I bought a TS100 several years ago thinking I would only use it very rarely. I was wrong, I've used it extensively probably for over a couple of hundred hours actual run time and it's looking well worn and had several repairs with epoxy. I bought this Fnirsi iron several months ago so i could retire the ts100 and I've not been disappointed. Ive used it with a lithium drone battery, a laptop psu, a powerbank and direct from my bosch 18v drill battery and it works really well. The tips are okay, they're not Hakko quality but at the price point they're good. The temp display is a bit skittish, it jumps around a bit whilst it's warming up but it's steady once it's at set temp. The temp of mine is also pretty damn accurate, more than enough for most workbench and field soldering jobs. Overall a very good product and very reasonably priced. If Mr Diode Gone Wild has an affiliate link i hope you use it because i like his videos.
Thank you very much for your valuable, detailed "road test" comment! This has helped me tremendously in finally coming to a decision as to which type/brand of field soldering iron is worth purchasing, within a reasonable budget. Cheers from Outback Australia, Rolf
Wow! Finally DGW got a decent soldering iron for smaller electronic devices and won't need his 100W power gun! I will miss it - but probably you will continue to use it! 🙂
I use one of those black boxy Hakko clones, it's 7 years old now and still works great. I love the different tips available for it. For something where mains isn't available this would work really well.
I like the form factor of the unit. Ideal size to fit into my small tool and meter zipper pouch. Handy to keep in a draw in my audio/video studio and useful for lead & plug repairs and installations. I do have a 1960s 240v iron but it is kept with all my other tools in a workshop/garage hence the reason I like a small kit in the studio for small jobs and most of all convenience.
Wow! Thank you for this review! This video *Should* get a thumbs up from *every* subscriber! I was half expecting to see +£100 bucks for the price but no, it's around the £32 GBP mark! Such temperature accuracy is incredible for this price, plus it looks a lot less Fuss than the TS101 and is Half the price. The replacement bits for this are about half the price of the TS101/TS100 bits
Question: why do you say the TS101 is a lot of fuss? I ask out of ignorance, not looking for an argument - my old TS100 is the opposite of fuss and I'm curious if they've worsened it. You can almost certainly fit these tips in a TS100, though - these, TS100 and T12 tips look like they're all electrically compatible.
I’ve bought a mini TS80 in 2019 and it’s my main soldering iron now. It’s a bit smaller but its output power is only 36W. But that’s plenty for my needs.
Have owned this for a couple of months now and it’s been a really good investment. I tend to just grab it now instead of my wella. Works well on a laptop psu with that adapter too so it’s great for mobile work too. Manages surprisingly well even on decent grounds
@@ronniewhitedx that’s really bad luck, Ronnie. I know AliExpress probably would be difficult to obtain a refund from or support but I’m wondering if maybe you took it up with fnrsi they might at least help you out a little ? Such a shame, hope you get something sorted fella !
These tiny soldering irons with inductive heater tips are awesome for field repairs. Have TS-100, it also works just fine from 100W USB-PD charger with PD spoofing trigger in cable or from 4-6S LiPo battery. Would like to have larger tip choice with also wider tips to deal with large soldering rectangles and flat cables. Particularly for that would like something like this made for T12 tips which come in all sizes and shapes.
You can fit wide/square/shaped T12 tips in the TS100, they're electrically compatible. They'll stick out a fair bit, but there are handles you can print or purchase that lengthen your grip around the tip and fix the issue. This "fnirsi" iron looks to me like it uses tips of the exact same length as TS100 ones, though they're a bit different width-wise and don't have the collar.
I was really hoping you would do one of your super detailed inspections of this included usb charger to see if it's dodgy. That would be very important in this case because if you plug this iron in a charger with a failed insulation, the body of the iron would become live.
Quite posh looking 👍👍👍 I personally use a 40w soldering iron from ERSA it's Made in Germany (the old school one no temperature control), I have it for many years now it's working perfectly.
I've seen these before - the short cable is for powering it from a 19V or 20V barrel jack, like a standard laptop charger/power supply. Might get one of these at some point.
