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Review on πŸ”₯ YKEY Preheater for Soldering and Preheating by James Jenkins

Revainrating 3 out of 5

I think it will be helpful.

Works. Nice. He heated my board until the solder flowed. However, I had 2 problems. First, it didn't heat up until I disabled the rollover detection feature. Apparently the accelerometer is either defective or needs to be recalibrated. For that he gets 3 stars. Another problem is that it might kill the first 3 boards I tried to rebuild. But it was probably my fault. Maybe I let her cool down too quickly and heatstroke killed her. Or maybe there was too much of a temperature gradient across the board because I could only get 1/4 of that on a hot plate. I was able to successfully redo the next 6 boards with a heat gun. This didn't affect the star rating as it probably wasn't a stove fault.

Pros
  • Soldering stations
Cons
  • Without machine