And let's check out the Hs01 Intelligent Electric Soldering Iron. This thing's priced at only 30 bucks. For the portable USB iron you get one little um, crappy conical tip I Recommend not using conical tips. You get a cute little bit rather dinky uh stand and you get like a I Think It's a 65 watt uh USB adapter as well as the sexy art metal um silicone cable.

oh look at that supposed to be 65 watt? uh Power but that will depend on the capability of your USB you know, like your battery bank or whatever because you're not going to use this thing with the plug pack. The whole idea of these is portable irons is that you can, um, use them out in the field. and it does come with a nice little thing to protect the tip. like that screws on and it's all alloy.

Case feels really good. let's peel the sticker off there. it's just got USB input Bob's your uncle got some rubber around the end there. um it's like or like it's got got a flat bit there for your fingers.

but yeah, it's not that like. there's nothing really to stop you sliding off the end. There's no like a rim or anything. So yeah, I don't know.

it's not the best, but it went like for 30 bucks it's brilliant. Even if this thing sucks, you might still throw it in your uh tool bag just for emergency use. And as for the tips, they look like a short version of the Heiko T12 tips I don't have any of those so I can't guarantee uh if they're compatible or not but looks similar but I think the ridge up here is longer. so yeah I don't know maybe.

but anyway, they slide in there. they do have a ring on the end and push it all the way in, swivels around but they do come out like pretty easily. I'm not using much force to get that out so it's a bit how you're doing. Um, not impressed with the tips, but what do you want for the price? Anyway, let's plug it in and I've got it going through the adapter here and voltage low.

Oh um, so yeah, it's not in power delivery mode at the moment. I need to repower this somehow. Let's see if that works. There you go, it is.

We're in. Yes, now. we're 20 volts here and it's not going to be hot yet because we haven't actually, uh, switched it on so it just gives us that uh, graphic there. There is no other controls, it's just those two uh, like that.

but we can actually if we press that, boom, it heats up, it jumps around like a jackrabbit. So I'm not sure what's going on there, but uh, will it settle down like like I don't know what's going on? Uh, it's giving me the heebie-jeebies. Wow, is it where? What the heck? It's got the bar graph that pulses like that, but there we go. There we go.

It seems to. and I'm getting the fresh, mmm fresh tip. Smoke. Yummy.

We have a sponge water accident. Um yeah. the manual. Um, Anyway, here you go for your sponge aficionados.

I know you love it I know you love it. Oh look at that and well, that's probably the dickiest stand I've ever seen. Like if you're taking it out in the fields you like, you probably wouldn't even bother. Ah, check it out.

Look I haven't even touched it and it's already saying that the tip is disconnected. So I push it back in and restart. Let's see if we can just get it. Just putting it down like that.

let's see if we can get the tip to sort of like come out or something. Just you know. Yeah, yeah, got it. got it.

Look, just dropping it down like that was enough to I told you it was loosey-goosey Yeah, that's that is terrible Muriel Wow. Anyway, just idling there we are peaking up to like 40. I it does seem to be getting to 40. I'm not going to go into intricate detail about uh, the power consumption, but anyway, it is a 60 watt uh pack all right.

I've got it set to the default uh, 370 degree here. I don't have a nice uh chisel tip with it but I've got one of these uh blade tips. so fairly chunky. got some point nine millimeter uh lead free stuff so let's have a go on some copper clad board.

a freshly uh cleaned try and get it in the one shot here. Let's give it a go. Ah yeah, it's melting. No worries.

um 18. Watts Yeah, that's right. Test passed. You can do a copper nice copper clad board like that.

Not a problem. What is that? I'm just having a look at the display there the bar graph there. It doesn't seem to be pumping huge amount of power into that, so that's not too shabby. It's doing the business for a, you know, a power delivery.

just a random board. uh see if it can do like a, um, a through-hole fuse like this. I know it's ridiculous, but uh yeah, let's give it a bill. So to adjust the temperature, you just hit the buttons like that I don't know if it's got any more.

