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I have bought the TC22 after going on r/Soldering and can only stand by the recommendation, its an amazing iron for hobbyists and its ability to put tons of power on a tiny area quickly means basically its 100% easier to work with than a ton of cheap irons, and have a much lower chance of killing components than dicking around with less powerful ones and staying on the pin a long time trying to heat it up while it wicks heat away into sensitive electronics. Doubly so when I mess it up or the solder is not fully melted. Another nice thing is with powerful irons you don't have to overshoot the melting temp of solder as much, and tips with less thermal mass in general can be used.

Im a rank amateur so take what I said with a grain of salt. With that said, I have made several cool things in my life that many people've said I could charge money for. I guess you can't really see the mess I made when you can't look inside the housing :)

I've purchased it from the GEEBOON Store on Aliexpress (no affiliate or anything just looked up my order history):

https://geeboontools.aliexpress.com/store/1103439446

All being said you might not be comfortable with supporting the Chinese clone industry, and I can understand that.

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any c245 will do (JBC is the best and original, but clones are close)
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