First Looks like a good one. Since the TS-100 came out, I have seen several varieties of these. It says tips are for non-lead solder. That’s too bad because I use leaded solder for everything
@@DiodeGoneWild I guess it's just one of those specifications in place to prevent the manufacturer from getting sued in some bizarre situation involving lead. When I worked in electronics repair, I used both leaded and unleaded solder, even with the same tip specified for lead-free. My tips lasted about as long as those which are only used with lead-free solder, maybe even a bit longer because I can (de-)solder quicker and at a lower temperature when using lead.
@@DiodeGoneWild It's one of the stupid EU decisions. I think the government thought the fumes are lead fume, but it's just flux fumes... When the DIY ban for leaded solder came, I bought myself 2kg of 1mm leaded solder by FELDER. I hope it lasts me the rest of my life.
I think I might want to try one of these portable irons one day. Heh I think Dave Jones put the tip in that way too and wondered why it wouldn't stay in
That short barrel to USB-C cable you will use if you want to connect other types of power supplies that have the barrel plug. I assume you can use a laptop power supply.
So TS101/TS100 or this? - From a quick look it seems like this one has a better housing [seems like alu vs the TS's plastic/alu] - Tips are cheaper - The bundle [the 80$ one] seems to be cheaper [and you even get a GaN charger] vs the TS's ~100 [but no charger included] - The way the tips have to be replaced in is quite slow compared to the TS [IIRC with the TS you can just pull it out as it's clipped in] Or, maybe get a Pinecil? I see that being recommended in the comments too.
Pinecil over TS100. Not sure this fnirsi over pinecil. But if you don't need portability, a KSGER T12 works better as a bench iron than any of these and availability of tips is much higher.
I've got what I believe is a FNIRSI (has FNIRSI written on it) Tablet Oscilloscope, based on my experience with that, I will never ever touch anything made by them again.
Better hide this so viewers can continue being annoyed by your soldering gun ;). This is a nice iron, but I'm slightly annoyed that they shortened the T12/T15 tips so that you have to buy them from FNIRSI. I think I saw someone comparing HS-01 tips to standard T12 tips and found that there *was* an electrical difference, however, but I can't recall which youtuber it was. I'll never understand why these companies seem to favor the K-style knife tips; 1 is not so bad, but wasting 2 slots in a kit with knife tips seems rather cruel. I dislike knife tips, but not as much as the straight conical (pencil) tips they also tend to provide; heat just won't transfer to the fine point and you wind up trying to use the side of the cone. At that point you might as well use a J02 (bent conical), which I use for fine work. I'm normally a BC2/3 kind of guy.
I have hakko 951 and ts100 with all the assortmet of tips. K tips are good for smd work. Hoof tips are nice for through hole work. Chisel tips are more general purpose in between K and hoof uses. I rarely use conical for anything.
I bet from powerbank it cant suply much heat to de solider thermal pads. From PB it is only 12V so much less power, and if you have older Quick Charge PB with even lower Voltage it will be useless i guess.
Unleaded solder is just disgusting to work with and should be banned. I love my genuine fake Hakko soldering station. Under $50 and works like a champ for 8 years now.
Sounds like YIHUA. Also got one, including a hot air rework station in one device. Very happy with it. But for when I need to solder something that is on my wall (like my self made ESP stuff), it would be quite handy to get the FNIRSI one.
@@kyoudaiken I bought a butane torch that came with a soldering tip for under $20. I've found that battery operated stuff, are always dead when I need them the most.
Personally, I prefer the old soldering gun like the one you have. You don’t have to pay a lot whenever the tips are worn out. It also puts modern soldering tools to shame considering it was made in the 70s-80s and still will probably outlast them all.
It can't be that intelligent or it would not spend its life as a simple soldering iron. it would be out making waves in the world. 🙂 what's wrong with the electric blow lamp you normally use ;-)
Still he will use the legendary soldering gun...
Gas torch to heat a bit of steel jammed into a electric iron
'😔'
Legendary Dodgy Soldering Gun
I normally use both the soldering gun to apply rosin and a soldering iron to solder
"Soviet era" soldering gun! Khrushchev himself, would have approved!!
