YIHUA 948 Upgraded 2 in 1 ESD Safe 80W Desoldering Station and 60W Soldering Iron- Desoldering Gun and Soldering Station °F /°C

I needed something like this for years. I have dreamed of a desoldering tool that actually works, and I now have one. It is well worth the money and it seems to be very sturdy. I’ve done a lot of desoldering with it since receiving it and it seems like it will hold up very well. I’m 100% satisfied with this desoldering tool.

I’ve been an electronics technician for 50 years. This desoldering station work great and is comparable to much more expensive units. I’m glad an assortment of consumable parts are included. I use this desoldering station to service my tube guitar amplifiers.

So far I have used it one time and I must say it made the job incredibly easy. Suction was great control of temperature for soldering was excellent. Very easy to use very satisfied at this point.

2024 Update: been using this for the past year plus and dealing with the quick clogging. was removing a through hole IC yesterday and the base changed tone with the trigger pressed and started smoking. fist time I have had to use it back to back semi quickly on more then 4 pins. guess its time to upgrade. :(when it works, it works great. But in a year now I have already had the heating element in the gun fail once. Contacted the company and they were understanding and did send a new gun end to me. I have used the new one a few times and now its clogged...again. I have tried to clear it and cant, so not it sits on my bench as a paperweight. not impressed, but you get what you pay for I guess.

I’ve been restoring old audio equipment for a while now and have always used a cheap solder sucker and soldering iron to remove components. I decided to pick this up and holy smokes, why in the heck didn’t I buy one years ago. No more messed up solder pads. This thing works amazing, it’s incredible, and worth every penny! Only gripe is the soldering iron plug is different than the same brand soldering station so the irons are not interchangeable, it’s stupid. Like why use a different plug when the irons are exactly the same. Anyway, still worth it even if it was twice the price I had no idea these things work sooo good.

The media could not be loaded. Purchased this yesterday brand new. I have a 4.0 in Logic Circuits from years ago - still get confused by schematics. I don't repair electronics professionally - but do have Airframe Power Plant - and spent some years working on Commercial Jets. Not an Idiot.Working on a persons car - just to help them out... repairing an electronics board - and have over 85 pins to desolder just to be able to split the board half's and get to the defective relay.Set stuff up this morning - and the Vacuum pump would not come on... Turns out - this was because the temp setting (in Desolder) of 716 to 754 is useless. Temp must be at least 755F. Found this out doing testing - because I eventually turned it up to 840F - got the pump working... and then decreased the temp in a few increments...Got looking at some other desolder units such as Hakko - thinking to possibly purchase one. Said - lets give this another chance - and to my huge surprise - it now refuses to even Heat Up. Keep in mind - this has only been ON for like 3 minutes total. Most of thiat is time to have it heat up. If I wasn't having it heat up - or for just the 5 seconds or so - trying to get it to Desolder - it was OFF.OFF!!Now - after watching some YT vids - decided to give it another go & set the temp to 760F - and it DOES NOT Heat up. Took the tip off... looked at it; put the tip back on... Tried it again. Took the tip off again - wiped the heating element - made sure the tip was back on fine... It turns on; lets you set the Temp - and then does NOT heat up. I'm done. This is going back. Useless junk - which I hoped would be better. It did suck up my tinning solder when I finally got the pump to go on at first... but NOW - I'm done. It is plugged in (of course) and I checked the desolder plug in port, etc. It no longer works at all. If this is their quality - I don't need it.

This station works OK as long as you keep the de-soldering iron cleaned after each use. It clogs fairly quickly, maybe every 40-60 pins de-soldered. For the price, I can't complain. It comes with several different desoldering tip sizes, which don't appear to be labeled - through trial and error, you have to find the right tip that works the best for your scenario. With this station, I desoldered and then socketed all the existing chips and/or chip sockets on a Commodore 64 long type motherboard. This tool was up to the task as long as I kept the extracted solder cleaned out, and had the correct tip. As a soldering station, I have no complaints - it works great and heats up the soldering iron within a few seconds. Heating up the desoldering iron takes about a minute.

Works great but you need to run the cleaning wire through the desoldering tube about every 10 minutes in order to keep the vacuum tube open. If it clogs, there is no problem to disassemble and clean this sucker. Really pleased, comes with spare parts too and you can purchase tips on Amazon.