Wow, I can't believe it's been 5 years already. Now that the L245 USB-C iron is making the rounds, maybe time for a re-test and head-to-head comparison?

Could you make a tutorial on how to grow your own capacitors? Could be a pretty nice project for many of us. And maybe other components too!

1:45 That tip is formally called a “PLCC Blade” because they were originally designed for soldering PLCC (“plastic leaded chip carrier”) ICs.

@Zplizor

4 жыл бұрын

I use it for SMD at work, nomatter if its SOT23, 0805 og soic :P

@tookitogo

4 жыл бұрын

Zplizor Absolutely, me too!! They’re great for lots of SMD and even general soldering.

@KrotowX

Жыл бұрын

Indeed it is good for PLCC and QFP soldering. Proper amount of flux paste around is very preffered though :) Fit for SMD desoldering as well.

Every time you upload it's like christmas

The knife-shaped tip works great for soldering headers all at once. Also desoldering works great. Use it with wick, sometimes its simpler to use than a D4 tip or similar.

I have no business in buying another soldering iron, but for some reason you keep me so hooked to your video's

@AtlantaTerry

4 жыл бұрын

No apostrophe was needed.

Marco, where can I get that sponge that transforms to the wire when wet? :D

@WaltonPete

6 жыл бұрын

Никола The same place capacitors grow on metal trees.

@billpeiman8973

6 жыл бұрын

Silly: they are sponges similar to caterpillars that turn into butterflies. Only found in the land of Oz.

@supfpv

5 жыл бұрын

i'm in oz and you can't have any

I bought a TS100 after your previous video on it. It's perfect for some quick soldering jobs!

This video is epic.

@reps

6 жыл бұрын

You are epic.

@WhatDoIClick

6 жыл бұрын

All of this fine mans videos are epic lmao, its so good

@slartibartfastm9714

6 жыл бұрын

Am I epic too? Tell me i'm epic!!!

@kolinevans9127

6 жыл бұрын

you are 36.7% epic. {be happy with that}

@slartibartfastm9714

6 жыл бұрын

Kolin Evans It's enough I guess

K-style tips (the wood burning tip) is used for drag-soldering SMT IC's. I find they're also convenient for removing through-hole parts, since you can easily span two pins.

@RemcoStoutjesdijk

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Especially QFN parts. With a conical tip you can't even touch the 'leg' and the pad and get heat transfer. With the blade, it's super easy.

@daishi5571

6 жыл бұрын

I never did like the knife style tip, I use either a beveled tip or Hot air for surface mount. But like many things a preference is just that, a preference.

@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC

6 жыл бұрын

The wide knife styles that seem abundant are really too wide for most things, and the 45 degree rake is way too steep and results in clearance problems around other parts. For all-around work, I ended up modifying a 3.2mm straight chisel to have a k-style edge bevel and a more subtle rake angle.

@mildyproductive9726

6 жыл бұрын

Bevels are king for SMD, but the knife is the queen. Chisels are for noobs.

@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC

6 жыл бұрын

When i say "bevel", i'm talking about the included angle of the edge geometry, not a type C/BC tip style. When i say "chisel tip" i mean something like a Hakko type D tip -- not a pyramid/chisel that you'd find on a tinner's iron from the hardware store. D tips are good for general-purpose through-hole work, but just like type C/BC tips, they can't sit flat against both the lead and the pad in the way that the edge geometry of a K tip allows. Maybe a picture helps: a.safe.moe/yJh0Ly4.png Higher heat capacity and less rake than a type K tip.

The tip that you have burned your desk with is actually one of the most useful tips, especially for desoldering quickly.

ich hab mir den ts 100 auch zugelegt (danke dir) und bin mega beeindruckt wie auch zufrieden! super klein, sehr leistungsstark, einfach ein hervorragendes werkzeug

the capacitor plant idea is great, I should try that soon because spring is just around the corner!

@zz9pa

6 жыл бұрын

Be nice if you could grow LEDs too, but i've heard you can only grow bulbs..

@NourMuhammad

6 жыл бұрын

I would try to grow intel core I9 instead!

@Lagggerengineering

6 жыл бұрын

Muhammad Nour You know, it's very hard to grow microcontrollers, let alone microprocessors. You gotta build up some skills to do that.

