Noticed something odd about the soldering irons at the community college repair lab

I volunteer twice a month at the local community college helping students fix their electronics. Last week I walked into their repair lab and saw they had 15 soldering stations set up, but every single iron was set to 750 degrees. That seemed high for the basic through-hole work students do. I asked the instructor about it and he said they just set it there years ago and never changed it. I spent an hour showing a few students how to adjust the temperature based on what theyre soldering and the difference in their joints was night and day. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing in school or training labs?

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the_ben3d ago

Man, that's wild. Did the instructor say why they never bothered to check if it was right, or was it just one of those "it's always been that way" things that nobody questions?

lily_sullivan822d ago

Bet the instructor just copied it from an old textbook and nobody ever double checked the source.