Wow, I can't believe it's been 5 years already. Now that the L245 USB-C iron is making the rounds, maybe time for a re-test and head-to-head comparison?
K-style tips (the wood burning tip) is used for drag-soldering SMT IC's. I find they're also convenient for removing through-hole parts, since you can easily span two pins.
I never did like the knife style tip, I use either a beveled tip or Hot air for surface mount. But like many things a preference is just that, a preference.
The wide knife styles that seem abundant are really too wide for most things, and the 45 degree rake is way too steep and results in clearance problems around other parts. For all-around work, I ended up modifying a 3.2mm straight chisel to have a k-style edge bevel and a more subtle rake angle.
When i say "bevel", i'm talking about the included angle of the edge geometry, not a type C/BC tip style. When i say "chisel tip" i mean something like a Hakko type D tip -- not a pyramid/chisel that you'd find on a tinner's iron from the hardware store. D tips are good for general-purpose through-hole work, but just like type C/BC tips, they can't sit flat against both the lead and the pad in the way that the edge geometry of a K tip allows. Maybe a picture helps: a.safe.moe/yJh0Ly4.png Higher heat capacity and less rake than a type K tip.
The knife-shaped tip works great for soldering headers all at once. Also desoldering works great. Use it with wick, sometimes its simpler to use than a D4 tip or similar.
That big knife tip is probably the best tip of all of them. They're amazing general purpose tips. You can tin thick wires easy because they have huge thermal mass and you can also solder tiny 0402 components using the very sharp end of the tip.
I use it when cleaning with wick also. Like you said large surface area, large heat mass, and can almost "scrub" the board with the knife edge while wicking. Use it WAY more than I thought I would.
Any updates on this? I have a TS100, a few JBC cartridges, and also a metal lathe. The mechanical interface between the two shouldn't be a problem, but the rest of it besides loading pre-compiled firmware to it are beyond my current skillset. Not to mention, I love my ittle TS100 and I might cry if I were to kill it..
Whilst I’m relieved you don’t keep real thumbs in there, the interest in medieval torture means that I have to maintain my moderate concern level, though I reserve the right to increase it to high 😛
The K blade (the knife) is actually pretty good for flowing both sides of some SMC resistors and diodes. You can basically flow the solder on both pads and pull the component really quickly...
Correct me if I'm wrong. I was under the impression that you could run the TS-100 from 12 or even 9 volts. Wouldn't that reduce the heater current sufficiently?
5:22 You say 'to keep the heater current away from the thermocouple', but from what I read this is not true. The ground connection is purely used to ground the tip. That is because this ground connection is also connected to the 'chassis' tip, and putting current through it could put it at a voltage different to mains earth if no separate (isolated) supply is used for the heater and the measurement circuitry. Also, I think the internal wiring of the heater/thermocouple is thicker than the ground connection, but not too sure on that one.
Do you know if when or if I were to use the grounding clip, that if I ran it into the power supply I'm using and cut the clip off and soldered it into the ground on power supply, would that work or is that a bad idea?
hello marcosrep, I am trying to build your jbc c245 welder, but in the bom.txt file of the project, the voltage of each of the capacitors is not indicated, and it does not indicate if the picofusibe is smd. Could you help me with that information? Could you tell me if another Atmega8 chip is compatible? I do not fine the reference "AI". thank you very much
Two versus three pins solder element. Three pins is self explanatory. Two pins use time division multiplexing, Read and Drive modes. (1) Cut off drive current before read thermocouple (needs two pins). (2) isolate thermocouple ADC input to drive heating coil (drive heating coil through thermocouple junction, two pins circuit). This way, time division multiplexing, produce no read error to thermocouple signal, that made three pins isn’t necessary.
