{"id":1738,"date":"2003-07-23T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/23\/building-my-own-battery-packs-i-should-have-returned-the-gun-but-i-didnt-upside-down-you-turn-me-respectfully-battery-tracking\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T09:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T17:47:28","slug":"building-my-own-battery-packs-i-should-have-returned-the-gun-but-i-didnt-upside-down-you-turn-me-respectfully-battery-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/23\/building-my-own-battery-packs-i-should-have-returned-the-gun-but-i-didnt-upside-down-you-turn-me-respectfully-battery-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"I should have returned the gun, but I didn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When I bought the new 1100 mah battery, I told myself that I should return the 100 watt Radio Shack soldering gun (64-2193) I bought to assemble packs with. But I didn’t :-).<\/p>\n

I had never used a gun before. All these years I had this impression that irons were the way to go… because. I’ve got the Radio Shack 15\/30 watt dual heat iron and have been happy with it for a long time. But after trying the gun, I’ve got to say that I am -very- impressed with it’s power and ease of use. IE: Plug gun in. Pull trigger for 10 seconds. Start tinning tip of gun. [yes, 10 seconds, not 10 minutes]<\/span> Release trigger while positioning pieces to be soldered. Pull trigger and wait 3 seconds. [yea, it’s a slight bother that it’s not always at the ready like an iron, but the tip needs less tinning]<\/span> Touch tip to Deans Ultra connector, wire and solder for 3 seconds to solder together. [The 30 watt iron would take 10-20 seconds of heating time]<\/span>. It’s also nice that the gun is safely cool again in 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

I like the gun.<\/p>\n

So now that I’ve spent the $12.99 on the gun and I’ve browsed too many battery websites, I might just build my own packs after all. More details as they develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I bought the new 1100 mah battery, I told myself that I should return the 100 watt Radio Shack soldering gun (64-2193) I bought to assemble packs with. But I didn’t :-). I had never used a gun before. All these years I had this impression that irons were the way to go… because. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}