This one cost around £280 / $440 USD - quite an investment but it has probably saved half of that in labour time since we bought it. When you are soldering large terminals or ground planes it really shines.Hi picbits,
it looks so nice to handle! Probably it's costly high enough! I have an inron rated just $1.
Thank you Al for what is proving to be a very enlightening thread. So sitting here with one of my inexpensive soldering pencils, inexpensive is a nice way to say cheap. This is labeled Radio Shack and has a selector switch for 15 Watt or 30 Watt. So I place it in the 30 watt position and I read ~479.5 Ohms, I reverse my ohmmeter leads and read 479.5 Ohms (same reading). I select the 15 Watt position and read open circuit on my Fluke 87 but when I reverse the leads I read ~256.8 Ohms. My guess would be there is a diode lurking about in there.
Ron
Hee hee hee then I need to spend my whole 3 months salary! Thank you anyway!This one cost around £280 / $440 USD - quite an investment but it has probably saved half of that in labour time since we bought it. When you are soldering large terminals or ground planes it really shines.
I am sorry to hear that you are in poverty, Willen."$440 USD" Hee hee hee then I need to spend my whole 3 months salary!
My first thought is "how did you MEASURE the power" ?I measured the input power to my station and it measures 55 watts with the soldering iron still heating up. That's nuts. The soldering iron itself clearly takes only 36 watts so i wonder where that extra 20 watts is.
Hi, actually I am in 'cheap' part of the world instead of 'poverty' place. Yes, as MrAl said- local economic condition is suitable little with the salary I am getting. I can survibe within a month normally using my salary here. But getting comparatively (to international standard) less salary, it affects badly while buying non-local (international) stuff like motor bike, computer, electronics components, TVs, DVDs etc. I need to work full 8 months to buy a simple 110cc motor bike.I am sorry to hear that you are in poverty, Willen.
Then your annual salary is only $1760 USD. Today on TV they said the average annual wage of a registered nurse in Canada or USA is $65,000 which is 37 times more than yours.
The minimum wage in Canada today is $11.00 per hour. If the person works 40 hours per week then his annual wage is $22,880, 13 times more than yours. At least 2 weeks of paid vacation time is included. A clerk in a fast food restaurant (do you want French fries with your hamburger?) or a cashier in a food store makes minimum wage, but they might get paid more if they have been there a long time.
I do not have a cell phone anymore.
My first thought is "how did you MEASURE the power" ?
Did you use a real power meter, or, did you measure the voltage and the current an then multiply together?
If so, could the "extra" 20 watts be due to bad power factor from the transformer in the soldering station?
JimB
Which is it, 680 or 780 ohms? Attention to detail is important....I got is 780 ohms...
...Watt= (220Vx220V)/680 ohms...
I don't think that it was an imitation, the iron was advertised quite widely in the hobby electronics press with allusions to the "real deal" Weller irons used in a industrial environment.So you had a Well-er that did not perform Well, ha ha, i wonder if it could have been an imitation?
Do they really say "Hakco"? There is a well-regarded brand of soldering equipment called "Hakko". If yours is spelled "Hakco" I would assume it's a knock-off and should probably go in the garbage.The name brand is "Hakco" and the package is stamped "50 w, 24v".
The element is just stamped "Hakco 003".
Speaking of imitations, and attention to detail:
Do they really say "Hakco"? There is a well-regarded brand of soldering equipment called "Hakko". If yours is spelled "Hakco" I would assume it's a knock-off and should probably go in the garbage.
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