Same. Can't recommend it enough
What I was thinking was running short-circuit. If you look at "flameless" soldering, that's how it works--one contact on either side of the piece being soldered. I don't know how that induction heater would deal with short-circuit, but that's pretty close to how it works anyway.
What about using the coil end in a soldering gun, like a Weller pro? Weller is 260 watt, so might take awhile to get to temp?
keep us posted
Same. One of the best tools I’ve bought in the last three years.
It might get warm? A soldering gun is not an inductive heater. It is an electrical resistance heater, like a baseboard heater or electric burner element...
It showed up today. There is nothing "Mini" about it. Its rather huge, i'm not sure if the pivot function will be useful or not. I believe it came with 8 coils, no idea on the quality or durability of them yet. Finish on insulation is more "sticky or tacky" than domestic parts I've used. I chucked a random bolt in my vice and a random coil over it was able to get it red hot, after some time. Quality seems decent actually, definitely lesser than Inductive Innovations. I hope the twist lock for the coils holds up. Have seen some issues with both retaining styles after some abuse on others.
But they both use nucular energy!
Induction heaters have been around for a long time in industrial processes. The machines for even heating small items were quite large. As in thousands of pounds. What you have is tiny in comparison.
Yet I had to replace the non-magnetic ss bolts on the cable connections because they would stretch every five minute cycle at Fermi labs. Went to brass and never had the problem again after first stretch. You can heat many things that you wouldn't recognize as beatable.