YIHUA 948 Standard Desoldering Station, 80W, with Auto Shutoff, Variable Precise Temperature (716°F ~ 896°F), ºC/°F display, Sleep Function and More.

I think this device works great. I use 725 degrees F as the maximum usage temperature, and nothing has melted on the tool. Higher temperatures may destroy a circuit board. It takes time to warm up before the pump turns on, but that's not a problem ... I can wait considering this tool is very useful and works nicely. Clean it after each use.

Nice desoldering station, no issues after several months of use. Keep the filter clean and you won’t have any problems. I have fully recapped 6 receivers without issue.

This is the second Yihua device I have purchased. The first was a soldering iron + hot air rework station. That unit has always worked pretty well and has never had any problems. So I purchased the Desoldering Station (Yihua 948). I have used the Desoldering Station a total of five times since I purchased it in June of 2024. The unit has mostly sat in it's original box in the closet. I just used the Desoldering Station (for the fifth and final time) and the main unit started smoldering and smoking each time I tried to use the gun. It would only smoke while holding the trigger, not during idle. This unit is clearly defective. I will be contacting the company. Will update this review if needed. UPDATE: Yihua was quick to take care of the problem. They are in fact a reliable company. I won't hesitate to do business with them again in the future. I have appropriately updated this review from 1 Star to 4 Stars. It would be 5, but I shouldn't have had to deal with a defective unit, the return and being without a desoldering gun for two weeks.

TLDR up front… Buy it. Well worth the money. Alright, for everyone else that wants details… I have been wanting one of these for a while now, but couldn’t part with $250-$400 for the ones I saw everyone else buying. I found this one while watching a random YouTube video. Looked ok and figured for the price, I would give it a shot. Let’s just say, I have NOT been disappointed. This desoldering vacuum has done everything I have asked of it. I usually use the plunger desoldering pump and desoldering braid. This unit makes short work of desoldering components. The basics operation is as follows: 1. Let it warm up (it won’t vacuum until it’s heated to your preset temperature). 2. Place the tip onto the solder side of the PCB of the component you want to remove. 3. Hold until the solder melts. 4. Pull the trigger and let the vacuum do its thing. That’s it in a nutshell. The vacuum isn’t timed, so it will vacuum as long as you keep the trigger pulled. It will remove a good deal of solder before the tip cools enough that the solder stops flowing, at which point, you simply remove the tip and let it reheat a bit. I have removed copious amounts of solder in one pull. The unit was packaged well. Included in the box was cleaning tools and some spare tips, filters, and misc. items. Tip cleaning: You will have to occasionally clean the tip to remove any buildup. You will know cleaning is necessary when it no longer sucks up solder. There are 2 different size tip cleaners, one small and one large. Make sure the unit is preheated and then insert the small one into the tip. Push slowly to remove any clogging, then finish with the large. Vacuum gun cleaning: The vacuum gun has a spring inside to catch the removed solder. Over time, this spring will accumulate solder and require cleaning. To clean, press the tab at the back of the gun. This allows the glass tube to be removed. Inside the tube is a rubber plug, gauze type fine filter, thin black coarse filter, solder capture spring, and a front rubber plug with a small tube. To remove the internal components, simply remove the rubber plugs. The instruction manual has a breakdown of the assembly if you forget how it goes together. I am only going to concentrate on spring cleaning here, because the other parts aren’t serviceable, only replaceable when past their service life. To clean the spring, grasp and hold one end. With your other hand, pull the spring and release, letting it snap back into place. The spring is stainless steel and while some solder may stick to it, the majority will flake off. If you clean it between uses or (depending on how many removals you make each time), you shouldn’t have any issues. I have had massive globs and most would come out. To remove stubborn stuck on solder, I used my soldering iron to heat up the spring and snap it as above. This WILL shoot hot solder, so be prepared with the proper safety equipment and watch the direction in which you aim. I did ruin a spring by trying to over-stretch it and by trying to “unwind” it from the blob… neither of which worked. All in all, after a slight learning curve, I absolutely love this machine. Replacement expendables are available, as well as the complete gun (which I did have to replace because I did something stupid). If you remove components frequently or do kind of electronics repairs, then you need this tool. It is a major step up from plunger type solder suckers, desoldering bulbs, and desoldering bulb type desoldering irons. Through-hole insert desoldering is where this machine shines. The plunger type has a finite amount of suction and I often needed to do the process 2, 3, 4 times before I could remove enough solder to remove the component. With this unit, the vacuum pulls as long as you keep the trigger pulled. Very rarely have I not been able to remove all of the solder in one pull. I am very happy with my purchase and would buy another in a minute if needed. I do a fair amount of desoldering and the time and aggravation it has saved me is well worth the cost. Hope this helps!! Thank you for reading if you got this far.😊

Used for two full days so far. Noticed after second day, it failed to suck the solder properly. You need to clean it after every use of heavy desoldering. Worked great again after that. They give you plenty of extra parts and tools to maintain the unit. So far, it's been great.

It sucks, and not in a good way. YIHUA makes great soldering stations, I've had one of their combination soldering/air gun station and it has been a good solid workhorse for many years. I got tired of using my old radio shack desoldering iron and wanted to try something that I thought would be an upgrade. So I bypassed manual pumps and went for this one, which proved to be a costly mistake and I ended up buying a manual pump desolder to see which was better. Comparing this to the manual pump, the heat up times are around the same. This has the advantage of being able to dial the actual temperature, and other safety features, but for my hobby circuits, heat is heat and they both need at least 3 mins to get hot. When it comes to suction, this is where this station fails when compared to the manual pump. The suction is not good and I had better results with the manual pump desoldering iron. I had to try so many times to suck up the solder on my board, even adding low heat solder did not help. Because the tip was so hot and I tried many times to suck up the solder it ended up damaging my board. I even switched to the smaller 0.8mm nozzle and that helped a bit, but the damage was done. I am going to keep the manual pump desolder and will be returning this item. Maybe in a larger industrial setting this would be nice to have but as a hobbyist, the suction is abysmal and the space it takes on my bench would be best served for something else.

Fantastic product, does what it says and does it well. Very much appreciate the quality, heats up well and forms a strong vacuum. Saves loads of time, would buy again.

Alright..... so this is one of the worst products i have purchased. Firat of all when it shows that it is preheated it actually is not, gotta wait for a beep to let you know that its done. The heat is not steady, it has a hard time melting the larger anchor points. When using the vacuum it only removes half the solder, leaving the part still secured. I also found that it clogs really easy and super hard to clean where the auction pipe goes into the catch chamber. Yeh that may be the incorrect term for parts but you get it. Its not worth tge money.

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