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DEADLY WIRING FAULT ; Atten 858D+ Hot Air Rework Station
ErikTheNorwegian:
Has anybody conntacted Atten regarding this problem, and what do they answer? :-//
Is it copies or genuin products that have this faults? ???
I dear not think about those who buy this product and dont know or check them about this faults
.. they may die.. :-[
Hardcorefs:
Just a tip for all the people trying to 'save a buck' by buying this crap on Ebay or other sale sites
This stuff can be bought on the Chinese high street for about 139rmb (or about 23USD).. yep thats right the retail price of this crap is less than a pizza.
The transformers are made in house, right from buying the bare copper wire…. Stretching it by 50% then running it through a vat of boat varnish, into a blower tunnel.
If you are lucky they have a Hipot ring round the wire as it moves onto the spool……
The really criminal places use steel wire that is annealed to look like copper (yep it won't solder, but if you get a big enough blob round the wire end it will do)
The PCB's are populated with components that have usually failed the IQC of some other place.
And then people wonder why they nearly get killed when they purchase this stuff………….
M. András:
no wonder why they sell it that cheap :D btw im more curious about that airpump which sits inside the unit which has an internal pump not the fantype handle, where the hell to get that pump
andtfoot:
I just had one of these delivered today; I ordered it from here. After reading this thread, I pulled the back off it before plugging it in to test.
It doesn't look too bad relatively. The IEC socket has an inbuilt fuse holder (and even comes with a spare fuse!), the live is switched, and the earth has a ring terminal that goes in the corner where the case screws together. The paint is scraped away there and there is continuity between the IEC earth pin and the chassis. The metal part of the gun thing is connected to earth, and the resistance isn't too bad (0R8).
I can take photos if anyone wants to see.
PA4TIM:
Damn, reading this I missed a lot of fun, I seem to have made the wrong choise buying a metcal/Oki. It works great, gets hot enough to unsolder and desolder everything in a flash without damage and it turns out to be save too, bummer, I have nothing to compain or hack. I should kick myself for that. |O
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