AOYUE 474A++ double teardown: Old vs. new model
Channel: FFcossag
Date: 04/03/2016

In this video, I compare the guts of an AOYUE 474A++ manufactured in 2014, to one manufactured in 2015. The units are vastly different - but is either better than the other?

(SPOILER ALERT: Yes.)

The 2015 model uses a DC vacuum pump, as opposed to the traditional AC pump used in the older model (and basically all other Hakko clones). Problems arise when AOYUE try to cheap out on the pump power supply ...
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