I’ve bought Pine64 products before (pinephone and recently the pinetime) but I’ve heard Zach Freedman (void star labs) mention this before and rave about it. I wanted to hear from the ergo community what they thought about it before I bought one to start my keyboard building journey.
In addition, if I should buy one, what tips do you recommend be purchased? It looks like I can buy long/short versions of fine/gross tips. What’s best for keyboard building? Here’s a link to their pinecil products.
It’s a great little iron. Unfortunately it only comes with a pointy tip, which is fine for soldering switches directly to PCBs, but bad for everything else.
You’ll definitely want a flat tip for SMD stuff. Too fine and it won’t work with hotswap sockets, so I’d go with the gross pack. Or any TS100 tips, those fit the pinecil too.