• mbirth@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Since the Pinecil is running IronOS, it’s just a matter of time for it to also get the fall detection. And apart from the LED ring gimmick, I don’t see any huge advantages over IronOS.

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      3 months ago

      I personally see the PD for USB-C being 100W is a significant advantage as the Pinecil tops at 60W from USB-C and you have to search for a traditional barrel-plug power cord to get it to max out at 88W.

      100W through USB-C and not even having a different power option seems pretty useful to me. *shrugs

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        3 months ago

        I regularly power both my ts100 and Pinecil with a Milwaukee M18 battery and the barrel connector this is super convenient. The display is also convenient. The fact that you need the battery to set the temp seems numb and completely negates the USBC convenience because it means you can’t use any old USBC power source and still change the temperature. The 100w is also pointless because the other two options already heat incredibly fast and have a higher max temperature.

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            3 months ago

            You can do that with a Pinecil too, there is a web-bluetooth frontend available for the V2 (the V1 doesn’t have Bluetooth).

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      3 months ago

      Since the Pinecil is running IronOS

      What a sentence. I really don’t like the idea of having to do a firmware update on my soldering iron.

      Does it have Bluetooth and a companion app as well?

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        3 months ago

        Firmware was always there in a soldering iron more sophisticated than an old, dumb Radio Shack wall plug iron. That’s how you get good temperature control. Pinecil is just letting you modify it officially.

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          3 months ago

          Oh, I was dead serious. You can get battery drills that come with a fucking app now, I’m not surprised at all it’s the same with solder irons.

          Power and temp up and down is just too simple, I guess.