Okay Billy look I'm going to turn it up to 400. Okay I'm going to give it a chance against this. Beast Here we go. Oh, not liking its chances I Wouldn't expect it to do this, but it's giving it a red hot go.

Might actually get it, might it might. it's actually getting there. I Think yeah yeah, it's it's it's doing it. I Mean you know this is a pretty horrible test, but yeah, yeah, it's it's done up.

The pin is wiggling. Yeah, you can do it for 30 bucks. That's extremely usable. Unbelievable.

Wow. I You've got to have one of those in your kit just just for that price. Even if you use it once or twice, it's it's worth the money. And if we compare that to my uh Ts80p here, this is actually only a 30 watt iron so it is actually lower.

uh Power so but you know it, it still does the business and well I Don't know this is a more expensive iron, but I still think this is a little bit sexier but oh geez. I don't know. So if you compare these two irons I mean this is actually a lot more expensive. It's like 80 bucks or something.

You might be able to get it cheaper these days. I Don't know the uh deal but the fact that this is 30 bucks and it's higher power and it I think it might be using the standard Heco tips whereas the Ts80p it actually uses um, these 3.5 millimeter uh tips like this and well, they're not as standard I guess but the Ts80 is smaller, it's lighter, it feels better in the hand to actually use it, but not a huge difference. Like there's nothing wrong with this. It's quite powerful and for the price and for those who want the fancy pantsy uh features, you can actually hold down both buttons at the same time, which is a nice interface than the Ts80.

The Ts80 you can just like Press buttons and do goofy stuff. Um yeah, this one's nicer brightness, calibrate, temperature unit So it's got your sleep time so you can like auto power down and then you sleep temperature as well. It's got a child lock and it's got language and handheld I don't know what that is? Uh-huh I had to Rtfm there. Uh, turns out it's uh, that's the left right hand.

uh thing. So yeah, and there you go and you can actually set the voltage as well if you want to. but by default, you know there's probably no reason to do that And you can upgrade the firmware. So there you go.

And it wouldn't surprise me if somebody's got some Hector firmware for this because people like to hack their Ts100s or the Ts100 Fanboys out there you know them. How do you spot a Ts-100 fanboy and you don't have to? they'll tell you. and I do like these. uh, flat spots.

You can actually put it down and it doesn't roll well. it prevents it rolling a bit, even with the cable plugged in. it's going to really stop rolling around the place. so that's a nice design touch.

So it's a bit of a shame that this actually doesn't come with a nice uh pouch like I got with the mini wear here and I just uh, take that out and look, the pouch is even smaller than that entire iron. but I guess you could just take the tip out and you could I could put that in the same pouch. so I might actually do that I might actually swap as much as I like the ts80. for 30 bucks, this is actually more powerful.

it's more simplistic and I've got a selection of tips for it. so I think I'm going to replace the ts80. so even though this has problems with like the really Dicky contact, uh, tip and stuff like that, it doesn't matter like you know, you keep pressure on it like that and it's okay. But for 30 bucks that's got window written all over and I think I might actually, uh, replace my ts80 with this.

just whack it in there with uh, some extra tips. I've got my USB lid I got some solder and there we go that actually fits inside my little Ts80 pouch. Beauty So apart from the Dickie tip, I'm actually rather happy with that. For the and for the price, it's an absolute no-brainer You should have something like this in your kit.

some sort of portable USB iron and USBC of course is the bomb and this one's higher power. so you know if you've got a suitable rated uh Power Pack which you usually carry around anyway for charging your shoe, phone and whatnot, then yeah, it's great stuff. Anyway, first it did send in a bunch of other uh stuff like these USB current monitors I'll show you that in another mailbag but I hope you like this. uh quick mailbag that I thought I'd split out from uh the main mailbag video that I did I'm trying to do more frequent smaller mail bags now so if you like that idea concept and if you like this video, give it a big thumbs up.

Catch you next time.