Donald Becker

I say 240V only solely because it has so little heating power at 120V.  It will take a long time to heat up, and the iron won’t be able to maintain a stable temperature in use.  The temptation will be to run it hot (or at least as hot as it gets) and rely on thermal mass, rather than feedback temperature regulation.

Even at 240V the iron has a p…[Read more]

I bought one of the Jingda ‘XL-150A’ leather irons from Aliexpress and did an examination.

Before even powering it on, I took it apart.

The first thing I noticed was the power cable was bogus.  It had a 3 prong ‘Y’ grounded Chinese Type I plug molded to the cable.  The plug was marked “JS-03 10A 250V”.  The cable was embossed with “3×0.75mm2” al…[Read more]