Tom Gardner wrote:

On 1/1/2013 9:43 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
I don't remember if I posted this here yet or not, so...

I bought a ColdHeat soldering iron and it came yesterday. When I
tried soldering a couple of 18ga stranded copper wires together,
it failed miserably. It didn't seem to get hot enough to melt the
solder into the strands at all, although it melted about 1.5" of thin
solder.

Tips to get it to work (on the 14ga wire I bought it for) would be
appreciated. Would liquid flux help at all? It seemed like the
carbonized tip got nice and hot but the wire didn't.

I didn't think they would work, energy density is too low...no free lunch.


A pair of AA Alkalines just don't pout out enough current.