So you guys would recommend the top3000 over the wellon vp390?
eetools are the best.
After that it's all who you want to roll with.
As for wellons: 280, 380, 480 are all good choices. But, hard to find 'cause these are discontinued models. The 390 is current, and should work fine.
... Most people I have know who owns a vp280 have praised it. There is one person who owns a vp280 who posted on this topic who had his 280 go randomly bad on him one day which required him to do surface mount repair on it. The vp380 is the next evolution in the vp line as the vp280 is no longer available for purchase
That was me. And I love it. But was having a bad day. Was multi-tasking (burning a 27C160, zipping a TTX2 Dump, and surfing the net) and my computer froze. Hit the re-boot button--Took the chip off the programmer--And tried the burn again. The software reported that there was a chip stuck on the top of the programmer, which there was not.
Posted the issue over in the Wellon tech forums. We ran the self-test. The programmer failed. Gave us a code. They had me replaced a few Super Diodes (Transistors) on the bottom of the socket board. And it was fixed. Their tech support was great--Very fast and knowledgeable. The longest part about the whole fix was ordering the parts from Digi-key, which took a few days, and the fact that tech was closed during the Chinese New-Year, which took a week. Other than that, the programmer is working great again.
Love this little thing.