I may be missing how the code / cct works but I do not understand the part about reducng the pulse to 30 from 100 to prevent overload of the fets ? Will this not just reduce the Average current to 3 amps and leave the peak current at 24V/3Ohm i.e.. 8 Amps which is beyond the max peak load of the fets ?. Don't understand how they didnt blow up ? Is the PWM Frequency high enough that the inductance stops the current rising above 5Amp peak ?
Is there any performance difference between the classic design tips and the tips with additional cooling like the TS-C1 or the TS-ILS? It doesn't seem like a huge difference up there but the price difference between the classic and the cooling design is pretty high, there must be something...
I wonder how durable this soldering iron is and how long those tips will last before the heating element stops working? I want to get one with a pointed long tip just for SMD soldering even I have my Weller with all kind of tips that I need, but I still want a dedicated one for just SMD!
I would like to ask Marco if he can advice me on what im dong wrong. Last autumn, on my backyard i planted some small SMD 1uf ceramic caps in order to get them grown to high frequency caps to be harvest by spring. I was hoping to get something like the those Sprague 400v 32000uf that my father used to collect some years ago To this day the SMD caps have become no more than cheap asiatic-nobrand-high-esr crappy caps. What i´m doing wrong? Maybe the ferrite fertilizer im using is not good enough? Thanks for your time answering my questions! ;)
ich hab mir den ts 100 auch zugelegt (danke dir) und bin mega beeindruckt wie auch zufrieden! super klein, sehr leistungsstark, einfach ein hervorragendes werkzeug
in addition to the handle mod, another mod might be to remove the insert with all the extra tips (only keep the 2 most used tips in the case) and install a battery and charger in the other side with the power output connector passing through the side of the case. If there is room, maybe a small parts compartment for... small parts that aren't in season in the wild, and maybe some shrink tube bits.
Do you know where I can buy some electrolytic capacitor tree seeds? I recently ran out of low ESR caps and as it’s spring I would love to plant one. Sustainable components are the way forward!
You must limit current to 5 amps to keep the mosfet alive, so Vcc cannot exceed 15v (and with that you get just 75w at the tip). Maybe not such a good idea..
I just found out that i can use a jbc c245 handle straight on a dc source. At 5V 1,5A it heats up to 250°C and on 9V 2,5A to approximately 500°C ( tested on a cheap xsoldering cardridge, no worries ). Now, watch me run through the world with my powerbank and do some primitive woodburning.
did you have to pay import tax for the kit? i'm currently in germany and considering buying this but since the warehouse is in china i wonder if the price listed on banggood website includes or excludes import tax
You know, considering you can get far better MOSFETs than those dinky P-chans, and drive them much stronger too, it would be quite possible to make a full-power T245 internal circuit board for a TS100/101. You’d need a really beefy AC-DC brick though, having an XT60 plug on the end just to use with 6S lipos might be the most convenient.
Interesting project. Though I realized that TS-100 is better for field job. On desktop rectangular handle is not convenient for SMD soldering and screw loosing and tightening on every tip change is a burden. Bought Aixun T3A 200W station with a set of T245 and C245 tips for desktop tasks instead. Kept TS-100 for field tasks though :)
Still using that JBC tip without problems with the TS100? Thinking on doing the same conversion to mine, well, in fact, using your video as guideline. Regards!
Oh YEAH Marco!! Awsome video once again on the now world famous TS100 :) ! I think the manufacturer should at least give you 10 of those only for making that awsome solder iron famous :)
What plant was that, I could do with an electrolytic capacitor plant? Love your humor. I like my JBC soldering iron station. Best soldering iron I ever had.
The tanto bit could be useful when you want to get at an angle on older equipment where you have to dump a bit more heat than you could with other bits. I've found myself needing something (and making it) like that whenever i replace stuff in old equipment. THO, i don't know about the bevel, i found that just edging the tip on one side is perfectly ok.
They are good for so many things! The edge will drag solder or clear bridges, the sharp tip will easily single pin solder, and the sides along the edge can be used when you need to transfer a lot of heat such as when soldering a tab to a ground plane.
You need to cut the power in order to take a measurement then you turn the power on. On instructables there is a project where is explained on more detail, search for: The Digital Controller for Amazing T12 Soldering Tips. Cheers.
Hey Marco! Epic video as usual! Is that Xytronic rework/soldering station in the background? I have the high frequency (HF-3200) version and whenever I solder near the coils, they buzz lol. Otherwise it's a great soldering iron.
Wow 139.99$$, that's already more expensive than my Weller station! I really like how fast it heats the tip, hopefully, that wasn't you speeding the video up :LOL
Alucard Pawpad You mean because the thermocoupler is vey close to the heating element it appears to be heating very fast rather than being close to the tip itself and that would also means the displayed temperature is not accurate? Is that what you meant?
That is correct, Muhammad. But the tip has a copper core so it becomes "accurate" within a few seconds. Also the cartridge current is going partially through the thermocouple so that might be also heating it up a little too. But with soldering irons you hardly need an "Accurate" temperature. Most, if not all, soldering jobs require a temperature overkill to melt the solder QUICKLY before the heat spreads. Controlled heat is only important for high grade soldering jobs, where a pre-heating station is used to keep the entire board at a high (but safe) temperature, and the soldering iron just provides the final push.
Pls modify FW of TS100 for JBC, I just blown up mosfet in mine and could replace it with something better, put it's PCB into some SMPS plug pack(laptop PSU style) and have very small yet powerfull soldering "station"
Does anyone else have a problem with Ralim software for TS100 where once it shuts down (auto shutdown after sleep) you cannot wake it up in any way other than unplugging and plugging back again. I can't be bothered to look through all the code.
I have a new iron, though it's the old model, the black 2015 one. Mind you, the iron does go to sleep and everything, it just won't wake up after shutdown, I think I'll just turn the shutdown feature off completely anyway but....
1:45 That tip is formally called a “PLCC Blade” because they were originally designed for soldering PLCC (“plastic leaded chip carrier”) ICs.
I use it for SMD at work, nomatter if its SOT23, 0805 og soic :P
Zplizor Absolutely, me too!! They’re great for lots of SMD and even general soldering.
Indeed it is good for PLCC and QFP soldering. Proper amount of flux paste around is very preffered though :) Fit for SMD desoldering as well.
Wow, I can't believe it's been 5 years already. Now that the L245 USB-C iron is making the rounds, maybe time for a re-test and head-to-head comparison?
K-style tips (the wood burning tip) is used for drag-soldering SMT IC's. I find they're also convenient for removing through-hole parts, since you can easily span two pins.
Exactly. Especially QFN parts. With a conical tip you can't even touch the 'leg' and the pad and get heat transfer. With the blade, it's super easy.
I never did like the knife style tip, I use either a beveled tip or Hot air for surface mount. But like many things a preference is just that, a preference.
The wide knife styles that seem abundant are really too wide for most things, and the 45 degree rake is way too steep and results in clearance problems around other parts. For all-around work, I ended up modifying a 3.2mm straight chisel to have a k-style edge bevel and a more subtle rake angle.
Bevels are king for SMD, but the knife is the queen. Chisels are for noobs.
When i say "bevel", i'm talking about the included angle of the edge geometry, not a type C/BC tip style. When i say "chisel tip" i mean something like a Hakko type D tip -- not a pyramid/chisel that you'd find on a tinner's iron from the hardware store. D tips are good for general-purpose through-hole work, but just like type C/BC tips, they can't sit flat against both the lead and the pad in the way that the edge geometry of a K tip allows.
Maybe a picture helps: a.safe.moe/yJh0Ly4.png Higher heat capacity and less rake than a type K tip.
The knife-shaped tip works great for soldering headers all at once. Also desoldering works great. Use it with wick, sometimes its simpler to use than a D4 tip or similar.
Could you make a tutorial on how to grow your own capacitors? Could be a pretty nice project for many of us.
