reccomendations for a cheap (less than $100) soldering station?

Jan 04, 2004 1 Replies
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Hi - I'd like to get a soldering station. Unfortunately - I'm a student so I have very little spare cash lying around. I was looking at the Hakko 936 soldering station:

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What do you think? And is it necessary to get an ESD safe one? Most of the work I do is in soldering together 2.5mm pitch PCBs, though I also do some much finer pitch surface mount work. I don't do anything heavy duty - so I don't need a soldering iron that can do it either. I've been using a radioshack 15/30W iron for a couple years now - and it has worked our surprisingly well - but still I'd like to get something better. Any reccomenadations? Thanks!



Michael


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I have the Hakko 936 and I think it works very well. Thumbs up here at my shop - it's on 40 hours a week and been in service for almost a year. Tips hold up as well - maybe even better than Weller. If you are working with static sensitive stuff - get the ESD safe although the salesman that sold mine to me (not the ESD safe model) said it actually was ESD safe but not certified as such whatever that means??

BTW Look at Circuit Specialists.com - I think they are selling these with a different name on them for quite a bit less $. Todd

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