Cold Heat Pro Soldering Iron

[bluejay148]

hi is it supose to arch when touching the wire that dont look good lol

[AntDX316]

@bluejay148 it's not an arch.. but a ball of hot fire which causes the metal and solder to melt at the tip

[Lokivoid]

@AntDX316 i think he means "ark" as in electrical ark". "ball of hot fire which causes the metal", No the plasma is not was causes the metal to melt, The metal meting caused by the current passing through the metal and heating due to resistence. Bluejay is also correct the current induction caused by cold heat guns is undesirable becuse it can fry sensative compoenet, they also have poor regulation and create bad joints. If you want a portable iron use a butane. "Coldheat" = complete garbage.

[AntDX316]

@Lokivoid it makes all the solder preplaced on a wire melt on the wire clean.. even in a super cold situation.. it's not good for pcbs obviously

[Lokivoid]

@AntDX316

define "preplaced" solder, do you mean pre-tinned leads? Point is a compaired to other portable irons such as a gas(butane) coldheat irons just dont hold up. As for the aspect of "even in a super cold situation" pretty much any iron (excludeing cheap radioshack irons) will work in "super cold situations". Summery if you want portable use a gas iron (there also cheaper than coldheat irons), if you want a bench iron auyue makes some decent lowcost entry level solder / hotair stations.

[AntDX316]

@Lokivoid like I twist some solder on.. then it automatically fully adheres to the wire.. problem with soldering irons is a lot of solder can stick to the tip and won't come off until it's on the wire.. so there's a bigger side.. in a heat shrink tubing situation where the tubing is just right.. that's a bad idea.. and it doesn't end up clean.. this is super quick and easy.. I'm not really sure why a lot of u hate it, it's amazing for wiring

[Lokivoid]

@AntDX316

"problem with soldering irons is a lot of solder can stick to the tip and won't come off until it's on the wire" problem here is you dont solder with a iron by twisting wire onto the lead, you apply the iron to the lead let it heat thin touch the wire to the lead. If if your not getting good flow theres three things causeing it, #1 your iron is not hot enough, 2# you wire diameter is to big or is not the correct alloy for the job, #3 Use solder flux or cored solder

[AntDX316]

@Lokivoid but the wire will get hot and the heat shrink will adhere to the size of the wire and therefore I can't move it

[Lokivoid]

@AntDX316

Heatshrink tubeing is not for holding a joint togather, its for insolateing the joint from shorting and to protect agenst oxidization. Thus not relevant to the aspect of soldering nore is it relevant to my statement.

[AntDX316]

@Lokivoid I move the heatsink tubing to the solder and heatshrink it instead of black tape which gets sticky and comes off

[Lokivoid]

@AntDX316

"black tape" you mean electrical tape? As stated above not relevant to soldering it self. Both are for insolation, it is not ment to support the solder joints integrity.

[AntDX316]

@Lokivoid I don't know why u take so much pride in this.. I just want the connection to look nice and clean

[vxbinaca]

Hakko FX-888

[AntDX316]

@vxbinaca ?

[averagepatriot]

your soldering on cardboard......smh............­those things are nice for the occasional repair.

[AntDX316]

@averagepatriot It's a quick fix solder in tight places where you can put the tool down without having to worry about burning anything.

[poorbt]

You won't have to worry abou this anymore - it's now an eBay antique as the website stopped all sales of all Coldheat products.

The rechargeable battery idea was tried and failed in the glue gun - putting a high load on the rechargeable batteries made them die faster.

[philip2go]

if you need to solder 2 wire together like speaker or car stereo wiring it is okay? Other than that it is junk, I returned my to radioshack immediately worthless?

[AntDX316]

@philip2go if it's not 4 gauge it should do it fine

[tramdr]

1. The old one was worthless.

2. This one can solder small wires, but no good for anything else....Not heavy enough for large wires, and will destroy components when soldering boards with normal 'active' components, like transistors and IC's.

3. Still a piece of junk. Get a real soldering iron if you need to solder.

[AntDX316]

Yeah, I tried soldering electronic wires in the engine bay at night when it was cold and it couldn't do it. With the new one I could solder anything when it's super cold outside.

[Joe6packAmerican]

@tramdr Not true. I just fixed the gauge cluster board of a Dodge Caravan with it. Many transistors, capacitors, switches, memory modules and the like on that board. Works like a charm for that type of work. Video of this on my page.

[dalriada842]

@tramdr I agree entirely. I bought one when it first came out. Complete waste of money!

[redpunk]

@tramdr my highschool offered an ee program through a former student of ours, and they wanted us to use those things instead of real soldering irons.

mine caught on fire

[tramdr]

@redpunk lol

[Devildogsbitch]

thanks glad i looked into this to re wire my trucks sound system...saves me about 200$s on pro-instsallation in pretty much just 8 quick solders

[AntDX316]

@Devildogsbitch yea, but if u are soldering thick thick wiring like 4 gauge you should use the battery powered radio shack soldering tool because this can turn some of the fiber strands to black while u wait for the rest of the wire section to heat up

[LTF85199]

Wouldn't the excess lead adhere to the soldering iron tip and cause it to activate unintentionally?