And maybe other components too!
Every time you upload it's like christmas
the capacitor plant idea is great, I should try that soon because spring is just around the corner!
Be nice if you could grow LEDs too, but i've heard you can only grow bulbs..
I would try to grow intel core I9 instead!
Muhammad Nour You know, it's very hard to grow microcontrollers, let alone microprocessors. You gotta build up some skills to do that.
SMD resistors and capacitors grow in all kinds of places like weeds or algae, and I think it's worth harvesting them.
i just harvested, i don't want to 'spout' but lets just say ...over 100 F
Marco, where can I get that sponge that transforms to the wire when wet? :D
Никола
The same place capacitors grow on metal trees.
Silly: they are sponges similar to caterpillars that turn into butterflies. Only found in the land of Oz.
i'm in oz and you can't have any
I have no business in buying another soldering iron, but for some reason you keep me so hooked to your video's
No apostrophe was needed.
That big knife tip is probably the best tip of all of them.
They're amazing general purpose tips. You can tin thick wires easy because they have huge thermal mass and you can also solder tiny 0402 components using the very sharp end of the tip.
I use it when cleaning with wick also. Like you said large surface area, large heat mass, and can almost "scrub" the board with the knife edge while wicking. Use it WAY more than I thought I would.
The entire kit is around £150 which is surprisingly okay considering how cool this thing is! You could even use a power bank, that's the coolest!
€120 from banggood ;)
Any updates on this? I have a TS100, a few JBC cartridges, and also a metal lathe. The mechanical interface between the two shouldn't be a problem, but the rest of it besides loading pre-compiled firmware to it are beyond my current skillset. Not to mention, I love my ittle TS100 and I might cry if I were to kill it..
The tip that you have burned your desk with is actually one of the most useful tips, especially for desoldering quickly.
2:27 - I am moderately concerned that you have a drawer of thumbs 🤔
You mean you haven't ordered any thumbs from china yet? It's quite "handy" to have a few spares in case one or two get burnt.
Don't be silly, he's only got one Thumb in there.
your remark just earn one more thumb
Would it be better if I told you that those are thumb screws? Like medieval torture devices? 😈
Whilst I’m relieved you don’t keep real thumbs in there, the interest in medieval torture means that I have to maintain my moderate concern level, though I reserve the right to increase it to high 😛
I bought a TS100 after your previous video on it. It's perfect for some quick soldering jobs!
This video is epic.
You are epic.
All of this fine mans videos are epic lmao, its so good
Am I epic too? Tell me i'm epic!!!
you are 36.7% epic. {be happy with that}
Kolin Evans It's enough I guess
The K blade (the knife) is actually pretty good for flowing both sides of some SMC resistors and diodes. You can basically flow the solder on both pads and pull the component really quickly...
Where is part 2 of the video?
maybe with the pinecil?
0:35 was a good giggle thanks
I still get a giggle when Marco embraces the dork side.
How can you tell when your capacitors are ripe and ready for harvest?
MacJohnMcC
They become full sized and change colour.
It usually says panasonic on there, they will be black/dark blue and they have a distinct carving on the top side
When they become SUPER-CAP: lol
for example, if you plant 1uf, you shouldn't harvest it until it becomes 10F
You can tell when the Re-Bar they're growing on changes color.
Muhammad Nour that only work for pokemon caps though. Normal ones won't grow bigger capacitance
any updates if it is still working with the Adapter?
Correct me if I'm wrong. I was under the impression that you could run the TS-100 from 12 or even 9 volts. Wouldn't that reduce the heater current sufficiently?
Obviously I value the technical content, but I've subscribed mostly for the dry humor
Knife tip is useful for connectors and thru-hole parts which have pins bent on soldering side. You can heat and pry things nicely ;)
You can, but you shouldn’t. It can damage the plating. I usually heat while I lift the bent pin with a metal spudger.