Well, look at how many people still use AK-47, all Soviet stuff are tough
I think
I bought a TS100 several years ago thinking I would only use it very rarely. I was wrong, I've used it extensively probably for over a couple of hundred hours actual run time and it's looking well worn and had several repairs with epoxy.
I bought this Fnirsi iron several months ago so i could retire the ts100 and I've not been disappointed. Ive used it with a lithium drone battery, a laptop psu, a powerbank and direct from my bosch 18v drill battery and it works really well. The tips are okay, they're not Hakko quality but at the price point they're good. The temp display is a bit skittish, it jumps around a bit whilst it's warming up but it's steady once it's at set temp. The temp of mine is also pretty damn accurate, more than enough for most workbench and field soldering jobs.
Overall a very good product and very reasonably priced. If Mr Diode Gone Wild has an affiliate link i hope you use it because i like his videos.
Thank you very much for your valuable, detailed "road test" comment! This has helped me tremendously in finally coming to a decision as to which type/brand of field soldering iron is worth purchasing, within a reasonable budget. Cheers from Outback Australia, Rolf
Looks like a nice portable iron, and it even seems a bit handier than Pinecil. Nice set of tips and fast heatup. Does a nice job on that PSU board.
its all good in terms of design and format except not even motion sensor for standby so i dont recommend
Wow! Finally DGW got a decent soldering iron for smaller electronic devices and won't need his 100W power gun! I will miss it - but probably you will continue to use it! 🙂
I use one of those black boxy Hakko clones, it's 7 years old now and still works great. I love the different tips available for it. For something where mains isn't available this would work really well.
YIHUA 8520D+ user here
@@kyoudaiken Mine is too, but I don't remember the model number at present
I like the form factor of the unit. Ideal size to fit into my small tool and meter zipper pouch. Handy to keep in a draw in my audio/video studio and useful for lead & plug repairs and installations. I do have a 1960s 240v iron but it is kept with all my other tools in a workshop/garage hence the reason I like a small kit in the studio for small jobs and most of all convenience.
Wow! Thank you for this review! This video *Should* get a thumbs up from *every* subscriber!
I was half expecting to see +£100 bucks for the price but no, it's around the £32 GBP mark!
Such temperature accuracy is incredible for this price, plus it looks a lot less Fuss than the TS101 and is Half the price. The replacement bits for this are about half the price of the TS101/TS100 bits
It's really compelling for just 30 quid
30 quid for the iron itself only, no adapter, and only 1 tip. The package shown in the vid is about 70-80 quid.
@@patrikjankovics2113 Yeah I saw the whole package is about £60-£70, still not bad though
Question: why do you say the TS101 is a lot of fuss? I ask out of ignorance, not looking for an argument - my old TS100 is the opposite of fuss and I'm curious if they've worsened it. You can almost certainly fit these tips in a TS100, though - these, TS100 and T12 tips look like they're all electrically compatible.
I’ve bought a mini TS80 in 2019 and it’s my main soldering iron now.
It’s a bit smaller but its output power is only 36W. But that’s plenty for my needs.
Have owned this for a couple of months now and it’s been a really good investment. I tend to just grab it now instead of my wella. Works well on a laptop psu with that adapter too so it’s great for mobile work too. Manages surprisingly well even on decent grounds
Had mine for two days before the thing shorted. Luck of the draw I suppose.
@@ronniewhitedx that’s really bad luck, Ronnie. I know AliExpress probably would be difficult to obtain a refund from or support but I’m wondering if maybe you took it up with fnrsi they might at least help you out a little ? Such a shame, hope you get something sorted fella !
Great review, diode
These tiny soldering irons with inductive heater tips are awesome for field repairs. Have TS-100, it also works just fine from 100W USB-PD charger with PD spoofing trigger in cable or from 4-6S LiPo battery. Would like to have larger tip choice with also wider tips to deal with large soldering rectangles and flat cables. Particularly for that would like something like this made for T12 tips which come in all sizes and shapes.
You can fit wide/square/shaped T12 tips in the TS100, they're electrically compatible. They'll stick out a fair bit, but there are handles you can print or purchase that lengthen your grip around the tip and fix the issue. This "fnirsi" iron looks to me like it uses tips of the exact same length as TS100 ones, though they're a bit different width-wise and don't have the collar.
