$250 power supply for a soldering iron....yeah, hard pass on that. I recommend re-purposing LION bat pack for Makita/Dewalt/(insert portable tool of choice) with a mated usb or DC 12v adapter. That way you can use the battery pack for ALL your tools, including your iron.
Nice Iron. But a nice tip: don't wipe off the solder when you are done! Always keep solder on the tip. Only wipe it just before use. That's how you can keep a soldering tip in perfect shape for many years :)
A coat of solder blocks the tip from interacting with oxygen. Oxygen will cause the tip to oxidize and it's exponentially oxidized the more heat that is applied. That's why it's also important not to leave your tip heated between long periods of use. Oxidation is what kills tips.
Better tip: Always, always use solder tip tinner/cleaner compound when through with a job. 1> Scrape tip with brass coil cleaner 1> sponge off with water 3> apply tin/cleaner compound. You will get a shinny new tip surface that will resist oxidation and be ready the next time you need it.
The Omnicharge has been one of my best Kickstarter perks of all time (and I have backed over 140 Kickstarter projects). It is incredibly versatile and very useful in and out of the shop since it can power most anything reliably and safely.
Pretty cool thinking & now I'm gonna copy & use on the road when "need" to solder electronic components on the fly for laptop, networking, etc repairs. Thanks so much! Now don't have to bring item back to workshop,mor lug my soldering workstation to the place I'm at, if doing onsite call! Awesome‼️
I guess it wasn't available when this video was uploaded but these days you can buy the TS80 USB-C soldering iron and a 20$ Quickcharge 3 powerbank. Similar performance, smaller footprint, way cheaper. You could also have powered the TS100 with a cheap Li-Po or some 18V battery from a power tool. No need for a 289€ (really!!?) power bank.
Yes, the Omnicharge is expensive, but you get what you pay for. I treated myself to one and I absolutely love it. Incredibly versatile and comes in handy all the time.
Actually an omnicharge is not necessary. Get 2 laptop batteries which I can easily find for 15$. Build a 4s3p battery pack and add a balance charging BMS. There you go. Under $50, you can get roughly 100Wh capacity, which can heat up the soldering iron for 4 hours of continious heating, which the iron cuts the heat when the set tempreture reached.
Very true, but for most people, building something like that is quite out of their comfort zone, connecting these two together though is easy. I do understand your point though.
Made something like that from a normal 8000mh powerbank and a USB soldering iron. great for mobile electronic circuit soldering. And that was under 25 Euro's combined.
I have an Omnichage, I fucking love it to death, worth every penny, and I have just ordered this iron. I thought I was gonna be the first with this setup, to be honest... it's a match made in heaven for portable soldering.
A little pricey, but good mobile solution for a very nice TS-100. I've used the soldering iron for a while now, but been looking for mobile options.. Thanks!
I’m looking for a kit that does this, but with a power cord long enough to move around. Sadly, these are not available in usable form, and you have to know serial numbers or something to get a plug that fits. I’ve been reading reviews and people have tons of plugs that look right but don’t work. You need a soldering iron to make this soldering iron into something you can use. Very cool, but not for the plug and play hobbyist like me.
Omnicharge is REALLY expensive. Anker Powerhouse has the 6 times capacity and only the double price. It does not have an adjustable DC output, but you can easily use a step up converter or a laptop adapter to the AC output.
The HVDC setting I do not believe is related to the DC output. I think it changes the waveform of the AC output to high voltage DC. Presumably it might be more efficient for devices which can use it (switch mode power supplies?) but could be damaging to other AC devices you might connect - be careful.
You are correct, that's why I mentioned in an overlay that HVDC should only be used together with switch mode power supplies for like laptops and such.
Intermit.Tech Ah. Overlays don't work on mobile devices so I wouldn't have seen it. One of the reason's they retired the feature (I'd rather they just made them work on mobile though as there's no real way to add information afterwards now).
You can go to good will and buy a discarded power supply for a lap top that will run your ts 100 cheap!!! Look for 20 to 22 volts. You can look for 24 volts but those lap top units are usually 22 or so.
£318 in the uk for the power supply, TS100 costs £53. they look pretty together and the power bank has some great specs but i think it's a little extreme. I'd rather use a large lipo with an adapter and controller. for maybe £60/£70 total.
hi! i still didnt understand whats the connector tip for? Omnicharge said we should choose a connector tip for our laptop type (hp/dell/etc), yet, it seems like this connector doesn't help connect my HP laptop to the Omnicharge. The wiring doest make sense. Did you manage to understand it? Also, theres another weird cable added (USB charging cable) which in one end has the same connector tip (which fits the rounded barrel input of the Omnicharge), And on the other end its a male-USB. Is it for charging the Omnicharge itself?
