PINECIL - How good is it? Soldering Iron Showdown - Ep1
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Not much of a showdown when there's only one episode / one soldering iron is it? I guess I'll have to hurry up and film more!
This is the PINECIL. If you want to go buy one, it's pine64.com.
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I bought all the soldering irons and kits with my own money, I mean who is gonna give free soldering irons to some guy with 58 subscribers, right?
Enjoy, and let me know if you did, because, if it's rubbish then it's pointless continuing.
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switch out the little tip holder screw for an M2x4mm thumb screw. it works better.
gold comment and you just made me love mine again. should also serve as a nice hand stop too if i adjust my grip.
Some tips:
- For DIY stuff don't use lead-free solder unless you have to. Harder to work with.
- You had the temperature set too low. 320ºC for leaded solder is ideal(higher for lead-free), going up to 340-350ºC for larger contact areas. Don't leave it on higher settings for regular soldering though, that causes oxidation and the flux evaporates too fast. IIRC the Pinecil has a "turbo" setting to briefly raise the temperature..
- Your solder looked a bit on the thick side, that wicks too much energy away. For regular electronics 0.5mm diameter solder is a good compromise
My solder does not stick to my 3.5mm earphone jack... What could be the problem??? My soldering iron or my 60/40 solder.... Btw I'm planning to buy new iron
"For DIY stuff don't use lead-free solder unless you have to. Harder to work with."
Kids, this is REALLY BAD advice. Don't listen to this man (probably the reason why he's giving bad advice is due to the lead poisoning). Use lead-free solder unless you want a disability placard.
@@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi- The temperatures used in soldering are not high enough to make leaded vapor. The smoke from soldering is largely from the rosin flux. If you're in a well ventilated room, there is no need to worry about lead poisoning from such a small interaction.
If it makes you feel better, wear some nitrile gloves while handling the leaded solder.
@@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-he not wrong I use lead solder for keyboard switches because if I need to remove a switch it's way easier to desolder lead solder compared to lead free because of the higher temperature is needed more likely to burn contact pad on the pcb. You can buy portable extractor fans for soldering.
@@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi- You need some lead in your Pinecil
this channel is a fail
Frogbro doesn't stand a chance against the mighty Pinecil😎
FROGBRO will prevail!
It's definitely not underpowered...🤷♂
You can reprogram Pinecil.. So, if you don't like what it's doing, then change it. You can also buy other shells to customize or repair it. My only complaint, is not being able to run it from a 36 or 48 volt battery. Well, guess i can't have everything.
Lead free is horrible.
Not if you know what your doing
Welcome to the electronic side of things! I wish you a great journey ;) Great video, thanks for your time making it. One tip maybe, for a quick video about soldering you wouldn't need ventilation or fume extractor. It doesn't do any harm if you do it now and again. So don't worry. Even if you use leaded solder, which I would recommend for hobby use. Solders way more easy and fine for hobbyist like us and that way you can ramble on during soldering. :)
bro please come back
The Screw in the back isnt for holding the case either, its for grounding the iron
Put a 5mm ID/8-10mm OD silicone tube (not gasoline tube, needs to be soft and very easily pliable) on that manual solder sucker tip to make it like engineer ss02 for pennies
oh wow, never expected this channel to make a video
🤣
And so it begins! Looking forward to learning from you!
I hope so! See if I can keep up to three channels at once heheh
Sometimes "Just the tip" is enough
there are 2 screws 1 on top and 1 on bottom on the v1
Same on V2, the bottom one disassembles the iron 🤣
I want to get one because the TS80 only has USB-C limited to 20W and USB-C connections can cut out if the cable sucks. The best use for this would be a lithium battery to the barrel jack so you can use it anywhere.
I'm surprised there aren't more with internal batteries, like the frogbro!
The Anker Power bank with the small screen should be ideal for this... Sorry I don't know the humber/name by heart... Should be 21k capacity, though...
Its definitely not underpowered, if you use a laptop charger it will heat up nicely.
I was gonna say... I really like this format and the video, but it could have used a little more research/knowledge... So now wie have "finger slips on grip" and "no stand" as negatives... Also it weighs like 30 grams, how would that ever slip? And personally I own a rubbish stand, but if I didn't I'd just make one out of a coathanger or whatever... We're here for DIY after all... 😀
Which laptop charger though?
@@sonyx5332 Any USB-C PD laptop charger, ideally 65W+
when soldering never push down hard on a PCB with the soldering iron per comment in 9:18 that you can't push down. It should just be a light pressure from the iron to the work piece. if you are pushing that hard down, then soldering technique is maybe incorrect.
Ah, the internet, where people will tell you you're soldering wrong :) The issue was the screw, I'm not new to this soldering thing...been doing it since the 1980s.
@@lostincircuits talking about the part in video where you said if you push down hard your hand can slip down to get burned. not sure what the screw thing is about, maybe someone else confusing with my comment here. easy to get confused between comments sometimes. if someone is pushing down that hard that they slip down on portable iron. screw issue, got me confused here. to be clear, it's about safety issue you brought up worrying your hand would slip down too much and get hurt. I have several portables that are shape of small markers. they are all about the same this way. just lightly touch pins, not sure why people would be pushing down that hard with a portable iron. I also have some really old irons that have huge guards on them to block the hand, but they just get in the way of soldering, and can't see as much on the PCB. I'd rather not have guard on a portable iron so more visibility and can fit into portable places and smaller carry case.
look at the professional expensive irons too, like JBC . no guard it is shaped like a pen so there is nothing to block the hand from slipping down either. I think it's more a feature to make soldering easier.
@@nidusa1 i agree with you if you have done soldering forever you know that you get burn not from slip finger but rather from accidentally touching the hot tip as you work on your desk even using the stand provided by manufacture like hakko you still get burn by accidentally touching the tip
i never put to much pressure on my work unless some stubborn piece of electronics parts get stuck
A few months late but... Get some bluetak, dude! You stick the pcb to it and it doesn't wonder around while you're trying to solder on it :)
something similar with cheap and widely available tips??
_listening to the sounds the board makes_ Irresistible, I see ;)
Hey, it's worth the money 😂
If it had random delays (and maybe "knock-knock-knock-urrrrrrr-rrr--" sound), hide it to car before letting someone borrow it :)
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