Inductive heater tips?
First time I'm seeing him use soldering iron
I just bought this one off of AliExpress. The full kit. Hopefully it'll fulfill my needs.
I was really hoping you would do one of your super detailed inspections of this included usb charger to see if it's dodgy. That would be very important in this case because if you plug this iron in a charger with a failed insulation, the body of the iron would become live.
Quite posh looking 👍👍👍
I personally use a 40w soldering iron from ERSA it's Made in Germany (the old school one no temperature control), I have it for many years now it's working perfectly.
Hi Daniel, thanks for the video!
I've seen these before - the short cable is for powering it from a 19V or 20V barrel jack, like a standard laptop charger/power supply.
Might get one of these at some point.
First
Looks like a good one. Since the TS-100 came out, I have seen several varieties of these.
It says tips are for non-lead solder. That’s too bad because I use leaded solder for everything
I'm trying to figure out why couldn't I use them for leaded solder.
@@DiodeGoneWild I guess it's just one of those specifications in place to prevent the manufacturer from getting sued in some bizarre situation involving lead. When I worked in electronics repair, I used both leaded and unleaded solder, even with the same tip specified for lead-free. My tips lasted about as long as those which are only used with lead-free solder, maybe even a bit longer because I can (de-)solder quicker and at a lower temperature when using lead.
@@DiodeGoneWild I've been using a soldering station with the same tips, for more than a year with leaded solder and the tips are still perfect.
@@DiodeGoneWild It's one of the stupid EU decisions. I think the government thought the fumes are lead fume, but it's just flux fumes... When the DIY ban for leaded solder came, I bought myself 2kg of 1mm leaded solder by FELDER. I hope it lasts me the rest of my life.
It probably just means, the tips do not contain any lead and therefor comply with RoHS
1:40 Portuguese (Probably Brazilian Portuguese)
FNIRSI strikes back! Again!
Cool little thing, really nice price. I am very tempted. Are all those tips in the packaging or do they have to be bought separately?
Good question as I've not seen a set comprising the iron and assortment of tips..yet!
It seems there are different options to choose from. Some contain 1, some 6 tips. Also some options contain the power supply, some not.
WOW! Looks So Cool Iron !
Thx, you make a new video everyday :)
Perfect Pronunciation! Nice!
Every video verry clean nice information thanks bro
"Whatever is it", on 1:41 is portuguese.
LEGENDARY SOLDERING GUN. EVEN MORE ROSIN!!!! THE WHOLE ROOM STINKS! EVEN MORE ROSIN!!!!!!
Ive got a TS100 great little iron
Very nice you have this FNIRSI Iron. Please do not stop making videos using your Soldering Gun.
Ease of use vs. Skill.
No autopsy of the charger?
I think I might want to try one of these portable irons one day. Heh I think Dave Jones put the tip in that way too and wondered why it wouldn't stay in
Perfect soldering iron.
Good video.👊
That short barrel to USB-C cable you will use if you want to connect other types of power supplies that have the barrel plug. I assume you can use a laptop power supply.
RC pilots love those portable irons for field soldering
Looks great and will soon be time to put my TS100 out to stud...cheers.
That language is Portuguese and abnormally very well written in Portuguese from Portugal not the usually Portuguese from Brasil.
no tear down of the 65W charger?
So TS101/TS100 or this?
- From a quick look it seems like this one has a better housing [seems like alu vs the TS's plastic/alu]
- Tips are cheaper
- The bundle [the 80$ one] seems to be cheaper [and you even get a GaN charger] vs the TS's ~100 [but no charger included]
- The way the tips have to be replaced in is quite slow compared to the TS [IIRC with the TS you can just pull it out as it's clipped in]
Or, maybe get a Pinecil? I see that being recommended in the comments too.
Pinecil over TS100. Not sure this fnirsi over pinecil. But if you don't need portability, a KSGER T12 works better as a bench iron than any of these and availability of tips is much higher.
