I bought this because I misplaced my electric soldering iron and had a few projects I needed to get done. The soldering iron worked as expected from how I remember battery powered irons to work. Later when trying to use it again it seems the batteries were too spent to power it properly so I had to use fresh batteries. I always buy the bargain batteries and not the most expensive "long lasting" Duracell or Energizer. So maybe, for a device this power hungry, cheap batteries aren't a value.

Overall, its not bad for a cheap portable electric soldering iron but nowhere near as good as some more expensive rechargeables my dad had thirty years ago. (I kind of figured, after thirty years, that something similar might be available at a lower price point. Apparently not.)

decent iron and feels nice. its not very powerful and i have found a wet sponge pretty much wont work because it cools to fast and doesnt allow you to properlly clean it. Will need to use the metal sponge style cleaner to keep a clean tip. also it is very easy to get a cold solder join with this and for that my work has told me i cannot use it. i would never let a cold solder joint leave the shop but its a risk we cannot take. for the general diyer it would be good. i tried it because sometimes i need to solder in percarious positions like upside down on the ground in the middle of the shop. and i felt like in those situations it would be nice to not have to break out a exstention cord and pull over the professional iron. and it is deffinatly great for that. but when quality is key this thing is hit or miss. got many great joints out of it but it is no substitute for a quality iron. i will bring it home and use it in my garage from time to time when i cant do things at my bench.

This iron is great but only for the diyer. altho i am remarked as the best solderer in my whole shop and it was hard sometimes to get a decent joint. definatly takes skills to use effectively.

This thing works really well for being wireless, heats up very quickly, I was able to solder 100 wires and some contact points and the battery is still fine. Light is nice to have also. It loses a star because you have to hold the button when you want it to work. I understand this is probably to save battery, but I don't always want to hold the button down. Other than that, it works great.

This product is a good one, IF you can figure out how to install the batteries. After removing the battery compartment cover, you can see little icons showing the battery orientations.. They are WRONG*, showing that all 4 AA batteries shoulde be installed with the + ends towards the soldering iron tip. At first I could not even see the icons, so I tried what made sense to me. There are two possibilities, but only one will light the LED. The correct way to install the batteries is: the two that go in the TOP compartment, which is the side with the on switch, both go + side down, so that you are viewing the "minus" ends as you drop them in. The other two go in "minus" side down so that you are viewing the + ends as you drop them in.

BUT, the thing that makes initial battery installation so frustrating and time wasting is that the battery compartment cover CANNOT be latched into place without assistance of a tool to push the batteries down while sliding the cover into place. This has to be done for BOTH battery compartments, A small diameter screwdriver can be used to accomplish this. The actual size needed is the same as required to take the whole thing apart - which I was forced to do to to figure out the correct battery orientations. No combination of orientations, including the correct one allow the cap to be latched in.

Once the batteries were correctly installed the soldering iron seems to work very well. I say "seems" because I only tried it once before writing this review. I seldom write reviews, because they are only useful if there is a significant problem with the product.

*The icons suggest the two compartments work in parallel which is impossible because the metal clip touch the two sets of batteries is not connected to anything metal.

Great for small soldering jobs. I have used it on making connections on my new GPS Nav system I installed in my car. I soldered my reverse gear wires, and the wires to the reverse power in my tail lights which I ran under the cab edge to the front of the car since my car has far too difficult to reach wires under the dash. So I soldered in our covered parking garage where there are no available places to run an extension cable for a wired soldering iron. This little guy is so convenient I cannot believe I haven't added a wireless soldering iron to my toolbox ages ago. This is a good one.