A very successful first launch caused the FixHub Power Series portable soldering line from iFixit to go out of stock for a ...

A soldering iron should have a feel and a grip that makes it easy to hold in your hand, as if it were a large pen. For electronics, you want a slim, needle-like tip to aid in getting the heat (and ...

For most of us, the first soldering iron we pick up to start working on electronics has essentially no features at all. Being little more than resistive heaters plugged straight into the wall with … ...

Just last week, I broke out my soldering iron to fix a set of cheaply made string lights; the solder joints connecting the lights themselves to the power source had fizzled out—frankly, ...

If you spend money for iFixit’s $250 kit, it’ll come with an iFixit-designed 55 watt-hour battery that helps turn the iron into a portable soldering station.Its two USB-C outputs provide 100W ...

If your favourite programming language is solder, they you’ve surely worked your way through a bunch of irons and controllers over your hacker existence. It’s also likely you couldn&#82… ...

The Portable Soldering Station with the soldering iron and battery pack is priced at $249.95 / €269.95, while the full toolkit included the iron, battery pack, pliers, and other tools is $299.95 ...

And when it’s orange, the iron has reached the temperature you set and is ready for use. Sean Hollister over at The Verge notes that you need to plug the soldering iron into a PC to set the ...

Battery-powered USB-C soldering iron aims to improve over what’s out there. ... Miniware, and other USB-C pen-style soldering irons on the market, claims a few things set its iron apart.

As a general rule, it’s worthwhile to pay more for a high-quality soldering iron that comes with an adjustable temperature feature. For smaller projectors, a 15- or 30-watt iron is fine.

A soldering iron that heats up and cools down in an instant? MSNBC's Gary Krakow just had to try it out. ... A new set of batteries is said to provide up to 700 soldering joints.