Welcome,
Iso-Tip, there’s a lot in our name. For more than 40 years we’ve been building the 7000 series soldering irons and the PRO’s tell us they stand apart from
the rest. Our Isolated Tip design gives high temps fast at the push of a button, anyplace. You might just find yourself done with the job while other irons are
still heating up. By isolating the tip we prevent electrical leakage that may cause component damage while soldering. Most soldering irons offer only a few
tip choices, over the years we have developed more than 20 tips to meet your soldering needs. Our High efficiency tips give you a quicker heat-up time and
use less battery life. The Long Life tips are Nickel plated and designed for more continual use and will meet all of your tougher tasks. Our long list of standard
tips will work well for your general soldering needs. For over 40 years professionals have looked to us for advancements in portable soldering and we have
enjoyed meeting that challenge. If you’ve never tried one of our cordless irons we hope you will. We also supply other “tools worth discovering” for heating,
finish work and the tough soldering jobs. If you have a need let us know, we do appreciate input from the people that use our products. Not all soldering
irons and especially tips are the same. Let us know what you think, we enjoy what we do and appreciate the people we do it for.
Thanks for visiting us
Your Team at Iso-Tip
www.iso-tip.com
Division of Senasys
News, Events and Interesting Stuff
3 PACK TIP SALE WOW I LIKE IT!!!
Customer Input …Always good to hear
Like it said in the Welcome part we do enjoy our customers. Here’s a couple interesting E-mails we received.
AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE…
Hi there.
I don’t normally write to companies like this, but I thought you would
like to hear this.
I purchased my model S.I. cordless soldering iron around 1973 when I was
in college and since then it has been my “go to” soldering iron for
everything. I have replaced the batteries numerous times and even added
an LED to show when it was properly seated in the charging station.
It’s nice to have something that always works and has lasted all these
years.
Thanks for making a good product.
E.W.
A QUICK TRIP TO AFGANISTAN
Hello,
I am currently deployed to Afghanistan with the Army, and have ‘acquired’ an
ISO-TIP Quick Charge Soldering Iron that the previous unit had ordered. I
must say that I am extremely impressed with your product, it’s perfect for
helicopter avionics! Now, enough with the kiss ass..I would like to figure
out how to order your product through my supply system. The previous unit
was able to, however I don’t have NSN’s or Part numbers that relate to the
Army supply system. I have two irons that work, but also need to order new
tips. If I can’t get the numbers, I’ll buy them…just would rather charge
them to the Army. Last, but not least, I enjoyed reading your website.
Sometimes it’s funny to just make it simple! Thanks for your time.
v/r
T.W.
SGT, USAR
Made in the USA
We recently had a customer ask if our parts were made in the USA. The simple answer is the cordless irons and the filer sanders are Made in the USA. The butane products are made in Taiwan.
The detailed answer for the cordless soldering irons and filer/sanders is: All of the final assembly is done in the US, and almost all of the parts come from the US. As one example of the parts distribution, for our 7700 cordless soldering irons: Of the 39 components, one part comes from Mexico, one part come from Taiwan and two from China. We are in-process of bringing production in house for the Mexico part but the sub component for that will still probably come from overseas – we haven’t run into anyone that makes that in the US anymore. This works out to around 8% of the total cost from overseas parts – but 92% of final production and first level fabrication are done in the US.
Iso-Tip Sponsored, UW Stout Rube Goldberg Team Wins National Competition!!
The UW Stout team we sponsored this year for the University Rube Goldberg competition won this years event at Purdue! Congrats guys! Check out the action on their video clip. Here’s a picture of Andrew Behnke and the team and another photo with the setup. Much more fun then an advertising campaign. 
Cordless Solder Iron Troubleshooting
How to troubleshoot the 7700:
Test the Charging Stand:
The charging stand pins should stick out approx. 1/8″ from the bottom of the base of the plastic pocket they are in. Use a multimeter set for DC voltage and check the those pins. They should read around1.6 to 1.8V. If they don’t read that then the base is bad.
It could be the transformer or the wiring connections. The transformer can be checked with an ohm meter – if either set of shows an open circuit the transformer is bad. There are only four connections to test in the base so it should be easy to tell what part of the charging stand is bad.
Test the Iron
If the base is good, place the iron in the stand and press the red button.
If the light does light up while in the stand we know the connections are good and the charge stand is providing power to everything. At this point it’s most likely the battery – though it could be an issue with the wiring to the tip. So, you can open it up and check that to confirm that it is the battery.
If the light doesn’t come on then it could be the lamp, the button assembly, the wiring inside the iron or the connection between the iron and the base.
The lamp can be removed and tested with a ohm meter and should read a couple ohms. (You can also test it on a battery – 1.5V is enough sometimes I use a 9v but only quickly as that’s too much for the light) We can replace the battery and test the wiring inside as needed.
Please note opening the unit is only for trained professionals and it does void the warranty. If you open it up a simple ohm meter walk through of all the connections tell that they are ok. If there are issues here with the internal wiring we recommend returning the unit for repair here and we can ‘refurbish’ those parts. If the connections are all good and in working condition the only thing left is to replace the battery.
Charger Main Failure Mode List:
No Power to Base
Transformer Bad
Bad Connection in Wiring
Charging Pins Not High Enough to Contact Iron
Cordless Solder Iron Main Failure Mode List:
Fuse Wire Open
Bad Connection in Wiring
Dead Battery
Dead Light
Red Button Not Activating the “Switch”
Bad Tip
