The sleep mode is handled by sensing when the soldering head makes contact with a metal plate, indicating it is placed in the stand or in touch with the rest on the portable version.

Additionally, the Potato Head Beholder can actually be used as a miniature in a tabletop combat sequence, as the miniature comes on the appropriate 50 mm base. The miniature will be released later ...

Compared to the Portasol soldering iron that introduced me to the world of butane irons, this Power Probe feels like it gets up to a usable temperature at about the same time.

Keysight’s new InfiniiMax micro probe head is a micro solder-in head for use with the company’s InfiniiMax I/II probe amplifiers and is designed to access small geometry target devices.