iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
iFixit has made a smart soldering iron to improve everyone's repair work.
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A pinecil is 25$ and a 40kmah battery pack is 35$, so the combination... 60-70 bucks.
I've never used one but I just looked up the specs and it looks like it maxs out at 75 watts. Is that enough to keep it hot with like 16 gauge wires?
The pinecil will go up to 126w if you have a capable power supply. I am going to be honest though, 16awg isn’t that large. A 45w iron could probably handle that fine if you are ok with waiting a but for your wires to get up to temp.
I have a 60w iron and 16awg is always the size that's just too big for me and always a pain to solder.
Is it actually a 60w iron or does it only hit that current when heating from roomtemp and not when keeping the tip on temperature?
Sorry I thought it was 60 cause that was the newest one but looked at mine it's the haklo station 70w. Pretty sure it's 70w but could be just 70w at startup.
So, in your mind, $0-10 is enough margin per unit? Do you think that this is literally just an existing soldering iron with a battery pack hot glued to it? That's not exactly how product development works.
I'm no capitalist, but I do understand how markets work, and things like IP and patents. $60-70 would be stupid, and they would likely lose money (assuming your price estimations are correct, I don't know enough about this stuff to know that)