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PD resets during heat up tip [Pinecil V2] - Neitron4ik - 05-24-2023
Strange power behaviour of chain: Baseus 100W GAN Charger + Pinecil V2(+short tip).
After pressing button to heat up the solder tip, Pinecil starts heating, and in some moment Charger resets TypeC output, I press again it tries to heat up again and resets again, and after several tries, it reach threshold temperature and after that I can solder easily. Seems not enough power, and charger detects power peaks and resets output.
This is 100W charger from Baseus: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003117435688.html , I am using 100W TypeC cable.
I tried other cables, doesnt help. I tried to limit power in Pinecil's "advanced seting" to 65 to 50 W to 40W - doesnt help.
I tried to disconnect all other consumers, and remain only Pinecil connected to this Charger - doesnt help.
This Baseus charges my 65W Lenovo laptop easily.
Is there ideas what to check? Maybe some other advanced settings to try?
RE: PD resets during heat up tip [Pinecil V2] - Neitron4ik - 08-11-2023
If charger drops to 15V PD mode, it works stable.
RE: PD resets during heat up tip [Pinecil V2] - Neitron4ik - 10-09-2023
Many time passed, but now seems issue is solved. I will share some my findings, can be useful for others, as officials are not active here.
What helps: updated FW to latest and change to another PD charger, another model.
During search a solution found some interesting information:
link - sometimes PD charger's IC can communicate with issues.
link - similar.
link - Pinecill needs PD charger with grounded core. Was old FW, I tried to ground my soldering iron as recomended, but this did not help. But stable work was achieved with another car PD charger connected to 12V battery. Also stable work was with original 65W PD charger with ground cord from my Lenovo laptop.
I would like to mention here, that most of the PD chargers have not ground core, they are wall chargers with 2 lines.
link - as we can see now, Pinecil is very dependent from type of PD charger conditions. Some PD chargers can refuse to support 20V PD mode for soldering iron, while they perfectly works with another devices.
In my case, I bought new cheap PD 65W GaN charger from Asometech at Aliexpress (6.08$), and it works fine with latest FW in Pinecill V2: link
