Re: Sort of OT Question about older Metcal soldering iron
|
I suppose I'm lucky. I bought a second-hand MX-500 system some years ago. It came with a new handpiece and selection of cartridges for ?125. I subsequently bought a spare used PS from eBay for ?75. The PSs are the older ones with a single output and no timer. Good enough for me!
Leon Heller
On 17 Apr 2023 13:26, "BobH via groups.io" <wanderingmetalhead@...> wrote: Hi,
I picked up an Metcal PS2E-01 power supply at a hamfest recently. It did not come with an iron. I tried the iron from my MX500P system and it heated up to soldering temperature and seemed OK. There is a 1993 dated test sticker on the supply, so it is not a recent model.
Metcal has sold several different appearing power supplies, and I am wondering if the irons are compatible from model to model? Connector compatibility seems like kind of a risky metric for this kind of thing. Does anybody know if there are differences in output power or frequency between models?
Thanks,
BobH
KE7FEF
|
Leon