I would respectfully disagree with this advice. It is dependent on the type of iron you're using. The Hakko FX-951 behaves quite different from the traditional temperature controlled stations. It has very fast thermal recovery, so typical through hole pads will flow in much less than 3 seconds, but not because the iron is too hot.

73,
Josh W6XU

On 6/2/2016 8:52 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
It should wick out completely onto the solder pad and the component lead in 2 to 3 seconds. If it takes longer than that the iron is too cold, if shorter, the iron is too hot.

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