Fun fact: The german scientists that the US "imported" from Germany after WWII, including Von Braun and Arthur Rudolph who developed the Atlas rocket that took the Apollo mission to the moon, made their calculations with the decimal metric system. Soooo ironically the decimal metric system (and not the imperal sistem) was the one that took the man to the moon. Oh and.. nice review
I think the fascinating part is that's not a high-voltage motor - that's a run of the mill low-voltage DC motor, using the nichrome heating element as a voltage divider
These are just barely hot enough in a pinch, if you glob some low melting point solder on things first. It'll never be ideal, and it takes a while, so it's definitely a last resort. I do it because I rarely have to remove chips, and don't want a real air gun sitting around.
Cool, well hot air gun video, looks like a useful tool and safer than using a lighter for heat shrink tubing, thanks for sharing and letting us know about this useful tool.
I was removing SMD components from a board, with this THING and after about +/- half an hour [of on and off use] the metal nozzle end started to melt the plastic around it and the metal nozzle started to dip downward nearly coming in contact with that red plastic “shielding” - this device is for very light usage [no more than 15 minutes at a time] for like shrinking heat tubes and not much else. Just my opinion
I mean we thought about going to the moon but we wanted a rest after sorting out that enigma thing with the germans and figured we'd rather go down the pub rather than have a dick waving contest with the russians :p (this is also a joke :D) Id been looking at one of these as a means for cheap reflow but I think I might have a look at something a little better, might be worth it just for heat shrink though.
Great video but here’s some tips to help u a long the way it’s a great heat gun mine has a blue cap at end of it u can use it on electronics no problems for soldering or unsolding parts but one tip take the plactic tip off one it put me heat out and to it will melt the cap it u hold it to close to your work mine started to melt so I removed it well hoped this helped good luck
This was design for DIY project like packing or something, with heat too low think it may not suitable but hey you can try but I'm not sure how its gonna take the adhesive to melt with this heat gun.
I recently tried my Harbor Freight heat gun for SMD and it works fine on low, and I have ordered some nozzles to go on it for more precise control. I found that when hot air spreads out on the surface of a board, you can overheat electrolytic caps and they pop like firecrackers leaving shredded brown paper over the workbench. The high setting can scorch and smoke a PCB where I tried rapid bulk removal of salaged components. I still prefer a 40 watt cheap iron and compressed air for pulling parts.
The temperature is low because the air flow (and noise...) is high. You would get reflow temperatures by reducing the air flow - preferably by reducing the motor speed, but you might try some sort of “doors” on the air intake side. As it came, it is tuned to heat shrink operations - period.
Funny while watching this I was doing an unboxing of my own, the METERK MK01A happened to be delivered just as I started watching. Man this thing is huge, my Flukes and even my old Micronta are smaller. But I admit it has many more features. I got a case of stick matches when a property management company went out of business. I guess it's small stick matches for the rest of my life! Don't imagine I'll be buying that mini hair dryer, but thanks for showing it off!
Instructions are for girls 😆 but yeah it's just like a hair dryer..but I'm looking to upgrade my little solder station.. Would like one to have a heat gun with it instead of using a pink torch for shrink
I've found the 853d station heat gun works instantly on shrink - the temperature rises as fast as on my soldering iron. It's worth it just for that and can be used for single shots.. Reflow took a little more work ... PCBs are excellent heatsinks and of the nostrils that came with the gun, really only the smallest is capable of breathing out enough heat to be effective and to work fast enough to be useful, I usually crank the temp up to about 420c on a low flow. If it's for only one component - it''s not worth the effort. If I'm honest I also stole the Iron (the wife's) and have it mounted upside down as my base to keep things toasty. Not needed but on bigger chips it helps a lot, as does a lot of flux. Makes stripping a board for bits worth the work.
Hey are you familiar with the shrinking tubes which got solder inside of them? So you can put on the tube and instantly solder two wires. I really like them
Great review! This works great for Shrink Wrap (I use one in my business but did not test it on SMD- just general shrink wrap) or Shrink Wrapping wires but it seems barely functional for reflow removal of small Surface Mount parts.
These mini heat guns aren't for flowing but shrinking heat shrink wraps and warming up phones to soften the glue to open them rather, if you wants one to reflow there are others that is more expensive
This looks like a direct knock-off of SparkFun's Heaterizer XL-3000, which is $13.95 for the same specs and comes with lifetime, US-based technical support and decent return policy. For the money (only $1 more), I'd recommend that one. The instructions are also hilarious. I've used it for heat-shrink and to soften 3D-printed parts for clean-up. I haven't tried using it for re-flow, though.
