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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Grounded soldering iron tip
- Message-ID: <Bvv6rG.KIH@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:18:51 GMT
- References: <718283204.3@mailbox.bison.mb> <55550032@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <55550032@hpscit.sc.hp.com> rkarlqu@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Rick Karlquist) writes:
- >I have found that using unground-tip soldering pencils on CMOS
- >IC's will blow up the IC *every* time.
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- I've used my non-grounded-tip iron on 4000-series CMOS without problems.
- *However*, this is a Weller transformer-base iron, so the tip may not be
- grounded but it probably is fairly effectively isolated.
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