Cold Heat Soldering Tool
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Manufacturer
Hyperion Innovations Incorporated
Product Description
The Cold Heat is a Soldering Tool that uses a fast heat and cool technology that makes soldering jobs faster and easier. Cold Heat is a cordless tool that heats quickly and cools down nearly as fast. The tip reaches 500ºF in less than 1 second for many types of joints and cools to the touch in 1-5 seconds so you can put it away right away. Do not have to wait for warm up and cool down. Cold Heat creates the heat right in the proprietary tip material making the tool more efficient than the average conventional soldering irons. While using Cold Heat, the tip is hot only during active soldering which reduces the risks of accidents.
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$19.95 (prices may vary)
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Doesn
4/30/2008 - Larry of Alberta, Canada writes:
Bought CoolHeat to resolder joints on car relay board. Doesn't work. Wouldn't melt solder. Bought electric soldering iron for $10. Worked great!
Cold crapola
4/26/2008 - Jay of CA, USA writes:
Will this item work for anything? Apparently not, judging from my own experiences at attempting to solder a small piece of metal for a Venetian blind handle without success, and from now reading the past reviews on this site. I was hoping to use it to possibly solder some 8 and 4 gauge car stereo wiring, but I don't think I'll bother...time to buy a real soldering iron.
Does not work even close to soldering iron
1/19/2008 - K of New Jersey, USA writes:
My laptop screen was blank after dropping it.I opened it up and found a lose resistor that needed soldering. Instead of buying a soldering iron I went with the ColdHeat as it was cheap in price. It was also cheap as a product because it does not heat up the solder hot enough to melt. I did have new battaries. I then purchased the old fashion soldering iron and was done in 5 minutes. Proof is in the laptop I'm typing on.
Don't use on electronics
12/30/2007 - Jim of North Carolina, USA writes:
As a Radio and TV Chief Engineer, I bought this to use in areas where power is not easily available. The tip works by having the wire, or whatever you are working on, completing the circuit and heating it up with current across the tip. Mst I.C.'s work on 5 to 15 volts at most, and while soldering a circuit you will blow chips out in that circuit. It happened to me and a Station was out for two hours while I replaced all the chips that were blown. A dud!!
It's trash
12/12/2007 - Larry of Kansas, USA writes:
I bought one of these shortly after they first came out. I was disappointed the first time I tried it. It just does not work and is a total waste of money. The tip is very brittle and broke off. I won't waste money getting a new tip. Go buy a real soldering iron at your local hardware store. Good idea but a scam in my opinion.
Do yourself a favor, keep looking
9/4/2007 - Dave of Illinois, USA writes:
It only worked on small items, it gets hot enough but you would have to have three hands to do most of the work I can do with my butane S.I. Its just too much of a pain in the ass to use.
Not so great.
8/10/2007 - Darren of Indiana, USA writes:
I saw this product for only 15 dollars and though it wouldn't be too bad. When I got home I thought I would try it out. It worked for some things like soldering wires together. But when I started doing stuff like circuit boards this thing just sucks. The 2 graphite prongs are too far apart to do any good in small areas. Even worst is when I was trying to do a circuit board one time the thing got too hot. The plastic on the soldering pencil melted and you could small that bad battery smell. Like the batteries exploded or something. I didn't dare to see what went on nor did I think it was worth my time to call customers service. I just through the peice of crap away. I would have to say DON'T BUY!!!
Buy a real soldering iron
7/28/2007 - Anonymous of Florida, USA writes:
It is totally worthless. I bought it because I thought I could save the time waiting for a soldering iron to heat up. It is supposed to be instant. I guess it is if you are soldering wire the size of a human hair. It would not work on any wire larger than 23 ga. for me and even then it did not work well. Buy a real soldering iron.
it's shit.
5/11/2007 - Michael of Tennessee, USA writes:
decided to build a cantenna (wifi antenna with coffee can. google it.) and needed to solder a 1.21" bit of 10-12 gauge wire onto a much smaller copper reciever. it was so pitiful it wouldn't even do that, and I ended up buying a REAL soldering gun for $10. bottomline: it's only useful for extremely small bits of jewelry that break. anything larger than the head of a pin needs a real tool, not this POS.
