in case you're wondering, i got it to crash again on purpose and it fails safely in the sense that it cools down. not sure if accidentally or that was designed on purpose twitter.com/arachnist/stat…

seems to crash if I set the tip temperature higher than 420°C

looks like someone hit the exact same issue and reported it 4 hours ago (!) github.com/Ralim/ts100/is…

This is an extremely 2020 tweet

sometimes i'm glad all my soldering equipment is from aliexpress sellers that cloned hakko schematics

I haven’t used my soldering iron in over 20 years, but I know it is a simple electrical heating device with a thermal regulator circuit: firmware? Far more complex than valuable!

ah, a classic "I admit don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm going to say it anyway"

When it crashed, it started heating uncontrollably, or did it cool down?

I just crashed it the second time to check specifically for this

Don't know if I should laugh, or just be happy mine is I think a 20 year old copy of a 50 year old design.

it didn't actually crash as it turns out, it was just reporting an undervoltage condition in a bad way. but more generally: I got exactly what I bargained for, and I'm happy with the tradeoff. you do you