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    Atten 858D review

    Retiredcaps has got me into watching crazy dave's videos and I came across this. Looks like they only cost around £35 and they might come in hand for removing SMD IC's rather than trying to use the soldering iron all the time.

    What do you think?

    ATTEN 858D Review
    Fixed so far : 1 Home cinema system, 16 LCD Monitors, 4 LCD TV's

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    Re: Atten 858D review

    Originally posted by Jasgriff View Post
    Looks like they only cost around £35 and they might come in hand for removing SMD IC's rather than trying to use the soldering iron all the time.
    I borrowed my friend's non temperature controlled heat gun and use kapton tape to protect the surrounding components when removing SMD ICs like a sot-223. It takes about 30 seconds and I use low heat and use the smallest nozzle possible.

    Check out norcal715's videos. He makes removing SMD ICs look easy with just a plain soldering iron. He does it faster than the time it takes to read this whole post.

    His channel

    http://www.youtube.com/user/norcal715

    See him remove a 1117 regulator at (he starts at 8:45 and is done at 9:08)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFzBJELFoU

    He also shows some desoldering skills in his other videos.

    PS. I added his Vizio/1117 video to my how to test a voltage regulator FAQ.
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      Re: Atten 858D review

      I don't know the difference between the 858D and the 858D+, but see this thread if you are thinking of getting one.

      http://www.eevblog.com/forum/general...ework-station/
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        Re: Atten 858D review

        I had a read of the Atten issue on the eevblog forum. That must have been a one off.

        You do find some very good videos. I looked at the ones posted above and as always I it inspired me to find an old board and get the soldering iron out. Its strange how I seem to be able to desolder chips nice and easy when they are not important. But when I am concertrating on a chip that is important I tend to nearly mess it up.

        The guy in the video scares me when he starts to touch parts of the tv and desolder just after turning it off. Looks like he know what he is doing but going near a live transformer is crazy!

        I havent seen a video of anybody desoldering from a really thick board yet? have you come across one of these videos?

        Budm.... When are you going to get some video tutorials up and running? I am sure that they will make good viewing!
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          Re: Atten 858D review

          I have the Atten 858D+

          It works OK but I don't have much use for it, I like to desolder surface mounted parts with my Hakko 936 more than using hot air gun.
          Probably used it 2-3 times.

          My unit didn't have the fan ears on the sides chopped to fit in the handle (as you can see in the eevblog video), the fan was from the start without those.

          The guy in the video scares me when he starts to touch parts of the tv and desolder just after turning it off. Looks like he know what he is doing but going near a live transformer is crazy!
          The only scary part is that he removed the mains cable and therefore there's no more ground to the tv.
          Otherwise, mains voltage and high voltage only exists on one corner of that board at the top which is the power supply. I don't see him touching that so it's nothing to worry about.
          The board with the tv tuner and decoding chips and all that only receives at best 24v DC at low amps so it's 100% safe to work on without special precautions besides making sure you're grounded (or discharged yourself of static electricity before you went to work on it).

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            Re: Atten 858D review

            Have you looked at the other video of him desoldering the Inverter straight after turning it off? Either way I would much prefer to stay well away from anything live.
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              Re: Atten 858D review

              Originally posted by Jasgriff View Post
              I havent seen a video of anybody desoldering from a really thick board yet? have you come across one of these videos?
              PC motherboards are usually multilayer with lots of copper planes to suck away heat from the iron tip and most here recap motherboards with no problem.

              In Dave Jones' soldering tutorial #2, he does show how tip size matters when dealing with a sot-252.

              Some people use ChipQuik to help desolder stuff. See

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NN7UGWYmBY
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                Re: Atten 858D review

                Originally posted by Jasgriff View Post
                Have you looked at the other video of him desoldering the Inverter straight after turning it off? Either way I would much prefer to stay well away from anything live.
                The inverter receives 12-24v from the secondary side and generates 700-1400v for the lamps. But it doesn't "hold" a charge in it.

                Once the TV/monitor is off, only the stand-by section on the secondary side MAY be powered on the board. The secondary side dedicated for powering the inverter isn't active.

                So he can do whatever he wants in that area, because it's nothing there that could cause problems.

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