Since some days one of the ERSA i-Con pico soldering stations in our hackerspace greeted our members with an “Error 501” message and did not heat up.
Ersa provides a document, which translated the 501 error into “i-CON pico system error” with the additional hint “hardware error of the temperature regulation board or connection problem”. One of our members removed the heating element with the soldering tip (its just plugged into the tool) and connected it to the hackerspace’s second i-Con pico station today.
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