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Title: Oldish JBC CD-BD soldering station hackable to be compatible with tweezer tools?
Post by: Darkwing on December 12, 2024, 02:03:20 pm
Dear folks!

I own a JBC CD-DB Compact Soldering Station (https://www.jbctools.com/cd-2bd-soldering-station-for-general-purposes-product-871.html) (that is meanwhile discontinued). I now want to use a tweezer tool, like the AM120 (https://www.jbctools.com/am120-adjustable-micro-tweezers-product-1489.html), on it.

 "Officially" there is no tweezer tool for it, but I wonder if someone has experience and can tell, whether it will work anyway – or if it is at least worth trying.

There's a newer compact soldering station, the CP series (https://www.jbctools.com/cp-precision-rework-station-product-1618.html). It almost looks identical, but the 5-pin plug for the tools are different. Is it worth trying to make an adapter of some sort, to be able to plug in the tweezer tool occasionally?

Backside old CD-BDBackside CP
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For Reference: Manual CD-BD (https://www.jbctools.com/pdf/CD-BD_MANUAL.pdf) and Manual CP (https://www.jbctools.com/pdf/manual-cp-tweezers-station-jbc-0026946_ID-207223_EN.pdf)

Is it hackable?


Thanks for any suggestions!  :-+

Title: Re: Oldish JBC CD-BD soldering station hackable to be compatible with tweezer tools?
Post by: thm_w on December 12, 2024, 10:56:39 pm
Here someone said didn't work on CD-2C: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/soldering-station-jbc-cdb-vs-cds-which-one-to-get/msg3090086/#msg3090086 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/soldering-station-jbc-cdb-vs-cds-which-one-to-get/msg3090086/#msg3090086)

Here said it works on 2D: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/diy-jbc-nano/msg1188340/#msg1188340 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/diy-jbc-nano/msg1188340/#msg1188340)
But maybe thats newer than what you have?

You could connect a 68k resistor and see if the station displays the tool type or not (https://lajtronix.eu/2024/02/08/jbc-3-tool-selector/ (https://lajtronix.eu/2024/02/08/jbc-3-tool-selector/)), does it show tool type when you plug in the handle? Or take apart and look inside.

If it doesn't support then not sure if you can make an adapter, you could parallel the heaters, but, it might be too much current for the station.
Title: Re: Oldish JBC CD-BD soldering station hackable to be compatible with tweezer tools?
Post by: Darkwing on December 14, 2024, 11:57:18 am
Thank you! There's a lot to go through here for me, will have a look!  :-+

Alternatively: can you maybe recommend a hung-lo tweezer tool, that's at least usable for occasional little jobs?
Title: Re: Oldish JBC CD-BD soldering station hackable to be compatible with tweezer tools?
Post by: thm_w on December 16, 2024, 10:51:02 pm
For under $100 probably this is the only semi decent one right now: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1650-sequre-ht-140-smd-desoldering-tweezers-review/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1650-sequre-ht-140-smd-desoldering-tweezers-review/)

Next step up is around the $250 level.
Title: Re: Oldish JBC CD-BD soldering station hackable to be compatible with tweezer tools?
Post by: Darkwing on December 17, 2024, 01:50:38 pm
Thank you very much!  :-+ :-+