Since I started running electric... I now have 3 soldering irons. An old 25 watt radio shack one I've used for 20 years on everything (car stereos, receiver packs for nitro, etc.) and now I have 2 cheap ones for dealing with the heavy gauge wire and desoldering/soldering lipo packs.
Anbes 60W
Choice 100W
The anbes one has a dial and I turn it up to the red numbers to do battery connectors. The 100W one is just 100W always. It's like using a baseball bat, but worked well to desolder some of my SMC lipo packs to build 3S out of some 2S packs.
I have an old container of flux I picked up at lowes to clean the tips and to coat the wire/connectors with before tinning.
For $20, the Anbes 60W does the job for most things. Was able to solder up 10AWG wire with it pretty quickly/easily. The 25W iron wouldn't even try.
I use this solder:
https://www.amazon.com/Kester-24-6337-0010-Rosin-Solder-SPOOL/dp/B07HLQP7X2
Got that from a guy at work 20 years ago... still using the same roll.
Anbes 60W
Choice 100W
The anbes one has a dial and I turn it up to the red numbers to do battery connectors. The 100W one is just 100W always. It's like using a baseball bat, but worked well to desolder some of my SMC lipo packs to build 3S out of some 2S packs.
I have an old container of flux I picked up at lowes to clean the tips and to coat the wire/connectors with before tinning.
For $20, the Anbes 60W does the job for most things. Was able to solder up 10AWG wire with it pretty quickly/easily. The 25W iron wouldn't even try.
I use this solder:
https://www.amazon.com/Kester-24-6337-0010-Rosin-Solder-SPOOL/dp/B07HLQP7X2
Got that from a guy at work 20 years ago... still using the same roll.