Iron selection

[efi_student]

The wattage is unimportant if you have temperature control.  The best
irons I have used had temperature control and were about 25 watts so
they would do both large and small components on a PCB without burning
the board or lifting the runs.  I never needed more than 735F at the tip
for any circuit board work.  800 degrees is too hot.

Lance

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-diy_efi at diy-efi.org [mailto:owner-diy_efi at diy-efi.org] On
Behalf Of David Gravereaux
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 4:51 AM
To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
Subject: Re: Iron selection


Alvaro Gil <242Turbo at alvarogil.com> wrote:

>I have located a Weller 12W iron with an 800 deg fine tip.  Would
>this be a good choice for the o2 board?
>Does anyone have anything bad to say about it?  At 40 bucks, I would 
>like to buy the correct iron the first time....
>
>Thanks...

I prefer the Weller temperature compensated irons with ptr-7 tip for
small board work.  But that's just me :)
--
David Gravereaux <davygrvy at pobox.com>
Tomasoft Engineering, Hayward, CA
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