@@MrTater-gw3px yeah you can make the temperature go higher by restricting airflow. It will be better if you restrict the intake but I suggest a fan speed control..\
yes the Country that send a man to the moon but not with the US customary system they use the Metric system the same goes for the medical system and engineering like cars planes etc...
Oh WOW I actually just got just now tonight directly from China and paid #3 for the same exact unit. I'm using mine to make custom Jewelry, Soldering. Thanks for opening yours now I don't have to open mine....LOL
i bought this, turned it on, and it fried itself within ~4 seconds and began smoking, i messaged the seller and they gave me a refund the next day so there's that. edit: Also the screws on my unit were severely stripped, really weird edit 2: i opened mine up, @ the factory they left some paper in the unit and it burned up inside and caused it to break. Was a pain to put back together but now it works but I got a free hot air gun, so
Have been looking at one of these, as I only have the more industrial paint stripper type of hot air gun! Thanks for the demo Paul - but a bit noisy imho, what do you think? 🤔 🧐 And, I do believe there may be one out there with a Green nozzle... 💚 🐍
Omg..I have one on my solder station I was considering that for something portable. That was until you turned it on and it made my ears bleed. You should have used a decibel meter rather than the power meter. :D It didn't come with different nostrils? ;)
Man I would honestly just save my money and just go to the bodega and get a lighter. At least it won't use 300W of power to do basic heat shrinking lol
Ran across these on various Chinese sites. Still need hot air reflow, but decided definitely not to buy this. No temperature control. Not even power control. No airflow control. The suspicion that it just won't solder was easily confirmed elsewhere. Thing is, if you know anything about hot air stations, these inexpensive Chinese ones right around $50 or integrated with soldering stations, you know that you often need to keep them at super low airflow. For two reasons, for one, at even 700-800W, they have trouble reaching soldering temperature, and they have a better chance at low airflow, and for other, when you're mass desoldering, you won't care, but sometimes you'd REALLY REALLY appreciate not blowing all the little capacitors and resistors away. So this will fail on both accounts. 300W going wfull blast is just bad. Heatshrink? I have butane jet lighters. If i need to shrink it gently and slowly, my hair dryer will do. It has lots more power. If you want to play around with it, do you think a bit of diode modding could make it go slower on the fan without combusting the thing?
Way to void a warranty!!!! Like they are a real warranty! It needs about 50c more temperature! Maybe take out a inch or two of the nichrome! You would be better off with a halogen bulb and blow! Hehe!! Let's not talk about psycho exes! It gives my nightmares!!!! And flashbacks! Sets of my PTSD. She was the trauma and the stress! Man was she crazy! I'm lucky to be here! Keep up the good work. Take it easy!
What, no USB connector.
Get your ass to Mars...
@@michaelkusjanovic9954 lmaooo
Fun fact:
The german scientists that the US "imported" from Germany after WWII, including Von Braun and Arthur Rudolph who developed the Atlas rocket that took the Apollo mission to the moon, made their calculations with the decimal metric system.
Soooo ironically the decimal metric system (and not the imperal sistem) was the one that took the man to the moon.
Oh and.. nice review
I think the fascinating part is that's not a high-voltage motor - that's a run of the mill low-voltage DC motor, using the nichrome heating element as a voltage divider
Like in every hairdryer.
A bridge rectifier ! This motor is working on 220v DC ?!
try to put some flux for desoldering
yeah right. it faster heat and desoldering prefect.
without flux 180-200c
with flux 200-250c or smth idk
I wonder if that heating element insulation there is made of asbestos.. is sure looks similar to the pics I have seen online.
Clicked as fast as I could after viewing the thumbnail
does it work for reballing cpu too? please reply this comment
These are just barely hot enough in a pinch, if you glob some low melting point solder on things first. It'll never be ideal, and it takes a while, so it's definitely a last resort. I do it because I rarely have to remove chips, and don't want a real air gun sitting around.
Cool, well hot air gun video, looks like a useful tool and safer than using a lighter for heat shrink tubing, thanks for sharing and letting us know about this useful tool.
I was removing SMD components from a board, with this THING and after about +/- half an hour [of on and off use] the metal nozzle end started to melt the plastic around it and the metal nozzle started to dip downward nearly coming in contact with that red plastic “shielding” - this device is for very light usage [no more than 15 minutes at a time] for like shrinking heat tubes and not much else. Just my opinion
The 230V version also has a nice cable, plug and heats pretty good the heat shrink
Thanks Fabio. It helps others when we can all share our experience.
What do you call that black thing with four pins?
