gene heskett wrote: > > Two things. Weller designs to make sure they have a steady market in > repair parts. I like the design of the EC1302B, the heater is on the outside, the temp sensor is on the inside of the tip. But, these are obsolete and I don't want to pay $67 the next time a temp sensor or heating element goes out. (Maybe they are even higher now.) I used to get serviceable irons on eBay for $40 and have a stock of parts to keep them going. I have two complete sets of these here. (Weller made a change in the iron plug, that's why there's an EC1302 and 1302B, I changed everything to follow the new pinout.) So, I have 2 EC1302B and 2002 or so boxes at my home shop, and a WSL / WMP at work.
I don't like the design of the WSL / WMP quite as much, but the tips are at least affordable, and the iron has amazing power. i can plainly tell the difference between my EC1302 and the WMP. Anything that I can't solder with the WMP and I grab the 120 W solder gun. I find the dial temp control (or pushbuttons on the WSL) and digital readout a big help. I do everything from micro-micro soldering to fairly heavy power boards with these irons. I've found them to be quite reliable, too. I've probably made over a million connections with them, I do manufacturing here. I just snagged a WSL / WMP on eBay for $100, hopefully it is as good as the seller says. I have been using one at my other work for a couple years. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
