Hi Joep, There might be one problem with such soldering station (and those which are working in analog or RF field knows it). Temperature control is using a triac which is generating a lot of noise. As the soldering iron is away from the station at least at 50cm-100cm,the iron cable act as an antenna for the parasitic triac switching. Since the voltage is low, the switching current is high, as well the noise. Good solder stations are using PFM or zero crossing, bad soldering station are using phase switching.
That compact 220V soldering iron is suffering this problem in a smaller way, since the current switching is smaller and because is using mostly zero crossing. I had over the time all kind of soldering stations from Weller to Chinese, hot air stations, air flow stabilized or not, american or chinese manufacturere but almost all have good and bad things... Vasile On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Joep Suijs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > 2010/8/30 Burt Ratliff <[email protected]>: > > hanks for advices, though 99USD or the like for a soldering iron looks > > expensive... Does it really worth it ? > > Yes, it is expensive and a full station (with power supply and > standard) is twice the price. In return you get a well-balanced iron > of good-quality plastic, flexible teflon wire (no smoke!) and wide > range of tips (suitable for small SMD and large RF cases). > Anyway: my advice is at least consider an iron with temperature > control. Gets to the right temperature quickly, is capable of > soldering small and large parts and does not get overheated during > stand-by time. > > Joep > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<jallib%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