@NNNILabs

6 жыл бұрын

SMD resistors and capacitors grow in all kinds of places like weeds or algae, and I think it's worth harvesting them.

@kolinevans9127

6 жыл бұрын

i just harvested, i don't want to 'spout' but lets just say ...over 100 F

Sir, I cant get enough of your content.

The entire kit is around £150 which is surprisingly okay considering how cool this thing is! You could even use a power bank, that's the coolest!

@Denasdc

6 жыл бұрын

€120 from banggood ;)

I've been saving up for that kit. Definitely comes with a lot of nice stuff! :P

0:35 was a good giggle thanks

Another well done video with a great idea!

I bought a TS100 with a TS-BC2 replacement tip after watching your videos. Thx..

I still get a giggle when Marco embraces the dork side.

I ordered myself one too. I heard that this years capacitor season will be great!

You make me smile every video, thanks. Drilling the holes and then finding handle, lol.

That big knife tip is probably the best tip of all of them. They're amazing general purpose tips. You can tin thick wires easy because they have huge thermal mass and you can also solder tiny 0402 components using the very sharp end of the tip.

@jonboy545

2 жыл бұрын

I use it when cleaning with wick also. Like you said large surface area, large heat mass, and can almost "scrub" the board with the knife edge while wicking. Use it WAY more than I thought I would.

That's awesome! Wish there was a ready to use mod available with everything needed all in one 🥃 cheers 🍻

That is some quality content i subbed for. Now i can wait until he reaches 150k to 1M followers.

Oh YEAH Marco!! Awsome video once again on the now world famous TS100 :) ! I think the manufacturer should at least give you 10 of those only for making that awsome solder iron famous :)

Love the music in this one. Very charming

Obviously I value the technical content, but I've subscribed mostly for the dry humor

As always funny interesting and informative. Watched your build of the beefy soldering diy soldering iron impressive

2:27 - I am moderately concerned that you have a drawer of thumbs 🤔

@vgamesx1

6 жыл бұрын

You mean you haven't ordered any thumbs from china yet? It's quite "handy" to have a few spares in case one or two get burnt.

@metricstormtrooper

6 жыл бұрын

Don't be silly, he's only got one Thumb in there.

@thanks600

6 жыл бұрын

your remark just earn one more thumb

@reps

6 жыл бұрын

Would it be better if I told you that those are thumb screws? Like medieval torture devices? 😈

@ZylonFPV

6 жыл бұрын

Whilst I’m relieved you don’t keep real thumbs in there, the interest in medieval torture means that I have to maintain my moderate concern level, though I reserve the right to increase it to high 😛

Your sense of humour are great. You are like the Black Books in electro world.

I'm crap at soldering and my iron is from the 80's but this video is great I'll take it. Love your humur

God I love your sense of humor

Dexter is a beast! Respect!

Love the mild & intelligent sarcasm.

The capacitor plant and strange film style made me laugh the most I have in years! Thank you :)

The K blade (the knife) is actually pretty good for flowing both sides of some SMC resistors and diodes. You can basically flow the solder on both pads and pull the component really quickly...

Marco : I cannot find the continuation of this video, with your conclusions.

@TylrVncnt

4 жыл бұрын

Me either

Your videos are the best

How had I not discovered this channel before?

when u brought out the grinder my heart fell to my stomach wew

Knife tip is useful for connectors and thru-hole parts which have pins bent on soldering side. You can heat and pry things nicely ;)

@emmettturner9452

Жыл бұрын

You can, but you shouldn’t. It can damage the plating. I usually heat while I lift the bent pin with a metal spudger.

Any updates on this? I have a TS100, a few JBC cartridges, and also a metal lathe. The mechanical interface between the two shouldn't be a problem, but the rest of it besides loading pre-compiled firmware to it are beyond my current skillset. Not to mention, I love my ittle TS100 and I might cry if I were to kill it..

OMG I WANT! - Epic video btw, was laughing throughout!

Correct me if I'm wrong. I was under the impression that you could run the TS-100 from 12 or even 9 volts. Wouldn't that reduce the heater current sufficiently?

Dude, you are the best!!

