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hot air station
- Thread starter Glenn
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FR-810 is much more powerful than the WHA900 but the WHA900 is easier to adjust.
The $600 hot air stations are the "cheap" ones. If you want expensive look up the JBC JT-A. I love that station.
The weller is just old shit. It's usable old shit, but still old shit. It makes the lights flicker in the room when I turn it on, it's too stupid to know when I press the button to run cold air through for a minute before turning off, and it costs $500+. Weller really should update their lineup with a different hot air station.
To my knowledge the FR-810 has only 10 adjustments for hot air speed and this is fine for me. The more skilled you become the less you care about fine adjustments in things like this, 99% of the time I am using the JBC on 90 or 100% air and I don't have problems. If you are blowing shit away this is a skill problem not a station problem(also need to use 4mm or bigger, if you are using some 2mm nozzle you are just shooting components off the board not soldering)
The $600 hot air stations are the "cheap" ones. If you want expensive look up the JBC JT-A. I love that station.
The weller is just old shit. It's usable old shit, but still old shit. It makes the lights flicker in the room when I turn it on, it's too stupid to know when I press the button to run cold air through for a minute before turning off, and it costs $500+. Weller really should update their lineup with a different hot air station.
To my knowledge the FR-810 has only 10 adjustments for hot air speed and this is fine for me. The more skilled you become the less you care about fine adjustments in things like this, 99% of the time I am using the JBC on 90 or 100% air and I don't have problems. If you are blowing shit away this is a skill problem not a station problem(also need to use 4mm or bigger, if you are using some 2mm nozzle you are just shooting components off the board not soldering)
G.Beard
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What are you using now?
but it stopped working for around a week ago
If you can't afford to buy an original Hakko once then you definitely can't afford to buy a knockoff Hakko 20 times.
Glenn
New member
You have a good point there. One of the reasons that i bought a China Hakko was because I couldn't find a originalhakko with 220v. But i hope i can buy a JBC this time.