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what portable-ish soldering iron should I buy?
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ELS122:
I'm looking for a pretty cheap portable-ish soldering iron, I intend to use it mostly for automotive and vacuum tube equipment.
currently I have one of those cheap shitty uncontrolled 70w irons and am PWM'ing it so it doesn't overheat. and it works fine for the soldering joints I solder, only thing it can't solder well is chasis soldering but not many irons can.
I'm thinking about the TS100 but as I've seen in some videos of it, it really looks like it wouldn't be powerful enough for vacuum tube equipment. maybe they just used lead-free solder and a lower temperture  :-//
can you maybe recommend me a better option? or is the TS100 enough for my use?
wraper:
TS-100 will do the job fine if you use it with a large tip and 24V power supply. It's a 65W soldering iron. There is no other more powerful portable temperature regulated soldering iron.
Gyro:
If you're using it for larger joints like automotive and valve then you need to fit a 'C4' (4mm Chisel) tip and run it at 24V. That way you get the full 65W with decent mass and contact area.

Edit: Snap!  :)
wraper:
You could also use something like quite small KSGER soldering station with T12 cartridges. Though you should get genuine Hakko cartridges for best performance.
ELS122:
I actually think I might get the TS80, it has an aluminum body afaik which is sick af.
even tho it's 16w it seems like it should do the job, seeing the demos of it.

Idk about soldering stations. I would prefer a more portable iron if I have to solder some fuel pump cable on the side of the road in the middle of a forest, where am I gonna find 240V xD
and the TS80 being powered by USB would be adequate for that.
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