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Re:Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide by k_sze on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:06AM (#35911776)
Just a quick note that you DON'T want the Hakko FX-888D soldering station. It has a push button UI that doesn't make sense. Louis Rossmann had complained about it on YouTube a loooong time ago.

If you still want a simple Hakko soldering station, pay a bit more and get a Hakko FX-950, which has an analog turn-knob UI; the old FX-888 (without the "D") had been discontinued a loooong time ago.

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Re:Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide by iz_zi on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:09AM (#35911797)
Pinecil ftw
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Re:Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide by midoridensha on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:02AM (#35913324)
The iron itself works great. The UI is insane, though: you'll want to keep the instructions next to the station in case you need to make any changes. However, in practice you probably won't need to make changes much.

I think the UI of the FX-888D was really designed for production environments, where managers set them for a certain setting and leave it there, and then prevent the operators from changing it.

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