Weller Pro Series Battery Powered Soldering Iron Review

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(More customer reviews)These do work, if only just. They are suitable for occasional light soldering jobs involving a small number of narrow guage wires, component leads and/or circuit board traces. Large wires, terminals or power/ground plane vias without thermal relief will draw away too much heat for the solder to melt. It doesn't help that the new tin/silver/copper alloy solders have a higher melting point and don't flow as well as tin/lead. If you need to solder heavier things, forget battery powered and get a corded soldering gun or iron. If you need to do a more than a small number of connections on circuit boards or are going to use it often, it would be better to invest in a controlled temperature soldering station.
Instead of using Alkaline batteries as the manufacturer recommends, I'd suggest NiMH rechargables with a fresh charge at the beginning of every job. Not only will it be cheaper to run, but I believe the NiMH cells have a higher sustained current output capacity which is what this kind of application demands.

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