Re: Help with reading NAND chips on a breadboard
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:00 pm
As far as soldering goes, I used to use a Hakko 937 clone as my go to, It was/is a decent enough iron. However, I have become forgetful as my years accumulate and often left the iron on, sometimes for several days. Not an ideal situation. Dangerous and particularly hard on the heating element and tips.
I saw a video on YT featuring a USB powered 65W iron from a company call FNIRSI (don't ask me hoe to pronounce that). It's the HS-01 model. I got the kit with the 65W GaN adapter and 6 tips for it. I think it was about $65 USD. You can set it up to turn off automatically after a time of non-use. That right there sold me on it. It heats up to soldering temperature form dead cols in about 8 seconds. Plus, you can configure and idle time after which it goes into standby and reduces it's temperature, which is also settable. It has an accelerometer in it so as soon as you lift it out of the stand it comes out of standby and by teh time you get to the workpiece, it's up to working temperature again. There are a variety of tips available for it which run about $10 for the FNIRSI branded ones, or about $5 for after market ones. I think it also comes under the Kaiweets brand too.
Additional irons are only about $25, so I have 3 of them ready to go on my soldering bench with different tips on them. It vey quick and easy to change tips, but if you are right in teh middle of a job yo don't want to wait for it to cool down. Just unplug the iron you're working with, plug in the one you want to switch to and you are back at it in a few seconds.
You can even get 95W out of it if you power it from a 24V supply. That reduces heat-up time from cold down to about 6 sec.
Been using one for about 10 months now. I won't ever go back.
I saw a video on YT featuring a USB powered 65W iron from a company call FNIRSI (don't ask me hoe to pronounce that). It's the HS-01 model. I got the kit with the 65W GaN adapter and 6 tips for it. I think it was about $65 USD. You can set it up to turn off automatically after a time of non-use. That right there sold me on it. It heats up to soldering temperature form dead cols in about 8 seconds. Plus, you can configure and idle time after which it goes into standby and reduces it's temperature, which is also settable. It has an accelerometer in it so as soon as you lift it out of the stand it comes out of standby and by teh time you get to the workpiece, it's up to working temperature again. There are a variety of tips available for it which run about $10 for the FNIRSI branded ones, or about $5 for after market ones. I think it also comes under the Kaiweets brand too.
Additional irons are only about $25, so I have 3 of them ready to go on my soldering bench with different tips on them. It vey quick and easy to change tips, but if you are right in teh middle of a job yo don't want to wait for it to cool down. Just unplug the iron you're working with, plug in the one you want to switch to and you are back at it in a few seconds.
You can even get 95W out of it if you power it from a 24V supply. That reduces heat-up time from cold down to about 6 sec.
Been using one for about 10 months now. I won't ever go back.