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Article #11895Re: Grounded soldering iron tip
From: Rick Karlquist
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 18:15
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 18:15
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In sci.electronics, Michael.Covington@mailbox.bison.mb.ca (Michael Covington) writes: > Organization: AI Program, University of Georgia, Athens > How important is it to have the tip of a soldering iron be grounded > (as opposed to simply disconnected from everything)? > I use a small grounded-tip iron most of the time, but I have a larger > one, occasionally used for desoldering, which is not grounded-tip. > Should it be? I can probably modify it by putting on a new line cord. I have found that using unground-tip soldering pencils on CMOS IC's will blow up the IC *every* time.
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