Sorry for bumping this thread, but I resent the comments that the included tips are of poor quality. Maybe just not the tips one would expect to get bundled with a station, but you have to remember this was a station that was meant for the Asian market only and then eventually got an english firmware made later as more and more people outside Asia bought them. They are really popular in south america it seems with people who do phone repairs, and they all say the tips are great.
As someone who learned to solder with a conical tip, and used one much more frequently than a chisel tip for the majority of my hobby electronics time spent soldering, I don't think at all that the tips included are of poor quality, and this is coming from someone who's been using a Pace ADS200 almost daily for a long time now.
Case in point: the knife tip, which I've already ordered a backup of. The knife tip is amazing but you have to give yourself a chance to get to know it. Maybe if you are of the opinion that the world begins and ends with chisel tips, you can knock the output power down and use real JBC tips. However, i did one tiny TH PCB with the knife tip alone, to let myself get to learn it. I did 40 pin headers, 2 resistors and a couple wires. I had a little trouble when i was just starting where i could not get the solder to flow.
If this is where you stop and say "it's the tip's fault!" you are wrong. It took me 40 pin headers to learn how to use the knife tip correctly, and when I tried it on a more complex PCB later, i was banging out TH solder joints of very good quality faster than I ever had even with my Pace and its chisel tip. Plus, you can turn the knife tip around and use it as a sharp pointy tip to get narrow spaces and awkward locations. Each time i got an exemplary solder joint faster than I even thought possible. Each build worked perfect. So yes I think the included tips are very good and the only thing I can not speak to is their longevity versus JBC tips.
Personally i like conical tips a lot too for fine TH work and my only complaint is that the included tip is super fine, so it's good for phone work or repair on SMT, but they don't include the bigger / shorter conical tip, that one you have to buy by itself.
I never used a bent conical tip in my life, and that will probably sit...
I don't have any real JBC tips yet and will update on them later but from what I understand after watching all the Youtube videos on these, is that as long as you knock the power down to something like 70-80 watts then it will be fine (i have just bought a pair of chisel tips and another knife, and they are in the mail, now that i know i like the station, and try on 70w and work up if needed)
jabe doesn't even offer a chisel tip. Just the 4 tips, though you get 3 with your order of the station. I think if jbc tips are no problem at a lower wattage, just get those if you want.
The form factor of it is more ideal than the Pace by a long shot for small and cramped work spaces. In my tiny apartment I have a tiny work desk set up I do all my work on and that is part of why the ADS200 is going to likely going to live at my work space when i open it back up and keep the Jabe at home.