/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2002059
>Then a Pinecil or TS80P should be good. T12 station itself isn't very large (I have one), if you're needing a seperate power brick with the above irons it's going to take up less room.
I noticed from reviews on ali that T12 comes just wrapped in bubblewrap, it does not have a nice box to put it into, so I would need to be careful when packing it for travel. TS80P or Pinecil looks nice since they are small and I could just put them in the boxes they came with.
>Haven't heard from anyone with a Pinecil though, they're pretty new, but IIRC they're intended to be better than the TS100. Open-source hardware too.
Shame that Pinecil is sold out at the moment.
>If you really need something portable without a DC brick, then the digital version of what you currently own is reasonable.
I could try that, but I'm worried that I will end up with 3rd useless soldering iron, since it looks identical to the one I have now aside from being digital.
>That's unusual, try rubbing with a dry tissue.
No luck, some of it will come off, but most of it won't.
>Like the other anon suggested, running it with a dimmer and using it as a dumb iron without temperature control isn't out of the question in a pinch, though I'd order a new iron/station asap regardless.
Yeah, I need to make up my mind and pick something up, I am stuck in breadboard hell and really need to transfer some of my projects to perfboard.
>>2002061
>Get the Amazon iron to get going.
All I can see on Amazon is the same kind they sell on ali, but with higher markup.
>>2002224
>Mine is even worse but I can still use it
Well, I can't really use mine, couldn't even finish soldering DIP-40 socket to perfboard.

Also I disassembled my piece of shit, but nothing looks burnt or anything. They only weird thing I could notice is E28 resistor (the calculators say 1.3Mohm?), but the markings say 82K. Don't know if it is just lack of consistency, or an error.