8W Rechargeable Soldering Iron Review & Teardown | Voltlog #307

Shame you got a broken one, Ive had one of these for a few months now and its been working fine. I also have the small usb 8watt ones and making a yourself a new cable with proper silicon wire is a must otherwise they are so hard to use with the default cable.

This SOT-23 mosfet should be replaced with PMIC for sure. You can't switch this high current load with no protection.

I liked your channel better when you made stuff.
Good luck selling stuff.

That's what happens when you try to turn a dab rod for a rig and try to make a solidering iron out of it. My be the inventer had a little to much then had a great idea for a iron build.🤔🤫😉😑😆✌️

This is vape modification

Is there any chance you shorted the circuit when you were testing the voltage? That might have fried the fet. The tip will have a higher resistance than your meter probe. :-) Love the fact that someone has repurposed a ecig battery pack and bolted on a soldering tip.

Seeing how they modified an e-cigarette to make that, it would be interesting to see if the concept could be taken farther: make an iron soldering tip that go on those beefy 18650 e-cigarettes in place of the whole tank assembly. I guess there is kind of a norm because of the number of after market tanks, and the DC to DC part would be already taken care of.

Looks great for vaping, bad for soldering. I hate the conical tips anyway, they do not transfer heat as well as chisel tips. Ecig type protection is surely a real pain for soldering.

Yes, this is a battery for a 510 atomizer of a "Kanger evod" e-cigarette. An outdated (5 years old) model with 10 sec draw limit. Crazy!

Informative * Interesting * Entertaining

You got it all 👍😎

It's a e-cigarette + iron tip

I had one of these (you can buy the tip only) and connected it to my old e-go vape. It's got enough power for simple surface mount work and fits neatly in a tiny business card box, but it struggles to solder to large ground floods or chunky wires. It also fares badly with lead-free solder due to the higher melting point. On a more useful note that USB 8W iron I built a control board for - initially tried to estimate the tip temperature with the temperature coefficient (via shunt resistor) but it was too unstable so now I just blindly PWM and adjust duty cycle as needed - you're welcome to have the schematic and firmware if you want to build one. Thanks for the great video :)

Thank you for the heads up about this piece of rubbish.

The Evod twist is a standard vaporiser (Ecig) power source. The 10 second time out is a feature of almost all regulated vaporiser power sources. Most interesting to me is the tips with the 510 connector (an industry standard for vapourisers). Since I make a lot of my own stuff and have the 510 sockets, I think I'll buy some tips and make something that runs off an 18650 Li-ion battery. It would also be possible to make something that uses an ATtiny85 for a PWM heat control and to turn it off if the battery level gets too low. ETA: it should be almost impossible to damage the electronics on an Evod twist. It has protection to stop it firing a load that is too low, so something else is going on here.

That is just a vaporizer with a soldering tip

Mate ... That's an ecig conversion O_o ... NEVER underestimate the chinese ... EVER

You are correct.
The Time out is a failure.

Thanks for the review

Do you have your review link for the Simple USB 8W Soldering Iron?

Hi can you tell me where you got your probe master probes I live in England and the only place I can get them is America but the shipping cost more than the probes

It is indeed an eGo e-cig body with a soldering iron screwed on, the eGo had the same 5 clicks protection and exactly the same recharger. One of the most annoying things was the same you've mentioned, you couldn't vape it while charging. It even has the "security feature" preventing the eCig.. ahem, sorry, the soldering iron, to keep running for over 10 seconds :D

So many negative reviews that I now ignore them and try for myself. I have one of these units and have tried to stress test it. Mine works perfectly. It won't replace my TS80 but I use it a lot inside the enclosures of industrial machinery...very convenient and thus far, reliable 👍

... 5번누르고 누르는동안 10초동안 작동한다인데..
이분은 10초동안 안전모드라고하네.. 오랫동안 안쓰면 알아서 꺼짐.
그러니 다시 5번 누른다음 10초동안 눌러 전원을 넣는거임... 내가 사서 잘은 모르지만 다른 채널에서는 잘만씀.. 이분은 그냥 설명서 읽기 실패하신듯.

not interesting anymore to this soldering iron

dang ok first i foght u dont like that cheap plastock one that i have one it works perfect and do its job perfect glad i taked cheap one not expencive one thanks a lot hope u got money returned back @@

unfortunately I saw your review too late. 10 seconds is too short to work. Luckily I also have this other 8 W soldering iron on USB

for any vaper out there that want a cordless soldering, just buy the tip that has 510 connector, connect it to your mods, finish.

hahaha... outdated E-Cigarette converted to a soldering iron. Ingenious... !!! eGo Style 510 Connectors.... EVOD Twist by Kangertech. They didn't even remove the logo... It's an old school Vape Pen... LOL

I bought one off eBay crap powerless. Bought the sealey and fitted a new battery and more mah now it's good. And iv just bought a slimline cordless iron of eBay turn it on shows battery power two Led and a torch pad that you just put your finger on the heat the iron so far its my favourite.

Thanks. You’ve saved me 20€. 👌🏽

You can repair your solder by soldering it with another solder. :D

You can buy the 510 solder tips 3x £5 of wish for a normal vape there rubbish 🗑

What charger do charge it?

It’s a vape pen battery

why not buy one of these, for the housing, momentary switch, and ability to mount this tips, then replace the electronics on it with something more robust? Maybe even find a way to mount some kind of potentiometer or PWM for basic temperature control? PWM would be most preferable, but a potentiometer would be simpler.

Wish I watched this before I purchased one from AliExpress as a hobbyist..

Agreed, these are e-waste. Spend a little extra and grab a temperature controlled iron actually designed for soldering

buy an ecig mod that doesn't have all the bells and whistles.
"Mechanical mod"
I've been making them since 2009.

Im seeing a lot of vape mods repurposed as portable soldering irons. I guess the Vape mod business had cooled down a lot.

Thats 100% a vape mod lol

So I had the same experience and thought it was green. Then I unscrewed the charger whilst it was still plugged in to the USB socket, sure enough it changes to a dark green. I'm inclined to think the person who selected the red LED for the charger may be green/red colour blind. If it's not charged it's pale green, and if it is it's dark green it's charged.

Does harmful vapors come from the tips...just say I wanted to vape bong Rips of cannabis using the hot tip?

I bought a similar one one, with the Micro USB port in the back, and it works fairly well for simple soldering. It starts to struggle heat wise on anything with a ground plane, but soldering wires together on the run, it does the job. So far, I haven't had any issues with the battery at all, and seems to last a while.
It doesn't compare to a proper soldering iron, like the T12 irons I'm using mostly now, but it's super handy for soldering on the run!

I've got two e-cig bodies, both powered by 2x18650 cells. And since I quit vaping like 4 years ago, I converted them both to soldering irons and MY GOD these are awesome. 25-30W and these beauties work like a charm, no stupid gas ones, no expensive usb ones.

An old vape pen, a so called vape pen with a ego connection 🤣

I need am

surprised it doesnt use an 18650 battery

These things couldn't melt wax.