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Gandalf_Sr:

--- Quote from: labjr on June 11, 2019, 02:18:59 pm ---BTW, while KSGER and other stations from banggood etc. may be good for hobbyist use, they probably wouldn't hold up for production use. The quality is questionable with dozens of variants of the same product from different sources. And there's no certifications for safety or otherwise. So it's not an apples to apples comparison. People are used to cheap knock-offs of everything. It seems unreasonable to expect real companies such as Hakko & Pace to compete price-wise with goods from Bangood and Aliexpress.

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I'm not saying you're wrong about questionable (build) quality but many of us have had problems with $200 - $500 soldering stations. Plus we're electronics engineers and can fix stuff.

I took a Ford quality course once and was told that quality is meeting the requirement, if the tool does the job and does it well, it's a quality product.  But from a cost perspective, real quality is getting it right first time and keeping it reliable.

My Jabe UD-1200 arrived today, I peeked in the box and all looks good.

I bought my Hakko FX-951 from Tequipment.net, I sure hope it's not a fake.
labjr:
Let us know how the Jabe station is. I wonder how the Chinese come up with these brand names? KSGER?  Jabe sounds like a shortened form of Jabe eee cee.  ;D

Now if they could cut the prices in half. The station is over $200. And the tips are $11-15 and up. Would be nice if the cost was the same as the knock-off FX-951 and T-12 tips.   


exe:
Speaking of Pace, I wonder how big the company is. For some reason I thought of thousands people. Looking at Linkedin ("Pace worldwide"), there are only 26 people (probably, more in reality, not everyone is on Linkedin), and by far most of them are not engineers. Seems to be a very small business.
Gandalf_Sr:
Jabe is set up and tested. It works fine; the 3 tips that came with it are all fairly small, I selected the biggest and tried to melt a spot of 60/40 solder on a solid copper PCB plane, it had no problem at all, took maybe 8 seconds or so.

The unit itself is large, heavy, and sturdy. It has an LCD display with poor contrast but it's readable.

I only paid $180 plus $44 shipping DHL express from Aliexpress - they took about 4 days before they shipped but then it only took about 3 days to get here from China.  The outer box had green tape that said "Examined by US Customs & Border Protection" but it came very quickly.
exe:
@Gandalf_Sr, how does it compare with t12? Is there a huge difference in thermal performance?
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