Not using this iron since it doesn't communicate with USB-C, but there is a TS-80 which only uses 18w but can use quick-charge powerbanks and works quite well. :)
@@IntermitTech Hello Many thanks for your response very very fast......I have think to do a special cable USB-C to TS 100 (Pro 32) but it not the good solution... In fact I have a doubt between the two Omnicharge ...because i would like to have the hub function like the Omnipower USB-C ...Is your Omnipower 20+ have the hub function ?
James Holbrook yup, ts80 seems better but as of this date, its replacement tips isn't as widely available as ts100 tips. . Although we can get used to it, you might mistakenly use other usbC cables. I think you can only the cable the comes with ts80.
it only pulls 2A at 9v so you should be able to use any usb c cable i mean the one that comes with it is silicone so it would be nicer but any type c cable should be fine
i have three questions Will the OmniCharge 20 work for the Mobil studio pro 16 or no? and if he does not should I buy a new set of universal AC adapter tips to fit the Mobil studio pro 16? and what kind of adapter i should buy ?
Off topic, but this is the first I've ever seen anyone using a Neat mic. Other than this I've only seen them on the Trailer Park Boys podcast but they weren't actually using them. How do you like it?
Yeah, it's been doing well and I'm happy with the sound quality. Most often I don't have to do any equalization or anything else, just the pure sound out of the microphone! Since this video I've been putting it closer to my mouth and that makes it sound even better! I did a video about it a while ago, check it out. If you are interested in getting one, I would do it again! :)
Your comment about being European threw me, until I realized you have much better pronunciation than many of us do. Excellent accent though. I don't believe a casual listener would pick it up at all.
Thnx, it's nice to hear I'm not hard to understand! I have a bit of a Dutch accent I think, but I've always talked a lot of English too, so that probably stuck a bit too.
For general purpose use, a butane iron might suffice. However many PCBs require temperature control and quick recovery, which butane irons don't provide.
Not true at all. The TS100 is in almost EVERY quadcopter fliers backpack... Priceless for repairing a popped wire in the field. Also, you can use a 4S LiPo battery. The TS100 allows you to set a lower range, even, so that it does not damage your LiPo...
kingoftaurus check out fpv racing I solder in the park all the time and when I used to do industrial plc repair and don't want to run 300ft of extension cord
if you are into being ripped off, well this may be a way to go, but you can also buy a 4cell LiPo for 20 USD/EUR and call it a day.. not to mention that the brick shaped battery takes up 2 cells in my mini toolbox together with TS100 and all stuff for soldering. Thats what I call mobile :).
Well yes, but no, that's not what this product is for. It's for people who do not know what a 4s or 6s Lipo pack is, or have a charger for it, or want to make a case for it, the cables, BMS, etc.. Yes it's cheaper, but nowhere near as convenient. If you have knowledge about all those things, by all means, build it yourself, but if you don't and just need mobile power, the OmniCharge is excellent. :)
Much better option for a battery pack then that overpriced $199 brick your using. Plus cable way to short and not silicone to be useable, as would be too much of a pain in the ass to be useable and easy to melt cable when it gets in the way and not heat resistant material like silicone.
The age of when your farkin' soldering iron has a USB port, The age we live in... Next thing you'll be telling me is that screwdrivers have them... Oh. Wait, www.banggood.com/MINI-ES120-Mini-Motion-Control-Electric-Screwdriver-Smart-Repair-Tools-Built-in-STM32-Chip-p-1160943.html
Despite being less than intellectually privileged, you managed to find a decent combination of electronics. Please try to be safe and remember to put a resistor to the anode of your LEDs (that's the long side) so that you don't burn the out after a few milliseconds. Watch a video on setting up LEDs if you need to. Might I suggest Great Scott's channel or EEVblog or even ElectroBOOM... they all have great EE (electrical engineering) educational channels, and I'm sure they all cover how to set up simple LED circuits. And remember a soldering iron can burn you and your things, and can even catch carpet, drapes, sofas, etc on fire. Always double check your soldering station. Also be mindful that, that pinches style iron doesn't have very big finger guards so be carful not to let your finger slip off the grip and touch the heat dissipation sheath as this will likely cause you to drop the iron after being burned, risking fire via falling on things like carpet and drapes etc. Sorry to imply that I feel the need to think for you, but the way you conduct yourself in your video truly leads me to this belief, so it is only out of concern that I say these things. I believe in natural selection, but not at the risk of bystanders.
