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Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2025
Hotplate works well, house hasn't caught fire.
Draxton
Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2025
very useful for mobile phone repair
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Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2024
This hot plate heats up reasonably quickly although it takes some time for the temperature to transfer through circuit boards for solder to melt. The temperature seems stable and accurate however it also takes quite long to cool down so I find that I need to remove the circuit boards while they're still hot in order for them to cool properly. I also find the plate is a little too tall which makes it somewhat difficult to rest my hand on the bench to move or adjust tiny components using tweezers.Overall this hot plate makes soldering SMD components much easier than Individually soldering them using a fine tip iron as it essentially does all the work. It works well for preheating boards before using a hot air station or it can be used by itself to reflow boards when small components are close together and could be blown away by using a hot air station. It's also quite useful for components like LEDs that can be easily damaged by a soldering iron or hot air station.The build quality is good and it's easy to use by turning it on and setting the desired temperature. The instructions aren't great for explaining how to use the temperature correction setting or the auto tuning mode.
DLF
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024
I used it to solder smd components to a small 100x100 two layer board. I set the temperature to 205c and let the board heat up from a cold plate. When the temperature hit 193c I started to see the solder beginning to melt. At about the 198c everything had re-flowed nicely.I also tried to use it to heat a through-hole board to remove components. Don't do it! I made a mess. The components leads sticking out the bottom don't let the board lay flat and it doesn't heat up evenly. You get old solder/rosin and gunk all over the hot plate...The instructions are in English and Chinese. I got clearer information by scanning the Chinese characters with Google-translate than I did from the English section. You can mess with the PID parameters but I just left them at default and it worked fine.
Desertpilot
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2024
I use this hot plate to harvest surface mount components from scrapped circuit boards of various sizes.This unit is wonderfully large to accommodate all my needs.Temp control seems fine and is a great upgrade since my first small, non-temp controlled design.For smaller boards, I found using Kapton tape to hold board in place is immensely helpful, and the tape sticks to the heated surface well enough at 200C.Downsides:1) This device is too tall to use comfortably for long periods. But I was unable to find comparable product the is shorter2) The heated plate comes to the edge of the top surface, which caused several nasty burns hand/wrist burns on my part. It is VERY challenging to manipulate the tools elevated that high from table surface, without accidentally touching the upper side or top edges.My solution was to cut out an open square of Silpat that covers the outer top by an inch or 2, and secure with wide kapton tape. additional protection around the upper sides is next.Overall I would recommend to others with regular needs for a hot plate. But know it will take some getting use to, and minor modification well prevent some pain.
G. Wideman
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2024
This does a nice job of setting the hotplate to the target temperature, and that was very satisfactory for soldering and desoldering. At the time I ordered, it was ambiguous whether the configuration would allow for a profile -- x seconds at one temperature followed by y seconds at another temperature, etc. It does not in fact have that feature. But still useful for me without that.
Mancho Sancha
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2024
I need to populate small PCBs I get fabricated in china, they use 1206 SMD parts and SOIP integrated circuits. The TLBZK (whatever that stands for) was "amazon choice" which has always done well by me. I got this and some no clean solder paste paste--again, no idea what "no clean" means--and glopped the paste on the PCB, dropped on the parts with a tweezer, and set the thing to go up to 220C. At about 195C the parts magically lined up with the pads and everything soldered down nicely. I had to do some clean up with flux remover, isopropyl alcohol and so on, but overall the process went remarkably smoothly. Since I have done a few more boards, the entire process is remarkably forgiving, I can get pretty sloppy with the paste and parts placement and everything still comes out OK. I recommend this device, it is an excellent value and gets the job done.
GernBlanston
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023
Works very well for a low-cost unit. Only very minor burn off at the first heat up. Temperature appears to stay very consistent, even over several hours.Packaged securely to arrive undamaged. The instructions are rather minimal, but easy to figure out.
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