PCBWay cordless soldering station with supercap! (PWJ211)

I got a free cordless soldering station fro PCBWay. It's a Miniware *TS1C* and I will take it apart...
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[notsrynot]

Thank you for this, I was needing a tutorial on how it works

[noisytim]

This might just be what i’ll replace my ts100 with.
I’ve had some terrible experiences with battery powered soldering irons, but this thing seems decently made.
Thanks for the teardown :D

[joaoassuncao]

Very clever design.
I would get one if I didn't have four soldering irons.
Thank you for the review and the teardown

[GeoffSeeley]

Thanks for the review, looks quite nice! I don't think it will replace my Hakko, but I can see it being useful in some situations where a cord would be in the way (i.e. soldering something deep up under the dash of a car)

[mumiemonstret]

I think it would be smarter if the UI was on the pen and the base was just for charging. Then you wouldn't need bluetooth, and you could also use the pen alone for about 5 minutes completely without access to power, like a gas pen.

[graemedavidson]

Interesting soldering iron. I wonder how long spare tips will remain available.

[igorgoga]

can it accidentally turn itself on in a drawer and burn everything?

[zaprodk]

Very cool, but I see one thing they kind of failed with. It should be able to be used on the go without power to the base.

[TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

Too big for me, i'm a weller micro pencil user myself. best soldering iron i''ve ever used. And mine is only half weller, i had to build the controller myself.

[smthrulez]

Fun fact - the instruction is in two languages, English and Russian :)

[andutei]

Your formula is wrong. The energy available in a capacitor is C*U2²/2. From the datasheet Umax is 3.8V and Umin is 2.2V, so the usable energy is (Umax²-Umin²)*C/2 = 3600J or 1Wh. In Ah: (Umax-Umin)*C/3600 = 0.33Ah. Multiply this with the average voltage of 3V you get again 1Wh.

[freepoet]

Thought I was going to see some "Play(ing) with Junk"

[meh]

Fascinating to see how little cash people will sell their integrity for these days.

[Sven_Dongle]

What is this for? If your space station compute core gets holed by a micrometeorite and you need to do an EVA to make emergency repair at component level?