Woot has
Tilswall 65W Soldering Station Welding Iron Kit for
$32.99.
Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.
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Features:- 65-watt heating element and built in smart transformer & PID temperature control
- Ceramic heating core (New Generation Heating Material)
In the box:- 1x 65 Watt Soldering Iron Station
- 1x Iron Stand
- 1x Power Cord
- 1x Soldering Iron
- 1x Brass Wire Sponge
- 5x Iron Tips
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If you're on a budget, and you are mostly working on smaller electronics, you're best of getting a pen type solder iron like Pinecil or the similar TS100 or newer TS101. If you want a quality budget base station, then the KSGER is a good option. Both the TS101 and KSGER also have cheaper clones which are the Sequre Si012 for the pencil type and the Quicko/Queckoo for the base station type. All these have enough power for the job and well controlled temperature and fairly cheap interchangeable tips (except Pinecil tips aren't the cheapest). All these listed also have sleep and auto off functions, keeping your iron in good shape and preventing fires if you leave and forget them.
I also learned that tips make a huge difference and that having two or more tips is very beneficial as a large wide tip for example can deliver a lot more heat to a larger area than your standard small tip.
Of course you can't go wrong with larger base stations like Weller WE1010NA, Hakko FX888D if you want to spend over $100. As with everything this is a topic you can spend weeks on researching and clearly there isn't a best iron out there, it just depends on what you need. There are a ton of irons out there including rework stations which are big, fancy and cheap, and it seems like they are hit and miss, some people have them for years and are happy with them, some people have issues with them and the temperature setting can be wildly inaccurate.
Any pro's out there that can correct what I said, please do, I still haven't chosen one yet and am happy to hear more opinions.
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