![]() ![]() ![]() joekutz has updated details to Reviving and Modifying a CNC3040 CNC Machine.Jon Kunkee has added details to Eve (Wall-E) Pendant.RWood on Why VR As Monitor Replacement Is Likely To Be Terrible For A While Yet.Thinkerer on Canadian Engineers? They Have A Ring About Them.ben on Canadian Engineers? They Have A Ring About Them.jawnhenry on Canadian Engineers? They Have A Ring About Them.irox on Automated Drone Takes Care Of Weeds.Navarre Bartz on Canadian Engineers? They Have A Ring About Them.Steven Naslund on Share Your Projects: Leave Breadcrumbs.NFM on The World ID Orb And The Question Of What Defines A Person.Steven Naslund on Automated Drone Takes Care Of Weeds.NFM on Canadian Engineers? They Have A Ring About Them.Posted in Hackaday Columns, Reviews, Slider, Tool Hacks Tagged Sequre, soldering iron, temperature controlled soldering iron Post navigation ![]() Compare it with the old reliable TS100 and the super-hackable Pinecil, and make up your own minds. It’s not as cheap as the super-budget SanErYiGo SH72 that we reviewed early last year, but unlike that iron it has digital control and USB-C. Should you buy one? If you’re looking for a mini iron with a reasonable feature set and some really useful cables bundled all at a budget price, yes. It’s a tested and reliable formula for these irons. If similar irons are anything to go by I would expect it to contain a USB-PD chip, an 8-bit microcontroller because it has none of the firmware upgradeable features of the TS100 or Pinecil, and then a MOSFET to control the tip. I could have revealed the board by intentionally destroying either buttons or display, but since I prefer to keep the iron useful I didn’t do that. The reason was that the two silicone buttons would foul on the display and would not budge despite a lot of coaxing. Unexpectedly the tip is mounted to a sub-assembly that comes away from the main board with a 3.5mm jack, and while this was easy to remove, it proved almost impossible to slide the main board out of the handle tube. The instruction leaflet has a blow-up diagram of its internals, but it pains me to admit that this iron provided a rare moment in which my tear-down skills were defeated. Soldering is straightforward, it’s light and easy to use with plenty of heat. In use, it’s remarkably similar to the other irons we’ve looked at of similar size and shape. An Iron Like Several Others This is as much dismantling as I could do, those silicone buttons were the undoing of the effort. In prolonged use the handle doesn’t become noticeably warm, and aside from a slight new-electronics-getting-hot smell there was no immediate concern that it might release magic smoke. My usual soldering temperature is 360 ☌, and it has an interface involving long presses of one of the buttons before they become up and down buttons to select the temperature. Powering it up from a 45 W USB-PD power supply, and it heats up to 300 ☌ in around ten seconds after pressing one of the buttons. The handle has a simple enough interface, with just two buttons and a 3-digit, 7-segment display. These last two cables are a particularly useful addition.Īt first sight the tip doesn’t seem to have any means of being fixed into its socket, but a closer inspection reveals that there is a hex screw hiding underneath a silicone finger sleeve that holds it securely when tightened. Otherwise there was a little bag of hex screws along with a key and a driver for them, a little stand with a sponge, a set of Sequre stickers, a USB-C to barrel jack cable, and a barrel jack-to-XT60 connector for use with LiPo battery packs. The tip supplied was unexpectedly a slanted chisel, so I may have managed to order incorrectly, though since it shares the same tip design as both the TS100 and the Pinecil I have plenty of alternative tips should I need one. The handle itself is similarly-sized to its competitors, being only slightly longer than that of Pine64’s Pinecil. In the box, aside from the handle containing the electronics, were a surprisingly comprehensive array of parts and accessories. What’s In The Box? That’s a lot of extra bits for a budget iron! Description over, it’s time to plug it in and put it through its paces. This price puts it in an attractive budget category, and its USB-C power option makes it forward-looking over models with barrel jacks. It follows the formula closely, but costs only £20 (about $26). We’ve reviewed a few of them over the years, and today we have the most recent contender in the Sequre SQ-D60. First came the Miniware TS100, and then many more, with slightly different feature sets and at varying price points. Over the past few years a new class of soldering iron has arisen: a temperature controlled iron no longer tied to a bulky mains-powered base station, but using low-voltage DC power and with all electronics concealed in a svelte handle. ![]()
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