KSGER T12 – soldering station review

It sucks: ★☆☆☆☆

Ok that's not true. It might be OK. I wouldn't know since the one I got from Banggood came in broken. The screen displays ERROR message no matter which soldering tip I put in.

I've disassembled the handled to find the reason.

broken_cable

Cool... Well at this point the this goes here remark was an assumption. I've quickly confirmed it by finding this schematic.

schematic

The green, resistor like object is apparently a mercury switch. I assume it turns on the heat when you point the soldering iron downwards? Not sure to be honest, and at this point... don't care that much. I just need a soldering iron that works. I can't fix it because I don't have a second soldering iron... I'll fix it at work.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll write an update saying: it works.

2 days later...

And I can't say it works because it still doesn't... cool.