XYTronic 30W adjustable iron no heating up

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XYTronic 30W adjustable iron no heating up

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Hi,

Got my XYTronic last week to replace an older iron and used it yesterday for the first time. Worked great. Then I tried to work on my project some more today and the iron won't get hot enough to melt solder. Nothing changed from yesterday. I double checked that the temp knob was turned all the way up. It gets hot enough to sizzle the cleaning sponge but not hot enough to melt 0.02 diameter 60/40 rosen core solder when I touch it against the tip.

Any ideas on what could be wrong? Is there any internal fuse? Anything that might screw up the temp regulating mechanism?

Thanks.

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Re: XYTronic 30W adjustable iron no heating up

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Not sure what it could be. If it were a fuse, the iron wouldn't heat up at all.
If you contact [email protected] with a link to this thread we can arrange for a replacement iron.

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Re: XYTronic 30W adjustable iron no heating up

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Thanks, will do.

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Re: XYTronic 30W adjustable iron no heating up

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Just wanted to close this out by saying that a replacement iron is on its way to me at no cost.

Fantastic customer service! Thanks again!

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