Why do you keep saying 'Direct DC'? You can either day direct current, or DC, you don't combine them to say 'Direct Direct Current', it makes no sense...
$250 power supply for a soldering iron....yeah, hard pass on that. I recommend re-purposing LION bat pack for Makita/Dewalt/(insert portable tool of choice) with a mated usb or DC 12v adapter. That way you can use the battery pack for ALL your tools, including your iron.
Nice Iron.
But a nice tip: don't wipe off the solder when you are done!
Always keep solder on the tip. Only wipe it just before use. That's how you can keep a soldering tip in perfect shape for many years :)
TigerChills ah so that the old solder works like a protective layer of sorts
A coat of solder blocks the tip from interacting with oxygen. Oxygen will cause the tip to oxidize and it's exponentially oxidized the more heat that is applied. That's why it's also important not to leave your tip heated between long periods of use. Oxidation is what kills tips.
Austen Elam So i guess that's where the standy and sleep feature of the iron is for.
i made that mistake and broke 4 soldering iron tips lol.
Better tip: Always, always use solder tip tinner/cleaner compound when through with a job. 1> Scrape tip with brass coil cleaner 1> sponge off with water 3> apply tin/cleaner compound. You will get a shinny new tip surface that will resist oxidation and be ready the next time you need it.
The Omnicharge has been one of my best Kickstarter perks of all time (and I have backed over 140 Kickstarter projects). It is incredibly versatile and very useful in and out of the shop since it can power most anything reliably and safely.
Pretty cool thinking & now I'm gonna copy & use on the road when "need" to solder electronic components on the fly for laptop, networking, etc repairs. Thanks so much! Now don't have to bring item back to workshop,mor lug my soldering workstation to the place I'm at, if doing onsite call! Awesome‼️
I guess it wasn't available when this video was uploaded but these days you can buy the TS80 USB-C soldering iron and a 20$ Quickcharge 3 powerbank. Similar performance, smaller footprint, way cheaper. You could also have powered the TS100 with a cheap Li-Po or some 18V battery from a power tool. No need for a 289€ (really!!?) power bank.
Yes, the Omnicharge is expensive, but you get what you pay for. I treated myself to one and I absolutely love it. Incredibly versatile and comes in handy all the time.
Actually an omnicharge is not necessary. Get 2 laptop batteries which I can easily find for 15$. Build a 4s3p battery pack and add a balance charging BMS. There you go. Under $50, you can get roughly 100Wh capacity, which can heat up the soldering iron for 4 hours of continious heating, which the iron cuts the heat when the set tempreture reached.
Very true, but for most people, building something like that is quite out of their comfort zone, connecting these two together though is easy. I do understand your point though.
Intermit.Tech I don't think they should get TS100 if they can't make simple powerbank.
Dude you forgot to mention that you can simultaneously run you're autosuck 2000 and/or fleshlight for those special soldering break moments...
Made something like that from a normal 8000mh powerbank and a USB soldering iron. great for mobile electronic circuit soldering. And that was under 25 Euro's combined.
I have an Omnichage, I fucking love it to death, worth every penny, and I have just ordered this iron. I thought I was gonna be the first with this setup, to be honest... it's a match made in heaven for portable soldering.
A little pricey, but good mobile solution for a very nice TS-100. I've used the soldering iron for a while now, but been looking for mobile options.. Thanks!
It's cool to watch the wattage will go up when you heat the solder. It'll actually go up to 60W on 24V
I’m looking for a kit that does this, but with a power cord long enough to move around.
Sadly, these are not available in usable form, and you have to know serial numbers or something to get a plug that fits. I’ve been reading reviews and people have tons of plugs that look right but don’t work.
You need a soldering iron to make this soldering iron into something you can use. Very cool, but not for the plug and play hobbyist like me.
Isn't a mobile soldering station just using a lipo... for like 20 bucks total? Maybe 30 total if you get a balance charger? Thats what I do...
A 15 buck lipo & a 2 buck xt60 to barrel connector would do the trick...
Menty Python maybe a protection circuit
Omnicharge is REALLY expensive. Anker Powerhouse has the 6 times capacity and only the double price. It does not have an adjustable DC output, but you can easily use a step up converter or a laptop adapter to the AC output.