I mean we thought about going to the moon but we wanted a rest after sorting out that enigma thing with the germans and figured we'd rather go down the pub rather than have a dick waving contest with the russians :p
(this is also a joke :D)
Id been looking at one of these as a means for cheap reflow but I think I might have a look at something a little better, might be worth it just for heat shrink though.
What is more impressive than putting a man on the moon? Doing the necessary calculations in Imperial and not have things explode.
Great video but here’s some tips to help u a long the way it’s a great heat gun mine has a blue cap at end of it u can use it on electronics no problems for soldering or unsolding parts but one tip take the plactic tip off one it put me heat out and to it will melt the cap it u hold it to close to your work mine started to melt so I removed it well hoped this helped good luck
I got the same one. It is way better than using a lighter for heat shrink tube.
"shriek heatshrink" shriek all you want :P
i hope this one doesnt go up in smoke like mine did
Can it be used to remove the smartphone LCD??
This was design for DIY project like packing or something, with heat too low think it may not suitable but hey you can try but I'm not sure how its gonna take the adhesive to melt with this heat gun.
Do you know about a small air mini gun like this one but that blows just air, not hot air, so i can use it for cleaning.
Is it powerful enough to heat lcd or smartphone case?, for opening the backcase of a smartphone actually,.
4 years later in search of the answer for the exact same quesiton
I recently tried my Harbor Freight heat gun for SMD and it works fine on low, and I have ordered some nozzles to go on it for more precise control. I found that when hot air spreads out on the surface of a board, you can overheat electrolytic caps and they pop like firecrackers leaving shredded brown paper over the workbench. The high setting can scorch and smoke a PCB where I tried rapid bulk removal of salaged components. I still prefer a 40 watt cheap iron and compressed air for pulling parts.
Yeah, you pop cap and you're picking up brown confetti for months!
Very helpful thanks. It’s cheap and cheerful and does what I need it to do.
The temperature is low because the air flow (and noise...) is high. You would get reflow temperatures by reducing the air flow - preferably by reducing the motor speed, but you might try some sort of “doors” on the air intake side. As it came, it is tuned to heat shrink operations - period.
Funny while watching this I was doing an unboxing of my own, the METERK MK01A happened to be delivered just as I started watching. Man this thing is huge, my Flukes and even my old Micronta are smaller. But I admit it has many more features. I got a case of stick matches when a property management company went out of business. I guess it's small stick matches for the rest of my life! Don't imagine I'll be buying that mini hair dryer, but thanks for showing it off!
Hey a MK01A. Cool. I have one of those around here somewhere...
Yea, it's the one you did the other day. Cool meter even though it's the size of a small refridgerator!
Instructions are for girls 😆 but yeah it's just like a hair dryer..but I'm looking to upgrade my little solder station.. Would like one to have a heat gun with it instead of using a pink torch for shrink
I've found the 853d station heat gun works instantly on shrink - the temperature rises as fast as on my soldering iron. It's worth it just for that and can be used for single shots..
Reflow took a little more work ... PCBs are excellent heatsinks and of the nostrils that came with the gun, really only the smallest is capable of breathing out enough heat to be effective and to work fast enough to be useful, I usually crank the temp up to about 420c on a low flow. If it's for only one component - it''s not worth the effort.
If I'm honest I also stole the Iron (the wife's) and have it mounted upside down as my base to keep things toasty. Not needed but on bigger chips it helps a lot, as does a lot of flux. Makes stripping a board for bits worth the work.
Do all your shirts smell of flux too? 😅
integrated disassemble on motherboard? eg phone usb connector?
12 bucks? It is like 3-4 in Indonesia. So that was 8 bucks heat shrink bonus.
Fun fact for you. NASA used the metric system on all the Apollo missions.
i think this one only a toy. thanks for the info
does it melt solder ?
yes! need flux for Soldering or desoldering
You need at least 300° C for reflow.
Hey are you familiar with the shrinking tubes which got solder inside of them? So you can put on the tube and instantly solder two wires. I really like them
Great review! This works great for Shrink Wrap (I use one in my business but did not test it on SMD- just general shrink wrap) or Shrink Wrapping wires but it seems barely functional for reflow removal of small Surface Mount parts.
How loud is it (seems pretty loud in the video)?
It's loud.
@@learnelectronics Thanks. 👍
These mini heat guns aren't for flowing but shrinking heat shrink wraps and warming up phones to soften the glue to open them rather, if you wants one to reflow there are others that is more expensive
This looks like a direct knock-off of SparkFun's Heaterizer XL-3000, which is $13.95 for the same specs and comes with lifetime, US-based technical support and decent return policy. For the money (only $1 more), I'd recommend that one. The instructions are also hilarious. I've used it for heat-shrink and to soften 3D-printed parts for clean-up. I haven't tried using it for re-flow, though.