Two versus three pins solder element. Three pins is self explanatory. Two pins use time division multiplexing, Read and Drive modes. (1) Cut off drive current before read thermocouple (needs two pins). (2) isolate thermocouple ADC input to drive heating coil (drive heating coil through thermocouple junction, two pins circuit). This way, time division multiplexing, produce no read error to thermocouple signal, that made three pins isn’t necessary.

2:14 Pewdiepie? Pewdiepie has every job in the world.... Hardworking man

i like the style of your vids

Does anybody know where i can get seed for that bush?

SO good!

The soldering iron doing surgery on itself was hilarious :)

you continue to scare my children, keep up the great work

Hey Marco! Epic video as usual! Is that Xytronic rework/soldering station in the background? I have the high frequency (HF-3200) version and whenever I solder near the coils, they buzz lol. Otherwise it's a great soldering iron.

That handle threw me off the chair. Danke sehr.

bravo marco, u r doing amazing job every time

Hello, as always nice video! :) could you gently tell me the name of the solder melting pot?

God points.. Thanks for trying the idea out in the open :-)

How can you tell when your capacitors are ripe and ready for harvest?

@WaltonPete

6 жыл бұрын

MacJohnMcC They become full sized and change colour.

@allesklarklaus147

6 жыл бұрын

It usually says panasonic on there, they will be black/dark blue and they have a distinct carving on the top side

@NourMuhammad

6 жыл бұрын

When they become SUPER-CAP: lol for example, if you plant 1uf, you shouldn't harvest it until it becomes 10F

@CliveChamberlain946

6 жыл бұрын

You can tell when the Re-Bar they're growing on changes color.

@allesklarklaus147

6 жыл бұрын

Muhammad Nour that only work for pokemon caps though. Normal ones won't grow bigger capacitance

hello marcosrep, I am trying to build your jbc c245 welder, but in the bom.txt file of the project, the voltage of each of the capacitors is not indicated, and it does not indicate if the picofusibe is smd. Could you help me with that information? Could you tell me if another Atmega8 chip is compatible? I do not fine the reference "AI". thank you very much

The knife like tip is also good for cutting and sealing fabrics and ropes.

The tiny handle made me check to see if I was subscribed yet 😂😂

Hey, Marco, how you build Ralim's project in CoIDE? I try to build it, but i have very much errors. You fix code or not?

capacitor picking season, love it :D

@mybluebelly

4 жыл бұрын

The 5th season, it must be found.

Thank you for watching. Keep your cartridge in the vise.

Never thought of that👍

I wonder how durable this soldering iron is and how long those tips will last before the heating element stops working? I want to get one with a pointed long tip just for SMD soldering even I have my Weller with all kind of tips that I need, but I still want a dedicated one for just SMD!

I want more videos with TS100 soldering iron :D

Epic selling , almost makes me search the web for a store to buy these , both of them , even tho ill probably only use them to solder LED

I may be missing how the code / cct works but I do not understand the part about reducng the pulse to 30 from 100 to prevent overload of the fets ? Will this not just reduce the Average current to 3 amps and leave the peak current at 24V/3Ohm i.e.. 8 Amps which is beyond the max peak load of the fets ?. Don't understand how they didnt blow up ? Is the PWM Frequency high enough that the inductance stops the current rising above 5Amp peak ?

the tip that you use on wood it is for drag soldering (for 80's style through hole chips)

Very interesting video! How is your new CNC doing?

any updates if it is still working with the Adapter?

You just happend to have the perfect size handle for that ?!?!! damn dude

I use the knife style tips to drag soder through hole components, kina works :)

Would it be possible to use C115 nano cartridges on the ts100 with a firmware update?

Is there any performance difference between the classic design tips and the tips with additional cooling like the TS-C1 or the TS-ILS? It doesn't seem like a huge difference up there but the price difference between the classic and the cooling design is pretty high, there must be something...

Awesome!

What plant was that, I could do with an electrolytic capacitor plant? Love your humor. I like my JBC soldering iron station. Best soldering iron I ever had.