But doesn't fit in my bag ;)
The Anker also doesn't have a built in mppt charge controller.
Consider checking out the jackery explorer 240 , i read its much powerful than anker powerhouse and its quite smaller
And if you buy a $20 extension cord you can use someone else’s power. Pretty sure people are going for an EDC type setup.
Welke Mic staat er nou op de Desk??? Good Sound!!
The HVDC setting I do not believe is related to the DC output. I think it changes the waveform of the AC output to high voltage DC. Presumably it might be more efficient for devices which can use it (switch mode power supplies?) but could be damaging to other AC devices you might connect - be careful.
You are correct, that's why I mentioned in an overlay that HVDC should only be used together with switch mode power supplies for like laptops and such.
Intermit.Tech Ah. Overlays don't work on mobile devices so I wouldn't have seen it. One of the reason's they retired the feature (I'd rather they just made them work on mobile though as there's no real way to add information afterwards now).
You can go to good will and buy a discarded power supply for a lap top that will run your ts 100 cheap!!! Look for 20 to 22 volts. You can look for 24 volts but those lap top units are usually 22 or so.
Beautiful work surface, is that the IKEA PROPPMÄTT bamboo chopping board?
How sad, that i have found your channel just now! Really cool CHannel und Super High quality VIdeos! Instantly subbed
$199 power supply? Seriously? Argh.....
£318 in the uk for the power supply, TS100 costs £53. they look pretty together and the power bank has some great specs but i think it's a little extreme.
I'd rather use a large lipo with an adapter and controller. for maybe £60/£70 total.
Can you recommend a controller please?
hi! i still didnt understand whats the connector tip for? Omnicharge said we should choose a connector tip for our laptop type (hp/dell/etc), yet, it seems like this connector doesn't help connect my HP laptop to the Omnicharge. The wiring doest make sense.
Did you manage to understand it?
Also, theres another weird cable added (USB charging cable) which in one end has the same connector tip (which fits the rounded barrel input of the Omnicharge), And on the other end its a male-USB. Is it for charging the Omnicharge itself?
Hey man, thank you for the video, could you please send me the link where i can get the connecting cable? the one you named Lenovo. i can't find it.
Hello
Do uou think the Omnicharge 20 USB-C could do the job ?
Not using this iron since it doesn't communicate with USB-C, but there is a TS-80 which only uses 18w but can use quick-charge powerbanks and works quite well. :)
@@IntermitTech Hello
Many thanks for your response very very fast......I have think to do a special cable USB-C to TS 100 (Pro 32) but it not the good solution...
In fact I have a doubt between the two Omnicharge ...because i would like to have the hub function like the Omnipower USB-C ...Is your Omnipower 20+ have the hub function ?
You probably know but now the ts80 is out and a great alternative i have a ts100 but am thinking about getting an 80 also
James Holbrook yup, ts80 seems better but as of this date, its replacement tips isn't as widely available as ts100 tips.
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Although we can get used to it, you might mistakenly use other usbC cables. I think you can only the cable the comes with ts80.
it only pulls 2A at 9v so you should be able to use any usb c cable i mean the one that comes with it is silicone so it would be nicer but any type c cable should be fine
i have three questions
Will the OmniCharge 20 work for the Mobil studio pro 16 or no?
and if he does not should I buy a new set of universal AC adapter tips to fit the
Mobil studio pro 16?
and what kind of adapter i should buy ?
no
Can someone point me to the right unit to power the TS100 with a cable. The amazon link above is confusing with the comments below. Thank you!!
LOOOOOL when your power bank costs more than some cell phones
Perfect and modern setup
thats what i need for my car audio setup. so i can solder wire together in different vehicles.
Please how can i get this Ominichager i am in Africa Nigeria
You can just buy one? There is a link to their website in the video description?
Unfortunately a sizable number of companies are reluctant shipping their merchandise to some countries due to high levels of fraudulent activity :(
You could always claim to be Nigerian royalty. 😈
How long does it take to charge the Power Bank ?
The included adapter charges it with about 35w that means it takes about 10 hours!
Is this tool from aliexpress?!?
The soldering iron is, the powerbank in this case is not.
Off topic, but this is the first I've ever seen anyone using a Neat mic. Other than this I've only seen them on the Trailer Park Boys podcast but they weren't actually using them. How do you like it?