5:22 You say 'to keep the heater current away from the thermocouple', but from what I read this is not true. The ground connection is purely used to ground the tip. That is because this ground connection is also connected to the 'chassis' tip, and putting current through it could put it at a voltage different to mains earth if no separate (isolated) supply is used for the heater and the measurement circuitry. Also, I think the internal wiring of the heater/thermocouple is thicker than the ground connection, but not too sure on that one.
Do you know if when or if I were to use the grounding clip, that if I ran it into the power supply I'm using and cut the clip off and soldered it into the ground on power supply, would that work or is that a bad idea?
hello marcosrep, I am trying to build your jbc c245 welder, but in the bom.txt file of the project, the voltage of each of the capacitors is not indicated, and it does not indicate if the picofusibe is smd. Could you help me with that information? Could you tell me if another Atmega8 chip is compatible? I do not fine the reference "AI". thank you very much
I ordered myself one too. I heard that this years capacitor season will be great!
in 2:00 the tip its for BGA reballing , for clean pads , and clean solder in ball of BGA .
Would it be possible to use C115 nano cartridges on the ts100 with a firmware update?
Does anybody know where i can get seed for that bush?
Two versus three pins solder element.
Three pins is self explanatory.
Two pins use time division multiplexing, Read and Drive modes. (1) Cut off drive current before read thermocouple (needs two pins). (2) isolate thermocouple ADC input to drive heating coil (drive heating coil through thermocouple junction, two pins circuit). This way, time division multiplexing, produce no read error to thermocouple signal, that made three pins isn’t necessary.
Marco :
I cannot find the continuation of this video, with your conclusions.
Me either
Your sense of humour are great. You are like the Black Books in electro world.
I may be missing how the code / cct works but I do not understand the part about reducng the pulse to 30 from 100 to prevent overload of the fets ?
Will this not just reduce the Average current to 3 amps and leave the peak current at 24V/3Ohm i.e.. 8 Amps which is beyond the max peak load of the fets ?.
Don't understand how they didnt blow up ?
Is the PWM Frequency high enough that the inductance stops the current rising above 5Amp peak ?
Is there any performance difference between the classic design tips and the tips with additional cooling like the TS-C1 or the TS-ILS? It doesn't seem like a huge difference up there but the price difference between the classic and the cooling design is pretty high, there must be something...
I wonder how durable this soldering iron is and how long those tips will last before the heating element stops working?
I want to get one with a pointed long tip just for SMD soldering even I have my Weller with all kind of tips that I need, but I still want a dedicated one for just SMD!
I bought a TS100 with a TS-BC2 replacement tip after watching your videos. Thx..
JBC second best soldering tool company?? Which is the first??
I know that's not how it want down but drilling before you pick out a handle is pretty out there
I would like to ask Marco if he can advice me on what im dong wrong.
Last autumn, on my backyard i planted some small SMD 1uf ceramic caps in order to get them grown to high frequency caps to be harvest by spring. I was hoping to get something like the those Sprague 400v 32000uf that my father used to collect some years ago
To this day the SMD caps have become no more than cheap asiatic-nobrand-high-esr crappy caps. What i´m doing wrong? Maybe the ferrite fertilizer im using is not good enough?
Thanks for your time answering my questions! ;)
The knife like tip is also good for cutting and sealing fabrics and ropes.
ich hab mir den ts 100 auch zugelegt (danke dir) und bin mega beeindruckt wie auch zufrieden!
super klein, sehr leistungsstark, einfach ein hervorragendes werkzeug
If you've ever cut synthetic rope or twine and had to deal with the frayed edges, you'll know a good use for that hot knife tip.
the tip that you use on wood it is for drag soldering (for 80's style through hole chips)
You make me smile every video, thanks. Drilling the holes and then finding handle, lol.
so, does it kill the ts100 or not? XD
in addition to the handle mod, another mod might be to remove the insert with all the extra tips (only keep the 2 most used tips in the case) and install a battery and charger in the other side with the power output connector passing through the side of the case. If there is room, maybe a small parts compartment for... small parts that aren't in season in the wild, and maybe some shrink tube bits.
