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Reviewed in Canada on April 7, 2025
Works
Kak
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2024
Heats up quickly (~0.5C per second, roughly), with a fairly consistent duty cycle. It was easy to spot this, as it makes my lights dim whenever it engages the heating element. The working surface is quite large, but seems to heat fairly evenly- I saw most of my paste liquify at the same time. Loses one star because the controls are a bit non-intuitive, and it took several attempts to get the set point to change.
Honest Canuck
Reviewed in Canada on June 26, 2024
It heats up quickly, and fairly accurately. The thick aluminium top spreads the heat fairly well. I use this to pre-heat electronic circuit boards while working on surface mounted devices (SMDs). The idea is to warm the boards up to around 180 degrees, and then a quick touch of a hot air gun is enough to instantly remove or re-install even the larger SMD packages without drama.Loses one star for the unnecessarily obtuse "user interface" (the buttons). So complicated to set a target temperature, unlike how it is much more commonly done with soldering stations and the like. Oh well, I have set it up once, and it now remembers the settings so all good.Should have gotten one years ago! One thing I need to add to it, is build a frame around it with a bit of spacing, so there's somewhere to rest my wrists while doing fine work (Avoiding burns).
Mr A
Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2023
You may notice an review about using it to boil water. If that is what you are planning to do you may want to at least pull out your PHY101 book and learn about specific heat capacity first.Of course it wont be able to boil water. A cup of water requires far more energy to heat up than a thin PCB board. If the oven can boil water in a reasonable time it will be powerful enough to vaporize every single piece of component on your PCB.You DONT want a reflow oven that can boil water. Buy a cheap $10 electric kettle instead.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on March 16, 2023
For the price I'm impressed with the overall quality of the product. Works well for SMD work. Reflowed a number of boards with low melting point SMD paste.
RetiredSphinx
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2023
I'm a hobbyist who likes making PCBs. Once you get to a certain point, through-hole components just don't cut it anymore, and at a point shortly behind that, the soldering iron is too big and the pads too small for it to be an effective tool for surface-mount components. I started looking at reflow ovens, but settled on this as it's half the price of the cheapest reflow oven I could find. The only downside is that you can't have SMD components on both sides of a board, but I'm not likely to make anything that complex anyway.The instruction manual is written with all the lack of grammar finesse you'd expect, but it's super simple to operate. Turn on, set temperature, wait for it to heat up, turn off, let it cool down. It even keeps your last temperature setting, so unless you're in the habit of changing solder paste types all the time, you can just set it and leave it.No, it won't boil a pot of water (this is for solder reflow, not cooking). But it will melt your solder paste and flow your PCBs. I haven't tested the exact temperature it gets up to, but I set it to the recommended temperature for the solder paste I'm using (165°C) and have had perfect results each time.Highly recommend for hobbyist use. Cheap and works great.
Tennille D.
Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2023
Purchased this in January, it didn't even last 1 year, fuse blew, replaced the fuse, now it just shut off again, bought another fuse, now it just won't even turn on. Very disappointed. I do not recommend.
AG Sweeney
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023
I was very surprised with the quality of this item. It’s a “Cheap” hot plate for PCB work and I am very pleased with it.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on October 13, 2023
Used for pc circuit soldering
M.S.
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2022
Could NOT get water to boil at 100C - at altitude. Normal boiling temperature of water at my altitude is about 92C.EVEN setting it to 212 did NOT give the correct result. This is a piece of Junk.
ROBERT A GAUTHIER
Reviewed in Canada on February 16, 2022
Votre service livraison est super. L'appareil rencontre mes exigences.
Vince P.
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022
Great product. A must for tablet or phone repair. Preheating boards for reworking makes it much easier.
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