Even if you can adjust the temperature, it's not much use.
The danger of lifting pads increases exponentially with temperature
and a hot setting can not really make up for a decent thermal path and
powerful, well controlled heating.
Sadly it doesn't look like any of the major soldering tool
manufacturers is willing to sit down for 5 minutes and simply analyze
the existing products to see how to make the perfect tool. If you can
charge $1000 for what you have already, and the competition is not
much better, why would you bother.
We have seen some good innovation with soldering irons and cartridge
type heaters, but the desoldering tools still suck in all the wrong
ways.
@Kevin, I consider 350¡ãC the correct temperature setting for leaded
solder, with a high end of 400¡ãC if you have to.
That's 666¡ãF, easy to remember.
ST
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Harvey White <madyn@...> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:18:57 +0100, you wrote:
I have a unit I like, has gun type with solder sucking pump through to the gun. However I seem to struggle when it comes to large planes of copper attached to the pad, am I doing something wrong or?
Likely not. If it's a Hakko 808 (which I have) you don't control the
temperature, it's preset.