Just recently said you should get a smaller iron. I seem to have had magical effect
Somebondy finally made a TS80 style soldering iron that accepts T12 tips!
this company loves you 😂
The firmware reminds me a lot of the ts80p. Perhaps its a reskin of the firmware with much beefier hardware?
So no analysis of the charger? 😜
5:00 Thank you for making me laugh😂
I've got what I believe is a FNIRSI (has FNIRSI written on it) Tablet Oscilloscope, based on my experience with that, I will never ever touch anything made by them again.
Better hide this so viewers can continue being annoyed by your soldering gun ;).
This is a nice iron, but I'm slightly annoyed that they shortened the T12/T15 tips so that you have to buy them from FNIRSI. I think I saw someone comparing HS-01 tips to standard T12 tips and found that there *was* an electrical difference, however, but I can't recall which youtuber it was.
I'll never understand why these companies seem to favor the K-style knife tips; 1 is not so bad, but wasting 2 slots in a kit with knife tips seems rather cruel. I dislike knife tips, but not as much as the straight conical (pencil) tips they also tend to provide; heat just won't transfer to the fine point and you wind up trying to use the side of the cone. At that point you might as well use a J02 (bent conical), which I use for fine work. I'm normally a BC2/3 kind of guy.
I have hakko 951 and ts100 with all the assortmet of tips. K tips are good for smd work. Hoof tips are nice for through hole work. Chisel tips are more general purpose in between K and hoof uses. I rarely use conical for anything.
And, now please use this dear DGW, your old one looks like stone age. hehe 🤭😀✌
are this tip compatible with hakko t12?
please review jbc clones which have compatibility for jbc handsets.
Can you plz pluge it to paptop charger 20v 3.25A how it goes
I guess it would do the same it did with its original charger.
Is this the end of the huge Soviet soldering guns?
maybe 80°C and flat tip could be use to weld broken plastics
Nice!!!!!
Nice.
That's cool
👍👍👍
Да, это удобнее, чем газовый паяльник.
"420 quit a lot"
You don't bring an soldering iron to a soldering iron gunfight.
I want one with internal battery instant heat but i suppose that's to much to ask for with power consumption lol
I bet from powerbank it cant suply much heat to de solider thermal pads. From PB it is only 12V so much less power, and if you have older Quick Charge PB with even lower Voltage it will be useless i guess.
super but the price pfff.... i want one :((
0:33 Windows device disconnected
1:36 could be japanese
Why on battery? For car work? No interest!!
Other soldering irons will rotate the display automatically.
Where is the cat? We love that cat more than you...Just joking...Thnx for sharing...
Putting the Chinese character that big and in the first place tells me that China is putting its imperialistic ambitions ahead of the economic ones.
I prefer my old dumb soldering iron.
I don't see why soldering irons need to be over engineered.
Unleaded solder is just disgusting to work with and should be banned.
I love my genuine fake Hakko soldering station.
Under $50 and works like a champ for 8 years now.
@@XA--pb9ni You do you Karen.
Sounds like YIHUA. Also got one, including a hot air rework station in one device. Very happy with it. But for when I need to solder something that is on my wall (like my self made ESP stuff), it would be quite handy to get the FNIRSI one.
@@kyoudaiken I bought a butane torch that came with a soldering tip for under $20.
I've found that battery operated stuff, are always dead when I need them the most.
I'd rather have my trusty Pinecil. which is an upgraded clone of the TS100 at a third the price.
I just wish the pinecil was affordable in Aus
Personally, I prefer the old soldering gun like the one you have. You don’t have to pay a lot whenever the tips are worn out.
It also puts modern soldering tools to shame considering it was made in the 70s-80s and still will probably outlast them all.
It can't be that intelligent or it would not spend its life as a simple soldering iron. it would be out making waves in the world. 🙂
what's wrong with the electric blow lamp you normally use ;-)
Gallium nitrate, lmao😂
It's Portuguese language aha
if this mouth say nice...do not think for long for buying this ....👍👍👍
vyborne videjka, ale ten akcent....to je brutus.
russian-parashin
Seems like this is a very goooooooooood soldering iroooooooooon for the cheap prrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiccccce. 🤌🤌🤌