YIHUA 948 Standard

I think this device works great. I use 725 degrees F as the maximum usage temperature, and nothing has melted on the tool. Higher temperatures may destroy a circuit board. It takes time to warm up before the pump turns on, but that's not a problem ... I can wait considering this tool is very useful and works nicely. Clean it after each use.

Nice desoldering station, no issues after several months of use. Keep the filter clean and you won’t have any problems. I have fully recapped 6 receivers without issue.

Definitely a nice addition to my home/hobbyist electronics workbench. Makes removal of IC's much easier. It is very slow heating up, but once ready, it works well. I bought this for home because I was using one at work. That unit gradually failed, indicating that it is not suitable for a busy work environment. Yes, I was cleaning and replacing filters as required, but the pump was getting gradually weaker with time. I disassembled it and cleaned it, which only improved it slightly. I recommend this for a low-use hobbyist workshop, but that's it.

TLDR up front… Buy it. Well worth the money. Alright, for everyone else that wants details… I have been wanting one of these for a while now, but couldn’t part with $250-$400 for the ones I saw everyone else buying. I found this one while watching a random YouTube video. Looked ok and figured for the price, I would give it a shot. Let’s just say, I have NOT been disappointed. This desoldering vacuum has done everything I have asked of it. I usually use the plunger desoldering pump and desoldering braid. This unit makes short work of desoldering components. The basics operation is as follows: 1. Let it warm up (it won’t vacuum until it’s heated to your preset temperature). 2. Place the tip onto the solder side of the PCB of the component you want to remove. 3. Hold until the solder melts. 4. Pull the trigger and let the vacuum do its thing. That’s it in a nutshell. The vacuum isn’t timed, so it will vacuum as long as you keep the trigger pulled. It will remove a good deal of solder before the tip cools enough that the solder stops flowing, at which point, you simply remove the tip and let it reheat a bit. I have removed copious amounts of solder in one pull. The unit was packaged well. Included in the box was cleaning tools and some spare tips, filters, and misc. items. Tip cleaning: You will have to occasionally clean the tip to remove any buildup. You will know cleaning is necessary when it no longer sucks up solder. There are 2 different size tip cleaners, one small and one large. Make sure the unit is preheated and then insert the small one into the tip. Push slowly to remove any clogging, then finish with the large. Vacuum gun cleaning: The vacuum gun has a spring inside to catch the removed solder. Over time, this spring will accumulate solder and require cleaning. To clean, press the tab at the back of the gun. This allows the glass tube to be removed. Inside the tube is a rubber plug, gauze type fine filter, thin black coarse filter, solder capture spring, and a front rubber plug with a small tube. To remove the internal components, simply remove the rubber plugs. The instruction manual has a breakdown of the assembly if you forget how it goes together. I am only going to concentrate on spring cleaning here, because the other parts aren’t serviceable, only replaceable when past their service life. To clean the spring, grasp and hold one end. With your other hand, pull the spring and release, letting it snap back into place. The spring is stainless steel and while some solder may stick to it, the majority will flake off. If you clean it between uses or (depending on how many removals you make each time), you shouldn’t have any issues. I have had massive globs and most would come out. To remove stubborn stuck on solder, I used my soldering iron to heat up the spring and snap it as above. This WILL shoot hot solder, so be prepared with the proper safety equipment and watch the direction in which you aim. I did ruin a spring by trying to over-stretch it and by trying to “unwind” it from the blob… neither of which worked. All in all, after a slight learning curve, I absolutely love this machine. Replacement expendables are available, as well as the complete gun (which I did have to replace because I did something stupid). If you remove components frequently or do kind of electronics repairs, then you need this tool. It is a major step up from plunger type solder suckers, desoldering bulbs, and desoldering bulb type desoldering irons. Through-hole insert desoldering is where this machine shines. The plunger type has a finite amount of suction and I often needed to do the process 2, 3, 4 times before I could remove enough solder to remove the component. With this unit, the vacuum pulls as long as you keep the trigger pulled. Very rarely have I not been able to remove all of the solder in one pull. I am very happy with my purchase and would buy another in a minute if needed. I do a fair amount of desoldering and the time and aggravation it has saved me is well worth the cost. Hope this helps!! Thank you for reading if you got this far.😊

I repaired my PS5 controller which had a bad drift to the left, my second in fact. I watched YouTube on the repair technic’s to tackle this. Desoldering was the fastest and I used similar devices in the past in electronics repair. This sucker works great. Keep it clean and air passage clean and it should last a long time. The kit comes with a complete set of tools and filter spares. The price was great and cheaper than I expected. Well made and easy to use. You can make money using this in a business if your industrious.

Used for two full days so far. Noticed after second day, it failed to suck the solder properly. You need to clean it after every use of heavy desoldering. Worked great again after that. They give you plenty of extra parts and tools to maintain the unit. So far, it's been great.

The desoldering gun works pretty well. I love being able to clean solder joints so quickly. Left me wondering why I waited so long! That said there is a cost to all this convenience and that is the gun requires some extra maintenance. You got to be constantly poking the nozzle and spring filter in during use with the cleaning pin or else it will clog up and lose its suction power. I also found it helps to remove the spring filter after use and remove as much of the captured solder as possible. This is not as annoying as it sounds but be aware there is additional cleaning involved. As mentioned by another reviewer you got to wait a few minutes for the gun to pre-heat. When it's ready the station emits a loud beeping noise letting you know. After 5 minutes or so of inactivity the station turns itself off. The product includes a few replacement nozzle tips and replaceable parts (e.g., spring filter, cleaning pins and filtering pads). I like these consumable parts can be bought separately from YIHUA. I am sure I am going to need them. Initially I was going to buy the ZD-915 from Pro Digital, but then found this model for less. I already had a positive experience with a YIHUA soldering station so this (and the availability of replaceable parts) made more sense to me. So far I've done a few projects and this gun has made desoldering so much easier. I know there are more expensive choices but for my needs this product has met my expectations.

It sucks, and not in a good way. YIHUA makes great soldering stations, I've had one of their combination soldering/air gun station and it has been a good solid workhorse for many years. I got tired of using my old radio shack desoldering iron and wanted to try something that I thought would be an upgrade. So I bypassed manual pumps and went for this one, which proved to be a costly mistake and I ended up buying a manual pump desolder to see which was better. Comparing this to the manual pump, the heat up times are around the same. This has the advantage of being able to dial the actual temperature, and other safety features, but for my hobby circuits, heat is heat and they both need at least 3 mins to get hot. When it comes to suction, this is where this station fails when compared to the manual pump. The suction is not good and I had better results with the manual pump desoldering iron. I had to try so many times to suck up the solder on my board, even adding low heat solder did not help. Because the tip was so hot and I tried many times to suck up the solder it ended up damaging my board. I even switched to the smaller 0.8mm nozzle and that helped a bit, but the damage was done. I am going to keep the manual pump desolder and will be returning this item. Maybe in a larger industrial setting this would be nice to have but as a hobbyist, the suction is abysmal and the space it takes on my bench would be best served for something else.

Alright..... so this is one of the worst products i have purchased. Firat of all when it shows that it is preheated it actually is not, gotta wait for a beep to let you know that its done. The heat is not steady, it has a hard time melting the larger anchor points. When using the vacuum it only removes half the solder, leaving the part still secured. I also found that it clogs really easy and super hard to clean where the auction pipe goes into the catch chamber. Yeh that may be the incorrect term for parts but you get it. Its not worth tge money.

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