How to Rewire a 858 Hot Air Rework Station for Safety

For anyone using these units, check the actually continuity from from the plug itself and dont rely on the colors, my unit has BLUE as the hot and brown as the neutral. My unit came wired properly aside from poor grounding points.

3:05 almost. its completely the other way around. blue is neutral and brown is hot (brown, black and gray are hot in a three phase household, so everywhere in germany basically).

I got a 858 recently from AE and the internals got reworked such that everything is now on the board itself at the front and its just 3 wires from the C13 receptacle running across the entire massive void of an enclosure, and the fuse is now on the hot side so yay! I still opened it for a sanity check anyways since I could have just probed on the receptacle and fuse.

Let me say, I think your idea to make the Station safer is good, but at least in Germany, the brown line is Phase (or live, however you want to call it), and the blue line in neutral. So in theory, the fuse was placed in the right line. But in practice, at least the european plug can be turned around, so here in Germany you would always have a 50 50 Chance of having the fuse in live or neutral (and yep, I know... The EU plug is Kind of silly for that reasons...)

Check the Earth connection on the wand!⚡️⚡️

Actually the colour coding is correct for most european countries .I have one with a UK 3 pin plug and the fuse is where it should be on the brown live wire and the blue is neutral

saw this and its price is very cheap to buy. is it worth getting or too risky to use?

Also the case needs to be connected to mains earth. They earth the front panel, but not the black metallic shell. You would need a separate wire spliced from earth bolted to the case where the transformer is installed.

Brown is hot, blue is neutral. If is was wired like that, there was no issue with your device.

If you're staying it's trying to kill you, what fault path do you have in mind and why do you suggest a fuse that will happily pass several amperes is going to save you, when it only takes milliamperes to kill you? Also what is everyone in half the rest of the world aupposed to do where plugs are reversible or the phase/neutral wiring is essentially random?

Is there a way to test/verify that the wiring for the fuse is wrong and that I need to follow this guide to rewire my unit?

Why didn't you just reverse the wires in the plug?

I think if rather buy something that is already safe

You are totally wrong. Brown is hot.

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In Germany 3:04 we wire legal the power cord ... ... after the powercord you have to find a switch ... ... and it must switch off both power lines simultainously off an on. (Dude) Ok you dont know it what is legal in germany and some other EU countrys. All other switch constructions with moveable devices are absolute illegal. There are some rules for the maxium force to pull the power cord out of the device, the PVC isolation have to meet some general tules and there must be a test label at the cord and see the labels at the power plug to. What a shame I can turn the plug 180 degree wrong into the wall plug. In britanin possible. No problem because the device have to met still safty regulation to prevent stupid experts to kill themself. Your fuse in germany will be inspected very critical ! Maybe the custom send these devices back to the seller. The EU device have a fuse container. If I lift the fuse out the power is disconntcted or it is very difficult to reach metal with a baby finger. Often the test is made with a smal calibrated metal pice (like a scredriver). Can a child reach the life power and a screwdriver at the nearly pluged in power plug in the UK wall plug ? Impossible in germany when the plug and the wall plug is legal. If the EU boarder control find a container with illegal electric devices ... ... it is not allowed to enter the EU when a EU-plug type is mounted. I boarder custom officer in every EU country works legal, they store the china packet for two weeks (or some weeks) and send you a letter tell you that you are the importer off illegal devices. After the time it is send back to the origin country and you can see if you get the money back. You are not informed with the new parcel ID code. Well good luck. Is it the sellers mistake ? No it was the mistage of the buyer. He is the importer of illegal electronic/electric devices into the EU territory. The device has to wear signs = ce and Rohs and sometimes additional safty test institut logo. And a manual in the english (or the in the language of the buyer country) must be included. The device have to meet actual safty laws or entering into EU is refused. The manufacturer or seller have to add a page with the EU law confirmation declaration by the manfucaturer with the registration number. Ok it is often impossible to control every container and every parcel. But is is still illegal. Sometimes I find these devices in smal shops. But it is not allowed to sell these. A device with a single contact switch is absolut illegal.