YIHUA948 Standard Desoldering Station, 80W, with Auto Shutoff, Variable Precise Temperature (716°F ~ 896°F), ºC/°F display, Sleep Function and More.

This unit works great, it sure beats solder wick.....

My desoldering station came in yesterday and unfortunately, had been damaged. Display had dead LEDs and the temp was not allowing me to adjust it down. Not my first Yihua product so I was very disappointed. Reached out for help and was sent a return label, no questions asked and was promised a replacement. Today I drove out to drop off the defective unit and by the time I got home, the replacement was here! Got it unpacked and set up and tested it out and it works like a dream. I pulled three IC sockets from a PCB just to see how it improved that miserable task. I was having fun by the time the third literally dropped out of the board. It's fast, comfortable, and super quiet. So impressed with the desoldering station and doubly so because they really went out of their way to replace one that had somehow been damaged. Could not be happier right now!

The first 948 desoldering station I purchased off of Amazon worked for about 20 minutes. When I left it on and turned back to use it at about 20 minutes, it was off even with the power switch on. The display was blank and the suction no longer worked. I checked the fuse in the power jack on the back and it was fine. Verified the power cord was good as well. A short time later, it powered back up after turning it back on. That lasted for about 10 minutes and then it was dead and never recovered. Amazon processed a replacement for it very quickly and I received it in just a few days (I live in a rural area). The replacement seems to be working fine, and I purposefully left it on for a few hours and used it a number of times. One thing I noticed with the first unit when I took the cover off to see if there was anything obviously wrong was the chassis corners under the cover were dented. That damage likely happened at the factory.This unit is a HUGE step up from using desoldering braid and really makes repairs much more pleasant. I'd highly recommend this unit as long as you understand it's not the equivalent of a $750+ Hakko desoldering station.

I wish i would have bought this years ago. I started out trying just a plunger deal and my soldering iron, then bought an electric with the plunger built in, that one was 30 watt and it really didn't get hot enough, so I got a 40 watt with a plunger and that really didn't get hot enough and I've used copper braid and that always seemed like a pain in the you know where so i broke down and bought this. As an example I just desoldered 6 caps i marked them and within 10 seconds they were desoldered. I'm pretty shaky but if I had a steady hand I bet I could have got them done in 6 seconds. Just so much easier. Has a mess of extra tips and the filter things inside the tube that collects the solder. I think the tips have .8mm and 1.2 mm but I had a couple bigger caps with thicker leads and I could barely get the largest tip down onto the leads. If that should happen again I'll just enlarge the hole in the tip slightly. Usually I don't think that will happen. I think it heats up pretty quick. I usually turn it on, mark the solder pads I need to desolder, double check and triple check (mistakes are easier to avoid than to correct) and by then it beeps telling me it's up to temp. Put it on the spot and pull the trigger for vacuum and it's desoldered. Literally one second, may even be quicker if you have a steady hand. For soldering I even built a fixture to hold my iron steady. Mine I guess is the older model? It's only desoldering, i thought there is a newer one with a soldering gun also but mines only the desoldering. I've probably used it 10 times or so so hopefully it will hold up. It's a fairly heavy unit, i was expecting some sort of lightweight cheap thing but this is pretty heavy and looks to be built extremely well. If you do any desoldering more than just a few spots this thing is really what you need. Just saves so much time but for me it's more about avoiding frustration.

Es el primer equipo de estas características que tengo, y me sorprende lo bien que funciona, esto me va a ayudar a hacer reparaciones y lo va a hacer muy bien. Lo recomiendo, tanto el producto que es de buena calidad; el vendedor que envío el producto rápidamente y la empresa de paquetería que me entregó mi producto a tiempo, sin duda una de mis mejores compras.