Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great day.
Such a shame as i've seen good things about this soldering iron. So yeah as the title says I got this soldering iron from the KSGER aliexpress store, plugged it in (240V NZ), as rated, and multiple components decided to turn crispy. The interesting thing i found was on the control board where pins 3 and 4 have a solder bridge, im wondering if anyone here has the same version of the soldering iron and can confirm if this solder bridge is normal or not. If im not mistaken the solder bridge seems to be bridging across where some version ground the control board, pin 4 is +.
This is the solder bridge. My friend also brought one, that remains untested, and he also has the solder bridge, so im beyond confused.
Here we can see R1 is toast
R8 and the IC near it is also toast