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Yes! You have two ports on the front, so you can charge your phone or laptop while you solder.

Or, mount two soldering irons with different tips. The wheel controls the temperature, and the blue action button toggles between which one you're controlling. Two soldering irons can be hot at once.

It's on my workbench!

We designed it as a soldering station that can replace the station on your workbench. The cap mounts to the battery pack.

https://www.ifixit.com/products/fixhub-power-series-portable...

You actually get a few more watts of power (104 W or so) if the hub is plugged into an AC charger (there's a third USB-C port on the rear).

By default, the timer is set to 30 seconds. You can turn the whole feature off, and it'll never bother you again!

I agree. We put an incredible amount of effort into making this a functional workhorse that will last a lifetime.

Tips we'll have at launch: Cone, Bevel 1.5, Wedge 1.5, Point, Bevel 2.6, Knife 2.5, Knife 1.4

What kills tips is oxidation. With our auto-sleep sensor, it drops below the temperature that will wear it out. When you pick it up, it's back at soldering temperature in a few seconds.

Give it a chance! You're right, it's not tried and tested, yet. But Tom at Hackaday is not an easy person to convince: he's been around the block and used every iron out there: "iFixit didn’t just raise the bar, they sent it into orbit."

We did not patent the tip design, anyone is welcome to make third party tips.

Tips we'll have at launch: Cone, Bevel 1.5, Wedge 1.5, Point, Bevel 2.6, Knife 2.5, Knife 1.4

We made some different electrical design decisions than they did. TS-80 tips aren't rated for the power that we're putting out, so being compatible with the TS-80 tips could be pretty sketchy.

We spent a lot of time tuning it. We've found that temperature settings really aren't needed for most use cases as long as the heating algorithm is responsive enough.

But that may not be for everyone: With the Power Station, changing the temperature is fast and easy with the dial, so you can pick a workflow that works best for you. (You can also change the temperature with the web interface.)

It's our own design, although clearly inspired by those who came before.

I'm really happy with their quality, but you'll have to judge that for yourself.

We're handling the boosting automatically in software. When the iron detects that it's under load, it maxxes out the power to the tip. It's incredibly responsive.

You're right, where you want that is with high thermal mass objects like ground planes. The difficult part is getting enough of a thermal bridge onto the material to really let the iron rip. It can dump a lot of power into a joint.

We'll have a range of tips. Hitting the high performance we wanted, with 100 Watt output in a small iron, required really optimizing the entire system. The heating element and temperature sensor are in the tip itself.

We really see JBC as our competition here. Performance and responsiveness should be comparable or better, at a fraction of the price.

Hmm... none of my headphone plugs will fit down the barrel!

It was a fantastic idea! We had the prototype software and it worked great.

Take your old phone, put Docker on it, and do anything!

Phones, even very old phones, are incredibly capable devices: cameras, antennas, accelerometers, large touchscreen. They just need a new purpose.

Hi Nebula8804,

Sorry to hear about these problems! We stand behind our products, and have the lowest return rate in the industry. We treat quality like a ratchet: when we identify problems, we fix them and implement processes to keep it from happening again. I'm constantly challenging the team to raise quality bar for ourselves and the products we sell.

Sometimes lightning strikes twice, and I apologize. I understand the hassle. If you give us the chance to make it right, we will.

Main board failures are hard, they'll kill just about any phone and it's pretty challenging to make the service part economically viable.

For what it's worth, I don't know of any systemic problems / higher than usual error rates with the Fairphone 3 main board. You got unlucky.

Consider giving them another shot sometime!

We passed that in Colorado. Now we'll see if John Deere is willing to comply. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/06/1174468800/colorado-is-the-fi...

You are correct. We sell the Pixel 6 repair kit with an OEM battery for $50 and just the battery for $43. We'll be stocking Pixel 8 parts soon. https://www.ifixit.com/products/google-pixel-6-battery-genui...

Yes, it's gotten better.

You blinked and missed it. This has been a systematic trend since software licenses started infecting vehicles.

I've been writing about this for a decade now: https://www.wired.com/2014/01/174071/

Followup from law Professor Aaron Perzanoswky: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-turns-out-you-own-noth...

He even wrote a book on it! https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535243/the-end-of-ownership/

That's a great question. We didn't do it here because power supplies tend to have a history of reliability. I haven't had a power brick fail on me.

It was an issue with the Airport Extreme back in the day, and that wasn't easy to open: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Apple+AirPort+Express+Base+Stat...

To begin to answer you: We start calculating a repair score by identifying the critical components.

For a power supply, what are the critical components? What fails in an AC GaN transformer over time? I don't know (yet).

Right now, we aren't providing schematics / repair information, or parts for it. So that loses us two points right out the gate.

Open to input and critique on the rest of the design.

That's exactly it. It's about segmenting the opposition.

That's not exactly the best policymaking, of course. There's no fundamental difference between fixing a tractor and a smartphone.

Over time, we're hopeful the policies will converge for all devices. Last year we did electric wheelchairs in Colorado, this year the same legislators expanded it to tractors.

We have introduced bills in 28 states so far this year. Some are ag, some are medical, some are consumer electronics focused. Making very good progress.

I don't understand this either. I can tell you that after a decade of advocacy on ag Right to Repair, not once has a manufacturer reached out to us and asked how they could improve repairability. As a Kubota owner, this disappoints me.

Fortunately in the electronics world, we have Framework and Fairphone. And Nokia making noises around improving repairability. Google and even Samsung launching independent parts programs.

One of the ag manufacturers should break off and take the lead. It's not going to be Deere, or Case, or New Holland.

New York's chapter amendment process is totally novel in my legislative experience, haven't come across it anywhere else. Gives the governor a lot of power.

Governor Polis still needs to sign it, and you are right to be skeptical after New York. Two reasons to be optimistic:

* In CO, the Governor can't mess with the bill like NY, only sign or veto it

* Gov Polis is very good on tech issues, and has signalled to us (the coalition) that he will sign it

Good example. Do you know of anywhere that Volvo parts pairing / programming issue is written up or documented?

I'm working on Right to Repair and we get asked for examples like this from various government agencies all the time. It would be very helpful, thanks!

There's more inforation in Sick Codes Jailbreak talk. https://www.fierceelectronics.com/sensors/sick-codes-jailbre...

The display is a full blown touchscreen GUI built using Linux and all sorts of OSS tools. The LTE gateway is another linux machine.

Couldn't agree more, he's a fantastic author. The Perfectionists is a wonderful exposition into how the modern world was made.

Well it depends on which days you're referring to! The 3360 was pretty easy to work on...

Let's bring back the glory days of Nokia phones that stand the test of time.

Our mission is to help everyone fix all their stuff. We'll work with any manufacturer that wants to make their products last longer.

Nokia has been really great to work with. Their engineers genuinely want to make this phone easier to work on.

The governor told the legislative sponsors that they had to accept these changes or she would veto the bill. It was accept this reduction, or nothing.

It's primarily lost revenue, as well as a default reaction to oppose any new rules governing their business.

This bill would mean that manufacturers need to sell parts, sell tools, make diagnostic software available for sale, release circuit schematics, and provide repair manuals available for free. It also requires diagnostic software function without an active internet connection.

I promise, this is real—I've got parts in the bulding—and it's going to launch soon.