Kada 936D Digital soldering Station with English Manual (60W 24V AC)

Pros: Built quality is quite good. Tips from Aoyue Irons seems to work fine. Price is decent

Cons: USA Style plug.

Other: Buy it, can`t o wrong for the money

Pros: - Good value for the money.
- Temperature controlled.

Cons: - Japanese plug (Probably a pro if you live in japan).
- Some things are made a little flimsy, but thats expected for the level price.

Other: Good buy for the money, had to change the powercord, but it still is a good buy.

Pros: It heats quickly (as you would expect for a 60W station).

It has a nice range of temperatures.
I really like the digital readout.

Cons: It’s definitely 220V only, with a North American, 3-prong plug. Go figure! I rated it as a 3 for ease of use because of the need for an adapter (no matter where in the world you are).
It comes with a very fine, conical tip – personally I prefer a fine screwdriver tip.

Other: Nice station for the money, but with a very quirky combination of voltage and power cord.

Pros: Very nice unit (for the money). In comparison to regular soldering iron it heats very fast, and keeps constant temperature. Will never move back to old style soldering. Cut my regular “soldering project” from about 20 minutes to 5. About 30% cheaper than I could get locally.

Cons: USA style plug. It's really strange combination 220V and USA style plug.
BTW the cord is soldered in 3 playces, so it's easy to change.

Other: you need extra tips for regular work. the one included is nice... for small jobs, but for something a little bit bigger you need bigger tips

Pros: fast heating and it blinks a led when its on the estimated temperature. little iron little tip. good for soldering in computers and consoles. has temperature regulator between 200 celsius and 480 celsius and it has a on off switch and a fuse.

Cons: the plug was a 3 prong style that i never had seen before. the cable to the soldering iron from the station was kinda short.

Other: very good if you are soldering in smd.

Pros: Though only 220V can be used
The transformer can be bought with Dealextream for 12 dollars.
( KSU14322
110V~220V Bidirectional AC Power Transformer Adapter (80-Watt Max).

Cons: Though only 220V can be used
The transformer can be bought with Dealextream for 12 dollars.

Other: Though only 220V can be used
The transformer can be bought with Dealextream for 12 dollars.

Pros: Best value for money I've seen so far. The red led display goes from 200 to 480. With the knob one can adjust the temperature. After setting desired temperature with the knob temperature rapidly rises to that. When desired temperature is reached led over the handle connector starts to blink.
Has little hole with calibration screw in it on the front panel. The other side has power switch and other has fuse holder (T2A 250V fuse). Has english manual.

Cons: After opening the package the smell of cheap plastic is very very bad. After a week or so some of the smell starts to fade away

Other: Soldering iron for the right money.

Pros: Good device for this money.
Fast heating.
Nice small tip, but for regular work I need something bigger.

Cons: Temperature measuring is not correct. If i compare Veller and this, is huge difference. This device measuring temperature inside heater, not from tip. It's means if you soldering something big, what need lot of energy, station shows like temp is ok, but real tip temperature can be 100c lower than temperature on display.
No potential balancing outlet.
Soldering iron cable is exreamly short(60cm) and solid. I change it(120cm soft) and now is much better. Same problem with power cable

Other: Nice tool for secondary use.
Something between regular iron and proffesional soldering station.

Pros: Nice looking clone of Hakko 900M series soldering stations. Exchangeable soldering iron tips, replaceable soldering pen. Digital temperature meter. Replaceable heating element (probably compatible with Hakko spare parts as well).
Good packaging.

Cons: As it was already mentioned, the soldering pen cable is short and not flexible enough. I replaced it with one taken from an old Weller station. That one is still good regardless it's age :o)
Since I had really bad experience with generic electronic devices, I disassembled the station body before firing it. The cable connecting the heating element to the main board was squeezed between the power transformer and the power regulator's heat sink, making short cut connection. Pretty sure it would burn up the system if not fixed. The wires isolation was damaged and required some shrinking tubing there.
There is no ability to adjust the station thermometer without disassembling the main board. There are several trim pots on the board, but there is no one behind the "calibration" hole on front panel. It's also unclear what is the internal trim-pots functionality.
The station controller does not always come up when the mains switch turned on. Sometimes it shows tree horizontal lines instead of numbers on temperature display and the heating element went to the maximum power. It took me few on-off cycles until controller started to work properly and react to the temperature regulator position. Hope it will not happen too much in the future.

Other: Good exterior, but problematic engineering and assembly. The main board assembly is OK, but seems that these devices are not passing QA at the end of production. At least mine did not - see the "cons" section.

Pros: Really good and convenient tool for the price. I use it constantly. Very convenient and it is pleasant to work. Replaceable tips and a replaceable heating element. Good packing.

Cons: Capacity does not correspond to the declared. Instead of declared 60 watt actually no more than 30 watt. I have replaced the transformer with more powerful, after alteration capacity began to correspond to the declared.
Short wire of all 50??. I have replaced a wire with a wire from IBM the computer keyboard. The support has small weight in this connection it easily can be overturned sideways.

Other: Good appearance and good assemblage. If you own skills in electronics that will finish the device only in pleasure.