A Guide To ATTEN ST-862D Hot Air Rework Station

In this blog, I share the professional soldering hot air gun ATTEN ST-862D.  It was so easy to de-solder electronic components compared to my previous cheap soldering iron. 

If you've ever made a mistake with surface mount soldering, you know how painful it can be to fix it without the right tools. It can add critical time to a project and can seriously hamper your soldering momentum if you encounter a bad component or faulty reflow.

With the ATTEN ST-862D Hot Air Soldering Rework Station, you can easily rework your boards and get your project back on track. It’s also possible to use solder paste (in a syringe for example) to apply the paste and then blow hot air over it to melt the solder and get the components into place.

This powerful workstation has an internal pump and heater that blows out a steady stream of temperature-controlled hot air, making it super easy to remove components, repair connectors and jumpers, replace missing components, or correct something you did wrong.

The station comes with a nice stand and four different nozzles for different sized parts, three of which are angled to make it easier to hold the wand while heating up a zone.  It’s great for beginners to experts thanks to its super-fast heat-up time and easy-to-use button interface.

It has a power consumption of 1000W and an intelligent cooling system, so the airflow remains on until it gets to below 100°C. Airflow is 20 – 130L/min, but for most work, you’ll want to keep it at the lower end of that.

 

It has a closed-loop temperature control range between 100℃-480℃ (212℉-896℉) and a digital display so you can easily tell what temperature the air’s blowing at.

Just make sure to let the rework station heat up all the way before using it and be careful to use tools (and not your hands!) when using as it spits out, well, really hot air.

The hot air station comes with four Hot Air Gun nozzles, use the smallest size you can get away with – it helps avoid damaging other components if you are trying to isolate one part of the board while avoiding a connector.

All in all,  the ST-862D matches up performance with hot air stations that cost three times as much! It’s also a good alternative to the Quick 861 at a lower price.