Hakko FX951 Professional Thermally Controlled Soldering Station & Soldering Iron with Tip Set Kit – Compact 75W High Power - Interchangeable Composite Tips – 91 Varieties (5 Included) - UK Plug

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Not until you get into 100+watt range and/or production soldering (one joint after the other, nonstop) of huge thermal mass stuff. Perhaps the components to solder selected by the seller not where the best option, but all connectors that I did solder with the Pace at showroom took the same time and effort than with the 951 and most the same time than the 888D. Can be used in combination with the HAKKO 490 smoke cleaner or the HAKKO 494 smoke absorbing system for line-production. That would be nice if a T12 iron could solder a significantly larger tire lug (I don't believe it*), but I want an iron that solders the 99% of my normal soldering the best.

Maybe the tables turn at much higher outputs and/or maybe a T12 wattage is actually much higher than an 888 even though the rating is similar (Maybe the 888 puts a significant amount of its 65-70W into the handle/air vs the 24V T12 clones 85ish(?I had the FX-888 about 7 years and after getting the T12 station, I "retired" it to my secondary soldering space.

It comes supplied with the FM2028 soldering iron which is an easy to use lock type iron which allows for quick and easy switching of tips.The T12 clone takes less than 10 seconds, like you also noted, and the element is fused with the tip (like you well know), so the lag is much, much smaller and thermal regulation is unsurprisingly better. I'd get a decent soldering iron and spend the money you save on components and other test equipment. When the key card is inserted, the temperature settings can be changed and when the key card is removed, the temperature settings are locked. Well, compared to Weller micro pencil, I'm sure this is a major improvement in thermal performance, esp with some of the tips I gave.