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Suggestions for Hot Air station
mmagin:
I've had one of these or an earlier variant of it for a couple years: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14557
Sure it's the same sort of thing you can find on ebay/aliexpress, but at least sparkfun is doing some basic quality control and its easy to exchange it if you got a bad one (I'm assuming you're in the US from your profile info.) Mine has been trouble-free. I bought a set of the additional nozzles from some random ebay seller.
Also, I hate the damned things that also put a crappy soldering iron in the same box.
elecdonia:
I wanted to try a super cheap solution so I got a YouYue 858D from this seller on ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/usr/epicesolutions
I'm very happy with it so far. I did my own QC inspection before plugging it in for the first time. There weren't any short circuits or AC leakage/safety problems. It was assembled quite well. There's probably 1,000 different versions of the 858D available. Some have no brand name on them. My unit seems to be a real YouYue. And the ebay seller I bought it from has 100% positive feedback with over 10,000 items sold.
But if you can afford it get the Quick 861DE. When I save up some extra bucks I plan to get one.
GreyWoolfe:
Take a look at the Quick 957DW. Works well and is about $100 USD here in the states.
kaytel:
--- Quote from: Signal32 on August 23, 2018, 03:37:21 pm ---Thanks all for your replies. I think I will go with the Quick 857
--- End quote ---
Did you end up buying the 857?
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