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SC-1 Mic Preamp NOW ON SALE!!!!

After many months of development, testing, troubleshooting, frustration, problems, and accomplishments... the SC-1 mic preamp kit, PSU-1848 power supply kit and power transformer kits are now available for sale!

Click here to ORDER

Photo of a finished SC-1 mic preamp kit!  (Note: XLR jacks and wires shown on picture not included in the kit.)

Features:
- Low-Noise, transformerless, High-Quality Mic Preamp
- All solid-state design, using chipsets from THAT Corp and Burr-Brown
- Soft-start, slow ramp-on +48V phantom power
- Crystal clear Red LED indicator for phantom power
- Electronically balanced input and output stages
- 12-position Grayhill gain selector switch
- Gain range from +6 to +72dB, in 6dB increments
- Input RFI protection
- Input clamping protection
- Output surge protection circuit
- Output RFI protection
... read more...

Download PDF file of Assembly Guide/Kit Instructions

Related products like the PSU-1848 Power Supply Kit, Power Transformer Kit, Power Control Kit are also available for sale. Click here.

 Friday, August 22, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008 5:54:43 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00) ( )
So I got a Hakko808 from eBay seller. Shipping was fast, real fast via UPS.
Price is cheap too!

MADE IN JAPAN... not China.

First impressions of the Hakko: It is HUGE! See photo below. Came with extra spare parts, manual, and other goodies for maintenance and cleaning. The manual is well written... no weird Chinese to English fortune cookie translation goofiness!



I was not expecting it to be this big! My rework station also has a desoldering gun but it was small, wimpy, really sucks (in a bad way) and basically useless! A manual desoldering pump is way better than the desoldering tool on my Aoyue rework station.

The Hakko is rated 100Watts, and heats real fast. While huge, it is easy to hold and work with. The bulkiness didn't hamper movement and flexibility.

So I got an old PCB with a bunch of parts and began desoldering resistors, diodes, caps, trimmers and IC socket.

WOW! It is so easy. I dreaded desoldering before but now... it's as easy as soldering.... in reverse! I can suck the solder off an 8-pin IC socket in a few seconds, and the socket just drops off the PCB as soon as the last pin is desoldered.

Clogged holes? Not a problem. Sucks it clean. And note... I'm doing this on a double-sided, plated through-hole PCB. No damage to the PCB pads either. (Note: My Aoyue desoldering gun will suck the copper pad and rip it away from the fiberglass but still leave solder inside the plated through hole. Just total crap.)

All in all... I wish I had bought this Hakko sooner!!!! It is an investment worth buying. Will save you time, and headaches, and not ruin your PCB even when desoldering multi-pin components like IC sockets, trimmers, etc.

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