Absolute Junk!
3/23/2007 - Dave of Florida, USA writes:
You'd be better off buying a $10 25 watt gun than using this pc. of junk. Tried soldering a small 1/4" phone jack..solder barely melted, and the jack was cold to the touch. Plugged in my 25 watter and had the job done in 30 secs. DO NOT BUY THIS GARBAGE..You'll just end up throwing it away like I did.
Junk
3/5/2007 - John of Florida, USA writes:
Soldered 3 joints on a circuit board. Tip fused, unit overheated, melting the entire plastic head of the tool. I called customer service, and after a bit of wrangling, they offered to send me another one. I declined the offer, realizing that replacing junk with junk will not get you satisfied. Don't waste your money- go buy a real soldering iron and use it properly.
junk
1/15/2007 - John of California, USA writes:
this thing isnt worth anything , the tips break very easy, and i did burn myself i test a lot of thing s just like as seen on the commercials ..oops i got burned it doesnt cool that fast. after the tips break its not even good enough for a paper weight. dont buy it,
Not so great
1/5/2007 - Rex of Nevada, USA writes:
This product does work, but, having this and a cheap soldering iron, I have to say the soldering iron is easier to use. There might be niche use where this works better, but for me, it wasn't worth the purchase price.
Cold Heat - No Thanks
12/30/2006 - Vincent of Texas, USA writes:
Cold Heat - Save your money as it just cannot compare to a regular soldering iron. It worked but not as shown on the advertisement and would not perform basic soldering jobs. The concept is great and the package looked good but mine would not what was expected.
Don't waste your money
12/13/2006 - Ben of Georgia, USA writes:
This product is not worth the money. The carbon tips are very fragile. The size of the solder it can handle is very small thus for very small jobs only and then even marginal at that. If you think you are going to solder anything of size forget it!
Doesn't work
11/17/2006 - John of Quebec, Canada writes:
The tips are not strong and break when pressed to hard, the wire has to be in the exact right place to heat up and even then you only get a drop of solder. Luckily I purchased from a store that has a great return policy!
Does Not Pass Our Tests
11/9/2006 - N. Miles of Texas, USA writes:
An an electronic engineer, I obtained a cold heat soldering iron to evaluate its performance. Cold Heat soldering iron is not up to par with soldering electronic circuits. The bottom line here is you need power to make the electrical connections. Our overall evaluation on this product is sub-standard, and not in our definition of professional electronic gear. If portability is what you are looking for, then the only solution in portable soldering equipment is Small Butane Powered Soldering Irons. there are numerous of styles. This accomplishes mostly all soldering applications. Butane has the power and versatility far beyond the Cold Heat Soldering technique. The tips on Cold Heat are fragile, so care must be exorcised. This concept is good for Cold Heat in the fantasy of info-mercials, but fails in the real world of electrical soldering applications. Our suggestion is, for a few extra dollars, invest in a good quality Butane Powered Soldering Irons. You won't regret it.
Complete Junk
10/2/2006 - Lew of Oregon, USA writes:
I recieved one as a gift last year for Christmas. I have some experience with electronics, so I knew this wasn't up to large soldering jobs right from the beginning. I had a DIY project a couple of months ago that would have been a chore to use a regular soldering iron, just because of the distance from an outlet. I tried to solder a 22ga. wire to a relay terminal, and got NO heat. I changed tips, and got a pinhead sized bit of solder to melt, and then the second tip died. Replacement tips cost more than the unit itself. Interesting concept, but it's complete garbage.
It works fine.
9/29/2006 - Kevin of Washington, USA writes:
I bought on of these at a local store after seeing an ad on TV. It has carbon fiber tips that conduct the electricity to the solder. You have to touch both halves of the tips to the solder for it to work, and it works fine on small jobs. If you are soldering something heavy get a corded soldering iron, but for small jobs this works.
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