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POS and useless.

These things don't work, just get a Weller iron.

doesn't work; forget it; get a torch

Works great if you need to patch a wire under the dashboard.

If your soldering a circuit board, get a wired iron.

you'll ruin a good project without the right tools. a standard plug in iron is not expensive and the right way to do things. a good bond is both chemical and physical.

Not only is the a worthless, crummy POS, but they want more to ship it then for the toy!!!!

How much did you get to post this loser Ben?

All Cordless unit are useless- I tried 2-3 different brands and make no difference-useless junk...

There are decent cordless irons but the lowish cost ones all run off gas.

I have used many cordless irons and they are a life saver and work excellently. HOWEVER, ONLY get the GAS/BUTANE ones. The battery units are complete junk.

A good butane soldering iron is gravy.

I don't solder much anymore, but, when I do, I still use an iron that I got from Radio Shack over 15 years ago.

Something many people don't consider is that the typical (the majority) of soldering stations use irons with a basic resistive ceramic heater element in them.

The significance of that is any of these could run off a battery pack if you simply solder up the connector, though if an iron runs off a 24V station you probably dont' want to feed it the full 24V off a battery pack as they cycle on and off to keep the desired temperature, something closer to 12V continuous would be a better fit - except some stations that do the temperature cycling at the heater element or tip (like a "few" of the Wellers and some higher end pro brands) can be fed the full station voltage since the temp control isn't in the station.

It just so happens that 12V is a pretty common voltage, not hard to find a 12V battery or solder a lighter outlet adapter plug on a soldering wand or get fancy with it and use a higher voltage supply land variable output voltage to control heat, or even fancier still you can take the thermal feedback sensor value (analog output) from many of the low cost soldering iron station wands and use it as a transistor bias signal for the voltage control... though personally I'd just buy a gas powered iron since being cordless is why they exist, BUT I have a ton of nice Hakko tips for my soldering station so the idea of hooking up a battery pack for portable replacement of the station base is still a bit appealing.

So... still easiest way is to use a good butane soldering iron.

Of course, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.

OR, carry a UPS (like used for computer emergency power) and a 115 VAC soldering iron. Might want to turn off the UPS beeper.