What a nice idea!
Thank you for watching. Keep your cartridge in the vise.
How had I not discovered this channel before?
Can you use those patrion pesos to buy a Hakko FX888 station and hack it, to work with t12/t15 tip iron?
Love the mild & intelligent sarcasm.
Waiting for the CNC
Do you know where I can buy some electrolytic capacitor tree seeds? I recently ran out of low ESR caps and as it’s spring I would love to plant one. Sustainable components are the way forward!
Pfft you don't need seeds, just plant a mature capacitor in the ground (leads downward). Use lohmy soil and make sure it gets enough drainage.
urdnal - thanks, I’ll give that a go 🌲
@@ZylonFPV How did it go? did the capacitors come up nice and rjpe?
Can anyone tell me where I can get a genuine replacement tip for the TS100 in Europe, preferably the UK? All the ones I can find online are fake.
You must limit current to 5 amps to keep the mosfet alive, so Vcc cannot exceed 15v (and with that you get just 75w at the tip). Maybe not such a good idea..
God I love your sense of humor
Very good video. Can you please tell me about the solder pot where you buy it have a link and how cost thanks
Love the music in this one. Very charming
I just found out that i can use a jbc c245 handle straight on a dc source. At 5V 1,5A it heats up to 250°C and on 9V 2,5A to approximately 500°C ( tested on a cheap xsoldering cardridge, no worries ).
Now, watch me run through the world with my powerbank and do some primitive woodburning.
The knife tip is good for drag soldering DIP ics.
did you have to pay import tax for the kit? i'm currently in germany and considering buying this but since the warehouse is in china i wonder if the price listed on banggood website includes or excludes import tax
Is it possible to run TS100 with fully charged 6cell li-polymer battery wich voltage is 25.3 ?? please let me know.
Does the set include a "hollow" / concave soldering tip? They are usually used to soak up excess solder.
Nope, no such tip
whats the style name for the "original" tips? id like to buy maybe only 3 styles out of the kit
You know, considering you can get far better MOSFETs than those dinky P-chans, and drive them much stronger too, it would be quite possible to make a full-power T245 internal circuit board for a TS100/101. You’d need a really beefy AC-DC brick though, having an XT60 plug on the end just to use with 6S lipos might be the most convenient.
Hey, Marco, how you build Ralim's project in CoIDE? I try to build it, but i have very much errors. You fix code or not?
But If jbc is onely the second best sonderinstation company whitch is the best ?
Interesting project. Though I realized that TS-100 is better for field job. On desktop rectangular handle is not convenient for SMD soldering and screw loosing and tightening on every tip change is a burden. Bought Aixun T3A 200W station with a set of T245 and C245 tips for desktop tasks instead. Kept TS-100 for field tasks though :)
Sir, I cant get enough of your content.
This knife tip for me is usefull for desoldering 3 or more pin THT components with small gaps between the leads
Knife tip could be used to cut supports for 3d printed objects.
Still using that JBC tip without problems with the TS100?
Thinking on doing the same conversion to mine, well, in fact, using your video as guideline.
Regards!
Did you get this to work?
Hakko hand pieces and tips can work with TS100 without any electronic modification. Make something cool with that. Thanks
Hello, as always nice video! :) could you gently tell me the name of the solder melting pot?
That is some quality content i subbed for. Now i can wait until he reaches 150k to 1M followers.
Oh YEAH Marco!! Awsome video once again on the now world famous TS100 :) ! I think the manufacturer should at least give you 10 of those only for making that awsome solder iron famous :)
What plant was that, I could do with an electrolytic capacitor plant? Love your humor. I like my JBC soldering iron station. Best soldering iron I ever had.
when u brought out the grinder my heart fell to my stomach
wew
The tanto bit could be useful when you want to get at an angle on older equipment where you have to dump a bit more heat than you could with other bits. I've found myself needing something (and making it) like that whenever i replace stuff in old equipment. THO, i don't know about the bevel, i found that just edging the tip on one side is perfectly ok.
