Soldering iron problems
I was wiring up a trailer at the weekend, it's on the driveway so I was using a long extension lead to run the soldering iron.
Supercheap iron stopped working.....bugger, switched to an old Weller iron and soon after that stopped working, BUGGER !.
Found an old industrial Weller iron which is 24V and sits on a transformer base. Brilliant, heated up quickly and no problems, finished the soldering.
Why did the two mains units fail (the Supercheap one came good later in the day), is it a voltage drop along the extension lead so it draws more amps ?? The Weller was fairly crude with no protection but the Supercheap one possibly had overload protection.
Colin
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