220v to 110v transformer

[FlevasGR]

I'm surprised that the soldering station is voltage specific. These days most equipment is universal.

Yeah i know. And it was harder to get the 220V verion of the fx-888d

[IanB]

I'm surprised that the soldering station is voltage specific. These days most equipment is universal.

The FX-888 has a regular iron cored transformer inside it, no SMPS. Also, presumably for cost reasons, the transformer does not have multi-voltage taps. Each unit is specific to the region where it is sold.

[Richard Crowley]

I'm surprised that the soldering station is voltage specific. These days most equipment is universal.

I opened up my FX-888D and it looks like the mains power input PC board was originally made for 115/230V transformers, but they are using only single-winding transformers, so the dual-voltage parts of the board are unused.  Strange.

[FlevasGR]

Everything worked fine! I'm soldering right now a board i'm making and the iron is pretty good. Day and nigh compared with my 5$ iron...