wellers are decent
> irons; Hakkos are good irons; Metcals are great irons".
We have Wellers at work. They are a nightmare. The tips have way to high
thermal resistance to the heater. They fail miserably when you have to
solder something to a ground plane. The OKi MFR / Metcal are less
expensive then Weller (!) and are so much, much better.
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tschC<C,
       Jochen


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