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| bdunham7:
Antex. I had the analog version of this iron years back, at the time is was the best I'd ever had and I used it in fairly rough environments. Unfortunately I don't know if there is a 120V version available. https://www.antex.co.uk/products/precision-range-soldering-irons/tcs50w/ |
| Martin72:
For our service department I´ve bought two WS1C stations. Pro: - Very handy although it´s a station - Is using Weller RT tips with build-in heating element, therefore very short heating time and continous heatflow. - There are more than 10 different RT tips avaible from 0.1mm "needle" up to 3.2mm thick, which allows you to solder on doublelayer boards with groundplane (having a little patience of course) Con: - Very expensive, more than 400€ - Although it´s so expensive, building quality of the station is poor, the "+"/"-" symbols for example "vanishing" in a relative short time because of touching them (Can´t express it better). Me, I´m using at home a 3d-printed station for the RT tips, with OLED display and 12Vdc supplied( so you can choose between accu or psu). Doesn´t look good but works fine - And cost me appx 80€ on ebay... (edit: 2500 posts in 2.5yrs, I´m a spammer) |
| Martin72:
The Station... |
| IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: wraper on September 11, 2022, 07:37:49 pm ---Another option is something like this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000055007842.html used with genuine or clone Hakko T12 soldering iron. --- End quote --- I really like the idea of a portable iron that uses Hakko tips. That was my biggest concern about some "travel iron" (pun intended), that I'd be stuck with some "generic" tip that did nothing well. The problem with this solution is it requires 24VDC, and my "road kit" maxes at 19V (a laptop switching power supply) which I then drive into a homemade DC power supply. If I have to provide 24VDC I'd have to carry an extra supply, and I'm basically back to my existing Hakko setup. |
| IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on September 11, 2022, 07:39:43 pm ---Are butane catalyst irons no longer a thing? I remember them being quite useful for some tasks at work, back in the day --- End quote --- I actually have a really nice one of those, and yes, I've carried it on airplanes (even internationally) since 9/11 so no problems there. Honestly their best purpose is on heat shrink tubing using the heat spreader tip. But they have all the temperature control of a gas cooktop... which means "human closing the loop". Not really a good option. |
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