Cold Heat Soldering Iron

[playafly187]

https://www.asseenontvnetwork.com/vcc/coldheat/coldheat/115261/

this is the coolest thing i have ever seen!

[jurtje]

heh, first post in this section!


Btw, is that guy soldering his video card? What, is he adding more memory?

[playafly187]

lol, i have no idea.... i saw the infomercial and it looked sweet..

[KryoNexus]

they've been selling those on thinkgeek for a long long time

[fstroupe]

I want to try one so bad I can taste it...but I bet it's a POS.

[playafly187]

hrm, i might see if we can get one for review... i know striker would love it

[Caj Darkmoon]

Looks like a gimmick, I'd be carefull what you test it on (especially your finger. :P). For one thing, if its heating and cooling as quickly as they say (unlikely) then its probably putting a lot of electricity through that tip. Might be a wee bit bad for the ol' circuit board, don't ya know? :)

[undergroundtech]

I read a review about it somewhere and they seemed very impressed with it. It transfers heat quickly due to use of high thermally conductive material, not by lots of voltage. They also talked like it had a very good battery life.

I know I wouldn't mind finding one in my stocking this Christmas, to bad no one else in my family reads these forums :(

[KryoNexus]

yeh, but to get heat, you have to have resistance. for heat generated that fast, i would imagine you would have to have lots of resistance.

i wouldn't mind reading up on the actual technology behind it as most soldering irons get their heat from resisting high currents of electricity at the tip. this requires a large amount of power (and to some extent voltage). and then the whole cooling down thing seems a bit odd as well since a highly electrical resisting metal would not generally have thermal properties to cool quickly.

[SAV}{VAS]

Im not sure its that good. Maybe its because I hate those "As seen on TV" products. They are always not as good as they seem on tv. And this one sounds too good to be true....

[undergroundtech]

i wouldn't mind reading up on the actual technology behind it

I think this is the article I was reading
http://www.moddershq.net/reviews.asp?reviewid=32&pagenumber=1

[Caj Darkmoon]

Im not sure its that good. Maybe its because I hate those "As seen on TV" products. They are always not as good as they seem on tv. And this one sounds too good to be true....

Yeah, that was another thing about it. It's presented as an infomercial product, which I never really trust.

[Whitedog]

So, did any of you ever get one of these irons? What was your impression? I used to do fine pitch and mil spec stuff way back int he early 90's and was thinking about picking up a iron for modding purposes.
WD

[SAV}{VAS]

I was looking for this topic.

I bought it last week, works nice. I need a bit of practice to get used to it. overall it does what is says on the box. The tips are very fragile though.


Also
WARNING: This product, when used for soldering and similar applications, produces chemicals known to the State of Cali to cause cancer and Birth defects (or other reproductive harm)

[Phil]

WARNING: This product, when used for soldering and similar applications, produces chemicals known to the State of Cali to cause cancer and Birth defects (or other reproductive harm)

lol,
the actual devide? some solder contains lead.

[SBGuitars]

thats just the solder that's used.. i bought this friday and its a charm.. just gotta get used to the way the tips angle is all.. definately better than a blow torch and 80/20 flux :evil: [smilie=dark1.gif] [smilie=eusa_boohoo.gif]

[greenmaji]

these things arnt killing hardware yet?

they have to be creating a huge arch of current to get the heat up that fast..
holy **** thats nuts, someone has actually used one of these on a volt mod?

[Ojibewa]

after spending close to $300 on my ESD solder station, no way I would trust that thing for work...

[kcaverly]

I've got one, its really nice.

Takes a bit of getting used to but it works the way they say.


Kevin

[zachig]

WOW!!! That's amazing!!! I've got to get one!!! :mrgreen:

Thanks for the info guys! :wink: