The Original X-Tronic 3020-XTS • 75W Soldering Iron Station • LED • 2 Helping Hands • Roll of Solder • Brass Sponge w/Cleaning Flux • Wet Sponge • °C/°F Conversion Switch • 10 Minute Sleep Feature!

Works very well. The ability to dial in the precise heat settings makes working with sensitive components easier. The alligator clips and solder spool holder free up your hands to concentrate on delicate jobs. A big step up from using a bulky soldering gun. It helped to improve my soldering jobs.

After purchasing and returning 2 of these because they did not work, the owner of the company contacted me personally to apologize and offer me another one to try in order to see if it would work better. This third one worked perfectly, exactly as I had hoped the first 2 would. I can say that the customer service from X-TRONIC gets an A+ and their product works great!This was my previous review:I needed a soldering iron for some electrical/circuit board work I was going to be doing. I looked online and read articles and reviews of different soldering irons before I bought anything. This particular soldering iron from X-Tronic was rated as the best soldering iron in a bunch of head-to-head reviewed tests online. I always try to buy the best tools and the best quality that I can afford, and I figured that I should get the best when it came to soldering irons. My goodness, was I in for a surprise.I ordered one of these soldering irons and I immediately noticed that it did not seem to melt solder very well. I kept it for about a day and tried to work with it, I thought initially that maybe I was doing something wrong. The solder that I was using had a melting point somewhere in the low to mid 400°F range, so I set the temperature on the soldering iron to about 530°F. You would think that this would work perfectly, but it seemed like the iron was not heating up properly and it just did not really want to melt the solder. I have never seen anything like it in my life. I turned the temperature up on the soldering iron to 600°F and it still was having a difficult time melting the solder! I would hold the iron on the solder for literally 15 or 20 seconds and it would deform the solder, but it would not melt the solder. Unreal!I figured I must have gotten a defective unit, so I returned it to Amazon. I then ordered the exact same X-Tronic soldering iron again. I figured this time I would get a good one and everything would work the way was supposed to. Wrong again! This new soldering iron was just the same as the first one. It had the exact same issues where it did not seem to want to melt solder. I kept this iron for a couple of days, I even had my father-in-law try it out to see if I was crazy. I thought he might say that the iron was fine and it was user error. My father-in-law is much more experienced in soldering than I am and he's very good at it. After using it for about five minutes he looked at me and said it's no good, just return this junk. He pulled out a cheap soldering iron that he bought online for about eight dollars and he used it on the same stuff that he had just tried the X-Tronic on and it melted the solder like a hot knife through butter. There was no comparison. The cheap junk soldering iron was light-years better. So I actually returned my soldering iron for a second time and I bought a different soldering iron, from the same brand that my father-in-law purchased his cheap one from. I'm here to report that the new one from the cheap brand works great. Can't say enough good things about a soldering iron that came with a case and set for less than $20! Here is what I got: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0744P55YR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1I don't know if the two X-Tronic irons that I purchased and returned were both defective and from a bad batch or if the design is just no good, but it's just shocking to me that this iron has so many great reviews but yet I bought two of them and neither one worked well at all. It might be a defective heating element, it might be that the thermostat is calibrated wrong from the factory. I just don't understand it.

I've had this for a couple of months now. It's my first soldering station, but I've been soldering for a decade with simple irons that plug right into AC. I've been very pleased with this iron, it just works.I purchased it because of all the good reviews and the price. However I must say to the people who've left negative reviews: for the price and the fact that it comes out of China, you pretty much need to understand that QA is going to be crap on it and you have a higher chance of getting a defective one. There's no need to virtue-signal and say "I'll never do business with this company again," every inexpensive thing that ships out of China has QA issues. I happened to get a working one, and I can tell you if you get a good one it'll be your daily driver for a long time. If you're worried about it dying, buy two and you've still saved money compared to a Hakko 88.It's got everything you need - temperature control, and a switch to display the temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit; a solid iron holder; a spindle to hold your solder; a sponge and holder; nice long cord on the iron; and tip cleaner. It has a sleep mode for the inevitable hour you'll spend between soldering jobs debugging your Arduino code; sleep mode automatically turns off when you grab the iron. Just a great unit for a great price.You just have to understand that for Chinese goods at this price, things like quality assurance go out the window, but if you get a good one you'll be super happy with it.