Soldering station the tip won't (barely) heat up anymore.

[vgamesx2]

Hi, I have a bakon 950d soldering station which stopped heating, I'm guessing it's the transformer dying? I'm asking because I'm not all that experienced...
I at least know it isn't the tip, since that's seemingly what killed (or finished off) my iron, basically I had been using a tiny 1.6mm tip (T12 tip btw) since I got the thing, so I got fed up with its low thermal mass and recently got a new 3.2mm tip (well it's probably a clone, it only cost like $4) inserted it and even though it was warm I couldn't even melt solder, switched back to old 1.6mm tip and still nothing. Great...

Suggestions?

[tautech]

There's some info in this thread that should help you sort out where the problem is:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/need-help-identifying-heating-element-of-a-hakko-936b-clone/

[vgamesx2]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the heating element integrated into the tip itself on T12/T15 tips?

[tautech]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the heating element integrated into the tip itself on T12/T15 tips?

Sorry I'm not familiar with your iron so if I've led you up the wrong path. 

Good luck with your quest for answers.

[Wirehead]

In some review I read the following:

"However in mine the temperature was badly calibrated. It was showing 250C (P1) while the tip is only 160, I used the pot on the board, and was able to calibrate it properly. Now at 250C it is around 250, and at 300 it is 300."

Could you try that? Use a thermocouple that came with a multimeter for this

[Rasz]

bakon 950d, isnt that pretty much a repurposed laptop power supply with small t12 controller added?
open it up and measure voltages

[vgamesx2]

In some review I read the following:

"However in mine the temperature was badly calibrated. It was showing 250C (P1) while the tip is only 160, I used the pot on the board, and was able to calibrate it properly. Now at 250C it is around 250, and at 300 it is 300."

Could you try that? Use a thermocouple that came with a multimeter for this

I had it set to it's highest temperature 450C and was getting nothing out of it, I think that's a little more serious than being poorly of calibrated.

bakon 950d, isnt that pretty much a repurposed laptop power supply with small t12 controller added?
open it up and measure voltages

Heh, yeah it looks like a laptop psu with a controller, alright I'll try poking it.
I was thinking it was the transformer because it's fairly small for a 75W iron.