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Great Value Soldering Station
5.0
This soldering station is a great value, especially when considering the relatively low price of the tips compared to competitors. It is built in a solid aluminum chassis and has a quality feel. The tweezers heat up quickly and work very well for removing SMT parts. I really like the simplicity of the control scheme, no gimmicks and everything you need.
Glen M. on
Jun 17, 2021
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Wow, best soldering tweezers on the market today!
5.0
These are the best, hands down, - great heat, great pricing, great machining on the tips to grip small components, tip selection is awesome. Make sure you get a pair of the extra fine curved tips. Those really save your bacon on tightly-packed SMD components!
This station snuck onto the market only a couple years ago, hardly anyone knows about it. It's like the best kept secret for home-use too (cheap enough for personal use, compared to several thousand dollar stations with tweezers).
This has enough accuracy and heat not only to remove components, but install components as well! Tweezers themselves are super comfortable, adjustability is great fun!
I wouldn't do PCB fixing with it, forget hot air stations to remove caps and passives, use this! Faster, easier, better, and safer. Also great for reflowing MLCC caps!
The best purchase I've made in a while, cannot see myself regretting this, for what I've used it for, I'm already impressed.
Buy it, you won't be returning it.
Hobbyist Tech in Seattle, WA on
Mar 20, 2021
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One of the best soldering tools ever invented!
4.0
First off, I originally started with the MBT-350 system which is still an incredible unit, even to this day. However, the newer ADS200 system with these smart tweezers is unbelievably good by comparison. The amount of control you receive in unparalleled and it makes microscopic chip lifts an absolute breeze (assuming you have a good microscope to go with it to see what you are doing). I've used a lot of hot tweezers and hot air guns, but there's nothing quite like these little tweezers! They really hit it out of the park with them. Also, the instant setback cubby is a really neat feature. The only major cons to the system is the ADS200 doesn't have a dual-port setup so you can leave the iron and tweezers plugged in simultaneously. I've learned to "cheat" it into thinking it's in the cubby by leaving the iron's setback cubby plugged in and place the iron in the stand when I am done working with the tweezers, then just switch the plug on the front to go between the tweezers and iron. This can be a real hassle, but it's the best you can do until PACE gets off their butt and makes a full system like the MBT-350, except with the latest technology. The heat-up time is no joke on this thing! It jumps up to 700°F at lightning speed and paired with the setback cubby, it's like it never drops down. Pretty neat system all the way around. Just really wish they had a multi-channel system to make it more seamless in operation while keeping the form factor a reasonable size.
Tim T. on
Jul 14, 2020
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