Blade tips are for drag soldering.
They are good for so many things! The edge will drag solder or clear bridges, the sharp tip will easily single pin solder, and the sides along the edge can be used when you need to transfer a lot of heat such as when soldering a tab to a ground plane.
I thought you meant soldering in women's clothing!
You're such a drag!
They are also for wood burning, so he isn't totally wrong. My step dad wood burned and he used those blade tips of various widths.
What music were you using?
ban bodan city plaza
I use that style tip for drag soldering.
I've been saving up for that kit. Definitely comes with a lot of nice stuff! :P
Which firm is first best soldering if JBC is number 2?
OKI Metcal maybe? But their stuff is ugly and expensive, so it could be another company still :)
Where can I buy a hair comb like this for only $9?
The knife-shaped tip may be useful in 3D printing cleanup.
When are the components ready for picking?
why don't you put a custom firmware on your TS 100? that was one of the first things I did
4:19
how is using a thermocuple in series accurate? doesn't the heater itself change resistance as it gets hotter?
You need to cut the power in order to take a measurement then you turn the power on. On instructables there is a project where is explained on more detail, search for: The Digital Controller for Amazing T12 Soldering Tips. Cheers.
Hey Marco! Epic video as usual!
Is that Xytronic rework/soldering station in the background?
I have the high frequency (HF-3200) version and whenever I solder near the coils, they buzz lol. Otherwise it's a great soldering iron.
2:14 Pewdiepie? Pewdiepie has every job in the world.... Hardworking man
I'm crap at soldering and my iron is from the 80's but this video is great I'll take it. Love your humur
Wow 139.99$$, that's already more expensive than my Weller station!
I really like how fast it heats the tip, hopefully, that wasn't you speeding the video up :LOL
the thermo sensor is almost literally next to the heater element. Also a lot of ceramic insulation forces the heat towards the tip mostly.
Alucard Pawpad
You mean because the thermocoupler is vey close to the heating element it appears to be heating very fast rather than being close to the tip itself and that would also means the displayed temperature is not accurate?
Is that what you meant?
That is correct, Muhammad. But the tip has a copper core so it becomes "accurate" within a few seconds. Also the cartridge current is going partially through the thermocouple so that might be also heating it up a little too.
But with soldering irons you hardly need an "Accurate" temperature. Most, if not all, soldering jobs require a temperature overkill to melt the solder QUICKLY before the heat spreads. Controlled heat is only important for high grade soldering jobs, where a pre-heating station is used to keep the entire board at a high (but safe) temperature, and the soldering iron just provides the final push.
Nope, at 65w (it's full power, needs a 24v psu) the tip is ready to melt solder in roughly 6 secs. It's a beast.
Pls modify FW of TS100 for JBC, I just blown up mosfet in mine and could replace it with something better, put it's PCB into some SMPS plug pack(laptop PSU style) and have very small yet powerfull soldering "station"
Second best company is JBC?
Very interesting video!
How is your new CNC doing?
Does anyone else have a problem with Ralim software for TS100 where once it shuts down (auto shutdown after sleep) you cannot wake it up in any way other than unplugging and plugging back again. I can't be bothered to look through all the code.
Do you have a new iron?
The latest TS100 use a different accelerometer so you need to use v2.03 of Ralims fw to make it work properly.
I have a new iron, though it's the old model, the black 2015 one. Mind you, the iron does go to sleep and everything, it just won't wake up after shutdown, I think I'll just turn the shutdown feature off completely anyway but....
Hi, you say JBC is the second good brand what is the first best brand?
Metcal
how is the tip of the TS100 after months of use ?