You can probably also find it on your local Amazon or electronic store at a significant markup, it's *still* worth it.
Failing that, look up the **Miniware TS100** or **TS80P** (on Aliexpress, Amazon or hobby drones websites).
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> [!FAQ]- Why? Click for a history lesson
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> The TS100 shook the industry by introducing a portable iron with temperature control (thanks to its built-in controller), display controls and fully integrated tips. Unlike older soldering irons (cheap or not) the tip includes thermistor and ceramic heating element as a single piece. This makes the TS-100 heat up [extremely quick](https://youtu.be/HgrB5P-rDLw?t=139) and efficiently. The downside is that TS100 tips are 3/4 times more expensive than competitors, but we're talking 7\$ vs 2$ per tip.
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> A community quickly formed, also creating IronOS, a replacement firmware with many more features and fully open source.
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> The TS80P is a lower power model that uses USB power instead of raw DC. It also features nicer (but much much more expensive) tips.
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> The Pinecil is a TS100 lookalike from a reputable company (PINE64) that ships with IronOS built-in and uses the cheap TS100 tips while also supporting USB power at a higher power output than the TS80P, basically the best of both models.
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>| The TS100 shook the industry by introducing a portable iron with temperature control (thanks to its built-in controller), display controls and fully integrated tips. Unlike older soldering irons (cheap or not) the tip includes thermistor and ceramic heating element as a single piece. This makes the TS-100 heat up [extremely quick](https://youtu.be/HgrB5P-rDLw?t=139) and efficiently. The downside is that TS100 tips are 3/4 times more expensive than competitors, but we're talking 7\$ vs 2$ per tip.
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>| The Pinecil is a TS100 lookalike from a reputable company (PINE64) that ships with IronOS built-in and uses the cheap TS100 tips while also supporting USB power at a higher power output than the TS80P, basically the best of both models.
For most jobs you want a chisel-style tip (not a conical tip, [they're evil!](https://youtu.be/F05DvDJ4roM)), usually called **D**-something, for example the TS100 chisel tip is the [D24](https://www.miniware.com.cn/product/soldering-tip-d24-electric-soldering-iron/) and has this shape: