Great value starter kit when all the essentials

This is a great starting soldering iron kit with all the essentials you need to get started with hobbies electronics and hopefully it will last you for many projects to come.

– Good value kit
– Changeable tips is nice
– Heats up quickly
– Controls are nice to have but could be better
– Nice solder included

So I do some small electrical projects which means I need a decent soldering set and I do have a more expensive kit with a lot more components. But when I saw this was available and that the iron had a temperature control I was excited to try it out.

So this set comes with a few parts and I was a bit surprised which items I liked and which ones I was disappointed with. Starting with the iron, I had high hopes manly over the controls, first of the LED indicator is a nice touch but the fact that it is red and almost the same colour as the body of the iron means that in a bright room (which I hope the space you are soldering is) then it is very dim. The temperature control is very small and the text is quite hard to read, it would have been nice if the light changed colour when it got to temperature too.

The soldering iron works perfectly fine and I actually found the temperature control quite neat, the solder included is a standard 60-40 split which means it will melt at about 180 degrees Celsius so at 200 which is the lowest heat setting it can still melt the solder, but it just happens slightly slower and that can give you a little more control for example when removing components or melting solder to fix a mistake. I think for most uses I would recommend sitting in the middle and if you feel like you need a bit more or less you can adjust, but I think you would spend most of your time at 300 degrees.

The power cable included with the iron is a bit small for my liking and I would recommend not running it very far at all. unfortunately, the stand is also small and not the most stable and these two things in combination did concern me a few times when I placed the iron on the stand. The solder is actually pretty good for a set like this, it is a standard mix but resulted in nice joints and I’m pretty happy with it.

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Soldering Iron Kit

£11.87

3.8

Aesthetics

3.3/5

Size

3.5/5

Ease Of Use

4.3/5

Value

4.5/5

Quality