[AntDX316]

only if it gets stuck in the center but usually if that happens it melts and falls off the tip

[AntDX316]

i dont really care if u guys dont like it for whatever reason but the Cold heat pro is the best cordless soldering iron for small soldering jobs not big jobs like ur soldering huge industrial cabling

i used energize lithium batteries so it did its job for a long time

[AntDX316]

u people probably have the basic cold heat i had that one it sucks so bad i tried to solder outside my AIT sensor wires it took so long but with the cold heat pro i set it to maximum which is at least 2x more powerful than the standard and everything gets heated up awesomely

[AntDX316]

this gives me a good easy fast clean direct solder point no need to look for an outlet and make sure the wire will not tug when u set it down and melt something

[Lokivoid]

Dont waste your money on coldheat garbage. If your new to soldering Buy your self a cheap two setting iron until you get to the point of learning not to destory your tips. then get a weller or simlar PSU dial wattage controll iron for $200+ when you reached the point of useing it correctly without wearing or corrodeing your tips.

[AntDX316]

u need the cold head "pro" with energizer lithium ion batteries i soldered plenty of car wiring like 50+ and it still worked

[psyfertech]

i just bought one of these at radio shack for the same price a kit was thinking it would come in handy, no burns, wireless but dam it sucks ass

i cant stand this thing, i can never get it to heat up what i want

im returning it for the kit

[kungfujesus06]

I have the classic version, and the batteries die after like 20 solder joints. I don't understand why they don't just make a cord version or at least a recharging station with rechargable batteries. I think I'm going to try to solder a transform to the battery leads, I'm sick of replacing AA batteries, the screw always strips on the outside cover.

[AntDX316]

ive soldered a thick ignition MSD power and ground wire together

u have to let the wire heat up real long and then the solder will melt to the wire

u also have to make sure u have enough battery power (i recommend energizer lithium) and r at the highest setting

[Penfold8]

I still say that these irons are the most worthless irons out there. You would probably be better off buying a $4 plug in cheap-o at a store instead of paying over $9 for this thing!

[R31Bi]

I definitely agree with penfold8. soldering with such those things is a sure way to kill components.

[finstersrc30]

It seems to work perfectly if you are just joining two ends of wire together such as in a splice. It doesnt seem to work when trying to solder wire to a component as only the wire gets hot and not the part the wire is to be soldered to.

[AntDX316]

i dont use the cold heat pro to solder on circuit boards i use the radio shack battery powered one cause the cold heat would create a too hot fire that could damage the circuit board and its hard to be accurate

[SonOfAPunk]

What a piece of fucking shit.

It made my stepdad so mad, he's no longer feeding me this week.

He said I "need to buy one'a those 9-dollar-fuckin'-mickey-mouse-­plug-straight-in'a-fuckin'-wal­l-piece-a-shits' fuckin'". I will ask for one of those at Canadian Tire tomorrow.

Seriously.

He was choking on his own rage so hard because of Cold Heat!

"It won't burn you!"

BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FUCKING TURN ON.

Oh and when it does for a period of time too-short-to-solder, it DOES burn you.

[ripsnorting13]

i cant get mine to solder i think the wire im using is way to big

[AntDX316]

u have to let it heat up for a while then all the solder will conform to the wire

i used it to wire my car electronics and its so awesome because i can get in real tight places and not have to worry about a hot soldering iron burning something

[ripsnorting13]

mine might be defective then because it hard to make a connection and it doesnt heat up well im using a 1 mm wire.

[grenouil1970]

???????

[YiuTeub]

bought mine a week ago. gave it a few chances. IT SUCKS.

[SouthernJustice]

yes it does!

[rgsgww]

dude get a real one...the cold heat fuckes up boards

[enriz06]

ur hands shake a hell of a lot

[generatrix999]

Glad I only paid $5 (new,swap meet) for mine. Not broke, yet.

[IntermittentSprocket]

Hey RixceU that the wrong tone, do it again I'll Stab you face with a Soldering iron

[IntermittentSprocket]

Hey RixceU that the wrong tone, do it again I'll Stab you face with a Soldering iron

[markpg28]

IntermittentSprocket, You have the wrong tone. I will burn your face off with an acetylene torch.

Twat

[AntDX316]

lol what u guys mean it works perfectly its the best cause it heats up fast and hot so the solder joint is the way it should be

[teesdin]

3 mo. old comment but wanted to reply anyways. I think what people are saying about it messing up ICs, like any type of integrated circuits/microprocessors/more than a wire is because it creates a small arc. I don't have one but that's what it looks like.

look up how an arc welder works for more info, I think this is just mini scale. if that's the case then it could mess up certain types of components. it's like when they warn about not discharging static onto a chip, this would be it x10.

[davidbball13]

yeah they WILL fuck up ICs and transistors

[dave3152]

lol just buy the original basic ones may take longer to heat up but their more reliable i got a basic one which works fine for £4 ($8)

[RixceU]

Moral: Never under any circumstance buy a ColdHeat no matter how good it seems to be.

[0YONOY0]

i had the exact same thing, i bought it from canadian tire and the tip of it broke...-.-

[sabbays]

same i just got mine for christmas and it broke