Oh shit…you can run these off of a Lipo?!
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Yeah and laptop charger
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I got mine from Banggood for a good price, but I waited 2 months. You can buy replacement tips here. I got the BC2 and D24. Both are very nice. The soldering iron comes with the B2 tip, which I like the best for PCB soldering. People say that you don’t get a good heat transfer with conical tips, but with TS100 that’s no problem at all.
I got this DC adapter, which works nicely with the soldering iron, since you can easily turn it on and off (you can’t turn the soldering iron off in any other way then by cutting off the power supply).
There are many TS100 reviews on youtube and it’s nothing but praise.
Update: I just found out it’s also available from HobbyKing.
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Bookmarked 
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Good stuff, get the “pro kit” version – it comes with the non-useless larger chisel tip among other things.
Summary:
- ts100 is older/cheaper, plastic case runs off dc power (can run off lipo)
- ts80 is newer, metal case, usb-c, can run off a good usb-c charger or a battery bank (no lipo). less power rating, but more power delivered
- ts100 has more tips available
- ts80 better ergonomics
- both are very good, surprisingly so. spanks all older tech non-cartridge-tip soldering stations.
@mmaner I did ninja edit adding a bunch more crap 
EDIT corrected as per janpom, ouch lol
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I think you have TS80 and TS100 the other way around in your summary.
We’re getting a bit too much off-topic. If more people would like to discuss TS80 and TS100, I suggest that we move it to another thread.
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You’ll have to pry my Weller WESD51 out of my cold, dead hands because I’m not giving it up 
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Your Weller’s safe! Can be beat but not by a large margin.
Thanks janpom for the correction, and this is my last post on the soldering irons, but you started it!
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@moderators split topic
@deucesdown what did you say about chisel tips, anything good enough to do XT90 etc
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Sigh ok last one for real.
TS80 is the stronger one.
There are 3 variants here. The “Pro Kit” one has a different tip, medium chisel vs the conical on the other 2 variants. TS-D25. For that alone the Pro Kit is the only one worth considering. The kit versions also come with a flexible silicone-like wire, which is really nice for soldering and hard to get otherwise. The tip selection and aftermarket tips for the TS80 is not that good.
I found ebay (wait for 15% coupon) or aliexpress are the cheapest.
I just plugged mine into the wall with the provided power brick, and it took a few seconds longer than my main irons, but XT90 + 10awg no real problem.
The TS100 is not has powerful, but has a much bigger selection of tips, and the TS-C4 tip is quite a bit larger, so might do a similar job. You need to feed it I think at least 19v 3a or so for max power.
For really big stuff I like the 100w Weller pencil. Like battery pack serial connections, quick in and out if space permits. This thing has crazy thermal mass and is temperature controlled tip technology. It’s worth having.
https://www.amazon.com/Weller-W100PG-Farenheit-Soldering-Degree/dp/B07C43TSFK/
These cute irons are really nice, but I’m always using my used industrial/commercial irons. Pace and Metcal stuff after patient shopping on ebay. Hint, Pace has much nicer consumables cost and similar performance.
They’re fantastic though, if you have to bring the iron to the board.
Left to right: biggest Metcal tip, Weller 100w, biggest ts80 tip.
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Is this accurate for the flipksy mini fsecs? I’m about to star soldering and I don’t have many spares if I screw up.
I have the ts100. I use it all the time for my RC soldering needs.
Link to the awesome firmware. Lots of cool safety features and more:
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That should hold true for any VESC, or more generally, for any UART device.
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Just got my Davega kit, funny thing is that it came with a 3d printed enclosure I got from a special someone. It was such great luck I was not expecting that lol.
I’ll start assembly tonight.
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It’s getting there…
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I finally got some free time to post the new case design with angled riser that includes space for 3 waterproof buttons.
I have only used it in light rain so far but it has been working perfect. Once wet 
season hits I will be adding some coating to the pcbs and a thin coat of silicone around the lip seal.
It also makes a good foot stop.
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@janpom is there an easy sw setting to switch the horizontal view 180degree? It’s not a big deal, but the uart wires would than come out on direction where my focbox is sitting. Otherwise I would need to route the wires under the pcb to the other side. If it’s not possible, no problem, just thought I to ask. Maybe it’s an easy thing of just change a variable or so.
Yep. You can change the orientation in the davega.config here https://github.com/janpom/davega/blob/master/davega_config.h
Line: // 0=portrait, 1=right rotated landscape, 2=reverse portrait, 3=left rotated landscape #define SCREEN_ORIENTATION 0
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Thx! That’s great!
What a nice project! Sorry for the question. Found the fault.