TKDMR 300W PTC Heating-Soldering Plate - Hot Plate LED Remover Chip Welding Station for LED Repair DIY Laboratory

Perfect for those fast little jobs. Excellent heat level. fast shipping. Compact for easy storage. Great price and fast shipping

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It gets very hot! It doss what it should at a cheap price.

Can’t go wrong with this if you need a hot plate on the cheap. I’m using this for reflowing led emitters and it works great and very quickly, a bit too quickly imo but the plate does heat evenly across the entire plate. It would be better if the plate was a bit thicker and took a bit longer to heat up so it doesn’t shock the led but I don’t think it’s so aggressive that it will ever cause an issue. I already reflowed a few nichia 519a emitters and no issues, the domes were still tight and the tint looked normal. You can get this cheaper by ordering from you know where but it will take a few weeks to receive and at that point you might as well order a better one with temp adjustment and wait for that. That’s the reason I got this here on Amazon, so I’d receive it in a day or two and could start some work I had but I’ll eventually order one with temp control so I don’t have to worry about cooking anything if I don’t immediately unplug it.

I didn't expect much when I bought this. It didn't deliver much. For the price, however, it delivered enough in my books for a 5 star rating. I bought this so that I could replace an LED on a tri-cree LED star. The last time I tried to do this was at least a year ago, and I was stupid enough to attempt it then with a blowtorch. I'm honestly surprised that I was able to get two of the three LEDs working with that method, but that's beside the point.This unit is very simple. Plug one end of the cord into the wall, and the other end into the heating pad. It heats up quickly. I would not recommend leaving this plugged in for long jobs, as I don't believe there is any circuitry or sensors to regulate the temperature. If you need to have the hot plate not go above a specific temperature, or if the components on your project are particularly heat sensitive, then you should buy a more advanced alternative. If, however, you're like me and literally just need something better than a blowtorch for a one-off project, then this seems to be a safe bet. You get what you pay for. This model definitely isn't very safe, so don't ever leave it plugged in unattended.

I wanted something that would heat up my flashlight MCPCB's so I could swap out LED's. This worked well. Not much more to say.

I have a fair bit of (hobbyist) experience hand soldering, but very little in using heating plates or hot air rework. I had a few projects where the packages couldn't be hand soldered, so I thought I might try using this. So far, I've been experimenting with this using surface mount components (LEDs, resistors, transistors) before trying it on my more expensive ICs.This is essentially just a heating element, a slab of aluminum, and rubber feet. You turn it on and off by unplugging it. Place a PCB with solder paste on the board, plug it in, and in about 30 seconds it will melt. After that, you pretty much have to take the board off if you don't want to cook your PCB. That kind of rapid cooling is probably not great for your solder joints, so you could try slowly lifting it.Basically, this is a reasonable purchase if you just want to solder a small number of boards for hobbyist purposes, and you want to do it very cheaply. It can work, but its also easy to damage your work, so use with care.