Yeah, it's been doing well and I'm happy with the sound quality. Most often I don't have to do any equalization or anything else, just the pure sound out of the microphone! Since this video I've been putting it closer to my mouth and that makes it sound even better!
I did a video about it a while ago, check it out. If you are interested in getting one, I would do it again! :)
@@IntermitTech I'll definitely check it out. I enjoyed this video, it's a shame the Omni isn't just a tad cheaper though.
Your comment about being European threw me, until I realized you have much better pronunciation than many of us do. Excellent accent though. I don't believe a casual listener would pick it up at all.
Thnx, it's nice to hear I'm not hard to understand! I have a bit of a Dutch accent I think, but I've always talked a lot of English too, so that probably stuck a bit too.
If you need portable soldering you know they make butane irons right?
For general purpose use, a butane iron might suffice. However many PCBs require temperature control and quick recovery, which butane irons don't provide.
Having options is never a bad thing.
Not true at all. The TS100 is in almost EVERY quadcopter fliers backpack... Priceless for repairing a popped wire in the field. Also, you can use a 4S LiPo battery. The TS100 allows you to set a lower range, even, so that it does not damage your LiPo...
kingoftaurus check out fpv racing I solder in the park all the time and when I used to do industrial plc repair and don't want to run 300ft of extension cord
So the trick here is to combine a 60$ iron with a 300$ power bank. 😅. OMG I've cried when I've spoted the price.
if you are into being ripped off, well this may be a way to go, but you can also buy a 4cell LiPo for 20 USD/EUR and call it a day.. not to mention that the brick shaped battery takes up 2 cells in my mini toolbox together with TS100 and all stuff for soldering. Thats what I call mobile :).
soldiers price
I love my omnicharge
20,000mah 5s lipo for 1/3 price and lasts much longer as it's 5 cells each containing 20,000mah each vs a single 20,000mah cell with an upscaler.
Well..... forget the Omnicharge and get a 4s or 6s Lipo for a fraction of the Price...
Well yes, but no, that's not what this product is for. It's for people who do not know what a 4s or 6s Lipo pack is, or have a charger for it, or want to make a case for it, the cables, BMS, etc.. Yes it's cheaper, but nowhere near as convenient. If you have knowledge about all those things, by all means, build it yourself, but if you don't and just need mobile power, the OmniCharge is excellent. :)
The battery is so expensive :(
Much better option for a battery pack then that overpriced $199 brick your using. Plus cable way to short and not silicone to be useable, as would be too much of a pain in the ass to be useable and easy to melt cable when it gets in the way and not heat resistant material like silicone.
Never trust anyone demonstrating electronics and tech stuff on a chopping board :)
The age of when your farkin' soldering iron has a USB port, The age we live in...
Next thing you'll be telling me is that screwdrivers have them... Oh. Wait, www.banggood.com/MINI-ES120-Mini-Motion-Control-Electric-Screwdriver-Smart-Repair-Tools-Built-in-STM32-Chip-p-1160943.html
Much brightness, I can't see anything man...
Cooooooool!!!!!!
its nice.
Direct DC, eh? Interesting.
Direct DC current, mate!
Direct Direct Current.
Too bad it doesn't exist.
Just like Light Emmiting Diode Diode
(LED Diode)
Jesus...
bruh
ikea
Despite being less than intellectually privileged, you managed to find a decent combination of electronics. Please try to be safe and remember to put a resistor to the anode of your LEDs (that's the long side) so that you don't burn the out after a few milliseconds. Watch a video on setting up LEDs if you need to. Might I suggest Great Scott's channel or EEVblog or even ElectroBOOM... they all have great EE (electrical engineering) educational channels, and I'm sure they all cover how to set up simple LED circuits. And remember a soldering iron can burn you and your things, and can even catch carpet, drapes, sofas, etc on fire. Always double check your soldering station. Also be mindful that, that pinches style iron doesn't have very big finger guards so be carful not to let your finger slip off the grip and touch the heat dissipation sheath as this will likely cause you to drop the iron after being burned, risking fire via falling on things like carpet and drapes etc. Sorry to imply that I feel the need to think for you, but the way you conduct yourself in your video truly leads me to this belief, so it is only out of concern that I say these things. I believe in natural selection, but not at the risk of bystanders.
Have any idea who I am?
Why do you keep saying 'Direct DC'? You can either day direct current, or DC, you don't combine them to say 'Direct Direct Current', it makes no sense...
So true, and I know this, but it came out of my mouth and I didn't want to retake the video, so left it in there. ;)