So I'm looking to upgrade my crappy 20 eur soldering station and am also in need of some other stuff. I’m mostly building synths (through hole compononents)
• Soldering station, not looking to spend more then around 150 eur
- Hakko FX88D
- Aoyue 701A++ (this looks nice since it’s also fucntions as a desoldering station)
- I-CON PICO
• Desoldering station, I suck at desoldering and don’t want to further risk ruining another pcb or components, don’t really want to spend a fortune on this.
• Osciloscope, I currently have a DIY kit; Velleman EDO09, do I need something with more firepower? If so Batterfly.com seems to have a good deal on a RIGOL DS1054Z+a Hakko FX-88D for 415 eur
• Transistor tester, there are a bunch cheap DIY kits on banggood that I guess will fulfil my requirement of simply getting HFE and idds readings and match transistors, which one should I chose or doesn’t it really matter?
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https://www.banggood.com/DIY-Meter-Tester-Kit-For-Capacitance-ESR-Inductance-Resistor-NPN-PNP-p-929603.html-
https://www.banggood.com/DIY-M12864-Graphics-Version-Transistor-Tester-Kit-LCR-ESR-PWM-With-Case-p-997023.html?rmmds=search• PCB holder large enough to hold up to 50cm pcb or any other recommendation so I not constantly have to flip over the pcb and try to balance it one something while risking damaging already soldered components, not more than 50 eur.