Toolbox Thursday #4 USB Soldering Iron

this week I though I would change this instead of reviewing a set of tools like I have been for I though it would be better to review that the tools that I'm using and getting in the post if you like this change please let me know.

on the reviews the first thing I will talk about is what its like to setup  then I will move on what its like to use and to where you can get one from (there may be an affiliate link if you would like to help me out ) and if its good value for money and the last thing in the review will be my overall rating of the item it will be a 5 star system with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest I hope that will help you understand how I will be review items from now on.

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Setup 

Setup is really simple for this all you have to do is plug in the USB cable into it and plug the other end into a power bank or a USB plug I tried both out and its performance was the same.

Testing 

To start the iron you have to hold the sensor switch which for me was very easy and comfortable as it is the same spot I would  normally hold my irons for some people It may be a bit of a problem but not that much of one.

Heating the iron up(I am not sure how hot the tip gets as I don't have a tip tester yet ) happens very quickly and tinning the tip ( you need to tin the tip on new soldering irons and before every use )was very smooth and it flowed well to be honest I was surprised by how well it handled solder I tested from 0.3 to 2.0mm solder with it and it performed well on all of it. 

now for its soldering performance I soldered two 2mm wires together and it handled that fine it did struggle with 5mm wire I the moved on to soldering a simple circuit board and it did that perfectly although it does struggle with big components but I was impressed with it .

Where can you one 

there are a few places you can this from there which I will list below . As for value for money the one I brought cost me £6.00 and I think it was well worth the purchase.

Banggood this is the Affiliate link which means I would get a few pence for it.

Ebay

Amazon

Overall Rating

I was very impressed with this iron I can see myself using this for little jobs that I wouldn't want to heat up my main iron it performed better than I thought it would on all my tests so I'm going to give it 4* out of a possible 5* I recommend picking one up .

that's all for today I hope you comeback tomorrow for Flashback Friday 

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