Review on 🔥 Soldering Iron Station Kit Temperature Control by James Salem

I'm going to start with a 45 watt iron I bought at Radio Shack 10 years ago. Use it to secure headphone cables and sometimes phone circuit boards. You don't need too much heat for a small lawn. The kit came in immaculate packaging, installed it and immediately unscrewed the heating element and nozzle that came with it. The ceramic core looked clean, it was tight on the shaft and tip, but the tip and shaft remained loose. I constantly check the shaft for smoke and tighten it with needle nose pliers as I rotate the power cord on my desk to find the best position on my workspace. Pulling too hard is like snapping the strings. But from an iron that heats up in 3 minutes and whose screws are mostly made of plastic. Everything is OK. Plugged in and turned on the LCD. A GREAT PLUS. 200°C on a small screen can be reassuring, my multimeter read around 163°C 1 minute after turning it on. Only falls since opening (158°C in 2 days of use). Increasing the knob to 250 and the unit reached 189°C. I suppose it will end up only going up another 20C for every 50C that shows on the LCD. At temperatures above 250°C, the LCD screen and the station/stand itself will smell like burning matches or plastic. Anyway, I don't need that much heat. 270°C on the screen is reached in 40 seconds, about 210-239°C are recorded. $46 well spent. At least I can go from 160°C for heat shrink tubing to a theoretical 450°C at full power when I need to melt down my ironing station. I only need it to learn how to heat from 200C to 220C. For $46 it comes with: the heating element itself ($30 for Americans without temperature control), soldering roller, copper pad, 5 spare tips, curved and straight tweezers, a small Phillips screwdriver, 2 small jaws, a desoldering pump.