Hakko FX888D,T18-B,BL,I,D24,D32,C05,S7,599-029 Soldering Station with T18-B/BL/I/D24/D32/C05/S7/599-029

Awesome 1st Station for SMT soldering, solid build, easy to use and my Hakko Bundle came with a selection of tips for SMT work. I have no doubt this unit will do me as a hobbyist for a long time, I love the Hakko quality, was put off by the Fisher Price look, but its definitely a Tonka build. Have not played much with it yet other than soldering a SOIC with no difficulty, will tackle an SSOP soon. Beats my 20 year old weller hands down, you definitely need one of these to get into SMT properly at an affordable price.

Im an electronics technician by trade and love this soldering iron. I purchased this for my home lab. I decided on this iron because of other reviews and the price was within my budget. After many hours of use I am more than satisfied. It comes up to temp quickly, and maintains temp well when soldering non isolated ground plane pads. The tip selection is excellent for a kit. My only complaint would be that the tips take a little bit more time to swap out than Id like and would be a concern if used in a production setting. But for hobby use, it doesnt warrant knocking off a star. Overall, I couldnt be happier with this iron.

This is my 4th or 5th soldering gun solution and its by far the best. Its worked flawlessly. The temperature changes quickly and it handles small to large jobs with equal ease.

Item is of excellent quality! Immensely speedy dispatch. Good-looking packaging.

At last I own a nice soldering iron. Quality on this station is top notch.

Awesome, got everything in the pic. Quality device and parts. Yes its a pretty basic review lol

Great heat control and a good punch of heat when needed for thick copper tabs.

Ive had the manual version of this unit for many many years and my son needed a soldering station so I got him this model , these are very good and easy to use I got him the whole assortment of tips and you can do most anything within reason with this station you will not regret getting this unit good quality and simple to use and heat up fairly fast.

great product

I was on the fence about this and the next model up. If your needs are basic and quick then the superior usability and size of this iron is best verses other Hakkos. Its built in presets makes the up arrow only not so bad. You just up arrow to the preset temp you want. You can modify those. Once set up its a one push affair to set the temp. The bad thing is the wand is too large for even my hulk hands to do fine work with. It should be impossible to do tiny resistors with. I never tried. The tip will tend to bottom out too much in temperature to do more than two pin component work. I compared this to the FX-951 at the same time. Just in soldering two wires with helping hands I could see the difference. Both irons will do that with ease. However it does show the big difference between them. Its not a lot of mass to heat in that case. If you solder an area of a PCB for more than 2 minutes and still struggle to finish, you needed to next model up or higher. If you dont with the 888D, then for sure buy this iron over the next one up. However it shouldnt encourage people by labeling it ESD safe. Im sure it is. But I really cant recommended it outside of some model RC planes and crafts.