first box mod

[Chegs]

Wouldn't pay the asking price as no guarantee that it won't expire, and manufacturer can just claim I abused it which means I'm out of pocket by even more.

I have now got an electric 40 watt that does for general soldering, and a gas powered mini iron for awkward jobs that require a lot of heat(soldering copper single core to lipo tabs)and am waiting for a 12 watt iron for electrical circuitry being delivered.


Some of my previous irons have had things like variable power so I could turn it right down while arranging the next area to be soldered but they still expired, some have been gun type that only heated when the trigger was depressed, it still died(though did last over 20 years)trying to solder single strand copper and it was 100 watts.


Modern irons are pretty crap, when my present collection of irons give up I'm going to use the parts to build my own iron(my dad had one back when I was a youngster)and power it from 12V as they're basically an atty coil wrapped on a rod to transfer the heat.

 

[gebpell]

Many thanks for the info all,I had emailed rich at modmaker and he also was very informative.

Mosfet it is then, will be ordering my bits in the next few days.