Great channel, made me buy the ts100. i like your informative videos but also the humor, who said germans arn't funny? well he's kinda right who ever said that, but you're an exception.

for some reason i just almost died laughing from the suggestion of soldering on the motherboard of the solderiron you are soldering with. had to rewind a good minute to get back to where i left off

whats the style name for the "original" tips? id like to buy maybe only 3 styles out of the kit

Very good video. Can you please tell me about the solder pot where you buy it have a link and how cost thanks

love the music! release it!

@kanadzava

6 жыл бұрын

ban bodan city plaza

Wow 139.99$$, that's already more expensive than my Weller station! I really like how fast it heats the tip, hopefully, that wasn't you speeding the video up :LOL

@dimitar4y

6 жыл бұрын

the thermo sensor is almost literally next to the heater element. Also a lot of ceramic insulation forces the heat towards the tip mostly.

@NourMuhammad

6 жыл бұрын

Alucard Pawpad You mean because the thermocoupler is vey close to the heating element it appears to be heating very fast rather than being close to the tip itself and that would also means the displayed temperature is not accurate? Is that what you meant?

@dimitar4y

6 жыл бұрын

That is correct, Muhammad. But the tip has a copper core so it becomes "accurate" within a few seconds. Also the cartridge current is going partially through the thermocouple so that might be also heating it up a little too. But with soldering irons you hardly need an "Accurate" temperature. Most, if not all, soldering jobs require a temperature overkill to melt the solder QUICKLY before the heat spreads. Controlled heat is only important for high grade soldering jobs, where a pre-heating station is used to keep the entire board at a high (but safe) temperature, and the soldering iron just provides the final push.

@somedude2492

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, at 65w (it's full power, needs a 24v psu) the tip is ready to melt solder in roughly 6 secs. It's a beast.

did you have to pay import tax for the kit? i'm currently in germany and considering buying this but since the warehouse is in china i wonder if the price listed on banggood website includes or excludes import tax

You are the best!

Is it possible to run TS100 with fully charged 6cell li-polymer battery wich voltage is 25.3 ?? please let me know.

If you've ever cut synthetic rope or twine and had to deal with the frayed edges, you'll know a good use for that hot knife tip.

The tanto bit could be useful when you want to get at an angle on older equipment where you have to dump a bit more heat than you could with other bits. I've found myself needing something (and making it) like that whenever i replace stuff in old equipment. THO, i don't know about the bevel, i found that just edging the tip on one side is perfectly ok.

Do you know where I can buy some electrolytic capacitor tree seeds? I recently ran out of low ESR caps and as it’s spring I would love to plant one. Sustainable components are the way forward!

@urdnal

6 жыл бұрын

Pfft you don't need seeds, just plant a mature capacitor in the ground (leads downward). Use lohmy soil and make sure it gets enough drainage.

@ZylonFPV

6 жыл бұрын

urdnal - thanks, I’ll give that a go 🌲

@PerennialWheat

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZylonFPV How did it go? did the capacitors come up nice and rjpe?

Can you use those patrion pesos to buy a Hakko FX888 station and hack it, to work with t12/t15 tip iron?

lmao. you crack me up. every video i’m laughing like a maniac at some point.

No matter how shit my day has been, your videos always cheer me up. And give your doggy a pat on the head from me :)

I would like to ask Marco if he can advice me on what im dong wrong. Last autumn, on my backyard i planted some small SMD 1uf ceramic caps in order to get them grown to high frequency caps to be harvest by spring. I was hoping to get something like the those Sprague 400v 32000uf that my father used to collect some years ago To this day the SMD caps have become no more than cheap asiatic-nobrand-high-esr crappy caps. What i´m doing wrong? Maybe the ferrite fertilizer im using is not good enough? Thanks for your time answering my questions! ;)

I use that style tip for drag soldering.

haha the pause at 2:42 was epic! 😂

in addition to the handle mod, another mod might be to remove the insert with all the extra tips (only keep the 2 most used tips in the case) and install a battery and charger in the other side with the power output connector passing through the side of the case. If there is room, maybe a small parts compartment for... small parts that aren't in season in the wild, and maybe some shrink tube bits.

@reps

6 жыл бұрын

What a nice idea!

Nice! 😊

This knife tip for me is usefull for desoldering 3 or more pin THT components with small gaps between the leads