I'm drooling over buying a Weller WT1012 80W soldering station, this a uses a WSP80 iron with LT tips. Right now I'm at six's and seven's, been reading about Weller quality as of late and their poor quality LT tip problems, my way of thinking these *could be* from Ebay.... "Oh dear, I thought"
So, has anyone 'hands on' experience these Weller WSP80 iron's, obviously I will be buying from a reputable dealer.
I very nearly got an Atten AT80 station but learned at the last minute they are NOT temperature controlled, having only three wires in the soldering pen, one earth and the other two carrying the power to the heating element, I guess the sensing is done by monitoring the element current through a shunt resistor in the base unit. I put this to RS Components and they agreed, I learned from them that Tenma is the same company and they are the same. I did read there was some complaints that they wouldn't even melt solder until turned fully up, I immediately thought of the result of using Solder wick to remove a component, the tip cooling off and ripping the copper print, it was then I turned to Weller because I wanted to give a wide berth to these kind of heating control.
Guidance and any advice would be welcomed, for some reason the Hakko although very good it seems just doesn't appeal to me.
Thanks, Dave
So, has anyone 'hands on' experience these Weller WSP80 iron's, obviously I will be buying from a reputable dealer.
I very nearly got an Atten AT80 station but learned at the last minute they are NOT temperature controlled, having only three wires in the soldering pen, one earth and the other two carrying the power to the heating element, I guess the sensing is done by monitoring the element current through a shunt resistor in the base unit. I put this to RS Components and they agreed, I learned from them that Tenma is the same company and they are the same. I did read there was some complaints that they wouldn't even melt solder until turned fully up, I immediately thought of the result of using Solder wick to remove a component, the tip cooling off and ripping the copper print, it was then I turned to Weller because I wanted to give a wide berth to these kind of heating control.
Guidance and any advice would be welcomed, for some reason the Hakko although very good it seems just doesn't appeal to me.
Thanks, Dave