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Conventional tools also take a long time to heat up and to cool. Small wires are about the only ones that you should solder with this tool. This is a very useful iron if you desire portability and speed. You don't really need a stand to hold the tool if you are willing to wait a few seconds for it to cool off. I use it to solder wires on model trains and leads to deer feeders (where there is no electricity supply). The dangling feed wire from conventional solder tools can drag over the scenery, trains and the train wire. It's useful to employ very fine solder wire so that the melt is quick. It's not very good on thick solder wires.
I needed a portiable unit that TSA would not remove from my checked bag, and that got hot enough to solder in 35°F rooms. This unit fit the bill. The only drawback is that it eats batteries and is very large.
Excellent product works as described and can easily be taken anywhere. I used rechargeable batteries and had no problem soldering a MP5 player's battery connection back onto the printed circuit board. Good Luck.
The battery powered iron is slow to heat up, takes some time to heat even small gauge wire enough to melt solder. If you need an iron for one or two very small joints and don't want to have to warm up your real soldering iron, this works okay. I have found that on fresh batteries, it takes a full minute to heat a component enough to melt even the thinest solder. Having used this iron a few times now, I would not buy it again, it just isn't as convenient as I expected it to be.
When I bought this, I really didnt think it would work, based on all the rest of the cordless soldering irons over the years. It just does not have enough heat to flow any solder. I thought that the Weller brand might have something new and innovative. Wrong. Holding the button down to have it heat up does not help when your trying to solder at the same time.Advice, stick to something with a cord on it. This will just be tossed in the trash.
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