Can you restrict the airflow to get higher temperature and maybe melt solder?
cover half of the vent 😂
@@MrTater-gw3px yeah you can make the temperature go higher by restricting airflow. It will be better if you restrict the intake but I suggest a fan speed control..\
Hi
Its able to remove IC from PCB ?
Yes! need flux to faster remove.
without flux is dangerous it will melted PCB or harder remove.
I'm just a hobbyist. This suits me well enough... 😳... 😟... 😩... 😁... It's 4 bucks what do u want for 4 bucks... 😳... I'm so cheap.. 😳
Can this be used to remove a digitizer?
I'd like to enjoy the joke at 1:32. but, it's factually incorrect, since Apollo Guidance Computer operated completely in the Metric System.
Great joke about the unit system at the beginning, considering that NASA used the metric system for the apollo moon mission...
yes the Country that send a man to the moon but not with the US customary system they use the Metric system the same goes for the medical system and engineering like cars planes etc...
I'm surprised there aren't any mods to this thing to adjust the temp and air flow.
can probably restrict the air flow for higher temperature
Oh WOW I actually just got just now tonight directly from China and paid #3 for the same exact unit. I'm using mine to make custom Jewelry, Soldering. Thanks for opening yours now I don't have to open mine....LOL
i bought this, turned it on, and it fried itself within ~4 seconds and began smoking, i messaged the seller and they gave me a refund the next day so there's that.
edit: Also the screws on my unit were severely stripped, really weird
edit 2: i opened mine up, @ the factory they left some paper in the unit and it burned up inside and caused it to break. Was a pain to put back together but now it works but I got a free hot air gun, so
Am I the only one who is having wild fantasies now about this Jay from Seattle? Please, tell us more!
You spelled her name wrong. Its Jae.
OK, Jae it is than
has this helped you? would you recommend it for 5-6 euros?
yeah, for the price it's ok. No good to SMD work, but great for heat shrink.
@@learnelectronics yes that's what i want it for. Because now i am using a lighter for shrink tubes
@@sugarcz7236u just made me laugh
Do you have a link for the 'watt Meter' you used in the video?
just look for a kill-a-watt
I use a mini hair straightener I got for $1 for shrink tubing.
Have been looking at one of these, as I only have the more industrial paint stripper type of hot air gun!
Thanks for the demo Paul - but a bit noisy imho, what do you think? 🤔 🧐
And, I do believe there may be one out there with a Green nozzle... 💚 🐍
Quite noisy, but thats par for the course. BigClive's seems pretty quiet.
REAL metric engineers think in millimetres, not centimetres!
You sound just like anthony from linus tech tips
It doesn't works to reflow?
The nozzle is too large for reflow
Omg..I have one on my solder station I was considering that for something portable. That was until you turned it on and it made my ears bleed. You should have used a decibel meter rather than the power meter. :D
It didn't come with different nostrils? ;)
Man I would honestly just save my money and just go to the bodega and get a lighter. At least it won't use 300W of power to do basic heat shrinking lol
Ran across these on various Chinese sites. Still need hot air reflow, but decided definitely not to buy this. No temperature control. Not even power control. No airflow control. The suspicion that it just won't solder was easily confirmed elsewhere.
Thing is, if you know anything about hot air stations, these inexpensive Chinese ones right around $50 or integrated with soldering stations, you know that you often need to keep them at super low airflow. For two reasons, for one, at even 700-800W, they have trouble reaching soldering temperature, and they have a better chance at low airflow, and for other, when you're mass desoldering, you won't care, but sometimes you'd REALLY REALLY appreciate not blowing all the little capacitors and resistors away. So this will fail on both accounts. 300W going wfull blast is just bad.
Heatshrink? I have butane jet lighters. If i need to shrink it gently and slowly, my hair dryer will do. It has lots more power.
If you want to play around with it, do you think a bit of diode modding could make it go slower on the fan without combusting the thing?
it's so hot it will even make heat melt
Way to void a warranty!!!! Like they are a real warranty! It needs about 50c more temperature! Maybe take out a inch or two of the nichrome! You would be better off with a halogen bulb and blow! Hehe!! Let's not talk about psycho exes! It gives my nightmares!!!! And flashbacks! Sets of my PTSD. She was the trauma and the stress! Man was she crazy! I'm lucky to be here! Keep up the good work. Take it easy!
Thanks buddy
Do u know nasa's first rover was so cheap it was invented by a Filipino... 😳.. Is it good or a bad thing... 🤔
Cool! Good job!!!!
What a piece of junk!
i feel that i can make that thing