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For small work, my rig is a Pinecil running off a Dewalt battery & usb-c adapter which has a belt clip.



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OK please consider I'm 73 and dislike any computer smaller then an HP netbook, and that includes my never to be damned enough Moto e6 'smart phone.'

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The specs mention a CPU, so does this iron have an "OS"?

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Can you simply connect it to an appropriate power supply and start soldering?

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Is it durable? I've been accused of being able to break and anvil as a child, while not quite as destructive, I'm not interested in anything as delicate as fine china (That's my wife's department. Though she will trust me to drink hot chocolate from a 17th century mug...on occasion.)

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Can you solder something like a PL/SO 259 "UHF" connector?

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I am really tempted, the price is reasonable, the power requirements practical and it avoids the risks inherent with an open flame.

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Oh, can you crash the OS? I ask because my wife has killed everything from windup watches to laptops simply by touching or holding them.

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And no I don't believe some people have odd magnetic fields or whatever because I can measure almost everything and tests show she is a normal person...who just kills even primitive tech. I often wondered how on earth she can drive a car with 5 CPUs, but it gave me a headache so I gave up wondering and wrote it off as one of those mysteries of life. After all, she does love and put up with me and has for 46 years.

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I am dangerously attracted to this soldering iron, I'm going to bed so I won't place an order tonight.

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Tomorrow is another day, unless of course the severe weather blows us to Oz. We are under severe thunderstorm warning, a tornado watch and probably "look out for meteors."

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I've got the weather radio by the bed with a 2M HT just in case. It looks really nasty on weather radar 250 miles to our west.

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After trying various battery powered ones (using 2xAA cells) I found one on eBay that uses a single 18650 rechargeable cell that is fine enough for my needs.

I found that 2xAA rechargeable cells were lower in voltage than 2xAA dry cells, I found that it didn't work too well on rechargeable AA's

The one that used a single 18650 works very well and the battery life is very good and it not really any bigger than the 2xAA ones. I use it for hand soldering 1206 SMD? components and i would buy some spare tips as they don't last forever.

I also have a mains unit and a gas powered unit - the gas unit is higher powered which is very useful but you have to be very careful as the flame in the tip can make surrounding components and wires hot and it is easy to singe cables etc

I have not tried the USB rechargeable irons ... but the battery is rather small and I guess may need frequent charges,

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On Wednesday 02 April 2025 02:19:32 pm Nuno T. wrote:

Looking for good recommendations on a battery powered soldering iron.

Precision work is a requirement, doesn't need to work for hours on end,

1/2 hour every now and then is enough.



Any recommendations from your experience?

I have a Wahl Isotip 60, so called because it'll charge up in one hour. It needs a battery, and the battery is no longer available, so I can't use it. When it did work, it worked well, but it's currently useless...

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On Wednesday 02 April 2025 10:24:42 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

I am really tempted, the price is reasonable, the power requirements practical and it avoids the risks inherent with an open flame.

It does look tempting, but that 30 day warranty put me off...

Oh, can you crash the OS? I ask because my wife has killed everything from windup watches to laptops simply by touching or holding them.

And no I don't believe some people have odd magnetic fields or whatever because I can measure almost everything and tests show she is a normal person...who just kills even primitive tech. I often wondered how on earth she can drive a car with 5 CPUs, but it gave me a headache so I gave up wondering and wrote it off as one of those mysteries of life. After all, she does love and put up with me and has for 46 years.

My late lady was like that. When working at a call center in the area, she hit some key or combination of keys on the terminal she was using and not only took down the whole call center, but also the two other ones that William-Sonoma had running at the time. It took them a few hours to get things back up again.

One or another of the youtube channels I watch had a similar iron with oled display and all. I don't recall the brand, nor do I recall what specific channel that was. They seemed to do all right with it, but I'd look around for something other than that one.

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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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On Wednesday 02 April 2025 10:30:03 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

An informative review can be found at


Looks very impressive.

It does. But although they mention a $26 price in there, the links to buy one are at $40 or so.

And what's with the default to conical tips in so many cases? I notice in that review that they mention "chisel" and "bevel" as being the ones they found most useful, and I tend to favor a chisel tip myself, where you can use a corner, an edge, or a flat to control how much heat goes into what you're trying to solder. I can't see a way to do that with a conical tip.

My bench iron at this point is the kind where you can screw a heating element into an edison socket in the handle, and screw various tips on to the heating element. I have a few assorted heating elements, and a couple of different handles. One of those was purchased at Radio Shack, and the rubber where you grip it has gone wonky, typical of their products. I think the original brand was Ungar, but I think they got bought out by Weller? My favored tip is a PL-113 (iron plated). So a while back I wandered into a Radio Shack store (when we still had some around) looking for a new heating element, or something, and they no longer carried that kind of an iron. What they did have was every single iron in the store had a conical tip on it, which I didn't want. I ended up ordering one online from someplace, temperature controlled and a 3-wire cord so the tip is grounded, which my older iron ain't. I haven't used it a whole lot, and am not overly confident in its ability to handle this PL-259 I need to solder here. I'll probably break out my Weller gun to deal with that one...

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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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On Thursday 03 April 2025 09:40:58 am acnestis via groups.io wrote:

Who knew that a fault in the radio would stop the passenger-side window from working?? The amount of digital electronics in modern cars is astounding (bordering on criminal.)

Yes!

I am not looking forward to ending up with something newer, though it's only a matter of time with one of our vehicles heading for 200K miles and showing some rust. The other one is approaching 150K. On one forum I participate in, there's a thread entitled "De-Crapifying cars", where the poster details a bunch of nonsense that he had to deal with in his Subaru, which basically took them off my list of brands to consider.

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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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Seems a very good product. I'll consider it.

Thanks

Nuno T.

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On Thursday 03 April 2025 03:58:35 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:

Wahl Isotip 60

Take a look at

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that I may have gone around with those folks before. They show a yellow, a gray, and a black one. Mine's red. I'd have to find it to be sure of the model number but I think it might be a 7800. The normal thing is a continuous slow charge when it's in the stand, and there's a white plastic bit on the side of it that you can use to reset the thermostat, at which point it goes into a quick charge mode with the temperature of the battery actuating the thermostat, with a quite distinctive click. The battery has a metal cup on the top end for that thermostat to sit in, so it's pretty unique, can't just stick a couple of cells in there.

The page you link led me to this one:



But the link given to send it to them for a rebuild leads back to that same page. I may try contacting them but at this point I have no urgent need for another soldering iron, so it's one of those round tuit things...

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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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