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Does this soldering station look safe to you?

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NiHaoMike:
Get the KSGER without the built in power supply and use your bench supply to run it. Or consider a Pinecil or TS100. Nice thing about DC powered irons is that it's trivial to run them from batteries.

--- Quote from: Shock on May 06, 2022, 10:10:31 am ---Hakko FX888D station is $104 with free shipping at tequipment.net a little expensive but affordable.

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The one with the infamously bad UI? The digital version ended up being a downgrade.

newbrain:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on May 06, 2022, 01:05:57 pm ---The one with the infamously bad UI? The digital version ended up being a downgrade.

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Now, IMO, this has been exaggerated a bit.

I have an 888D, and once one has chosen the number of presets and their temperature (I have three enabled out of the possible five, 270°, 320° and 350°), switching from one preset to the other is as simple as pressing the 'up^' and then the 'enter' button.

Now, doing the setup is complicated, but it's done only once.

Yes, one loses the easy continuous regulation of the temperature. I never felt I needed it.

Shock:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on May 06, 2022, 01:05:57 pm ---The one with the infamously bad UI? The digital version ended up being a downgrade.

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I suggested the DC Ksger as well previous to that. The Hakko FX888D is not perfect but affordable robust and no problems with safety. Be nicer if it was $80 though. If you can't mess around with fixing up safety issues and don't want spend too much your options are limited.

SiliconWizard:
If you absolutely want something cheap with dubious construction, just prefer tools that are not directly mains-powered, but DC-powered. Buy them without the DC adapter. And you can then use a safe DC adapter. It might not be all that cheap in the end.

floobydust:
OP your power supply looks like the older V2.04 power supply with a small change here and there. Don't forget to ground the enclosure, and the 5A fuse is huge.

The newer V2.05 power supply (black solder mask) unfortunately removed the PE ground connection to the secondary side, the iron is ungrounded  :--
So the soldering tip floats up to high voltage, it seems the transformer is poorly wound and of course, no safety agency testing at all. They did fix the traces under the heatsink screwup.
A basic hi-pot test would reveal the shortcomings in the pcb design and transformer construction.

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