Roboticinfo

I seen that soldering Iron before and it seemed bad.

I guess that is because I usually use digital.

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evandude

personally i don't see much need for digital... i never set it to an exact temperature anyway, just a general range (about 3/4 up for normal stuff, all the way up when i'm doing a lot of heavy-duty stuff) and considering the digital model costs nearly 50% more, I didn't think it was worth it.

I also have a full schematic for the analog one, since I painstakingly drafted it from the PCB when it died on me, before I found out it was just the power supply cap... so from now on I can rest assured that if it ever dies in the future, i'll have little trouble fixing it... (and if anyone wants the schematic, let me know...)

but hey, for $35 your only real choices are standalone irons with no temp control, or a cheap station like this... and personally I'll take the station any day. If nothing else, the iron itself is much narrower and thus easier to manage.

However, if I had lots of money to throw around I'd probably have a much more expensive soldering station, but for the time being i'm just a college student :lol: in other words, I think this station is a very good VALUE, but certainly not the best thing out there.

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