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Would you like to Roadtest the New Weller WXsmart Soldering Platform?

rscasny

Weller is interested in providing the element14 community a couple of its new soldering platform for a roadtest. It's called the WXsmart. 

Here are the documents I was given on this product:

Here's what it looks like and a short video on it:

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  • I would like to see more information on this product. Been putting of getting a solder station because nothing really sticks out. This seems like it could be a game changer! I will happily stick by Weller 

  • I also want to try some smart soldering station. My most smart soldering station has dual-color LCD and adjustable temperature with unknown tolerance and performance is also discuttable Smiley. Last time when I was soldering PCB as part of my project Duratool Cabinet Storage Box Upgrade I definietely found boundaries of my current soldering iron when soldering GND pins connected to large plane. All GND joints looked very ugly. I "resolved" it by reducing resolution of posted photos Smiley . This unit will perform much better I hope.

    Video briefly show many new interesting features, but do not describe they at details. Currently I cant imagine how can IoT improve user experience of solder station but who knows? Weller most probably find some use-cases for this technology in soldering station!

    I registered on Weller website and It gave me more details (but still not full documentation, user manual, etc.) and it looks that they target certification-required markets like automotive and aerospace. It looks that this soldering station can report details from sensors from tips about soldering, temperature profiles, unique ID of solder tip used, etc. It shows them in realtime on display and also can log them to company enterprise systems (ERP is explicitely mentioned) for logging and tracebility reports and certificates. I originaly thought that it is soldering station only but according to additional video available under login it also has hot-air desoldering module.

    For me it looks like like very cool product and I definitely want to test it. Good part is that this type of product does not require time-expensive programming, so I can join this RoadTest even school started and my free time is reduced.

  • I'm not familiar with "smart" soldering stations so this looks very interesting. Although not seen on the video it also appears to supports heat gun and desoldering gun addons as well.

  • Wow, clearly a high end product with all the best features of a great soldering station plus all the "smart" features you might want in a comprehensive soldering management system. I hope the reviews comment on system efficiencies and workflows of this instrument even though the average hobbyist might not use those aspects of the system.

  • I have never-ever seen a soldering station with cyber security. I'm also a dumb solderer and interested what a smart soldering station could do for my projects.