PINECIL - Smart Mini Portable Soldering Iron (TOL-23913)

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The Pinecil is a smart mini portable soldering iron with a 32-bit RISC-V SoC…

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Howdy. Do you recommend a particular power supply and silicone (or other heat resistant) cable for the pinecil? Cheers Richard

Hi @Richard139842,

We don’t have an official recommendation for the power supply but the Dual Output USB-C QC3.0 or the 12V DC 5A Fixed Tip would work well.

We have heat-resistant wire available to make up your own cable but it is only rated to 200°C which won’t be too helpful with +300°C iron.

I have a similar (not the same) iron. If it is like mine, it will work from 12V but will only do fine work, doesn’t have enough grunt to solder two reasonable size multi strand wires together (like normal power cable wires - not that I’m recommending soldering power cables, just illustrating the size of wire). I run mine from a surplus 19V laptop power supply and that’s good enough for most work. I have an old 75W mains iron that handles heavier stuff but has no temperature control. The cable to the iron is nothing special, just what was on the laptop supply with a barrel connector. It is a nice iron to use. With 19V it takes longer than 6 seconds to get to 300C, maybe 12.

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Some good advice from @Alan73922.

Keep in mind when choosing a power supply that the DC port on this iron is expecting 12-24V and will draw up to 3A so make sure your chosen power supply is within that range.